Welsh Journals

commissions by the well-educated privates serving under them. There seems to be a great dearth of nurses, especially Welsh-speaking nurses, at the present time. And yet there are numbers of young women in Wales who are suitable and desirous of choosing nursing as their life's work. But they do not know how to take the initial steps. With the view of obviating this difficulty the Secretary of the Appoint- ments Board is preparing a small Welsh paper containing directions how to become a nurse. This will shortly be published in the Welsh newspapers, and if necessary printed afterwards in the form of a small pamphlet. The annual meeting of the Appointments Board is to be held in February, and the Secretary will there submit a report on the work of the Board during 1914. We cannot here anticipate the contents of that report, but we may safely say that the Board's history during the year has been one of unbroken progress. The number of persons helped to situa- tions will be found to be more than double the number for the previous year. THE STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT The committee of the World's Student Christian Federation has for several years issued a special call to prayer for the last Sunday in February. If possible, the appeal this year is more urgent than ever. The Federation comprises national movements working in 40 different countries and with a membership of over 168,000 students. This war has not only threatened the existence and international character of this Federation but has removed from the colleges in several countries many of the leaders in the move- ment. In our own country 66 per cent. of the men POLITICAL MR. Edgar Jones, M.P., has done the country a useful service in bringing together a number of important speeches on foieign policy by British statesmen from the days of Chatham to our own.* The compiler has kept in mind the piesent international crisis in making the selection and we have therefore speeches dealing with the partition of Poland, the neutrality of Belgium, the struggle over Schleswig-Holstein, as well as more general discussions of principles. The volume closes with Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914. Edited by Edpr R. Jones, M.P. Oxford University Press. Pp. 550. Is. •tn members in university colleges have gone. The work has fallen upon younger and untried leaders, but the reports from the colleges ate exceedingly encouraging. On all hands the need for the work is felt to be even greater than before, and among the men left in college there is a new spirit of thought- fulness and a willingness to face spiritual issues. The situation on the Foreign Mission Field remains as crucial as it has been for the last few years and more men and women are dedicating themselves to this work. One feature of the work which must now arouse new interest is that among foreign students in this country, 60 per cent. of whom are Indians. There are many difficulties mainly arising from a mass of prejudice, which this war must surely help to remove. The reception of Christianity in China and the interest displayed in it among the student and ruling classes is remarkable. In Europe the work progresses in spite of difficulties and the Federation remains a unity. In the trenches of at least three of the belligerent nations Bible study is being carried on by the students. The movement has made progress in Wales during the past year. There are strong unions both among men and women in the three constituent colleges of the University of Wales. There are seven Theological Colleges affiliated and retreats at which the various churches are represented have been held and found, exceedingly helpful and inspiring. The work in Normal Training Colleges is increasing in usefulness and may have great effect eventually on the ideals of the teacher. In this world movement these problems are faced together and we join on February 28th to remember our friends everywhere who face them with us. ORATORY speeches by Sir Edward Grey, Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George delivered a few months ago. It will be seen that the collection is most timely. It would have been still more serviceable had the editor not been so unobstrusive. We wish he had seen fit to preface each speech (the last three excepted, if he liked) with the briefest historical note indicating the contemporary political situation. It is only very well-informed students who will be able at once to supply the context. Of the distinguished names omitted, Burke, the largest master of civil wisdom in our tongue," and Lord Salisbury are the most conspicuous. But