Welsh Journals

ROUND TABLE No. 93 December, 1933 The Round Table wants to get Germany and Japan back into the League of Nations, but its ideas seem to get perilously near the old and worn-out idea of balance of power of which it nevertheless disapproves. It also hopes for oceanic system apart from European affairs. Other subjects treated are Japan's effort for world trade and an important survey of relations of Japan and Aus- tralia. One may be permitted to doubt whether the Japanese would ever occupy northern Aus- tralia; the Chinese might do it under Japanese guidance. YR YSGOL SUL A'R PLANT Dan olygiaeth Qtuenan Jonts (Published on behalf of Urdd y Deyrnas by R. Evans & Son, Bala) p.p. 1-108. is. 3d. net. To all who are interested in religious education in Wales, and more especially in the future of the junior Sunday Schools of the country, this unpre- tentious volume is one of the most significant that has appeared in recent years. It is the joint pro- duction of half-a-dozen educationalists who have actual experience in day schools and Sunday schools, and they have a great deal to suggest to those who are engaged in Sunday school work at the present moment in Wales. Feeling convinced that the glory of this characteristic institution in Welsh religious life will be restored not by adver- tising its past services but by an honest effort to adapt it to modern conditions, they proceed to an examination of what that involves not only in ex- ternal changes but also in the psychological and religious principles, which must be kept in mind in dealing with the needs of young children. This volume, which was edited and prepared for pub- lication by Dr. Gwenan Jones, of the Education Department of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, deserves to be very widely read. 'G.A.E. RECENT STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT PUBLICATIONS The first place in this short notice must be given to Canon Tissington Tatlow's exhaustive Story of the Student Christian Movement (12/6 net). In its forty-five chapters, which cover nearly 950 pages, the reader will find a detailed account of the aims and history of a movement, which has had a profound influence not only on the students but also on the general religious life of Great Britain and Ireland during the last two genera- REVIEWS H.J.F. tions. And no more fitting recorder of the inter- esting story could possibly be found than he who has been familiarly known to thousands of students as "T2, whose long tenure of the post of General Secretary of the Movement ended recently. Mr. Hugh Martin, the Editor of the Move- ment's Press, in his Morality on Trial (3/6) dis- cusses the present day challenge to morality in a thoroughly competent and frank manner, and Mr. V. A. Demant, the Director of Christian Social Council Research is responsible for an introduc- tion to Christian Sociology, entitled God, Man and Society (6/-), which adds to our obligations to the author of earlier volumes dealing with aspects of this same vast and difficult subject. Mr. James Robbie's The Personality of St. Paul (2/6, Mr. A. M. Chirgwin's 011 the Road in Mad- agascar 2/6), and Dr. Richard Roberts's For the Kingdom of God (2/-) maintain the high standard of the Student Movement Press with regard to brief but most useful discussions of important re- ligious topics. G.A.E. THE PRAISE OF WALES Bv L. IVinstanley The Welsh Outlook Press. 2s. 6d. There is a great eagerness in some quarters to give all appointments in our places of education to Welsh men and women only, but they who press this policy might pause sometimes to think what-to take only two examples-the University Colleges of Aberystwyth and Bangor would have lost if it had always been followed. Names will leap to the lips of all old Aberystwythians and Bangorians of those who--coming as strangers- have fallen completely under the spell of the beautv and magic of Wales and have served her, in Leaching her youth, with a devotion that no son or daughter of her own could surpass. Of this number is Lilian Winstanley, that frail. wraith-like personality familiar now to so many generations of Aberystwyth students. Following her teacher at Manchester, C. H. Herford, she came to Aberystwyth as a young woman, and every generation of students of English since then has listened to her lectures, and has seen her passing to and fro, ethereal and enigmatic. All who had any insight at all realised that here was a woman of rare culture and sensitiveness, and the few who knew her at all intimately were almost startled to find the passionate feeling for beauty- both material and spiritual-that is the keynote of her personality. In this little volume of verse she tells of the love of Wales and its people that life among them has awaked in her. Most vividly of all comes out her feeling for the ever-living, ever-varying colour of