20 MAY 1893, Page 17

A RCHITECTURE AT THE ACADEMY. [To Tin EDITOR OF TII1 "

SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—The theories of your critic, "D. S. M.," are excellent, and his aspirations admirable. His personal attack on myself, except that he far overrates the influence, " deplorable "though it may be, of so humble an individual, is not of a nature that needs an answer here or elsewhere; but his facts require cor- rection. The Randolph Hotel, Oxford, is not of my designing.