… hludoff, who had seduced a servant girl-a bare sordid tale stripped of all the voluptuous details with which a French writer would have delicately…
… hludoff, who had seduced a servant girl-a bare sordid tale stripped of all the voluptuous details with which a French writer would have delicately veiled the ugliness of self-indulgence. The young Nekhludoff is Leo Tolstoi. Tolstoi, a puritan of the puritans, mistrusts both love and beauty illicit love for him was naked sin. No Russian of his time could have had an altogether sane outlook upon life. He condemns the men and women of…
… THE PERSONALITY OF TOWNS No. 3. AMLWCH. A TOWN OF YESTERDAY SURELY it was not Wales !-this tree-less windswept land, with its windmills and…
… THE PERSONALITY OF TOWNS No. 3. AMLWCH. A TOWN OF YESTERDAY SURELY it was not Wales !-this tree-less windswept land, with its windmills and grey dry stone walls instead of hedges. And yet it was Wales, the very northernmost part of the Principality, and there, a little below me lay Amlwch Amlwch, asleep in its greyness, the breeze -whoever knew Amlwch to lack one ?-blowing in bleakly from the sea over the stubble of…
… ery, rusting ever deeper into the earth, and the smoke- less stacks that litter the fields of man's defeats in the wars of industry.…
… ery, rusting ever deeper into the earth, and the smoke- less stacks that litter the fields of man's defeats in the wars of industry. We set off homewards along the yellow road that had once re-echoed to the tramp of the famed "copper lassies." The sun was setting, and as it neared the horizon the breeze freshened, and began to whistle and croon in the crannies of the long, dry stone walls on each…
… MASTER OF THE CEREMONIES THERE is a port on the Black Sea where men anciently bartered wine and olives for silks and oxen and…
… MASTER OF THE CEREMONIES THERE is a port on the Black Sea where men anciently bartered wine and olives for silks and oxen and ivory, trading in more than a hundred tongues. Nowadays you would not hear more than two-score spoken in the cafes on the quay, and tobacco is the only trade. It is said that the gods, Castor and Pollux, were born there, but it is long since they have shown any…
… dearly loved to drill into shape a scratch lot of recruits. Dames au milieu. Corbeille Even the Grand Duke and Madame Antigone joined in,…
… dearly loved to drill into shape a scratch lot of recruits. Dames au milieu. Corbeille Even the Grand Duke and Madame Antigone joined in, and the Beauty forgot her disdain. Grand Chain. Double Changez vos partners. Galop The music grew faster. Encore Grand Rond. Skore Xrigora Plus vite Grande Finale!" Old gentlemen mopped their necks, chuckling that there was life in the old dog yet. The Beauty leaned on the piano and pinned a…
… CHRISTIAN UNITY IN WALES-" The Welsh Outlook," February, 1914. The appearance of an article on this important subject, is in itself a welcome indication…
… CHRISTIAN UNITY IN WALES-" The Welsh Outlook," February, 1914. The appearance of an article on this important subject, is in itself a welcome indication that things are improving in our midst. We are growing ashamed of our divisions, we recognise them no longer as part of the immutable order of things, nor do we believe to-day that the ultimate triumph of the Kingdom of God is bound up with the continuance of any one…
… than towards a federation in Wales. That has always been our complaint against Mother Church, and the signs of the times seem to indicate…
… than towards a federation in Wales. That has always been our complaint against Mother Church, and the signs of the times seem to indicate that this tendency England-ward is likely to become more pronounced as time goes on. As to the second point, I feel very sure that the Baptist Church in Wales is not likely to sacrifice their vital question of adult baptism for any scheme of union. It is quite true that…
… pursued in a vacuum. The spiritual becomes real to us only when we set out with mind and heart to make the Divine Will…
… pursued in a vacuum. The spiritual becomes real to us only when we set out with mind and heart to make the Divine Will rule in all our human relations. It is only through the daily friction and monotony of life with its opportunities for patience, self-sacrifice and service that we can ever hope to win for ourselves souls. So that the true saint is unlike the worldling, not because he withdraws from the…
… draw a second generalisation. Time will cope with the irresponsible playwrights, but the uncritical though enthusiastic patrons may, in this respect, interfere with the…
… draw a second generalisation. Time will cope with the irresponsible playwrights, but the uncritical though enthusiastic patrons may, in this respect, interfere with the wise judgement of time and postpone its wiser execution. Scores of these poor, slipshod attempts may get produced in the meantime, and create in drama again the low standard of work which has been the curse of Wales in so many fields in the past. Of course, we readily admit…
