Demetrios Bikelas in 1899.
"Sweetness and affability, conservative beliefs and attempts at reconcilement of warring elements, clarity of ideas and nobility of feelings, tendency for revealing and uplifting of the noble side of things, an ethical concern latent in his literary writings that makes intellectual work a means of enlightening hearts rather than firing them up, choice of what strengthens and builds up rather than what intoxicates and dazzles, choice of the quiet, middle, and didactic tone often, rather than the loft and roaring and Apollonian; I think, these qualities characterize most generally Mr. Demetrios Bikelas, as a man of letters and writer, qualities which in their greatest part ensure from the man himself, from the psychic disposition of the man, these qualities are revealed and affect in meaning and form, in style and language, what he writes, verses, short stories, translations, historical and social treatises." - Kostes Palamas