Excerpt from 'Twixt God and Mammon<br><br>If he had lived, he would certainly have gone far, and I think in a new direction. It is sufh ciently obvious that the ambition of his last years was to become the novelist of Wales. That was a large and splendid ambition. There is human nature, and there is Welsh nature, says Mr. Mere dith, and it is astonishing that so rich a mine of character, scene, history, poetry, romance, and tra dition as lies open to all comers in the Principality of Wales should have been allowed to remain prao tically unworked in English literature down to this day. Whether Mr. Tirebuck was the natural heir to this great inheritance it is only for a Welshman to say, but, looking at the extraordinary sweet ness, delicacy, intimacy, and charm of the Welsh scenes in this novel, I should think his claims were great and obvious. He had Welsh blood and the root of the matter in him. His Welsh ness was of the essence, and not a mere literary afl'ectation. I can not but feel that his compara tively early death has robbed Wales of one of the truest and perhaps one of the greatest of her literary sons.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.