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 DOMESTIC AND DECORATIVE ART IN WALES.

(A Lecture delivered to the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion on March 10th, 1897)

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I desire at once and quite unreservedly to repudiate any claim to speak with authority upon any one of the Arts, whether graphic, or plastic, or domestic, or decorative. I am a mere wayfarer on the Queen's highway, who, in the bustle of the crowd, glances to right and to left to appreciate the beauty or the barrenness of the land, and any remarks which I may make to you to—night I make, not as an expert, not as one who has any real knowledge or any claim to speak upon these matters, but as an observer and a wayfarer.