… friendliness of men thrown together by a blind fate Diolch i Dduw am Fritz o'r Almaen gyda'i ddwylo mawr, di-gryn, Ac am naddu o…
… friendliness of men thrown together by a blind fate Diolch i Dduw am Fritz o'r Almaen gyda'i ddwylo mawr, di-gryn, Ac am naddu o greigiau'r Alban galon Mac o Aberdeen. Pwy a wad drysorau Erin pan fo Pat yn tywallt stor Ffraethdcr parod, pert ei wcrin ar frawdoliaeth gref y mor? A cruel yearning lies beneath those verses where the poet attains his highest Pan ddelo golau Enlli ar gylch i sgubo'r bae, Rhag…
… are not a fair weather organisation; this movement began in the stress of war and has withstood the strain of these last years of…
… are not a fair weather organisation; this movement began in the stress of war and has withstood the strain of these last years of depression. Institute membership has increased in the distressed areas, for the comradeship which an Institute gives has helped those faced with the difficulties of unemploy- ment." The general policy of the Institute movement in England and Wales is laid down by the Annual Meeting, to which each Institute sends a…
… doctors and nurses, by Health Exhibitions, by encouraging the consumption of milk and educating public opinion to demand clean milk, and by raising community…
… doctors and nurses, by Health Exhibitions, by encouraging the consumption of milk and educating public opinion to demand clean milk, and by raising community standards to demand better housing, better water supplies and sanitation. Institutes encourage the development of home handicrafts, and members learn to make beautiful things for themselves and their homes. Most people are familiar with this side of their work, for it is the one most obvious to the eye, and…
… VOLUNTARY EFFORT IN THE SOCIAL CRISIS THE annual meeting of the Welsh School of Social Service at Llandrindod Wells in August produced many good…
… VOLUNTARY EFFORT IN THE SOCIAL CRISIS THE annual meeting of the Welsh School of Social Service at Llandrindod Wells in August produced many good things. In inviting Professor John Macmurray to be prin- cipal speaker and to lead the discussions, an admirable selection was made, for Dr. Macmurray enhanced the excellent reputation he has earned since he broadcast a year or so ago a number of talks in "The Modern Dilemma" series. His contribution…
… Create new forms of society on a small scale, and from the experience thus gained we may then be able to solve the wider…
… Create new forms of society on a small scale, and from the experience thus gained we may then be able to solve the wider issues which confront us. No one seems to have any answer to the ques- tion as to what we can do in the present crisis. We have to find out how to find out. The wealth of a nation is its power to produce the essentials of human life. Britain…
… Mr. BEN BOWEN THOMAS. Our old standards of thinking no longer appear to be adequate. The consideration of the situa- tion today must take…
… Mr. BEN BOWEN THOMAS. Our old standards of thinking no longer appear to be adequate. The consideration of the situa- tion today must take place upon a new plane. Our task is to assign to all men a real place in society. We must give a new meaning to their lives. Present day institutions are proving inadequate to deal with the new conditions. New methods of life and new groupings are necessary. We no…
… accept these terms and called on its members to cease work. As resources became exhausted and as summer gave way to autumn, men began…
… accept these terms and called on its members to cease work. As resources became exhausted and as summer gave way to autumn, men began to drift back to work. Outsiders, of course, had been brought in by the company, and armed guards were hired to guard the mine. Then, about three or four weeks before we went to Wilder, somebody blew with dynamite a bridge carrying the railway down which the coal is sent…
… "T HE Brook," t)he young guv 'nor called him, because, as he explained, he went on for ever. It was intended as a private…
… "T HE Brook," t)he young guv 'nor called him, because, as he explained, he went on for ever. It was intended as a private jest made to the staff manager, but con- fidentially repeated, it ultimately trickled down to the counters, and everyone now called him that, except to his face. He never heard the name, or at any rate realised its application, for the was isolated from the main life of the shop;…
