Welsh Journals

Notes By The Way. By D. Rhys PHILLIPS. Congratulations. My first duty and pleasure is to register congratulations to the editor of this Journal on the signal honour of knighthood which was conferred upon him by His Majesty the King. Few have deserved this so well as Sir William Llewelyn Davies, and I feel sure that all our members will wish him long life and happiness, and in this toast we associate Lady Davies and their daughter. Sir William, as second holder of the appointment of National Librarian of Wales, has raised that office to the high plane of service and bilingual scholarship which the nation expects it to occupy. Losses. Of recent years the great reaper has been busy among our members. Mr. Edward Owen, M.A., passed away last year at Menai Bridge. As Edward Owen of the India Office his name will be found in many antiquarian and literary journals connected with Wales. Dr. C. A. H. Green, Archbishop of Wales, had been a member for many years. As a learned writer on church polity and phases of ecclesiastical history in Wales his swathe was a dignified one. He took great pleasure in entertaining the Society on its visit to Bangor some years ago. Miss G. H. Dillwyn Llewelyn will be remembered as the daughter of Sir John T. D. Llewelyn of Penllergaer, a great churchman and a princely patron of literary and other societies. Mr. Daniel Evans, Sheffield, was a keen supporter of literary societies in Wales; but he will be best remembered as the author of the spacious volume on his notable ancestor, William Williams, M.P. for Coventry, and Lambeth, whose efforts for Welsh education remain a landmark in our annals. Mr. James O'Brien, author of Old Afan and Margam, came from an Irish stock that travelled in a small ship to the Avan estuary in the days of the Irish Famine; an Irishman who was also a good Welshman.' Mr. Howel V. O. Cook of Wrexham, who joined the Society at the last Bangor meeting, is among those who are deservedly mourned. A notable literary character and master of the englyn metre was Mr. John Williams, who in recent years had returned from Willesden to Llandwrog, where he published a volume of reminiscences, etc. The passing of Mr. Henry Gething Lewis will be widely regretted, for he was in many ways the typical Welsh gentleman, a most generous patron of Welsh literary and educational movements, and of this society on all occasions. And we must not forget the Rev. Cyril Moore. Before me lies his 1939 letter from Llanfair, Llandyssul, which concerns his subscription to this society: Dyma fy nhanysgrifiad i'r Bibliographical Society. Yr wyf yn teimlo y dylai fod enw Cymraeg ami'; and he goes on to say:' Os dowch chwi rywbryd i ymweled a'r ardal hon, cofiwch alw heibio.' Previously his address was in Wiltshire, from which county, as a clergyman of means, he volunteered his services wherever they were required. My first acquaintance with him was at Llanwrtyd,