Welsh Journals

Thus was Santiago de Leon taken, but the victory was only to lead to disappointment and even worse-a trap. Although the Welsh account insists that ore and gold was there to be had." Davie makes it quite clear that they found none of the treasure; they demanded a ransom of thirty thousand ducats, but only four thousand were offered. So they burnt the city to the ground. We could not stay there long for want of succour," says Peilyn, so they began to retreat towards their ships, burning a fort and an Indian village en route. What happened to- wards the end of the march is vividly and mov- ingly described in the ballad After we had come (and a long journey it was !) back again in sight of our ships, we found our enemies, ten to one, all arrayed against us some in our rear, some in front, some in a train on both our flanks; there was between us fierce fighting, yea, for four hours at a stretch. In their fury they kept shooting at us clouds of poisoned arrows, and we let the leaden bullets into their hides to pay back the score with interest.* Thus for two long leagues we continued to gain ground by dint of arms, without stopping even to pluck the arrows out of the flesh of our own wounded." And, at this stage in the voyage, Lieutenant Peilvn concludes his ballad, which would seem, therefore, to have been composed just after the "A ninmau'r bwlets plwm i'w crwyn I alu'r echwyn adre." A Welsh Writer on Lotze. By Prof. W. J enkyn Jones, Aberystwyth. IT is a somewhat remarkable fact that despite the eminence and influence of Lotze as a philosophic writer and thinker, no English work until the appearance of the Rev. E. E. Thomas' book* had attempted to deal in an adequate and systematic manner with his Metaphysics, or Theory of Reality. A more for- tunate fate has befallen his Theory of Thought. As is well known, Sir Henry Jones has expounded and examined it in a work which is rightly re- garded as his most important contribution to Philosophy. And it is probable that the promise which Sir Henry made of a second volume which would deal with the Metaphysics of Lotze de- terred others from entering the field, and was partly responsible for the omission which Mr Thomas may be said to rectify in the present work. The author is a former student of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and a former Fellow of the University of Wales. And it was, I believe, in pursuance of his under- • "Lotze's Theory of Reality, by the H-. B. E. Thomas, M.A., late Fellow of the University of Wales, Curate of All Saints, Llanllwchaiarn. Pp., 1—217. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1921. 168. net. retreat from Santiago de Leon. He concludes by stating the intention of the expedition to sail home by way of the Gulf and Newfoundland, and musing quaintly that: When our mothers, all so mild, were suckling us so tenderly, little they knew, by my creed, we'd ever come to this gait! "t Davie's narrative, however, enables us to follow the expedition home, and it records the fate of at least one of our Welshmen. From Caraccos they sailed to Chicheriche, where they took and burnt three Spanish ships; they took Coros by storm in the Bay of Laguna they lost eighty men through" the fluxe of the bellie." At Jamaica, the Derling, wherein was Captain Jones, was sent to discover some secret matter, in which discovery the gallant gentleman lost his life." At Cuba they fell in with Raleigh re- turning from Trinidad; thence they sailed for Newfoundland on the tenth of September, 1595, they dropped anchor in Milford Haven. Such, then, is the story of the doings of a pack of Welshmen on the high seas; the story is told by one of themselves and upheld by the sober narrative of Robert Davie. It is a fascin- ating and a rare glimpse through the gateways of adventure and the portals of romance. t Pann oedd ein mamiman oil yn gm. Yn magn ni yn ysmala Byehan a wyddant, myn. fy nghred Y doe ni'r cerdded yma." taking as Fellow that he entered upon the pro- longed study of Lotze, whose results are em- bodied in this book. Since its publication we are glad to note that two well-deserved distinctions have fallen in his way, for one of which at least the book may claim credit. The Curate of All Saints,' which is the author's description of him- self on the title page, is, happily, become the Vicar of Dolfor, Montgomeryshire, and more- over, his writings on Lotze, including in addition to the present volume three articles which ap- peared in Mind a few years ago, have been recognised by the University of Wales as a con- tribution to the advancement of knowledge, and as satisfying the conditions for admission to the degree of Doctor in Litteris to which Mr Thomas was recently admitted. In a brief notice such as this one cannot essay more than just call attention to the book, and indicate in a general way its character and con- tents. Its chief value in our opinion is that it succeeds in placing before the reader in con- venient and coherent form Lotze's treatment of the more fundamental problems of Metaphysics. It contains a tolerably detailed account of his theories of the world, of the deeper unity under- lying things, of the human soul and its relation to God. The exposition is followed by criticism which is generally convincing and bears the