Here had been a thing that would bear telling and retelling for many a year.

The most important prose works are Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, a masterly retelling of the Arthurian legends; Sir Thomas More's Utopia, a magnificent Renaissance dream of a new social world; and Tyndale's translation of the Bible.

This collection includes the long narrative poems, Tristram of Lyonesse and The Tale of Balen, a faithful retelling of famous medieval stories.

In 1902 the distinguished American artist Howard Pyle undertook to retell and illustrate the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

[Footnote 6: Shakespeare committed it in Romeo and Juliet, where he made Friar Laurence, in the concluding scene, retell the whole story of the tragedy.

The times were ripe for a retelling from a different point of view, with a more patient analysis of the emotions, of the inner impulses of the moment before the blow, the battle of passions that preceded the final act.

Thus both at Alexandria and at Rome the new poets naturally chose the more romantic myths of the old regal period as fit for their retelling.

The circumstantial way in which Heine retells this story is almost sufficient to lead one to believe that he had Schreiber at hand when he wrote this part of Elementargeister; but he says that he did not.

He tried to comfort himself by retelling to himself the story of the last few days; reminding himself how, after the first outburst, when the police had been shot down by these new weapons of which he understood nothing, and the palace had been taken, and the city reduced to a state of defenceless terrorthe revolutionaries had sternly repressed the second attempted massacre in a manner not unworthy of real civilization.

For this especial carnage was of supreme and world-wide significance so long ago that it is now not worth the pains involved to rephrase for inattentive hearing the combat of the knights at Perdigonout of which came alive only Guivric and Coth and Anavalt and Gonfal,or to speak of the once famous battle of the tinkers, or to retell how the inflexible syndics of Montors were imprisoned in a cage and slain by mistake.

U.S. Mr. Lincoln's funnybone; wherein the White House joker retells his best yarns & fables.

NM: art & retelling of original story.

By Whitman Publishing Company, employer for hire of Katharine Gibson (retelling) & Isobel Read (illus.)

NM: art & retelling of stories.

African Negro folk tales, retold by Faith Maris.

U.S. Mr. Lincoln's funnybone; wherein the White House joker retells his best yarns & fables.

NM: art & retelling of original story.

By Whitman Publishing Company, employer for hire of Katharine Gibson (retelling) & Isobel Read (illus.)

NM: art & retelling of stories.

4. Retell some incident that you have recently read.

"Since Petrik told you what kind of a boy I was, I do not have to retell it again," began the man presently.

The story of this strike will bear retelling.

The legend which accounted for its early pre-eminence is even in these sceptical days worth retelling, for from its popularity the future importance of the abbey sprang.

The retelling of these incidents of the afternoon, coupled with Sexton's evident interest in the narrative, and the questions the man asked, caused the discoveries made to assume a greater importance than before.

" The truth of this is evident when we remember that we repeat a witty saying that we may enjoy the effect on others, while we retell a humorous story largely for our own enjoyment of it.