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The religious revival in WalesTHE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IN WALES This volume is precisely what its title and subtitle indicate. The book first appeared in 1905 as a series of 32-page pamphlets. Each pamphlet was a collection of the articles about the revival published in The Western Mail, Cardiff. It now comes with a short Preface by Dr. Eifion Evans, and numerous interesting illustrations. Quinta Press has given the book an attractive hardback layout. It has to be said that the original reports are very largely sympathetic to the revival and its results. The story they tell is undoubtedly fascinating to the student of revival, and more so if the reader is Welsh. This English-man found parts of it tedious and repetitive, and few will need reminding that controversy surrounds certain features of the revival itself. Nevertheless, it is an essential source for the history of the revival and Quinta have done a service to students of the times and events by reprinting it. The book provides no serious analysis of either revival in general or this revival in particular. Providing it is understood that the purchaser is buying a contemporary primary source, which carries its own inevitable ‘spin’, then it is a useful addition to the volumes that have already appeared on the topic. Don Stephens,
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