… WALES AT WORK THE APPOINTMENTS BOARD FOR WALES. Secretary :— Mr. R. Silyn Roberts, M.A., University Registry, Cathays Park, Cardiff. A Board meeting was…
… WALES AT WORK THE APPOINTMENTS BOARD FOR WALES. Secretary :— Mr. R. Silyn Roberts, M.A., University Registry, Cathays Park, Cardiff. A Board meeting was held in London on February 12th, at which the Secretary submitted the First Annual Report. It was decided to print this and distribute it widely. It will show at least that some- thing has been attempted and something done to assist well-educated young persons to suitable situations. The attitude of…
… CAMBRIDGE WELSH SOCIETY This year's St. David's Day dinner was a great success. With our President, Dr. Joseph Griffiths in the chair, the Hon.…
… CAMBRIDGE WELSH SOCIETY This year's St. David's Day dinner was a great success. With our President, Dr. Joseph Griffiths in the chair, the Hon. W. G. A. Ormesby Gore, M.P., as chief guest, and over 50 men present, everything went with a swing. The Menu card was in the purest of pure Welsh and defied translation into the barbaric Saxon tongue. As usual we loyally toasted the King, while the toasts of Dewi Sant…
… THE NORTH WALES NURSING ASSOCIATION Hon. Sec.: Miss A. M. Davies, Treborth, Bangor. The passing of the Midwives Act brought about a sudden and…
… THE NORTH WALES NURSING ASSOCIATION Hon. Sec.: Miss A. M. Davies, Treborth, Bangor. The passing of the Midwives Act brought about a sudden and imperative call for additional nurses and the Queen's Institute, which, alas like other charities, knows what it is to have to face a deficit, felt itself unable, alone, to cope with the new demand for Wales. During past years, many of the large English counties have started county associations, in…
… WREXHAM CIVIC GUILD OF HELP Whilst Guilds of Help are at work in most of the large centres of population in England, the movement…
… WREXHAM CIVIC GUILD OF HELP Whilst Guilds of Help are at work in most of the large centres of population in England, the movement has as yet made little headway in Wales. As men- tioned in our last issue, Carnarvon has had a Guild for some years, and at the beginning of the present winter Wrexham followed suit. The aims of the Guild are well summed up in the motto Not alms, but a…
… THE WELSH RENAISSANCE EXHIBITION AT BARRY. June 15th-20th, 1914. One prominent feature in Wales at the present moment is the great activity which prevails…
… THE WELSH RENAISSANCE EXHIBITION AT BARRY. June 15th-20th, 1914. One prominent feature in Wales at the present moment is the great activity which prevails in Welsh Societies. A strong wave of nationalism has spread over the whole country. To deepen the effects of this revival on the educational side, Barry has decided to organize, what has been termed a Renaissance Exhibition. The Exhibition Committee solicits the aid of all Welsh Education Authorities. It is…
… WELSH NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION The educational campaign has added a new feature which is being eagerly welcomed by local bodies. A health week is…
… WELSH NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION The educational campaign has added a new feature which is being eagerly welcomed by local bodies. A health week is declared, and the various lecturers attached to the Memorial Association speak in the afternoons and evenings of each day upon all aspects of sanitation and personal hygiene. Abertillery is the centre for the first week of the month, and arrangements are being actively made for a health week in Cardiff…
… worship of love that seeketh not its own," and almost fanatical cry for childlike simplicity, that is at the root of all his work.…
… worship of love that seeketh not its own," and almost fanatical cry for childlike simplicity, that is at the root of all his work. It is never pressed, but one feels it there throughout and it is allowed full play in the short and almost perfect incident of the home- coming of Shatov's wife, and its terrible sequel. The wife, after three years of infidelity, returns to her husband. He receives her almost overcome…
… is difficult to realise that a man of 45. now in the very prime of his career. has to his credit such a notable…
… is difficult to realise that a man of 45. now in the very prime of his career. has to his credit such a notable record of executed work. Mr. Weaver book is a sumptuous folio volume, excellently produced and illustrated in a way that is characteristic of the publications of Country Life." He brings to his task a very readable and well balanced style of writing. no common qualities in books dealing with technical…
… authority and renown ? We could well afford a bunch of our too numerous minor poets in exchange for one such pioneer of learning.…
