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 whole Celtic people. In the development of modern British Art the names of Inigo Jones, Owen Jones and Burne-Jones afford a striking proof of the aesthetic instinct and initiative of the Celt. Inigo Jones lived in a period of revival of classic literature, and he was naturally swept into its current. It has been said that what was truly meant by the "art of design was scarcely known in this kingdom until Inigo Jones brought it into use and esteem. He was eminent for Architecture, a great geometrician, and in designing with his pen was not to be equalled by whatsoever great masters in his time for boldness, softness, sweetness and sureness of his touches."It is a source of keen satisfaction for Welshmen to feel that the forerunner of the movement for restoring decorative arts to their true place in national life, and for renewing and developing the decorative faculty in our midst, was Owen Jones, son of Owain Myfyr, the collector of the Myfyrian Archæology which Matthew Arnold rightly calls the great repertory of the literature of our nation. We honour Owain Myfyr for his passion for Welsh Literature