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 poster, which was beautifully printed and seemed to me to convey a splendid image of the nationality and humanity of the Italians scattered over this vile town, gave me something like a redeeming glimpse of the life in that dreadful town. Therefore, I hope that in Wales we shall not look down upon the value of the poster, and I am extremely glad that both the Newport and the Festiniog Eisteddfod Committees have offered a handsome prize for the best pictorial poster for an Eisteddfod. There are other by-ways of activity, about which one can speak in reference to descriptive art. There are village crosses and memorials, there are memorial windows in church and college, and there are tombs. I shall not refer to-night to any of these, except by the mere mention of them, but I always feel that a very great deal can be done for the rekindling and fostering of beauty of design and honesty of workmanship in all these various features. I think nothing is more attractive in the villages where they still survive than the old Celtic crosses of the early centuries. They are silent witnesses