Welsh Journals

In these drawings, with their exquisite line and lovely colour, he achieves a highly personal means of expression. They fall into two groups, the landscapes, portraits and still-lifes which are the result of his reaction to sensuous experience; and the symbolic compositions derived from his religious beliefs and the Celtic legends which he has studied deeply. Of particular importance in this latter category are the two fine drawings of subjects inspired by Malory which have been lent by the Tate Gallery. C.E.M.A. is again indebted to the continuing generosity of galleries and private owners who have made this exhibition possible by the loan of their pictures. Welsh amateurs, to restore this word to its eighteenth- century use, will also thank them for enabling them to see the art of one of their most talented countrymen. ITINERARY FOR THE DAVID JONES C.E.M.A. EXHIBITION IN WALES. Cardiff April 24-May 21, 1944. Aberystwyth May 26-june 9. Carmarthen June 12-June 24. Pontypridd June 29-JUIY 13. Brynmawr July IS-July 22. Merthyr July 24-August 14. Rhyl August 18­August 31. By courtesy of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts Two Replies to Caradoc Evans I have a grudging admiration for Mr. Caradoc Evans. His Welshman is a brute, but he succeeds in doing for Wales what the French insect expert Fabre did for ants, and in the dying craft of short story writing he is an artist. His self portrait in this number of Wales (No. 3, quarterly, 2/6d.) is brilliant and pitiless he spares himself no more than his race. But one as inspired as Mr. Evans cannot expect to come out of his province into the field of rationalism with statements like this without being contested: Cant and humbug and hypocrisy belong to Wales, and no one writing about Wales can dodge them. I do not think my stuff has done Wales any good [how true]. It is not in me to do that. It is not in anyone." His complaint is against his schoolins," who never taught him anything. Some schoolins even outside Cardiganshire still don't-and wherever Mr. Evans says Wales, please read Cardiganshire. There are still pedants of a rather higher order than his schoolins who could condense their false educational values into some more modern idiom than There will be whiskers on eggs before twelve times in your head." Was it-or is it-only in his Wales that schoolins get their job for being Independents, when the Independents are stronger than the Methodists ? The stem tutelage of the Church of England over its schools is still not a matter of history. The education which Mr. Evans missed in Wales was supplied in England by a shop assistant from Lampeter, the book of Genesis and Marie Lloyd. All these three have great educative potentialities; the last two, as his writing proves, have been particularly effective.