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and vicissitudes relating to its preparation, he at once entered enthusiastically into the bibliography of Dr. Michael Roberts, telling me he would not rest content till he had examined all likely material on the subject in his library at home. In a few days came from him a long letter, with a long list of about twenty-five books on Anglesey, which he had consulted with no positive result. All this in the midst of all kinds of other interests-some of them complex, all of them important. All out of his desire to leave no stone unturned to further the ends of research. There are hundreds who can speak to the same effect. He leaves behind him the memory of an irradiating personality, masterful yet urbane of a genuine aristocrat, who could with ease attune his ear to that of the humblest peasant; of a profound scholar, whose scholarship lay not in elucidating a Greek text or in editing a mediaeval savant, but in the discovery of uncharted stores of material, which in turn when rightly assessed by himself and some of his contemporaries, discovered anew to the world the deathless virility of the Cymric tradition. His wealth of service to the nation overflowed to individuals and to institutions. In the years to come-the noise of battle stilled, the dust of controversy laid in its mother earth- these memories will clarify his name, and will themselves become a tradition to Welsh scholars and all lovers of literature. No Welshman of our day is more certain sure of the respect and honour oi the coming generations. Notes and Queries. QUERY. Was John Gower (1325 — 1408), the poet, and Chaucer's friend, a Welshman ? Caxton, in 1483, when printing Gower's Confessio A mantis,' says of the author borne in Walys.' Edward Blore, in his Monumental Remains (1826), when describing Gower's monument at St. Saviour's, Southwark, says, that probably Caxton was only repeat- ing what he found in some MS. copy of Gower's works, and then Blore adds, We have, at this moment, a manuscript on vellum of this description, before us, with the following rubric, here exactly transcribed: This book is intituled confessio amatis, that is to say,