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Nation and the Manchester Guardian. This makes it possible to track his ideological trajectory from Gladstonian anti-imperialism during the Boer War, through Edwardian New Liberalism to League of Nations internationalism in the 1930s. The Hammonds appear in retrospect as Victorians who were not entirely comfortable with the political configuration of the post-Gladstonian world. After all, Lawrence was born in 1872 and died in 1949, while Barbara, only a year younger, lived on until 1961. They thankfully avoided the curmudgeonly anti-socialism which blighted the last years of their Liberal contemporaries, Murray and Trevelyan, but they were unable to convert their alienation from the Liberal Party (especially Lloyd George) into positive enthusiasm for Labour, as Lawrence's decision to decline the editorship of the New Statesman in 1930 revealed. Weaver is perhaps overly coy in failing to discuss more fully his subjects' private lives, particularly the personal implications of their child- lessness and Barbara's decision (despite her probably superior intellect) to sublimate her career to that of her husband. However, this is an authoritat- ive, nuanced and elegantly written study, which not merely brings to life an extraordinarily creative literary partnership, but which successfully illuminates the rise, short-lived triumph and dramatic eclipse of Edwardian Progressivism. MARTIN FRANCIS Royal Holloway, University of London DANGEROUS DIVERSITY: THE CHANGING FACES OF WALES: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF TUDOR BEVAN. Edited by Katie Gramich and Andrew Hiscock. University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1998. Pp.xx, 220. £ 25.00. This collection of multi-disciplinary essays dedicated to the memory of Tudor Bevan, former lecturer in English at Trinity College, Carmarthen, explores and celebrates the diversity of a multi-faceted and ever-changing Welsh cultural experience, past and present. The contributors are his former colleagues and friends and the content reflects their research interest in literature, history and education-areas of study which were closely inter-related in Tudor Bevan's own career. Born in Treherbert in Rhondda Fawr and brought up in Llansteffan, his attachment to both the industrial valleys and the small villages of Carmarthenshire enabled him to view his homeland from more than one perspective. Each of the five sections of this volume examines Wales and Welsh society from its own vantage point, including the perspective of women, that of observers from