Welsh Journals

the certainty that so much of the spirit which he inspired by his devoted love for Nature, and his pure and noble character, will ever live among the many, young and old, who came directly or indirectly within the reach of his influence. While thus remembering, with grateful love, the work which he did for our Society, we cannot help recording the fact that much of his best efforts and greatest care was devoted to the very poorest children in the lowest part of the city, whom he not only taught and cheered, but often also clothed and fed. He is gone from us-the Nestor of our Society-the oldest, the wisest, and the kindliest of our founders. We shall miss from our Meetings and our Excursions his venerable form, his familiar voice, and his wise counsels but the name of Old Price is one which will ever live in the Society as that of one of our revered Fathers, and one of Nature's truest disciples, and humblest and most loyal children.' A Great Bibliographer. By THE EDITOR. WITH the passing away of Principal J. H. Davies, Wales has lost one of the choicest flowers of its national culture, one of the most lovable of latter-day humanists. It is not too much to add that the world of letters has lost one of its most distinguished bibliographers. For not only was he equipped with the scientific apparatus of the complete book-lover, but he had also the massive back- ground of historical and literary lore to appreciate the contents of books to the full; while his almost unrivalled insight into the wayward traits of the Welsh character made short work of such problems and obscurities as would prove insoluble to a person not so fortunately endowed. All this knowledge was given lavishly to the service of his fellow-countrymen. He assisted at the foundation of numerous societies for the advancement of Welsh research, furnished them with materials, inspired them by his abiding interest. From 1910 to 1920 he was editor of this journal. He wrote to it many of its most informing articles, some signed, many unsigned. As a matter of course, he was one of the most potent factors in the creation and development of the National Library.