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 be secured in Wales. There is no need for us to go through any great agitation, we have only, one and all, to do our duty towards our best friends, the favourite books of childhood, of youth, and of age.

I might easily mention other forms of activity and of craftsmanship where decoration and beauty of design and honesty of workmanship come in, for instance, pottery, tapestry, even posters. I think that really one of the very many increasing joys of living in London is the enormous improvement in the posters of this great town. I feel a considerable interest whenever I go through a town in a good many things in it, in its houses, its churches, its schools, and in the faces and the dresses of its people, but I must admit that advertisement hoardings in every town have as much charm for me as anything. I can see there a miniature of the life of the town, I can see what the real activity and interest of the town is, I consider that they form a very fair indication of the life and the taste and the promise of the town. I remember that after visiting one town I came