7 JUNE 1884, Page 43

In Letters and Essays on Wales (James Clark and Co.),

Mr. Henry Richard reprints a number of letters, essays, eze., which he has pub- lished at intervals during the last forty years, or thereabouts. Mr.

Richard has a fervent love for his country, and what we must call, we suppose, a hatred equally fervent for the Established Church, especially as it exists in the Principality. He falls with special

energy on a writer in the Church Quarterly Review, and certainly leaves his mark upon his object. Throughout the volume, indeed, he is vigorous and incisive, thoroughly in earnest, and in all respects a formidable antagonist.