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reading-book is designed primarily for
pupils of the fifth and sixth grades,
although it is believed that those of other
grades can read it with profit. The stories have
been collected from Sir Thomas Malory's Morte
d' Arthur and Tennyson's Idyls of the King. The
material taken from the former source has been
chosen with the view of presenting strictly
suitable reading, and has also at times been slightly
altered for the purpose of giving greater unity
and continuity to the stories. In the tales taken
from the Idyls of the King it has been necessary
to omit certain themes and motives, but the
characters have been treated in such a way as to
preserve, as far as possible, Tennyson's conception
of them. It is scarcely necessary to state that
the customs and manners described are not those
of the sixth century, the time of the Anglo-Saxon
invasion, but those of the chivalric age, the period
when the stories of Arthur were collected. So far
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as there has been an attempt to retain the
quaintness of style found in the old sources, it has been
by means of simple constructions rather than by
the use of much archaic diction. The aim of the
book is to give children an interest in the
literature dealing with the great Celtic legend of King
Arthur, and to arouse their admiration for the
sturdy national virtues of which the English race
has always been proud.
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