Fascinating Problem of the Grail Romances Miss Jessie Weston's,''Fronr itual to Romance" (Carabridge University Press. 12s. 6d. net, must fill all students of the Grail complex with delight.
Her hypothesis is as enchanting as her subject: it is that a secret rite, half-pagan, half-Christian, lingered on in the recesses of Wales up to the 12th century, and' that the Grail romances are founded on the doctrine and ceremonial of this hidden church.
Tt is the story of a national talisman, of the evangelization of Britain, of the ruin of the Celtia Church. of the doctrine of Transubstantiation, of a Bardic Cald-yon, likely enough of a pagan rite—and of other things.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.