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Daily News Printing Company, Staunton, Va. 1895-
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Table of Contents. Tennyson ' s Idyls of tlie King i - 7 Tennyson ' s Women 8-12 Sunrise and Sunset in the Highlands 13-14 Y. W. C. A 14-16 Mars Phil . . 17-18 A Student ' s Dream 18-20 An Old Tropical Town 20-23 Ein Kurzerer Weg 24 Ein Kleiner Amerikaner 25-26 Falls Church 26-27 Meine erste Reise nach New York 28-30 Grison 30 - 33 Le Roi Des Montagues 33-35 Quelques Remarques sur Le Barbier de Seville, par Beaumarchais 35-41 Editorial 42-43 News from the Old Girls- 44-46 Marriages 47 In the Future 48-52 Social News 53-57 Sketches 58-64
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THE AUGUSTA Seminary Annual. Vol. V. Staunton, Va., May, 1895. No. i. Tennyson ' s Idyls of the King. Ghe .-HE Arthurian legends on which the Idyls of the King are -J based, have been compared to the beautiful princess in the familiar stor} ' , The Sleeping Beauty, who lay in her cas- tle for a hundred years until the fated fairy prince should come and awaken her. To extend the comparison, Tennyson was that prince, who doing what so many others had thought of, but had never attempted, cut through the shrubs and trees all around the castle and wakened everything therein to life, beauty and action. To study the sources of the legends, we must go back to the beginning of the sixth century. There lived then a bard and prophet named Myrdhinn, who cherished the hope that his king and friend, Aurelianus, would return after death to restore peace and prosperity to the Celts, then driven into Wales by Saxons. With this king, Aurelianus, was confounded his son and valiant successor, Arthur Myrdhinn ' s pupil. But all of Mj dhinn ' s hopes were shattered by the bloody battle of Arderidd, where Celts fought Celts, destroying their own race to the advantage of the Saxons. Alter the final defeat of the Celts, they still held to every tradition which could in any way ease their disappoint- ment or foster their pride, and Myrdhinn ' s prophecy of a great king who would arise like the dawn from his mysterious retreat was one of the chief of these traditions. The historical account of this time gives that Vortigern, chief of the Celts, summoned
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