Welsh Journals

BOOKS RECEIVED Scepticism and Poetry. an essay on the Poetic Imagination, by D. G. James (Allen & Urwin,12/6). Sketch for a Portrait of Rimbaud, by Humphrey Hare (Brendin, 3/6). Racine. by Jean Giraudoux. Translated by P. Mansell Jones. (Gordon Fraser, Cambridge, 3/6). Ffair Gaeaf. gan Kate Roberts. (Gwasg Gee, Dinbych, 2/6). TDdau Lais. gan Aneirin ap Talfan a W. H. Reese. (Foyle, 2/6). Social Life in Mid-Eighteenth Century Anglesey. by G. Nesta Evans. (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1936, pp. 216, 7/6). Early Vaticination in Welsh with English Parallel. by Margaret Enid Griffiths, M.A., pp. 220. (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 5/-). SOME OTHERS Mr. Lloyd George, Lady Rhondda, Sir J. E. Lloyd, The Williams-Ellis family, Eiluned and Peter Lewis, Geoffrey West, Wyndham Lewis, Professor Stapledon, Jack Jones, Vaughan Wilkins, and Mary Priestly. QUOTATION As a general rule no people can produce art or literature unless through the inspiration of a free and vigorous national life. The history of Ireland under English rule, or of Holland under Spanish rule is barren of any artistic achievement. The renewal of Dutch life upon the recovery produced the great school of Dutch painting, while the Irish Free State at the present time is producing a much finer literature than a better educated Scotland which is still under English control. And it is through the realisation of Scotland's need of this national impulse through freedom that go per cent. of those who are producing literature or art in Scotland are in the Scottish Nationalist Movement The truth is that the individu- ality of a nation represents a sum of human achievement which it would be a crime to destroy because it would be impossible to replace it." From an article in Forward.