Another very attractive book is Mr. A. W. Pollard's abridgment
of Malory, The Romance of King Arthur (Macmillan and Co., 10s. 6{1. net), with many clever illustrations in colour and in black- and-white by Mr. Arthur Beckham. Mr. Pollard has, he says, " tried to clear away some of the underwoods that the great trees may be better seen." He has taken some readings from Sir Edward Strachey's well-known Globe edition, which "has probably brought Malory more readers than all other texts put together." Malory wrote for a leisured age which loved his stock phrases and endless repetitions, so that his text may be judiciously cut down without suffering in the least. Mr. Pollard has done his work well, and the old atones of Lancelot and Galahad, of Gawain and Tris- tram, and their fellow-knights will in this simpler form gain many new readers.
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