… study racehorses, and on Wednesday mornings enjoyed being consulted by the young captain of the cricket or football team. "Stiff match today, Mr. Hughes.…
… study racehorses, and on Wednesday mornings enjoyed being consulted by the young captain of the cricket or football team. "Stiff match today, Mr. Hughes. What do you think of the weather?" A flattering silence followed as the diary was extracted from a pocket in the small of the back, and a pair of ramshackle spectacles perilously adjusted. Then, portentously, the advice for the day was delivered, and with sur- prising frequency the prophet was…
… Newtown, May 20th, 1879. My Dear Mr. Groome, I hope you will pardon me for being so long in not writing to you. I…
… Newtown, May 20th, 1879. My Dear Mr. Groome, I hope you will pardon me for being so long in not writing to you. I am shewer [sic] that you must think that I have forgotten you alto- gether-the reason was that we could hardly make up our minds which way to take for the best for our summer's Tower [sic]-but now we have come to a conclusion to keep around the coast through the…
… to come to any compromise and beg your pardon. I can anshewer [sic] you that my mind is very uneasy sometimes, I do think…
… to come to any compromise and beg your pardon. I can anshewer [sic] you that my mind is very uneasy sometimes, I do think that you are offended because 1 did not pay you the little money you kindly give me the loan of to pay my train to come from Edinbrough when you came to Newtown another time for not giv- ing you and Mrs. Groome better welcome than what I did when…
… STAGES IN THE LIFE OF OLD CAERNARVON ACTUALLY a good deal more of the mediæval town than of 18th century Caernarvon re- A. A.…
… STAGES IN THE LIFE OF OLD CAERNARVON ACTUALLY a good deal more of the mediæval town than of 18th century Caernarvon re- A. A. mains visible to the eye to-day. But the turbulence and animosities of that earlier period are strange to us; the men and women who lived through them move like the figures in their own tapestries, stiffly and with archaic gestures; they speak, not in our own tongue, but in the…
… partly dammed by the low arches of Pont-y-Prith, but liable to overflow after much rain and flood the streets, there is no doubt that…
… partly dammed by the low arches of Pont-y-Prith, but liable to overflow after much rain and flood the streets, there is no doubt that the Caernarvon of this time must have been an extremely pictur- esque old place. The circuit off the town wall was unbroken, and on one side joined the castle near Queen Eleanor's Gate. A small postern (Greengate) was the only access to the grassy mound of the green. There were…
… There was not much wheeled traffic in the streets then. A coach or a chaise lumbering and jolting through them was rare enough to…
… There was not much wheeled traffic in the streets then. A coach or a chaise lumbering and jolting through them was rare enough to bring heads to the windows. Country gentleman and farmer alike rode to town; and the farmer very often brought his wife with her basket of eggs and butter for the market on a pillion behind him. Goods were still conveyed by strings of packhorses, for the roads, except the main…
… During the eighteenth century, before it was enlarged and practically rebuilt, St. Mary's was a very small church, probably nearly as old as ihe…
… During the eighteenth century, before it was enlarged and practically rebuilt, St. Mary's was a very small church, probably nearly as old as ihe castle and the town walls. It is generally sup- posed that this was the chapel of the garrison, but the same claim has also been made for another building, of which all trace has now disappeared. Adjoining the old Plâs Glanrafon, afterwards an inn, the remains of a very small…
… branches and was hidden at once by the leaves. Presently there came a bumping noise and much swishing of the bracken as the old…
… branches and was hidden at once by the leaves. Presently there came a bumping noise and much swishing of the bracken as the old lichen-covered stone ambled out of the wood and lumbered gaily three times round the pool, making a queer bow which was almost a curtsey as she did so. Pausing and tottering for a moment at the pool's brink, she then straightened herself and clum- sily went back the way she…
… tion; but Arabella, at least, is thoroughly alive in her stormy impulsiveness. Some of her earlier adventures betray the not altogether for- tunate influence…
