SOURCE: A review of My People and Capel Sion, in The Dial, Vol. LXVI, February 8, 1919, pp. 154-6.

In the following essay, a review of My People and Capei Sion, a critic cautiously accepts Evans's negative view of humanity.

Is this revelation or fiction? Such uniform squalor and bestiality scarcely seems consistent with truth. The author [of My People and Capel Sion] appears to have used up his literary faculties on variations of the general themes of sexual degradation and avarice. It is not to be denied that he has made excellent literary material out of these unpleasant themes, but it is the excellence of his handling which makes it so difficult to suppress a question concerning the truth of his tales and sketches. It is not at all impossible that these peasants of West Wales may be violent distortions of our correct selves, to whom the veiling of...