<p>The Publishers have asked me to authorise a new edition, in my own name, of this little book?now long out of print?which was written by me thirty-five years ago under the initials J.T.K.<br><br>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.<br><br>It is little else than an abridgment of Sir Thomas Malory's version of them a...