… tion; but Arabella, at least, is thoroughly alive in her stormy impulsiveness. Some of her earlier adventures betray the not altogether for- tunate influence of Jane Eyre and Villette. In future Miss Evans would be well advised to forget her devotion to Charlotte Bronte and if (as is likely enough) she must still work from an existing model, turn her attention to novels of a more deliberate and balanced artistry, such as Mrs. Woolf's…
… to build a new world upon a "new moral order." The arguments of that period against war, its horror, its wastefulness and its futility,…
… to build a new world upon a "new moral order." The arguments of that period against war, its horror, its wastefulness and its futility, seem as convincing as those brought forward at the present day. One sees also the immense activities of the peace societies, their elaborate propaganda by means of prize essays, addresses, petitions, deputa- tions and periodicals. One even hears of the dis- tribution of ten thousand handbills in Wales urging the…
… THEWELSH OUTLOOK VOLUME xx: NUMBER i o. In the Third Reich Gwilym Davies Olivet: H. Idris Bell Ellis Wynne o Lasynys Archdeacon of Bangor…
… THEWELSH OUTLOOK VOLUME xx: NUMBER i o. In the Third Reich Gwilym Davies Olivet: H. Idris Bell Ellis Wynne o Lasynys Archdeacon of Bangor Girls at Camp Margaret E. George Thoughts on the Burne-Jones Exhibition M. M. Gower Stages in the Life of Old Caernarvon B. Dew Roberts Edward Edwards W. Jenkyn Jones OCTOBER 1933 PRICE SIXPENCE…
… MIDLAND BANK LIMITED HEAD OFFICE: POULTRY, LONDON, E.C. 2 A Complete Banking Service The Midland Bank offers exceptional facilities for transacting banking business of…
… MIDLAND BANK LIMITED HEAD OFFICE: POULTRY, LONDON, E.C. 2 A Complete Banking Service The Midland Bank offers exceptional facilities for transacting banking business of every description through over 2100 branches, of which 328 are in Wales and the remainder in England. These branches cover all important agricultural, commercial, industrial and residential districts in the two countries. The following Welsh banks have become incorporated with the Midland Bank in the course of its history DOUGLAS…
… VOLUME XX WELSH OUTLOOK Where there is no vision the people perish NOTES OF THE MONTH THE Fourteenth Assembly of the League of Nations…
… VOLUME XX WELSH OUTLOOK Where there is no vision the people perish NOTES OF THE MONTH THE Fourteenth Assembly of the League of Nations opens in an atmosphere of gloom and foreboding. The -sorry story of the last two years, with its tolerance of Japan- ese aggression in the Far East and its long haggle over disarmament, has reduced the pres- tige of the League to a point at which Mr. Lloyd George can…
… THE Welsh Press found a very profitable subject for exploitation in the discussions, supposed to have been conducted in strictly private session, at the…
… THE Welsh Press found a very profitable subject for exploitation in the discussions, supposed to have been conducted in strictly private session, at the North and South Wales Associations of the Calvinistic Methodist Church of Wales at Pwllheli and Aberayron on the some- what unusual delinquencies of some half a dozen foolish young students. Indeed so much was made of a purely domestic matter which could and should have been dealt with effectively with-…
… Office will. But the watchman on the tower knows their worth and value. It is the light straw on the river that gives the…
… Office will. But the watchman on the tower knows their worth and value. It is the light straw on the river that gives the best indication of the direction and the force of the current. If any one is inclined to doubt whether the thirst and hunger for knowledge have disappeared in Wales let him turn to the list of Tutorial Classes and the books lent to them pub- lished in the last Annual…
… enquiry and experiment have to be undertaken, how much thought and co ordination is in- volved in the case of the men who really…
… enquiry and experiment have to be undertaken, how much thought and co ordination is in- volved in the case of the men who really achieve this triumph? If anyone is inclined to think that nature can be won to greater kindness and ampler bounty by a casual and intermittent woo- ing, let him read and ponder over the very re- markable report of the "Organization and Work of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station at…
