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 look at them, the very pulses of the life of Wales, and yet we are satisfied if we can just manage to get them in a shilling or sixpenny edition, turned out with very little care and very little trouble. Cannot we hope that our artists may find their inspiration, as English artists do, in Chaucer and in the great masterpieces of English literature, in, for instance, the Mabinogion? And in illustrating what I may call the home and domestic poetry of the Welsh people? Cannot we also hope that there may be set up in many parts of Wales printing presses which shall take real trouble and go to some considerable expense in securing not the cheapest but the best type, and shall we not also do our utmost, individually and collectively, to encourage what I have always considered and will consider one of the most serviceable and highest forms of handicraft, namely, the binding of books? I do think that a beautifully bound book is a joy in itself now and for ever to its possessor, and there is no reason whatever why in this matter a great deal of steady and speedy improvement should not