Technology. (a) Mining. (b) Engineering. (c) Metallurgy. (4) The Medical School. (5) The Department for the Training of Teachers in Elementary Schools. (6) The Department for the Training of Women Teachers in Secondary Schools. in future will be published 3d. For further particulars see Prospectus. HEDDYW--Misolyn Newydd, RHIF 2. PRIS DAN OLYGIAETH 0. M. EDWARDS, M.A. 3c. Derbynir Archebion gan ein Dosbarthwyr. THE BEST AND MOST COMPLETE IS (7) The Women's Technical Department. The National Diary of Wales For Prospectuses and all information in regard J. A. JENKINS, B.A. University College, Cardiff, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SOUTH WALES & MONMOUTHSHIRE. MEDICAL FACULTY. Students who wish to prepare for the Medical Degrees of the University of London, Durham, or the Scottish Universities, or for the diplomas of the London or Scottish Colleges, or of the Society of Apothecaries, may spend in Cardiff from two to three out of their five years of medical study, at a cost which compares favourably with that of medical education in London or elsewhere in the provinces. The College Laboratories and Museums are supplied with modern requirements for teaching, and the students have access to the outpatient department of the Infirmary-within three minutes' walk from the College-and can take out their surgical dressing and clinical clerking. The Medical Prospectus can be obtained on application to the Registrar of the College. Further information and advice may be obtained from John Berry Haycraft, M.D., Dean of Medical Faculty. J. A. JENKINS, B.A., Registrar. University College, Cardiff, July 20th, 1895. All orders for Advertisements should be sent direct to the Publishers. NO AGENTS. I VOL. IV.] WALES. MARCH, 1897. A NEGLECTED PASTIME. Ry the REV. E. J. NEWELL, M.A., Porthcawl. HAVE often pitied those unhappy dwellers in our towns who pass their time in tranquil contentment with their limited existence, who do not seek to escape to the country scenes and sounds which are frequently so near, and who have no love for the country, when perforce they visit it. You may sometimes meet such unhappy persons in the August [No. 35. Such persons I have met; but they have never been among my associates; we have too little in common. I have known, however, others of quite an opposite type. One such in particular I well remember; a tall man who, with his long unkempt hair and beard, his loose black frock coat, and his speckled straw hat, was a somewhat notable figure in the town in which he lived. His leisure hours were passed in some mercantile pursuit or other, but the serious business of his life was music and country walks. On winter evenings he practised music, and on Sundays his magnificent bass voice might be heard to good effect in the church choir. But in the summer he walked in the country, clad IN SOUTH WALES. in just the same garb near Llanelly. as he wore in town, and his routes were as unconventional as his dress. If you mentioned any place within a radius of twenty five miles from his town, he knew it well, but he knew little of the roads by which you reached it. "I never go by the roads; I walk through the fields," he would remark; and when you meekly suggested that there were no footpaths thereabout, he would reply, calmly and unaffectedly, "I always make my own paths." He knew every gap in the hedges, and every farmhouse for miles, and he would tell you where the farmers holiday, "doing" Wales or Scotland after the conventional manner of the fashionable tourist, passing on from table d'hôte to table d'hôte, sampling and discussing the food at each hotel they visit, but utterly dead to the beauty of the scenery around them; men who will read Tit Bits as they sail through the Kyles of Bute, or with unabashed foreheads will ascend Snowdon by railway. |