26 FEBRUARY 1910, Page 15

PARTICULARISM IN THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH.

[To THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR."1 SIE,—In his letter to you in the Spectator of February 19th Mr. Myers, while allowing that the "very greatest names" in British history belong especially to England, asserts that the remaining adjuncts of the United Kingdom have rolls of honour that would leave blanks were they erased from the common record. I beg to question this statement with regard to Wales. I should be glad to know of a Welshman whose name, on his merits, belongs to history. I believe Mr. Lloyd George to be the first of his race who has attained even secondary eminence in the annals of Great Britain.—I am,