NEW YORK AND BOSTON
H. M. CALDWELL CO.
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1902
by
Jamieson-Higgins Co.

[CONTENTS.]

[The Coming of King Arthur]9
[Gareth and Lynette]29
[The Marriage of Geraint]46
[Geraint's Quest of Honor]64
[Merlin and Vivien]85
[Balin and Balan]95
[Lancelot and Elaine]104
[The Holy Grail]119
[Pelleas and Ettarre]132
[The Last Tournament]142
[The Passing of Arthur]150

To my Young Readers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson was the typically English poet, and none, perhaps not even Shakespeare, has appealed so keenly to the human heart. No other man's poems have caused as many readers to shed tears of sympathy nor have awakened higher sentiments in the human heart. The critics agree in pronouncing him the ideal poet laureate. In his "Idylls from the King" are found the loftiest and proudest deeds of English history and even in the retelling of these in prose the high spirit that is an inspiration to the noblest deeds cannot fail to be preserved.

MOLLY K. BELLEW.