Glimpses of Welsh Life and Character. By Marie Trevelyan. (John
Hogg.)—There is some pleasant reading in this book. It Glimpses of Welsh Life and Character. By Marie Trevelyan. (John Hogg.)—There is some pleasant reading in this book. It
goes over a pretty wide range of subjects, from " W elsh Cookery "
to " Welsh Poetry," not to speak of " Welsh Religion." Then we have a glimpse into politics. The "Welsh Radical" of the past is described to us. He is gone, we are told ; perhaps so, but
there is some one, rather like him, still to the fore, though cer- tainly not with all his good qualities. The " Welsh Tory," too, is pictured for us here. And he, too, seems to have been an estim- able person. In fact, all Miss Trevelyan's characters have just a tint of rose-colour about them. Of late—what with tithe- riots and other proceedings, which seem patriotic, doubtless, to some persons, but do not commend themselves to others—" Welsh Life and Character" has not been a uniformly pleasing study. It is well, perhaps, to turn to these studies of its past.
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