Volume 24, Number 19 · November 24, 1977
The Round Table in Ruins
By Alison Lurie
The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to "The Once and Future King"
by T.H. White, prologue by Sylvia Townsend Warner, illustrations by Trevor Stubley
University of Texas Press, 137 pp., $9.95
A hundred years ago, when half the globe was colored red, the heroes of English adventure stories escaped from savages, rescued captives, and discovered treasure all round the world. Under the direction of Ballantyne, Stevenson, and Kipling they traveled to Alaska and Africa and Asia; they met holy men in India and outwitted pirates in the South Seas. But as the sun wearily set on the British Empire, fictional heroism began to be located nearer home, where there was still enough light to see by.
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