The goodliest fellowship of famous knights
Whereof this world holds record.
TENNYSON
GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD.
LONDON —— BOMBAY —— SYDNEY
First published January 1905
by GEORGE G. HARRAP & COMPANY
39-41 Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.,
Reprinted: December 1905; July 1906; May 1907;
January 1909; September 1909; July 1910; July 1911;
October 1912; October 1913; March 1915; February
1917; August 1917; May 1918; October 1919;
June 1920; October 1921; October 1922;
June 1923; January 1925; April 1936;
September 1927; October 1928;
January 1930; January 1931;
April 1932
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
| [KING ARTHUR ] | (W. B. Margetson) | Frontispiece |
| [THE DEDICATION] | (J. Pettie, R.A.) | |
| [MERLIN AND NIMUE] | (Burne-Jones) | |
| [SIR TRISTRAM AND THE FAIR ISOUD ] | (D. G. Rosetti) | |
| [SIR GALAHAD ] | (G. F. Watts) | |
| [SIR LAUNCELOT AT THE CROSS] | (Stella Langdale) | |
| [ELAINE] | (J. M. Strudwick) | |
| [THE PASSING OF ARTHUR ] | (Stella Langdale) |
"We have from the kind Creator a variety of mental powers, to which we must not neglect giving their proper culture in our earliest years, and which cannot be cultivated either by logic or metaphysics, Latin or Greek. We have an imagination, before which, since it should not seize upon the very first conceptions that chance to present themselves, we ought to place the fittest and most beautiful images, and thus accustom and practise the mind to recognise and love the beautiful everywhere."
Quoted from Wieland by Goethe in his Autobiography