Welsh Journals

This book will serve many useful purposes: to art historians it will provide a new field, well harrowed and ploughed; for medievalists, there is much information on donors and their heraldry, and on the wealth and nature of religious life in north Wales; for topographers, travellers and all those who browse in old churches, this will be an essential reference book. Historians will turn to it as they turn to Lewis's Topographical Dictionary, or to Steegman's Portraits in Welsh Houses, or Thomas's Diocese of Saint Asaph. In so exact a catalogue as Dr. Lewis's, it must be remarked that it is a pity that there are a large number of minor spelling mistakes, and those who do not speak Welsh may complain that there are no English translations of the Welsh window-inscriptions. These, however, are minor blemishes in a work of industry, scholarship and enthusiasm. The book is a further example of the benefits conferred on Wales by the family of Plas Penucha, Caerwys. PRYS MORGAN Swansea A second, revised edition has been published of A. H. Dodd, Studies in Stuart Wales (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1971, Pp. xii, 251, £2·50). A reprint of this classic work, originally published in 1952, is warmly to be welcomed. ERRATUM Ante, Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 292, No. 364: for '1854-1900' read*! 654-1900'.