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romantic suggestion. This brought old castles
to my mind and my inclination was towards the
^Gothic. One memorable evening the sight of
"the sun sinking behind the hills on the west side
of the spur on which I stood, and the view of a
sheet of water, the Husain Sagar, spread out
before me to the north, made these lines from
Marmion ring in my ears :
" Day set on Norham's castled steep, (;
And Tweed's fair river broad and deep, \
And Cheviot's mountains lone/' I
The picture and the sounds haunted me till an
image, at first indistinct and vision-like, began to
assume a more distinct form. From the stern
grandeur of mediaeval castles my fancy flew
to the more delicate arch and tracery .of English
Cathedrals and country seats and college build-
ings, till my memory took me back to my Cam-
bridge days, and the force of personal association
made me decide in favour of the college style."
And he goes on to say, " The admiration of my
English friends testified to my success as an ar-
dbdtect» and still more pleasing was the delight
of my dear old friend of Cambridge days —
Ran jit Singh (Maharaja of Nawanagar) who saw
it in 1927."
The influence of Scott on him is life-long as
can be seen from the following passage in his
recollections :
" Scott is one of my earliest masters. It
was he who filled my boyish heart with the
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