By Jeannette Marks
GALLANT LITTLE WALES. Sketches of itsPeople, Places, and Customs. Illustrated.
THE END OF A SONG. Illustrated.
THROUGH WELSH DOORWAYS. Illustrated.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston and New York
Gallant Little Wales
THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN
Gallant Little Wales
Sketches of its People, Places
and Customs
BY JEANNETTE MARKS
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1912
COPYRIGHT 1912, BY JEANNETTE MARKS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published October 1912
CALON WRTH GALON
As a guide-book this volume will be found tocontain too few unpronounceable Welsh place-namesto be adequate, but as an introduction tothe North Welsh land, its customs, its villagelife, its little churches, its holiday possibilities, itshistory and associations, its folk-lore and romance,its music, its cottages and castles, GallantLittle Wales should be useful. It is my intentionto follow this book with a companion volumeon South Wales.
I wish to express my debt to Mr. Henry Blackwell,who has always been quick to lend mevolumes from his priceless Welsh library andwho went over some of my manuscript for me.I am under obligations also to Rev. GwilymO. Griffith of Carnarvonshire, North Wales.Thanks, too, I owe to Miss Dorothy Foster forher work upon the map which appears as a separatepage in this volume.
The English know where beauty and comfort,good care, and good Welsh mutton are to be hadfor a moderate tariff. But long before the Englishmanwent for his vacations to these British[viii]Alps and the American followed him, excursio