… authority and renown ? We could well afford a bunch of our too numerous minor poets in exchange for one such pioneer of learning. It is rather a far cry to Rowland Williams of sadly neglected memory. Here in this little book is a pattern of what is wanted. Perhaps it is a pity to end on a note of complaint when so much is given for so little money, but it is a…
… to show that the adoption of such a theory introduces a fatal rift into, and is subversive of, Christianity. Dr. Headlam 's latest work…
… to show that the adoption of such a theory introduces a fatal rift into, and is subversive of, Christianity. Dr. Headlam 's latest work aims at showing how untenable such a view is after a careful examination of the documents. Even when thus narrowed down the subject branches out and takes a wide compass, for it involves an examination of St. Paul's characteristic doctrines, and those of the primitive apostles, in order to shew…
… In Banyan's Dreamland." Rev. David Powell, Liverpool. Educational Publishing Co., Cardiff. 1/- net. This unpretentious little book is an attempt to expound Bunyan allegories…
… In Banyan's Dreamland." Rev. David Powell, Liverpool. Educational Publishing Co., Cardiff. 1/- net. This unpretentious little book is an attempt to expound Bunyan allegories — those epics of the religious fife--from a modem standpoint and to make them intelligible to modern readers. The attempt, it may be said at once, has been successful. In a series of short, live chapters Mr. Powell gives us a glimpse into the very soul of the allegories. The…
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… Notes of the Month Page The Educational Outlook in Wales. II 200 Mistral and His Country. By Annie Ffoulkes 205 Bird Life in Wales.…
… Notes of the Month Page The Educational Outlook in Wales. II 200 Mistral and His Country. By Annie Ffoulkes 205 Bird Life in Wales. By J. 0. D. 209 Taste. By C. T. 211 The Present Renaissance of English Drama, III. By Professor Gilbert Norwood 212 Poem Les Pauvres." Translated by P. M. J. 217 Welsh Music and Modern By D. Vaughan Thomas 218 The Inquest. By R.H.W. 220 Style 221 The National Museum…
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… TOWARD THE DAWN A GREAT company moving slowly out of darkness-darkness blacker than any words can paint, darkness greater than that of despair, for…
… TOWARD THE DAWN A GREAT company moving slowly out of darkness-darkness blacker than any words can paint, darkness greater than that of despair, for the desperate have the comfort of their dash to destruction; the darkness of drudgery that never can, and knows it never can, overtake sufficiency of those for ever lifting their feet in a marsh that drags them a little lower with every step. A great company moving, at last, out…
… THE WELSH OUTLOOK NOTES OF THE MONTH The Land Soldiers, and possibly none save Report soldiers, really know how campaigns are won. The last…
… THE WELSH OUTLOOK NOTES OF THE MONTH The Land Soldiers, and possibly none save Report soldiers, really know how campaigns are won. The last button on the garter is sewn only after long months and perhaps years of determined effort the newspaper events are unexpected only by the amateur public. Reforms are similarly subject, in these efficient days of sociological inquiry, to painstaking preparation. The Land Enquiry Committee's second volume, which has recently been…
… schools every year. In this way, the interest of the children is stimulated and they are enabled, during their school life, to become familiar…
… schools every year. In this way, the interest of the children is stimulated and they are enabled, during their school life, to become familiar with a large number of beautiful works of art. At present 30 schools are affiliated and the Association owns 130 pictures. They are, for the most part, large pictures, reproductions in black and white or in colours of the works of the great masters, or of pictures which may serve…
… head of teacher's salaries (2.89 per scholar) is higher than that of any county in the Principality. The rate for elementary education is 17.8d,…
… head of teacher's salaries (2.89 per scholar) is higher than that of any county in the Principality. The rate for elementary education is 17.8d, a figure which is exceeded only in the two large industrial counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth. The memorandum recognises the need of making the profession more attractive, but, having regard to the resources of the county, the burden of the rate, and the money spent per scholar on the salaries…
… Financial The report contains numerous com- Position parative tables and two graphs which are very instructive. Table L. p 27 gives the deficit on…
… Financial The report contains numerous com- Position parative tables and two graphs which are very instructive. Table L. p 27 gives the deficit on the year's working of all the county schools. It appears that but one school out of the ten paid its way for the year 1912-13, and that the deficit in respect of the other schools varied from £ 102 to £ 158. It is quite evident that the enquiry did…
