d began outside
Government House gates. It was a polite and brightly dressed crowd,
for it was drawn from the delightful houses that made islands in the
uninterrupted lawns that, with the graceful trees, formed the borders
of the winding roads through which he went. Rosedale was once forest
on the shores of the old Ontario Lake; the lake has receded three miles
and more, but the builders of the city have dealt kindly with the
forest, and have touched it as little as they could, so that the old
trees blend with the modern lawns to give the new homes an air of
infinite charm.

As the Prince drove deeper into the city the crowds thickened, so that
when he arrived in the virile, purposeful commercial streets, the
sidewalks could no longer contain the mass. They are broad and
efficient streets, striking through the town arrow-straight, and giving
to the eye superb vistas. But broad though they were, they could not
accommodate sightseeing Toronto, and the crowd encroached upon the
driveway, much to the disgust of many little boys, who, with their
race's contempt for death by automobile, were running or cycling beside
the Royal car in their determination to get the maximum of Prince out
of a short visit.

The crowd went upward from the roadway also. We had come into our
first city of sky-climbing buildings. One of these shoots up some
twenty stories, but though this is the tallest "yet," it is surrounded
by some considerable neighbours that give the streets great ranges
upwards as well as forward. The windows of these great buildings were
packed with people, and through the canopy of flags that fluttered on
all the route they sent down their cheers to join the welcome on the
ground floor.

It was through such crowds that the Prince drove to a greater crowd
that was gathered about the Parliament Buildings.

II

The site of the Provincial Parliament Buildings is, as with all these
Western cities, very beautifully planned. It is set in the gracious
Queen's Park, that forms an avenue of green in the very heart of the
town. About the park are the buildings of Toronto University, and the
avenue leads down to the dignified old law schools at Osgoode Hall.
The Canadians show a sense of appropriate artistry always in the
grouping of their public buildings--although, of course, they have had
the advantage of beginning before ground-rents and other interests grew
too strong for public endeavour.

The Parliament Buildi