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436 BYE-GONES. Aug. 3, 1898. jecta rather than the cramming of a number of fragmentary subjects. The full rate under the Technical Instruction Act should be levied every¬ where, and the funds for secondary and technical education should be administered by a single body.—A paper prepared by Mr R. E. Hughes of Jesus College on manual, technical and scien¬ tific training in Wales and abroad was read by the Secretary, Mr Vincent Evans. Mr Hughes deplor¬ ed the decadence of home industries, and said a society for encouraging them in Wales would be one of the most hopeful and potent movements in the national life of the future. Unless carefully watched the system of Intermediate Education in the Principality would tend to crystallize an ob¬ jectionable uniformity of type. Provision should be made for the manual training of girls, and he suggested that they_ should learn the use of the hand loom for weaving, an industry once common in Mid-Wales. The manual instruction given should be suitable to the locality and appeal di¬ rectly to the children through their environment, and he urged that such towns as- Blaenau Fes- tiniog, Mold, Newtown, Carmarthen and Llan- elly should by local effort, as was done in France and Germany, provide for themselves schools where the art and technique of the surrounding industries should be taught.—Principal Roberts, of the University College of Wales, said they should not forget that their educational system even at present stood very high indeed. He thought the greatest service the secondary schools could render commerce and the handicrafts was to give the very highest possible culture to the pupils.—The Chairman, in conveying a vote of thanks to the readers of papers, said he agreed there was a want of diversity of type in the Welsh schools. For instarce every school was required to teach Latin, but he doubted if many could teach it so as to make it a really efficient instrument of education. —The meeting on Wednesday was a joint one of the Cymmrodorion Section and the Society for the Utilisation of the Welsh language. Papers in Welsh were read by Mr E. E. Fournier and Mr Ernest Rhys.—Mr Fournier said modern writers had recognised six distinct languages as belonging to the Celtic branch of the Aryan family of languages. The six languages were divided into two groups. The Gaelic or Irish group included the vernacular languages of Ireland, the Scotch Highlands and the Isle of Man, while the Cymric group included the languages of Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. One of these languages, the Cornish, had been dead for over a hundred years; another, the Manx, was nearly extinct; the remain¬ ing four were still spoken by an aggregate of nearly four millions of people, and there was no reason to eurroose that this aggregate would be very materially lessened for several centuries. Mr Fournier drew attention to the curious fact that in Ireland the number of people who use the vernacular is about the same as it was twenty years ago, though the population of the island has in the meantime greatly declined. To Wales, he said, belonged the supreme merit of having main¬ tained its language as an incident of modern civilisation, and of course he placed it in the fore¬ front of the Celtic languages. It was the only one, he said, which could claim to be a truly national language. The annual meeting of the Association for pro¬ moting the Education of Girls in Wales, was held in the afternoon. Principal John Rhys presided. The main business was to further consider the pro¬ posal made last year at Newport to bring the work of the Association to a close. It was urged then that the foundation of the University had com¬ pleted the organisation of higher education, that the creation of the Central Board had put sec¬ ondary education in the same satisfactory posi¬ tion, and that consequently there was no further need for the Association. The question was ad¬ journed till this year, to ascertain whether the scope of the Association could not be so altered as still to make it of service in the education of girls.—In the annual report, which was submitted by Mrs D. Glynne Jones, it was pointed out that there were some respects in which girls did not receive the same advantages as boys, and that there were various directions in which the Association coidd still do useful work.—On the motion of Pro¬ fessor Anwyl, seconded by Mr W. E. Davies, it was unanimously decided to keep the society in existence. A meeting was held on Friday to form a Welsh National Committee of the Pan-Celtic Congress. The chair was taken bv " Cadfan," the deputy bard of the Gorsedd.—Mr Fournier of Dublin ex¬ plained that the idea of holding a Pan-Celtic Con¬ gress originated at a meeting of the Highland. Welsh, and Breton delegates who attended the Irish Feis Ceoil in Belfast in May.—On the motion of the Rev Thomas Edwards, treasurer of the Gorsedd, seconded by Archdeacon Williams of Merioneth, and supported by Mr Vincent Evans, it was resolved unanimously that the meet¬ ing approves of the holding of a Pan-Celtic con¬ gress in Dublin in 1900, to which the Celtic scholars of the world and the representatives of the leading Celtic Societies shall be invited to con- eider means of advancing the interests common to the five Celtic nations, and to promote all work connected with Celtic languages, literature, music,and other matters dealt with by the Eistedd¬ fod in Wales, such Congress to be strictly non- political and non-sectarian.—A provisional com¬ mittee was formed, consisting of a number of lead¬ ing officers and members of the Gorsedd, the Eisteddfod, the Oymmrodoricn Society, and the professors of Welsh at the Welsh University Col¬ leges and at Oxford.—Mr Vincent Evans and " Eifionydd" were appointed honorary secretaries. AUGUST 3, 1898. NOTES. DAVIES'S DISPLAY OF HERALDRY.— Amongst the books I bought at the Croeswood sale for a trifle, was Davies's Display of Heraldry. There is clear evidence inside the book that Colonel Hey ward paid for it on the 25 th of April, 1882, the sum of £5 to a London bookseller. Its title-page reads thus :— DISPLAY OF HERALDRY Of most Particular Coats of Armours now at use,