SOURCE: "The Little Spoon," and "Taffy," in The English Review, Vol. 36, April, 1923, pp. 344-50.

In the following essay, a review of Taffy, a critic lauds Evans's play as a refreshing change from most current offerings for the stage.

Mr. Caradoc Evans bounded into fame shortly before the war as the discoverer of a new literary method. Once more the Bible was the source, but he had another, Wales, and the idiom of Wales transcribed into English, which he used as a searchlight upon the insular idiosyncrasies of his people. Wales was virgin soil for literature and Mr. Evans was fiercely regional. He sovietised (before Lenin) the King's English. The stories he wrote (published mostly in this REVIEW struck a new theme and a new note. Their quality, of daring and incisive recreation, staggered. They were at once tragic and comic. He was of course pilloried, denounced by his...