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The fortunes of the Bryndyfi lead mine of north Cardiganshire in the 1880s are traced by R. E. Boyns, in Ceredigion, VIII, no. 2, 210-15. A number of contributions on various aspects of the 1926 General Strike are provided by R. Williams, G. A. Phillips, R. M. Jones and P. Jeremy, in Llafur, II no. 2, 5-75. The development of the Welsh Language Society and the gradual decline in its militancy is discussed by C. H. Williams, ante, VIII, no. 4, 426-55. Limestone quarrying at Pwlldu up to the early-twentieth century occupies W. N. Jenkins, in Gower, XXVIII, 26-33. E. T. Davies provides the first two episodes of his analysis of the religious census of 1851 in Monmouthshire, in Gwent Local History, XLII, 37-40, and XLIII, 22-25. An interesting insight into the chief characteristics of rural history in Merioneth is given by J. G. Jenkins, in Journal Merioneth Hist. and Record Soc., VIII, part 1, 1-15. D. Howell takes another look at Merioneth agriculture and the county farming community in the late-nineteenth century, ibid., 71-78. Reminiscences about R. T. Jenkins occupy G. F. Nuttall who also evaluates his contribution to historical and literary scholarship, in Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion, 1977, pp. 181-94. In the same vein, R. Gwyndaf assesses the role of the versatile Rev. J. T. Roberts of Cerrig-y-Drudion in his Uwch Aled community, ibid., 231-51 (in Welsh). Glyn Williams takes a hard look at aspects of nineteenth-century and contemporary Wales through the eyes of a sociologist, in Planet, XL, 30-37. J. GWYNFOR JONES Cardiff.