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AT first glance this beautiful book, in Welsh “white and green” and “true paper,” is but an interesting miscellany, and such a superficial impression blunts the edge of about the only criticism which a careful perusal of the book suggests, namely, that as a biography of Viriamu it is sketchy and incomplete. But then the title prepares the reader for such an impression. In chapters i.–v. a “burning and a shining light” is faithfully portrayed; in chapters vi.–x. we have memories of the Oxford Union, of George Rolles-ton, “Many Memories,” and “Oxford Reform and the British Examination System”; and there are five appendices, one of which, “John Viriamu Jones and the University of Wales,” by Sir Isam-bard Owen, is, in Prof. Poulton's words, “an admirable account of the absolutely essential part taken by Viriamu in the foundation, and in guidance during the critical earliest years, of the University of Wales” (p. viii.).
John Viriamu Jones, and Other Oxford Memories.
By Prof. E. B. Poulton. Pp. xiii + 339. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1911.) Price 8s. 6d. net.
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G., J. John Viriamu Jones, and Other Oxford Memories . Nature 89, 419 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089419a0
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