Welsh Journals

LEWIS GILES, Hon. Sec., South Wales and Monmouthshire Association of Newspaper Proprietors (Affiliated to the Newspaper Society). It was a bold hazard that you faced ten years ago when you created Wales. The risk was enough to shake the head of even an old hand at publication. But the striving to succeed has given you the joy; you have gone right through with it, and you have won. Wales is established as a wise and welcome visitor to a widely growing circle of Welsh homes. Splendid During the next ten years you will have a new generation of readers, gifted young Welsh people, resolute, receptive, and salient. It will be a wholesome and stimulating purge, a preliminary clearing of the national structure if you inspire these with a national consciousness of easy equality with other peoples easy equality with their nearest neighbours the English, at least, equal but not hating. These young people should be made more familiar with the names of great Welshmen who have played such a vital part in bringing Britain and its Empire to its present world status. And that absurd figure John Bull should have his nose pulled hard and often, and his mouth closed against shouting the odds about the achievements of his fat self. They should hear much less, too, about that Fine Old English gentleman. These two are far too vocal and are an element which spoils the good English character; an element that should be reminded more often that it is kith and kin to such notorious types as Squeers, Pecksniff and Uriah Heap. Sneering at and cold-shouldering Wales, from Whitehall down (or up) is behaviour of which English people should be thoroughly ashamed. All this I am sure is on your plans, so, with hearty congratulations, Carry On Keidrych LEWIS GILES. BOOKS RECEIVED The Barren Tree poems by Wyn Griffith (Penmark). 8/6d. The Different Drummer and The Inn Closes for Christmas Two Novels by Cledwyn Hughes (Pilot Press). 96. Merch y Capten nofel gan a Pwshcin. (1799-1837) trosiad o'r Rwseg gan T. Hudson Williams (Clwb Llyfrau Cymraeg), 4/ Y Ddrama Yng Nghymru gan Elsbeth Evans (Gwasg y Brython) Cyfres Pobun Rhif xiii, 2/6d. Y Deryn Glas a Storiau Eraill cyfaddaswyd gan Dyfnallt (Undeb yr Annibynwyr, Abertawe). 4/ The Dark Tower and other radio scripts by Louis Macneice (Faber & Faber). 8/6d. A Job at The B.B.C. Some personal reminiscences, by Joseph Macleod (William Maclellan). 7/6d. Break in Harvest and other poems, by Roland Mathias (Routledge). 5/ The Gift of Ministry by Daniel T. Jenkins (Faber & Faber). 6/ The Haunted Garden by Henry Treece (Faber). 8/6d.