Cymro a'r Celt Llundain

LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES During the last month, my pen has of neces- sity been dipped in gall, for which I humbly apologise to all my generous and forbearing readers, and like all wicked children, I promise not to do it again-until necessity again demands. Last Tuesday, however, my friend H.T." again gave me a further advertisement in the Morning Leader. In the last two paragraphs of the Sub Rosa column he uttered the cry of a dying man. The last consolation of an Englishman is a realisation of the importance of his existence in the eternal scheme of things. It is the same with 11 H. r." Whether or not he can hold his own in the face of intelligent criticism and argument is immaterial. He is proud of one thing-He seems to have done some good (the italics are mine) by calling attention to my empty chatter, and in forcing a few of my countrymen to write to him dis- sociating themselves entirely from Norick's views. Poor Norick Great and worthy H.T. A Daniel has come to judgment! Yes, just think of it I stand condemned by those of my own flesh and blood but it is very wonderful that in my first article I seem to have predicted this fact. There are Welshmen in London, sad to relate, who have become anglicised and petty, and they have written to H.T. and thrown over the Celt. There are ordinary, intelligent, and fairly imaginative Welshmen in London who have read my article in tha KELT with keen interest, but have never written to anyone. Thare are a fair number of great Welshmen in London (I thought there were only six, but I shall unhesitatingly double the number), and they have written to me, calling me u Blessed." Needless to say, I feel good-humoredly satisfied. So much-too much for H.T." # Last Friday evening I strolled down to the Irish Industries Exhibition held at the Horti- cultural Hall, Vincent Square, and it set me thinking deeply. The first impression-and it was a lasting impression-that I had at the hall was that of the intense seriousness of Nationalism. Here I had an object lesson in the tremendous power the true Nationalist can wield in the ordinary, humdrum, commercial life of a nation. The Irish, or at least many of the Irish people, are Nationalists in business and commerce. I am no Sinn Feiner, but I do believe in developing National resources along purely national lines. Most Welshmen of my acquaintance are Nationalists to some extent, but in the case of a very large majority of them, their Nationalism is too much in the nature of a hobby, and when nationalism ranks with photo- graphy and butterfly collecting, I call it a curse. » What we in Wales, and, as Welshmen out- side Wales must realise, is that great truth that Nationalism is a religion, and that, like all other great religions, it consumes the life of a man or of a people. Was Mazzini's nationalism a miserable hobby ? Was the intense nationalism of Kosciusko, the Polish liberator, something to play with ? Was the consuming patriotism of Thomas Davis a thing of an occasion ? The questions border on the blasphemous. The call of Nationalism is. and always will be, the call of an altar, the call of a cross. When we have realised that, there will be less political shuffling in our life, there will be fewer place seekers in our high places, possibly we shall not sing the National Anthem until we are hoarse as often as we do now, but WE SHALL THEN SAVE WALES. I did not go to the Irish Exhibition on the look out for copy. I went there aimlessly just to waste a couple of hours, which were heavy on my heart. I came away with a great pride, and I shall let my readers into the secret. The most artistic stall in the whole exhibition was the Irish Linen Stall of two Welshmen-Messrs. Williams and Davies, of Earl's Court. As I am only a hard working journalist, I can not dis- cuss the subject with the technical knowledge of my friend, Short Lengths," but I can say this with true national pride, the stall was a perfect picture, and the charm of the four or five Welsh girls in charge of it, well-appealed to the heart of even as confirmed a bachelor as old Norick. Another very interesting feature of the exhibition was Mr. Maunsels' stall of books dealing with Ireland and the Irish Question, and published exclusively in Ireland. I shall have something to say in the near future about some of these books, as, for instance, J. M. Synge's great drama, The Play Boy of the Western World," the Quarterly Illustrated Magazine, called the Shanachie, contributed to by leading Irish writers, and a number of other similar books, which I took away with me. I hear that the Welsh Review" is dead. It died, so it is said, the very day the Welsh League of Young Liberals was born. The younger child is also reported dead, the cause of death, in both cases, being the same-parental neglect. Parents with such a genius for negligence should never be trusted with a child. I am very sorry, though, that the Review is no more. It was a good production, for which a number of ardent nationalists did their very, best-to their credit, be it said. Surely there is a demand for a Welsh periodical of that nature but let it be remembered, he who attempts to supply it must be in earnest about it. Our note on Welsh Nationalism might be read with some advantage by any one who has it in his mind to issue a similar magazine. NORICK.

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