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She stresses that the difference in the literatures of Wales and England reflects the break in continuity of English life, a break more nearly complete than has taken place yet in Welsh life it is easy to believe that the future of Wales lives with the same purity and vigour The Clubs will help make or mar that future, create or destroy, in so far as they regard Welsh culture with self-respecting pride, or with indifference, and possibly disdain. I make no plea for cultural isolationism, for ideas of superiority, or for antagonism towards any other culture, but ask only for a proper appreciation of Welsh achievement and possibility. If I say, Let the Welsh Federation of Music and Arts Clubs be Welsh in more than a territorial signification," I am merely saying, Let the people who are members and officers of the Clubs be natural, and let their cultural life flow strongly from the rich blood of the heart, not be due, mainly, to injections which stimulate temporarily, but need constant and increasing doses to be effective." Nott of Candahar An Account of a Welsh Soldier By D. ELWYN WILLIAMS A LITTLE over a hundred years ago, as their carriages brought in the gentry from the countryside, the good folk of Carmarthen gathered in Guildhall Square to pay their last respects to one to whose military renown they were, in due course, to accord the honour of a statue and a street name. There were many who recalled that August day some twenty years earlier when, before the assembled townsfolk whose ranks were swelled by military contingents, masonic lodges and numerous dignitaries, Lady Dynevor had laid the foundation stone of a monument to another general-Picton of the Fighting Third-another great soldier who had known misfortune before success. Picton, the alleged monster of Trinidad and cruel oppressor of a conquered island, had triumphed over the calumnies and revilings of popular agitation Nott triumphed over the more insidious misrepresentations of officialdom. In 1842-43 his had been a name on everyone's lips the great Duke of Wellington had in the House of Lords paid tribute to the gallant officer for his conduct"; the Commons had listened to Sir Robert Peel's eloquent testimony to his military skill and noble mind; he had