PREFACE.

TO THE FRIENDS AND READERS OF THE CAMBRIAN:

In completing another volume of THE CAMBRIAN, we desire again to tender to our friends and subscribers our grateful acknowledgements for the support and favor so kindly accorded to THE CAMBRIAN during the present year.

Not only do we feel grateful for the kind reception given to THE CAMBRIAN in the various Welsh communities, but also we have reason to believe that the circle of its readers is continually enlarging, and especially so among our Welsh-American young people. This is gratifying to us, and tends to show that its readers have found its contents generally instructive, interesting and helpful in promoting their intellectual and moral advance

ment.

The columns of THE CAMBRIAN contain a large amount of reliable information on a great variety of subjects, and many articles of great merit and permanent interest written by some of the best Welsh scholars and writers; so that it may be truthfully said that, on all matters pertaining to our own nationality, it is the best repository or treasury of information available to our Welsh-American people. For this reason we would urge our subscribers not to destroy or lose their copies of THE CAMBRIAN, but preserve them carefully and bind them, and in a few years they will have a valuable library of Biography, History, Poetry, Literature, Science, and general information which will not be easily found elsewhere.

We shall be greatly obliged to our subscribers for the continued favors to THE CAMBRIAN for the coming year, and we would earnestly appeal to them for their aid in extending its circulation among their friends and acquaint

ances.

From the prospectus for 1890, accompanying this number, it will beseen that in addition to the features which already distinguish THE CAMBRIAN, the volume for 1890 will contain articles of special value, by Rev. Llewelyn J. Evans, D.D., and Rev. E. D. Morris, D.D., Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, O We may also say that Rev. John Hall, D.D., New York, has kindly promised one or two articles for THE CAMBRIAN for 1890, written specially for our Welsh-American young people.

Heartily wishing the friends and readers of THE CAMBRIAN a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, we remain

Yours Sincerely,

E. C. EVANS.