… ONE'S first impression of the Third Reich is an impression of colour and of movement. Every bookshop is a blaze of colour-the Bismarckian black…
… ONE'S first impression of the Third Reich is an impression of colour and of movement. Every bookshop is a blaze of colour-the Bismarckian black white and red. Whatever his own views may be the bookseller must display a stack of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" as much of a bible to the National Socialist as the "Das Kapital" of Karl Marz is to Communism. Around the book of books are grouped three biographies. One or more…
… ler adopted Lenin's idea-as Mussolini also did -of a party rigidly selected, perfectly discip- lined, absolutely dedicated to one purpose and to one end.…
… ler adopted Lenin's idea-as Mussolini also did -of a party rigidly selected, perfectly discip- lined, absolutely dedicated to one purpose and to one end. He named it the N.S.D.A.P.-the National Sozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiter Pwrtei Nazi for short. Fourteen years ago it numbered exactly seven to-day the enrolled membership must be close on three million. That, against overwhelming odds is the achieve- ment of the son of a small Austrian customs o ffi ce r.…
… Reich is preparing for the terrific struggle first of attaining self-sufficiency and then of winning back, with or without war, all that Germany possessed…
… Reich is preparing for the terrific struggle first of attaining self-sufficiency and then of winning back, with or without war, all that Germany possessed in 1914. In face of all this, in the pres- ence of a situation which they have helped to create, how much in the way of statesmanship can be expected from the Great Powers? Will their Four Power Pact avail anything ? Will the Disarm- ament Conference rise to what…
… ELLIS WYNNE 0 LASYNYS 1671-1734 THE Bicentenary of the above will fall next year. The question is: What should Wales do on such an…
… ELLIS WYNNE 0 LASYNYS 1671-1734 THE Bicentenary of the above will fall next year. The question is: What should Wales do on such an occasion to celebrate the event? Y Bardd Cwsc is a household name in Wales, and many would undoubtedly be prepared to pay a debt of remembrance to one who has played not a small part in the building up of the Welsh language. We are bidden to praise famous men,…
… are meted out." Yet the Spaniard wrote his Los Suenos from a different angle to the Welshman. The former simply places his hero as…
… are meted out." Yet the Spaniard wrote his Los Suenos from a different angle to the Welshman. The former simply places his hero as a spectator, while the latter gives him the principal part in the play. To appreciate Ellis Wynne the student should first read the Vision of Dante, if not in the original, then fol- low Cary's translation, as his notes are invaluable even if it were only to discover the sources…
… with a keen sense of truth and righteousness, yet withal pious and an ardent churchman. Harlech Castle and its associations must be always kept…
… with a keen sense of truth and righteousness, yet withal pious and an ardent churchman. Harlech Castle and its associations must be always kept in mind in an estimate of his temperament and character. He belonged to the land of Rowland Vaughan and Colonel John Jones the regicide. Sir John Morris-Jones follows the popular idea that before his ordination he practised as a lawyer, but George Borrow in Celtic Bards, Chiefs and Kings" (1928),…
… IT may come as a surprise to much of the South Wales public to learn that a large holi- day camp for girls from…
… IT may come as a surprise to much of the South Wales public to learn that a large holi- day camp for girls from the mining valleys has been running all summer almost at their front door- steps. The camp has been established at Summer- house Point, two miles from the village of Bover- ton, near Llantwit Major on the Glamorgan coast. Started in the summer of 1932, by Miss M. S. Davies of…
… and in future Boverton will be regarded as their meeting-ground. Again this year we had parties of girls from dis- tricts as yet without…
… and in future Boverton will be regarded as their meeting-ground. Again this year we had parties of girls from dis- tricts as yet without clubs, but those campers re- turned home full of enthusiasm to start. The areas from which the campers were drawn were the two Rhondda Valleys and the Merthyr, Garw, Rhymney, and Sirhowy valleys. The girls came for a period of one week, from Friday to Friday, with an average of…
