1 MARCH 1890, Page 23

Sweet Singers of Wales. By-H. Rivet Lewis. (Religions Pratt Society.)—Mr.

Lewis goes back to a far past for one or two of his examples of Welsh hymnody, but most of his authors belong to the last century and to this. Some of the biographical notices are highly interesting, as that of David Jones, a cattle-drover with a genius for improvising which, after a

• sudden change in his ways of thinking, he devoted to the service of religion. William Williams, author of "Guide me, 0 Thou great Jehovah," was another interesting person. So was Ann Griffiths, who, had she been born under the rule of another faith, might well have been canonised. Mr. Lewis translates with much vigour. Of his fidelity we have no opportunity of judging.