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THE WELSH OUTLOOK H Where there is no vision the people perish." NOTES OF THE MONTH 3 THE MUSICAL OUTLOOK 6 THE ANTI-ROMAN GESTURE AT ST. DAVIDS 9 TRANSCENDENTAL RELI- GION 11 JANUARY, 1926. NOTES OF THE MONTH npHE beginning of the New Year is everywhere a time of greetings and and stock-taking. The bonds of union between friends are drawn closer, and good resolutions for the ensuing months are made. For us, too, this time- honoured practice may serve as an exemp- lar. Let us then, in the first place, convey to all our friends, whether dwelling at home in Wales or exiled in England and beyond the seas, our most sincere good wishes for the year 1926. And at the same time we would thank them for the support which they have given, and continue still to give, to us. A monthly journal like the Welsh Outlook must live by the principle of give and take; and that principle must apply equally to us who are responsible, in various capacities, for its management, and to those whose function it is to pay and to read. We desire, above all, to establish a close contact between ourselves and all well-wishers of Wales, so that we may influence them and they may, in turn, influence us. We have no desire to main- tain an Olympian superiority, or to speak in oracular terms. What we do want is to be of general service to the Welsh people, and to constitute the organ through which they may address to the public at large 'any message that they deem to be CONTENTS: PAGE PAGE THE LEAGUE'S RECORD 14 THE FATHER 16 JOHN JONES PF MAESY- GARNEDD 20 ANGLO-CYMRIC SCHOOL OF POETS 21 PAGE THE ECONOMIC AND IN- DUSTRIAL OUTLOOK 23 THE EXILE'S CORNER 24 REVIEWS 25 POETRY 10,19 Annual Subscription. 7/6 Half Year, 3/9 (post free). worthy of attention. Again we would say, as we have often said before, that we belong to no sect or party, and that our pages are open to members of all parties and sects alike. The welfare of Wales is all that we seek; and he who comes to us in like spirit, no matter how profound may be our intellectual disagreement with his views, shall always find a hospitable recep- tion in our pages. CONTROVERSY, if it be carried on with fairness, urbanity, and know- ledge, is, we firmly believe, a most excellent thing; for in a democracy it is the only method hitherto devised of sifting truth from falsehood. We would therefore invite our readers to make fuller use of our columns than they have hitherto been doing for that purpose. Neither Editor nor contributors are above critic- ism nor have we the slightest wish to shield them from it. It is surely far better that comments, favourable or adverse, upon statements which have appeared in the Outlook should be sent for publication in subsequent issues of the Outlook itself than that they should be scattered aim- lessly in other papers, where their connec- tion with the original cause of provocation is not always easy to discern