Welsh Journals

"The Dark Ffowar." by John Galsworthy. W. Henemann. London. 6s. Galsworthy is a genius manque. His analysis of human relationship is pitiless; it frightens the reader who connects his books to life and his life to boob if this is all we feel. then life is a ghastly procession of illusory passions so transitory that they do not make impress upon character, nor even increase the sum of experience. The same bundle of nerves frets periodically into desire and is not appeased. Galsworthy', persons are not human: they are not men or women at all they are pegs upon which are spread the human passions ready for the probe of a large intelligence ruled by purely intellectual conceptions. Curiously, in The Dark Flower the most intelligible character is the Don, who, neither sardonically nor even mal- evolently, but with the bowel-less interest of a man without emotions, watches the growing passion of his wife for There is something that cries out upon academies or systems where men do not feel, are not good or wicked, but merely observant. Galsworthy himself increasingly approaches the diabolical unconcern of Maupassant. This love life is not the love life of any one man it could be made into three stories by altering the names of the chief actor in each book it is neverthe- less a terrible gibbeting of passion and the last book is almost revolting. Dark Flower is a novel of high standing: it is at that level that any criticism is made. BOOKS RECEIVED. The following books have also been received and will be reviewed in our next number Health and Physique of School Children By Arthur Greenwood. (P. S. King & Sons.) "Industrial Unrest and the Living Wage Co-partnership By Aneurin Williams. (Williams & Norgate.) The Social Unrest By Ramsay McDonald. (T. N. Foulis.) What is Education ? By Stanley Leathes. (G. Bell & Sons.) Property-Its Rights and Duties." Preface by Bishop Gore (Macmillan & Co.) Sadhana—The Realisation of Life By Rabindranath Tagore. (Macmillan & Co.) The Crescent Moon-Child Poems By Rabindranath Tagore. (Macmillan & Co.) The Case for Co-Education By Rev. Cecil Grant. MA (Grant Richards &Co.) Churches in the Modern State By J. N. Figgis. (Longmans, Green & Co.) English Citizenship (Longmans, Green & Co.) Conflicting Ideals By B. L. Hutchins. (Thomas Murby & Co.) Essays in Freedom." By H. W. Nevinson. (Dtsekaorth <S-_Co.) (P. S. King &Sons.) WALES AT WORK. THE WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION (WALES). Secretary­Mr. John i homas, BA., Penlan, Trecynon, Aberdare. The association is making progress rapidly in Wales but its energies are restricted by want of money and efficient teachers. Its central point is a Joint Committee of the University College of South Wales and working class representatives whose duty it is to organise, supervise.and pay for University Tutorial Classes for men and women. The South Wales College was the last University to join in the work of tutorial teaching and has at present only a single class in Cardiff. A steady development is hoped for every town and village in South Wales should have University teaching in its midst. Apart from the Joint Committee's efforts the asso- ciation has, during the last two years, in conjunction with the Glamorgan County Council, fostered tutorial classes as part of the work of the Evening Schools. The work has been efficiently carried out in some ten centres including such contrasts as Llantwit Major and Port Talbot the salaries paid to teachers are inadequate, and the work is now sufficiently advanced to warrant the employment of full time teachers. The association has, in addition to its class work, a great field of activity within its local branches in the direction of study circles, public lecturing, educational information, &c. Branches are in working order in Cardiff, Barry, Llantwit Major, Caerau. Ynysybwl, and Penrhiw- ceiber. Newport is being organised by the Trades and Labour Council, whilst a preliminary conference has been held at Llanelly. A successful experiment has been made at Barry with a Canu Pennillion" class. Under the Monmouth County Council there are several classes studying Economics and Industrial History, not yet affiliated to the W.E.A. At Blackwood a group has met for several years to study the poetry of Browning. We shall give some account of it later. Bangor University College has been at work for two or three years in the quarry districts, and Aberystwyth has added several new centres this winter. The whole subject of working men's edu- cation will form an article in this journal at an early date and we should like to publish a complete list of classes in Waks.