• Wales : her Origins, Struggles, and Later History, Insti-
tutions and Manners, by Mr. Gilbert Stone (Q. G. Harrap and Co., 7s. ed. net), is an authoritatively written short history of the Welsh • people. Especial emphasis is laid . upon the archaeological side of the subject, and, indeed, by the last pages of the book we are taken down no further than the death of Owain Glyndwr (as Mr. Stone prefers to call him) at the beginning of the fifteenth century. One short concluding chapter is all that is allotted to subsequent events. In an introduction Mr. Ellis J. Griffith, M.P., writes upon the meaning of nationality, and maintains that "at no time in the hietery of our civilization has it been more important that a great Empire and its citizens should understand the true import of this kind of individualist development—to see clearly why and bow in national life different causes produce different and distinctive results, why and how different moulding forces produce different attitudes and different needs."
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