… The DoH The National Museum of Wales is Exhibition rapidly showing its real educational value. There was a time when the very word museum…
… The DoH The National Museum of Wales is Exhibition rapidly showing its real educational value. There was a time when the very word museum was enough to plunge a self- respecting child into a profound gloom and make his respectable father only suffer one, because, of course, it ought to interest the aforesaid child. Now, instead of dreary cases of dull, because uncorrelated, objects, we are being given such exhibitions as this. Then the…
… THE EDUCATIONAL OUTLOOK IN WALES THERE are signs that the problems of university administration are again about to engage public attention in the Principality.…
… THE EDUCATIONAL OUTLOOK IN WALES THERE are signs that the problems of university administration are again about to engage public attention in the Principality. A small group of reformers have sent forth a preliminary kite, and presently we shall be told by two or three skilful press-pullers that the country is profoundly dissatisfied with the existing university system. Some dissatisfaction there undoubtedly is, but we wish it were deeper, more widely spread, and more…
… teaching is so closely connected with the requirements of the art to be acquired, or the profession or calling for which the pupil desires…
… teaching is so closely connected with the requirements of the art to be acquired, or the profession or calling for which the pupil desires to prepare himself, that it is limited and directed largely to the application of ascertained facts to practical purposes, or it may be to the preparation for a qualifying examination. In a university the aim is different, and the whole organisation ought to be adapted to the attainment of the…
… thrilling, if subdued, excitement and strain about it which reacts on the students of all grades. During such work novel theories, interesting experiments, new…
… thrilling, if subdued, excitement and strain about it which reacts on the students of all grades. During such work novel theories, interesting experiments, new specimens are brought forward which can be shown and explained simply to the undergraduates by the teachers and by the advanced students. Or the subject may be expounded at the department's discussion society. In one way or another, the undergraduates obtain a glimmering, not so much of the specific piece…
… Let us leave the educational for the administrative side of these proposals. The first set of reformers propose to place the control of the…
… Let us leave the educational for the administrative side of these proposals. The first set of reformers propose to place the control of the University (embracing the Museum, Library, etc.) in the hands of an elective representative council, with the Superman as its chief executive officer. The persistent faith in huge amorphous National councils amazes me. The pro- fessed goal of these reformers is to secure democratic freedom against academic tyranny. The ultimate reality…
… their first year. The Intermediate is in no sense university work." How far are these views shared by his colleagues ? If they are…
… their first year. The Intermediate is in no sense university work." How far are these views shared by his colleagues ? If they are accepted, what is to be the fate of the student, not uncommon in Wales and in Scotland, who wakes up late in adole- scence, who finds the Matriculation exa- mination at its present standard almost an insuperable barrier, but who is quite capable of profiting by a university course? Reviewing…
… alternatives are celibacy or a rich wife or hack examining work through the vacations, and henceforth an occasional article to the Outlook We always…
… alternatives are celibacy or a rich wife or hack examining work through the vacations, and henceforth an occasional article to the Outlook We always read the speeches of Mr. E. T. John, M.P. with profit. He said at Newborough, the other day, that intellectual Wales was really trading most unprofitably, exporting genius and im- porting mediocrity. There is a somewhat despised law, called shortly supply and demand," which has a way of asserting itself…
… This is a country where sadness is but a fleeting cloud. When its poetry sounds a note of sadness, one feels that it is…
… This is a country where sadness is but a fleeting cloud. When its poetry sounds a note of sadness, one feels that it is but a brief prelude to the triumphant song of joy which is ever ready to break out. We had been in the ancient city of Avignon, and had dutifully visited the the sombre cathedral and the great palace of the Popes. Then we went to the ancient bridge, and danced…
… of religious resort besides. Nearly all the girls wore the pretty Arlesien headgear of white muslin and black velvet, and dainty white muslin fichus…
