The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.