THREE TIMES THEY BROKE SPEARS
TALES FROM
TENNYSON
BY
MOLLY K. BELLEW
EDITOR OF
"Tales From Longfellow"
"Dickens' Christmas Stories for Children"
Etc., Etc.
Illustrated by H. S. Campbell
NEW YORK AND BOSTON
H. M. CALDWELL CO.
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1902
by
Jamieson-Higgins Co.
To my Young Readers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson was the typically English poet, andnone, perhaps not even Shakespeare, has appealed so keenlyto the human heart. No other man's poems have causedas many readers to shed tears of sympathy nor have awakenedhigher sentiments in the human heart. The criticsagree in pronouncing him the ideal poet laureate. In his"Idylls from the King" are found the loftiest and proudestdeeds of English history and even in the retelling of thesein prose the high spirit that is an inspiration to the noblestdeeds cannot fail to be preserved.
MOLLY K. BELLEW.
THE COMING OF KING ARTHUR.
Over a thousand years ago everybody was talking aboutthe wonde