The Idylls of the King, by Tennyson, in blank verse, containing “The Coming of Arthur,” “Gareth and Lynette,” “Geraint and Enid,” “Merlin and Vivien,” “Lancelot and Elaine,” “The Holy Graal,” “Peleas and Ettarre” (2 syl.), “The Last Tournament,” “Guinevere” (3 syl.) and “The Passing of Arthur,” which is the “Morte d’Arthur” with an introduction added to it.

(The old Arthurian Romances have been collated and rendered into English by sir Thomas Malory, in three parts.  Part i. contains the early history of Arthur and the beautiful allegory of Gareth and Linet; part ii. contains the adventures of sir Tristram; and part iii. the adventures of sir Launcelot, with the death of Arthur and his knights.  Sir Frederick Madden and J.T.K. have also contributed to the same series of legends.)

[Illustration] Sources of the Arthurian Romances.  The prose series of romances called Arthurian, owe their origin to:  1.  The legendary chronicles composed in Wales or Brittany, such as De Excidio Britanniae of Gildas. 2.  The chronicles of Nennius (ninth century). 3.  The Armoric collections of Walter [Cale’nius] or Gauliter, archdeacon of Oxford. 4.  The Chronicon sive Historia Britonum of Geoffrey of Monmouth. 5.  Floating traditions and metrical ballads and romances. (See CHARLEMAGNE.)

AR’THURET (Miss Seraphina the papist and Miss Angelica), two sisters in sir W. Scott’s novel called Redgauntlet (time, George III.).

ARTHUR KAVANAGH, the new pastor in the Fairmeadow parish, endowed “with the zeal of Peter and the gentleness of John,” who writes on his study-door Dante’s injunction—­

Think that To-day will never dawn again. Kavanagh.  A Tale, by H.W.  Longfellow (1872).

ARTHUR LIVINGSTON, an American traveller in Egypt who falls in love, at first leisurely, finally desperately, with the heroine of Kismet by George Fleming (Julia C. Fletcher) (1877).

ARTHUR RIPLEY, young New York lawyer employed in the criminal case that is the pivotal centre of interest in Sidney Luska’s (Harry Harland) novel, Mrs. Peixada (1886).

AR’TURO (lord Arthur Talbot), a cavalier affianced to Elvi’ra “the puritan,” daughter of lord Walton.  On the day appointed for the wedding, Arturo has to aid Enrichetta (Henrietta, widow of Charles I.) in her escape, and Elvira, supposing he is eloping with a rival, temporarily loses her reason.  On his return, Arturo explains the circumstances, and they vow never more to part.  At this juncture Arturo is arrested for treason, and led away to execution; but a herald announces the defeat of the Stuarts, and free pardon of all political offenders, whereupon Arturo is released, and marries “the fair puritan.”—­Bellini’s opera, I Puritani (1834).

Ar’turo [BUCKLAW].  So Frank Hayston is called in Donizetti’s opera of Lucia di Lammermoor (1835). (See HAYSTON.)