… of religious resort besides. Nearly all the girls wore the pretty Arlesien headgear of white muslin and black velvet, and dainty white muslin fichus and black velvet sleeves. The undoubted Grecian strain surviving in these people gives the women a queenly stateliness of bearing and a beauty of face that are often noticed by strangers. The next day we went out to explore the old streets of Aries, the town most beloved of the…
… Provencal epics from both the Carlovingian and Arthurian circles. As William Sharp has so vividly pointed out: the salient characteristics of Provencal literature are…
… Provencal epics from both the Carlovingian and Arthurian circles. As William Sharp has so vividly pointed out: the salient characteristics of Provencal literature are youth, hope and joy." Mistral and his colleagues, the modern troubadours, or the F élibres as they called themselves, have caused many a great European poet to pause and bask in the sunshine of their songs, and to pass on refreshed and strengthened by their gladness. One can- not help…
… The successful design for the National Museum of Wales. From the drawing submitted in the Architectural Competition by Messrs. Smith & Brewer.…
… The successful design for the National Museum of Wales. From the drawing submitted in the Architectural Competition by Messrs. Smith & Brewer.…
… Hedge-sparrow feeding cuckoo. Garden warbler and young. From photographs by J. Owen Davies, Dynas Powis. An oystercatcher's nest and eggs. Sand piper.…
… Hedge-sparrow feeding cuckoo. Garden warbler and young. From photographs by J. Owen Davies, Dynas Powis. An oystercatcher's nest and eggs. Sand piper.…
… BIRD LIFE IN WALES THE title of this article might lead the reader to imagine that he is to be burdened with an exhaustive…
… BIRD LIFE IN WALES THE title of this article might lead the reader to imagine that he is to be burdened with an exhaustive treatise on the avifauna of the Principality. But his drooping spirit may revive when it is explained that such a treatment, in the limits of magazine contribution, is impossible even for the most expert precis writer. For a list of the birds of Wales, so richly blest with wild life…
… grub-eating birds seem to congregate-thrushes. moving sedately here and there, starlings ever busy and seeming as though they could never find time enough to…
… grub-eating birds seem to congregate-thrushes. moving sedately here and there, starlings ever busy and seeming as though they could never find time enough to perform their manifold duties, sparrows, linnets, all are there, bustling and fighting and working. And then the hedgerows, everyone of them the scene of some quaint birdland drama; as one glances along them, at intervals are to be seen the happy mates as perched in some commanding elevation they sing…
… WE have paid many heavy penalties for the recklessness and rapidity of our national development during the Victorian age, and one of the heaviest…
… WE have paid many heavy penalties for the recklessness and rapidity of our national development during the Victorian age, and one of the heaviest is certainly the self-conscious attitude which we are nearly all of us driven to adopt with regard to what should be the foundation and inspira- tion of our whole national life-that which for want of another name we must needs call Art. One would like to avoid the word, if…
… never properly arranged or classified, but swept rudely together or scattered pell-mell in a disorderly confusion. From these observations the biographer proceeds to lay…
… never properly arranged or classified, but swept rudely together or scattered pell-mell in a disorderly confusion. From these observations the biographer proceeds to lay stress upon a corresponding weakness in his father's poems, the weakness in arrangement and in contrast, which often prevents their extra- ordinary power and beauty making its due effect. It was the same with our own fathers. The passion for acquisition overrode the sense of order, blocking all its diverse…
… revolted against English home-life that he has deserted his wife and son many years ago; Mr. Barker, in order to provide the external point…
… revolted against English home-life that he has deserted his wife and son many years ago; Mr. Barker, in order to provide the external point of view, has actually converted him to Mohammedanism and conferred upon him a house and harem in an Arabian village. This individual's comments on the English- man's attitude towards women are both novel and deadly, provoking a healthy reaction or commanding revolution. The upshot appears to be that women are…
… Madras House has more, and it is not vital to the plot -the plot, indeed, as I said before is of little moment. Waste…
… Madras House has more, and it is not vital to the plot -the plot, indeed, as I said before is of little moment. Waste is a positive portent from the present point of view. Trebell is talking all the time, and he talks like a Blue-book drastically revised by a wary archangel. Around him is a whole galaxy of lesser talkers. They all seem mouthpieces for various opinions the only fine creation is Amy…