Cylchgronau Cymru

LITERARY AND ART NOTES. 91 He was born near Bala, in 1824, and was educated at Llandovery .School, under Archdeacon Williams. The Rev. D. Howell (" Llawdden "), Vicar of Wrexham, has .been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, We regret to announce the death of Mr. Charles Conway, J.P., Pontnewydd, near Pontypool, a most accomplished and estim¬ able gentleman, whose skill as painter, etcher, and collector was of a very high order. Papers illustrated by himself have appeared in the National Magazine of Wales, and arrange¬ ments with him were only quite recently concluded for the appearance in our pages of a fairy tale from his pen, with etchings from his own needle. On Saturday, June 16th, the Lord Mayor of London laid the foundation stone of a Welsh Congregational Chapel in Barrett's Grove, Kingsland-road, London, to be erected at a cost of two thousand two hundred pounds, to the memory of the well-known newspaper correspondent " Y Gohebydd." Our contributor, the Rev. J. Wyndham Lewis, Calvinistic Methodist Minister, Carmarthen, has set on foot a movement for placing a Canon Powell Jones memorial window in the chancel of Loughor Church, now undergoing restoration. A portrait, with a biography of the deceased dignitary from the pen of Mr. Lewis, appeared in the Red Dragon for June. We have received from the Messrs. Pears a charming plate which they have had specially prepared for presentation to editors of British newspapers. Its subject is "Representative London Journalists," eleven of whom, with their periodicals and autographs, are admirably brought out in coloured photo¬ lithography. We miss from the group the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and his paper, which is a rather serious oversight, we should imagine. The enterprising proprietors of the celebrated soap are making quite a name for themselves as " dealers in fine art."