SOURCE: "The Welsh Peasant," in The Bookman, London, Vol. LI, No. 306, March, 1917, pp. 191-2.

In the following essay, a review of Capei Sion, a countryman gives cautious praise to Evans's literary ability, but questions his view of the Welsh people.

"Art for Art's sake" was one of the war cries of the 'nineties, and curiously enough it was heard loudest and most often in literary circles. I cannot recall one painter, actor, or musician who echoed that cry. Yet we have had since all manner of revolutionary movements in painting, music, and drama, whilst our authors seem to be carrying on in very much the same way now as twenty-five years ago. It is significant, too, that of all the "Art for Art's sake" young lions of those roaring times hardly one is to be counted, with the possible exception of Mr. George Moore, among the foremost writers...