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Books and Bookmen. By D. RHYS PHILLIPS. UNDER this title, I want to gather up certain arrears. Reference was made in the last issue, p. 270, to departed printers, and on pp. 268-9 to eminent deceased members of this Society. There are others I should like to pay a debt to five or six-in that their personalities remain among the pleasures of memory. In reminiscence, God's good men and women are always with us, thus strength- ening our hope and belief in the communion of saints. I first met Mr. Hugh Evans in Brittany, during the Celtic pilgrimage to Nantes, 1910. As the leading Welsh publisher in Liverpool, the author of a delightfully en- cyclopaedic volume on the customs and traditions of his native district in North Wales, and as a former member of the Council of this Society, his kindly figure recurs in memory. Mr. Isaac Davies of Birkenhead, who died at Stockton- on-Tees, where he latterly resided, was greatly attached to the W.B.S. A traveller, book-lover, and writer of un- common parts, he served on several occasions as Secretary of the National Eisteddfod. He was a man of great gentility. His namesake, Mr. Isaac L. Davies, the schoolmaster of Pontardulais, joined the Society at Port Talbot in 1932, but had been long known for his energy and devotion. The impress of his kindly spirit will remain a father to the fatherless, full of delightful human traits and tireless in the making of magnificent friendships which neither time nor circumstance ever marred. He wrote for the press and translated dramas. The Reverend D. Morgan Davies was called from the pulpit to be director of the Congregational Bookroom at Swansea. As editor and secretary to that body, he was a