The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

book in front of us--over the various tales, and when I wrote an article

(in the shape of a long letter) in the _Spectator_ of January 1870 he asked to reprint it, and published it with the collected Idylls.

"For years, while his boys were at school and college, I acted as his confidential friend in business and many other matters, and I suppose he told me more about hims...