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WELSH ECHOES FROM LONDON. By Our Special CorFespondent. POLITICAL--LITIRARY--SOCIAL, MR GLADSTONE IN MIDLOTHIAN. The Welsh Echoes of theweek should hail from the Land o' Scots. Mr Gladstones in the speeches he will deliver to his constituents must speak out on the claims 0'1 Scotland both for Disestablish- ment and for Home Rule. Welshmen haue an immense stake in these questions, for the future of Welsh Disestablisnment and the cry for local self- government in Wales will be materially affected ky the views about to be enunciated by the leader of the Liberal party. Mr Gladstone has Dot, up to the present moment, done lull justice to the demand for the disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Wales. Whether the recent expressions of opinion by Welsh Liberals, both at Hawarden and In London, have had their due effect, the speeches of the next few days will show. What we kuow how is that Scotch disestablishes—small blame to them-have striven by every means in their power to bring before Mr Gladstone, and before the organisers of the Liberal party, their own special grievance. Their case is not so strong as ours, but what they lack in strength they make up in Persistency. The same with regard to Home Rule. The handful of active Home Rulers who follow the lead of Dr. Clark have, by a cute use of their tight of protest, practically compelled Mr Glad- stone to take up the question from the Scotch point of view. Welsh Liberals will watch his attitude with the deepest interest. Any extension of self-government to Ireland and to Scotland that would leave Wales at the mercy of Conservative England, cannot by any possibility be acceptable to Welsh Liberals. It is a case—as I have pointed out on many previous occasions— of fighting for our own hand. On Disestablish- ment we are all agreed, and if this be the test question in Wales at the next election, our success is certain. As to self-government there are divers views. The sooner Welsh Liberals can formulate these and decide on the plan of action the better It will be for the cause. Y CYMMRODOR. A first number of a new volume of the Cym- rnrodor has made its appearance under the editor- ehip of Mr Egerton Phillimore. It contains three of the papers read before the Society of Cymmrodorion in the course of the last session. The first is by Mr J. Romilly Allen, F.S.A., one of the editors of the Archaeologia Cambrensis," who deals with the preservation of ancient monuments in Wales, and advocates a much wider acceptance of the provisions of Sir John Lubbock's Bill of 1882, which enables owners of such monuments to con- stitute the Commissioners of Works its guardians, which gives the commissioners powers to purchase and power to appoint inspectors, and enables local magistrates to punish any person convicted cf injuring or defacing any ancient monument. That the acceptance of these and other provisions of the act by Welsh monument owners, would secure their better protection goes almost without saying. As it is we have continually to mourn the destroyal or removal of some of our most precious national possessions. The second paper is by Professor J. E. Lloyd, of Aberystwyth. It is a study of some common Welsh name—ele- ments, and with the additional notes supplied by the editor it forms a valuable contribution to the science of toponomastique. Mr Phillimore is probably the highest authority on Welsh place- names now living, and the amount of informa- tion and learning that he has managed to cram into his "Notes "is simply astounding. That he is a severe critic as well as a learned one his References to some of the writers in the Archae- ologia Cambrensis" and to Professor Loth and others abundantly prove. The third paper deals with "The Settlement of Brittany," and is by Mr William Edwards, M.A., of Merthyr Tydvil. Here again Mr Phillimore's "Notes" afford a valuable addition to the original paper. A.ropos of Professor Renan's statement to the members of the Cambrian Archaeological Association that his ancestors went over to Brittany with Fracan, and that they hailed from Cardigan, Mr Phillimore observes that M. Renan could have had no solid ground for his assertion. He points out that the saint who came from Cardigan was St. Brieux, whilst Fracan'Hs stated to have been cousin to a king called Cathouis, who is certainly identical with Cadwy, the son of Geraint, who lived in South-Western Britain—not Wales. It looks, therefore, as if we must let M. Renan go A fina editorial note deals with the ancient use of the older forms of the name Cymry," and is full of information that our friend Morien and other historical-philologists would do well to make themselves masters of. ENGLISH FAIRY TALES. In the whole army of literary men there is no harder worker than Mr Joseph Jacobs, the editor of "Folk-Lore." During the last year or two he has edited for one house alone—that of Messrs David Nutt and Company "-volumes that require an amount of labour and research that is simply appalling to contemplate. The three large quarto volumes, containing William Painter's "Palace of Pleasure," the Fables of Biapai," the recent edition of Caxton's "Fables of JEsop," and the forthcoming edition of "James Howell's Familiar Letters," show a capacity for work and an aptitude for literary research deserving of the highest recognition. Not content with the heavier labours of his pro- fession, Mr Jacobs had laid us under another obligation by publishing (again through Messrs Nutt) a charming collection of English Fairy Tale When will some raconteur do the like for Our Welsh Folk-Tales. Professor Rhys in the "Cymmrodor," and the late Wirt Sikes in British Goblins have collected a few, but there are many, many more lurking in the sequestered Valesrand amongst the hilltops of Wales. Once a teal beginning is made the collection ought to grow. Twenty years ago it used to be said that France and Italy had no Folk-tales. Now, as Mr Jacobs points out, they have thousands. We also have them in Wales, but when a Queen (and a bardess) asks for one, there is none at hand Would that our bards for a season could put aside the twenty-four metres and help us to put together the living poetry of our country.

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