"EAST ACTON MANOR HOUSE."
ITo THE EDITOR OP THB " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your very friendly critic of our last monograph is entitled to respect. But we have other critics whose complaint is that the London Survey Committee pays too great attention to famous buildings and neglects the humbler houses which are so easy a prey to the despoiler. The publication of East Acton Manor House is the redemption of a promise given many years ago when the house was threatened, and if now it has a funereal flavour it is none the less a much-needed record, for the memory of the past soon fades. As to the style of the book, we are bound to keep to the format of the series, and what is worth doing at all is surely worth doing well. It was a slim volume—in proportion to its subject, but it is not the main volume of the year; it is issued to our subscribers and sup- porters in addition to Vol. VII. of the Parish Surveys (The Old Church, Chelsea).—I am, Sir, &c.,
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