The National Library of Wales We congratulate the Principality and
those who have borne the burden of creating the National Library of Wales, upon the achievement which was celebrated at Aberystwyth last week, the twenty-first anniversay of the Library's existence. We also congratulate the architect, Mr. Greenslade, upon the two noble wings which are built, furnished and in use. He has not failed in producing designs fitting the magnificent site on the hills over the town. The Library is already recognised as a centre of culture, and is rich in books, manuscripts and other treasures. (Of course some more money is still needed to supplement the Treasury grant for the complete buildings.) On Wednesday, the 15th, greetings were brought to the Court of Governors from the University and the National Museum of Wales and from other great British Libraries. Sir Frederic Kenyon gave an admirable address on the scope and value of a national library, and on the dangers, too, of nationalism in intellectual study. A Welsh scholar, Mr. Davies, has been appointed librarian in place of Sir John Ballinger, who retires. Only those who have worked with this great librarian can measure the value of his twenty-one years of service, his energetic and wise maturing of the infant, his administrative ability and, not least, his acquisitive genius in his Library's behalf.
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