The volume of Memories which the Archbishop a Wales has
written (Murray, 12s.) will be read with keen interest by Churchmen and Nonconformists alike. The venerable prelate, now in his eightieth year, was the protagonist of the Church in Wales in the long fight against disestablishment and dis- endowment which was decided, as he says, by a combination of Welsh Calvinistic Methodists and Irish Roman Catholics. But, now that the bat:le is over, he can review the conflict without passion, and his account of it has a real historical value. He acknowledges, for instance, that the Church owes the financial settlement of 1919 to his old opponent, Mr. Lloyd George, as well as to Mr. Bonar Law. The Archbishop agrees that the Church has gained in some ways by its enforced independence, but he laments the severance from Canterbury and holds that "it was a lapse from a national to a racial ideal "—the very reverse, in fact, of the movement towards
Christian reunion. * . *
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