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CAMBRIAN GOSSIP. I The Hev. Rowland Williams (Hwfa MOD), of LlaDgolleu, the Archdruid of Wales, is at preseut engaged in preparing a new lecture on 'Glewion GwJad,' This la the sixth lecture of the Archdruid. Re has lectured more than any living Welshman. o 0 o The announcement that the late Professor Alfred Hughes, of King's College (formerly of Cardiff), has bequeathed £ 400,000 to Lon- don Hospitals is clearly a mistake. The bequest referred to is in ail probability that of 'Professor Hughes, the physicist, who amassed a large fortune owing to his inven- tions. 000 Mr. Charles Richards, of Worthenbury, near Wrexham, is a wonderful old man. Born in the eighteenth century, be has lived through the nineteenth, and has now seen the dawn of the twentieth century. He first saw the light in the Worthenbury parish, where be now resides, on the 11th of Nov., 1798. He enjoys excellent health, and has a. rcost interesting store of reminiacesce.. 000 Dr. Ward, the master uf Peterhouse, Cam- bridge, formerly principal of Owens College, Manchester, ia reviewing the Life of Helen Faucit,' by her husband, Sir Theodore Mar- tin, recalls with feeling I the gracious lady of Bryntisilio,' the charm of whose goodness was for her home and for the friends that loved her. Bryntisilio is of course Sir Theo dore Martin's beautiful home in the Vale of Llangollen. 000 The Church of England in Wales lost many of its leading clergymen by death during 1900. The obituary list includes the names of the Revs. P. Constable Ellis, rector of Llanfairfechan; J. Williams Meyrick, rector of Beaumaris John Williams, vicar of Llaugeler; Canon Owen Jones, vicar of Bodelwyddan E. M. Roderick, vicar of Ruabon W. liees Williams, rector of Gyf- fylliog; John Davies, vicar of Treuddyn; and W. Venables Williams, vicar of Llan- drillo yn Rhos. 000 Deacons who nap in church must beware. The Rev. W. C. Jones, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Sharon, Pennsyl- vania, has resigned, alleging as the reason that some members of his church slept dur- ing the services. He charges Deacon John S Williams with sleeping 15 out of the last] J6 Sundays. A few weeks ago the Rev. illr. Jones detected Mr. Williams napping while j he ;vas preaching. The pastor at once cut! his sermon short, and dismissed his coogreg- j atiou. ooo In the 'Reminiscences of Oxford,' by the Rev. W. Tuckwell, a book, recently publisl. ed, we are told that among the original characters of Oxford in the thirties was Mrs. Foulkes, whose husband, the principal of Jesus, walked the High street always upon St. David's Day with a large leek fastened in the tassel of his cap.' Why should not the old principal be allowed to show his patriotism on good St. David's Day? There was, in truth, much valour in this Welshman. ooo Here is another English englyn, and this by Twm or Nant. The story goes that on one occasion Twm applied at some hotel in Chester for n bed. The bard being clad in somewhat Bohemian fashion, not being well put on/as Scotchmen phrase it,and the hotel being a superior one, the landlord re- fused him the accommodation he sought. Then c&uie the engiyn— say, sir, whoever did see—in town A tanner so saucy 1 No bed, man, and I bid money May your old town go down the Dee 000 Although the death-roll of Welsh Calvic- istic Methodist ministers for 1900 is some- what lighter as regards number than that of previous years, it will long be memorable if only for the fact that it includes the name of the greatest theologian of the connexion —the late Principal T. Charles Edwards. Others whose names are enumerated in the list are late Revs. David Davies, Cefncoedy- cymmer; William Edwarda, Tonna John Owen Jones, Llanberis; Owen Jones, Liver- pool Abraham Roberts, London Thomas Roberts, Bethesda; Thomas Williams, Pen- rhiweeiber Thomas Davies, Giant's Grave; William Williams, Swansea; Wm. Olwen, Manchester, and Jonathan Williams, New Brighton. ooo The poems of Richard Hughes, of Bangor, who was a foot soldier in the army of Queen Elizabeth, have at length been printed,after 300 years of neglect. Hughes was one of the major Welsh poets. The honour of rescuing his work from the oblivion of manu- script belongs to Mr. J. H. Davies, of Cwrt Mawr, in the first instance.and subsequently to a select society of six known as'Cym- deithas Lien Cymru,' or The Welah Liter. ary Society.' This saiail body of booklovars have other work in hand, che number of copies printed being limited. Of Richard Hughes's poems 45 copies were printed and sold at coat price. All these have been eagerly taken up, and many would-be sub scribers have been disappointed. The ap- plications were registered in the order they were received, e-o that, this at any rate was a case of the early bird securing the prize. 000 A Zurich journal publishes a remarkable notice of the performance of a Welah artiste whose home is in Berlin. We refer, of course, to Mr. Ffrangcon Davies, whose recent achievements in the land of Kaiser have been watched by his countrymen with delight. Zurleh is one of the most music- loving towns in Switzerland, possessing a, suberb orchestra and a magnificent hall, It was here that Wagner used to conduct in the days when he was poor an i fighting his way. All this lends importance to the declaration of our Zurich contemporary that no living singer^ can surpass' our famous Welsh bari- tone in volume, and only a. few equal him. His production is wonderful, and one could recommend this pattern to our opera singers. Even the enunciation might be taken as a pattern, for an Englishman here shows us how full value should be given to the consonants in the German language.' The last sentence might well be commended to the advocates of Welsh utilisation in schools, and furnishes another illustration of the oft-assertedT argument that a good know- ledge of Welsh helps enormously to the acquirement of proficiency in foreign tongues. E5 n

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