… plexion than when they set out. Threats and warnings against exposing themselves were un- availing, and at meal-times it was heart-rending to see a…
… plexion than when they set out. Threats and warnings against exposing themselves were un- availing, and at meal-times it was heart-rending to see a row of raw, red faces, pained but happy. The sufferers even protested against treatment lest it should remove the colour as well as the pain. Good food was an important part of our health cure. We had plain wholesome food and plenty of it, and we always started the day…
… health parade," when unwilling campers were forced to sample the delights of "Epsom," and the expressions on some people's laces would have turned, the…
… health parade," when unwilling campers were forced to sample the delights of "Epsom," and the expressions on some people's laces would have turned, the milk sour, and last, but by no meams least, the campers themselves, the big girls and little girls, the fat girls, the thin girls, the ordinary girls and the extraordinary girls, all of whom played their part in making the camp such a success. A most enthusiastic Conference for Club…
… confronted with historic scenes. The mighty castles of Snowdonia, the grandeurs and glooms of its mountains, the peasantry still picturesque in their national dress,…
… confronted with historic scenes. The mighty castles of Snowdonia, the grandeurs and glooms of its mountains, the peasantry still picturesque in their national dress, all supplied the desired effect. Here close at hand was a country in which English visitors could find something of the novelty and excitement of foreign travel. The doctrines of Rousseau and the publication of "Lyrical Ballads" ultimately had an effect upon the tourist traffic of North Wales. In consequence…
… with Miss paid myself." That is all; but a few lines can make a picture. The autumn twi- light falls on the streets; doors…
… with Miss paid myself." That is all; but a few lines can make a picture. The autumn twi- light falls on the streets; doors open; and little groups in the dress of the year of Waterloo make their way over the cobbles towards the theatre, a company more transient and more shadowy than the characters who will move before them on the stage, for those imagined people will be brought back to life again…
… cause its foreign trade was not then considered large enough; but six years later the privilege was granted. So the wave of prosperity rose-…
… cause its foreign trade was not then considered large enough; but six years later the privilege was granted. So the wave of prosperity rose- and fell again. Now the harbour is empty of shipping, and the quayside is no longer patterned all over, as it was even thirty or forty years ago, with orderly stacks of slates waiting to be loaded in the vessels moored two deep alongside. Prosperity has also its penalties. As…
… All these things were doubtless oif good quality originally, but they were now in the last stage of wear, just holding together. In his…
… All these things were doubtless oif good quality originally, but they were now in the last stage of wear, just holding together. In his hand he carried a long ash plant, recently denuded of bark. Over his shoulders hung a white canvas bag with bulging contents, and greeting me with a hearty "Good morning, doctor," and noticing perhaps my astonished look, said "I hope you don't take me for the 'Wild man from Borneo,'…
… do you do, Mrs Jones?" There was no answer only a stolid sulky glare. Seating myself beside her I said, "Aren't you going to…
… do you do, Mrs Jones?" There was no answer only a stolid sulky glare. Seating myself beside her I said, "Aren't you going to speak to me?" No reply. Asking the relative if she could give an explanation, "No, doctor, except she is very angry with you." I said I was sorry, then the old lady in shrill tones asked her relative-ignor- ing me entirely-" Have you heard of Dr. -? (me). What sort…
… LETTERS OF JOHN ROBERTS TO FRANCIS HINDES GROOME Newtown, My dear Mr. Groome, When you begin to write your own Book I shall try…
… LETTERS OF JOHN ROBERTS TO FRANCIS HINDES GROOME Newtown, My dear Mr. Groome, When you begin to write your own Book I shall try to drop you a many a funny little tatchano storios about Mollays [ghosts J and about many other Romany collas [things]. I should like for you and me to bring a good book out, so as to shame those other gentlemen who has wrote such a lot of trash, aspersaly…
