The most gifted and the most original of their number, by his skilful treatment of the Arthurian story in his Historia Regum Britanniae, he succeeded in uniting scattered legends attached to Arthur's name, and in definitely establishing their place in chronicle history in a form that persisted throughout the later British historical annals.

We come now to a chronicle play (leaves 97-118), Edmond Ironside: The English King.

His eye was so piercing, that, as ancient chronicles report, he could blunt the weapons of his enemies only by looking at them.

The Plymouth adventure; a chronicle novel of the voyage of the Mayflower.

33-35; 2 Chronicles xvii.

Chronicles xxxvi.

Before many moons, the chronicle records, the Danes cut their spear-shafts short, that they might the more handily get at the foe.

The chronicles state that one could see right into the Burggraf's Castle from this tower, and the town was therefore kept informed of any threatening movements on his part.

Fortunately for him it had not as yet been treated in a diplomatic and pragmatic spirit, but merely in the chronicle-style; in other words, it had not yet assumed the appearance of dry investigations respecting the development of political relations, diplomatic negotiations, finances, etc., but exhibited a visible image of the life and movement of an age prolific of great deeds.

But that region is peculiarly sensitive: the subterranean connections with the Mexican and South-American volcanic districts chronicle disturbances whose centre is remote.