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 and for the pursuit of the one great aim of his life—to give prominence and publicity to the scattered and unknown literary treasures of his native land. We honour him for spending his substance on Welsh Literature, for the great stimulus which he gave to the Eisteddfod, and for the 35,000 pages of manuscripts which are stored in the British Museum as a monument to his labour and zeal for Welsh Literature. The love and labour of his son, Owen Jones, will be a source of growing pride to his countrymen. Educated at the Charterhouse, he visited the Art centres of Paris, Milan, Venice, Rome, Greece, Alexandria, Cairo, Thebes, Constantinople. Deeply impressed by Arabic form and ornament, he returned to this country, where, from 1836 to 1874, he published a magnificent series of books upon the ornaments and decorative arts of the leading artistic peoples of the world. He superintended the works of the great Exhibition of 1851, he was the joint-director of the decoration of the Crystal Palace, and he himself designed the Egyptian, Greek and Alhambra Courts. He was