The Publishers have asked me to authorise a new edition, in my own name, of this little booknow long out of printwhich was written by me thirty-five years ago under the initials J.T.K.In acceding to their request I wish to say that the book as now published is merely a word-for-word reprint of my early effort to help to popularise the Arthur legends.It is little else than an abridgment of Sir Thomas Malory's version of them as printed by Caxtonwith a few additions from Geoffrey of Monmouth and other sourcesand an endeavour to arrange the many tales into a more or less consecutive story.The chief pleasure which came to me from it was, and is, that it began for me a long and intimate acquaintance with Lord Tennyson, to whom, by his permission, I Dedicated it before I was personally known to him.JAMES KNOWLES.