The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-18

Sanderson Miller was a Warwickshire
squire with a genius alike for friendship
and architecture. his editors state. The
architecture in which he chiefly dabbled
was the sort 81 pseudo Gothic Of which
Horace Walpole's renowned villa at
strawberry Hill was the shining eIemplAr
Not that Mr.. Miller perpe trated Strnw-
beuy Hill. The caustic Horace had q
domestic architect. 80 To speak. in the
personsof Mr. Chute When Horace was
unaware Of the nrchitect's name on any
given occasion he was apt 20 praise Mr..
Miller's designs. without reserve; when he
did happen to know the name. and that
name CHANGED 70 be Sanderson Miller and
not Chute. he condemned equally with
out reserve. This. however. IL an aside
foV Of course Horace never wrote to hut
only about a man whom he rega rded as tho
assassin of his pet hobby IN art More
cultivated taste regrets tho Alterations
81 Horace's architect a. well ~ 81 Mr.
Miller. who. happening to own Railway
Grange. ION the skirt and near the passage
Of Edge HILL a. Dugdale expresses IL.
constructed upon the crest Of the rise a
lofty. battlemented octagonal tower and
other ruins in Gothic style. TO mark the
spot where King Charles raised his royal
standard on the fateful Sunday morning
Of the battle of Edgehill He did not
neglect his own house. at times he INDUCED
in classic designs. in which. truth To tell.
he was much more successful than in the
Gothic. and with fine impartiality Gro wned
the facade OF his Gothic grange facing the
tower with a Greek Architrave. For
tunAtsly for Sanderson Miller. his con
temporaries were no further advanced
"a TO correct taste than he was himself
His tower was generally admired IeO
years ago. and Was the goal Of many a pil.
grimage ny Pitt. the Grenvilles. the I.yttel- B
tons and their friends. who looked IN
10 him ~ one % the greatest architectural
in the kingdom while they
loved him - a man and visited him as a
friend He built many Gothic castles, ,
so-called. besides his own and made alter /
atoms and additions to- and DIES Rned
houses in the Gothic taste for many
Of his friends while Hagley Hall. the seat
Of Lord Lyttelton and the admirabl. 7
County Hall NJ Warwick bear witness tn
the really excellent work he achieved in /
classic architecture. II mus, bc admitted /
that he was responsible for spelling many I
n fine old house 10y his alterations and the 1
temples and cascades IN "A !
taste now happily obsolete. ruined the !
natural cham Of many a lovely estate.
hut his enthusiastic friends. who raSsed
him from hand TO hand with exaggerated
PRAISES. were somewhat To blame for these
atrocities
Sanderson Miller was not 30 TO sneak Tn
the manner born. which may be the reason
Why the correspondence and friendship
of distinguished persons 10 so highly
priced He was the son Of a prosperous
who bought Radway Grange
N INA and there he was born iv. years
ter. II was at Oxford that he laid the
for moro than one lifelong
with important persons. who
n turn increased his acquaintance in
he same line Among these friendship.
vas one With Deans Swift. the cousin and
piographer Of the famous dean He
,wed his inconvenient Christian name To
lis mother. Hannah Diane. II NAV Il.
'emArked. His Ictty-s stand apart from
he rest Of Miller correspondence. both
n character and interest. and they have
zen judiciOusly placed together instead
u interspersed chronologically among
he rest. The tragedy Of Deans Swift's
wv 80 N@HHNh ny niN fOueln. tne dean
4 ~ PetTicks Cathedral The illusions
o IL in the letters are explained by a
written by his son. Young
,wift vas devotedly attached to his ia.
nous cousin. and retained much Of that
Election in spite 81 the fact that the dean
'retty nearly succeeded IN running his
ife He was 81 fine. steady character.
HcelIentiy qualified 60 he a Clergyman
liz Robert Walpol~. who knew this and the
nan personally. sent for him one day and
uggested that he should consider the
natter Of taking holy orders the being
hen about n years old. saying that he
TOuld provide for him in the Church. and
ven going 80 far a. To tell him that nj
he proper time he would make him =
ishop Swift was inclined to think
avorably Of the matter. but the arbitrary
can speedily got wind Of u. and par- I
saving that WRlPols intended to prefer
l- young relative over his head. and that
'hile h himself was not To 10 made a
ishop. no impedient stood in the way Of
eopls who bore his name. he remon-
tratsd vsTy strongly with Deane. The
lttSr did not choose TO renOunce tho