SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
Entice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsezuent restos.) The War and Wales. By the Rev. J. Vyrnvry Morgan. (Chapman and Hall. 10s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Morgan, the well-known Welsh Noncon- formist minister, indulges in some very plain speaking in this rather lengthy volume of essays. He says that the war has aroused Welshmen to the duties of the larger patriotism—has taught them, as Mr. Cham- berlain said, " to think Imperially "—but has not as yet brought about any religions revisal or any change in the Welsh Nonconformist attitude. In a valuable chapter on the South Wales reining industry he declares that the miners " are rapidly becoming, industrially and politically, an independent organism in the Welsh body politic," largely affected by foreign immigrants and less responsive than Welshmen in general to religious influences. He shows that the mine-owners, for their part, have been unsympathetic and tactless in dealing with the men, and he describes Mr. Lloyd George's settlement of the last dispute as " not statesmanship but a species of legerdemain." Dr. Morgan'; shrewd and candid but very friendly estimate of Mr. Lloyd George in another chapter should be read.
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