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Mill, Robert Owen and Samuel Smiles both the pandar's public relations men and the province-based prophets of a pluralist civil society into their accounts. Nor do they stress how much of the ideology of 'national' response to a mechanistic 'civilization' drew on sources which were far from being monarchic, military or protestant. Cobden and Bright don't figure, nor does the temperance movement (which combined the extreme protestantism of John 'Band of Hope with a Catholic hero in Father Mathew), nor the ultra-nationalist Foreign Affairs Committees of the 1850s created by the Catholic David Urquhart. In contemporary terms, David Marquand finds a growing English ethnic nationalism which implicitly has revolutionary implications. The periphery continues with an essentially whig-imperial vision of confederalism, now European rather than British. The words of the English reaction come easily to the lips: It may be we are meant to mark, with our riot and our rest God's scorn for all men governing. It may be beer is best. But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile on us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget. And the words were written by G. K. Chesterton, Catholic Francophile. CHRISTOPHER HARVIE Tubingen THE Place-Names OF PEMBROKESHIRE By B. G. Charles. The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992. 2 vols. Pp. lxxxvii, 867; map. £ 50.00. The publication of this book is a major landmark in Welsh place-name studies. It is the first work in which the place-names of a whole county of Wales receive comprehensive treatment, with early forms and their sources, full discussion of the possible derivation, lists of field-names, and indexes of the elements and personal names contained in the names. The treatment is along the lines followed in the county volumes of the English Place- Name Survey, and as such it is what English scholars have been hoping for seventy years that their Welsh colleagues would undertake. (It is striking to 9 See Tony Kushner, 'The Spice of Life? Ethnic Difference, Politics and Culture in Modern Britain', in David Cesarani and Mary Fulbrook, Citizenship, Nationality and Migration in Europe (London, 1996), pp. 125-45.