… an Eisteddfod held in Abergavenny some few years ago." One of the men in answer to you Yes Sir, yes Sir, and I was…
… an Eisteddfod held in Abergavenny some few years ago." One of the men in answer to you Yes Sir, yes Sir, and I was there too, Sir." Woman Now look here, hold your tongue, man." Well I was dere indeed Sir, and I think I seen dat gentleman dere too, Sir. (He is speak- ing to you)-Ain't you one of de Roberts's?" No, I am not, I know some of them. I have been…
… Chorus. O'er his native mountains with some noble chief- tain, For his Prince, his mighty Prince, his noble race for to maintain He marches…
… Chorus. O'er his native mountains with some noble chief- tain, For his Prince, his mighty Prince, his noble race for to maintain He marches on with patriot's strides, relating tales of Welshmen's tribes, The deeds of old that charmed the ear, and warmed the Welshman's heart. Second verse. England when to battle went, the sons of liberty to save, She fought, she conquered, where she sent the sons of Britons brave. Chorus. 1 When…
… one of the Woods, and tells them about the Lees, how I was afraid to go by their tents (I thought they might have…
… one of the Woods, and tells them about the Lees, how I was afraid to go by their tents (I thought they might have been some of them), also of meeting one of the Lovells at Abergavenny Eisteddfod, when he behaved so very kind to me, in lending me one of his Horses to drag my four wheeled carriage to the Bwlch near Brecon. I wished them good morning and set off for Dol-…
… contention before considering the work of Burne- Jones as an embodiment of the Celtic spirit. Now whatever this attractive painter was unable or unwilling…
… contention before considering the work of Burne- Jones as an embodiment of the Celtic spirit. Now whatever this attractive painter was unable or unwilling to do, he did not (fail to leave the impression in his work of a homogeneous and unified personality. His painting is of a piece. But the spirit of it is not the Celtic spirit, and his ideals are not those of a Celtic artist. It is true that he…
… rrHE news of the sudden death of Emeritus Professor Edward Edwards, of Aberystwyth, must have been re- ceived with poignant regret by hundreds of…
… rrHE news of the sudden death of Emeritus Professor Edward Edwards, of Aberystwyth, must have been re- ceived with poignant regret by hundreds of past and present students of the College in which, at least for a quarter of a century, he was the most popular figure. Besides occupying the Chair of History, he had played a leading part in College and University administration. He served as Acting-Principal for a period and he filled…
… nings and development of the, Presbyterian Church of Wales. Some of his short poems in Welsh are exquisite of their kind, and some character…
… nings and development of the, Presbyterian Church of Wales. Some of his short poems in Welsh are exquisite of their kind, and some character sketches which he recently contributed to a religious magazine make one regret that he has written so little. An able, shrewd, kindly personality, fearless THE ROUND TABLE No. 92 September 1933 Macmillan. 5s. This number is in many parts an illustration of the attempt of honest thinkers to adjust them-…
… THE WELSH OUTLOOK VOLUME xx: NUMBER I I. Some Characteristics of Welsh Farming A. W. Ashby Wales and the Census F. Wynn Jones The…
… THE WELSH OUTLOOK VOLUME xx: NUMBER I I. Some Characteristics of Welsh Farming A. W. Ashby Wales and the Census F. Wynn Jones The Story of Porthdinllaen B. Dew Roberts The Health Settlement Emrys Pride On the Road in Florida E. Ray Marquand The Catholic Martyrs of Wales J. Arthur Price Germany and Geneva Gwilym Davies NOVEMBER 1933 PRICE SIXPENCE…
… TRAGEDY OF KYMMER Told in Seven Episodes by T. P. Ellis. With a Foreword by Prof T. Gwynn Jones. The theme of the drama…
… TRAGEDY OF KYMMER Told in Seven Episodes by T. P. Ellis. With a Foreword by Prof T. Gwynn Jones. The theme of the drama is Peace as illustrated by the story of Kymmer Abbey, in which Welsh national heroes like the two Llywelyns and Owain Glyndwr play their part. Pi of. Gwynn Jones describes it as "a synthesis which challenges the general dis- integration of the modern conditions which have brought us to the…