"Wales and Its People" was the charming subject brought before the members of this Society on Wednesday evening. The room was crowded, the audience overflowing. Miss Richard gave an intensely interesting and learned Tecture, while a chorus of sons and daughters of Wales sang some of their national songs at intervals during the lecture, The Rev. H. L. W, Bevan recited one of Sir Lewis Morris' poems and Dr. T. Richard also recited a poem in Welsh.
Miss Richard traced the origin of the Welsh; there wore originally two divisions of them, Goidals from whom the Gael and the Gaul derived their names, and the Brithans who left a memorial of themselves in the name of Britai But ere the Welsh held the whole of Britain another race was in the land, a non-Aryan stock, Iber whose congeners were found in North Africa, and probably in ancient Greece, a' dark, short, black-haired race, whose language had its effects upon the construction of Welsh, Than the history of Wales was unfolded from Caractacus, Boadicoa, Arthur, and the original King Cole of the nursery, down to Owen Glendower and Prince Llewellyn. With firm crisp sentences Miss Richard gave pictures of the long fight for national fence, with gi es of the great missionaries, St.
inian & St. David; bards, and great writers like Taliesin, Geoffrey of Monmouth, down to the great preachers like Nornell Naines, all came under review in this masterly synopsis of the centuries. A St. David's Society could not do better than print lecture.
The musical programme was as follows.
1.—" St. David's Day".,,,, Bass solo and chorus. 2.—" Taliesi prophecy"...8oprano solo ind ladi-s' chorus.
Ar Hyd ¥ Nos."*(All through the night)... Soprano solo and chorus. 5.—" The little beggar maid"... enor solo. 6.—"The land of my fathers "..-Tenor solo and chorus, Soprano Soloist, Miss Klopfer, Tenor Solvist, MrT. Davies.
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