Before there was Gandalf and Dumbledore there was Merlin the legendary adviser to King Arthur. Shrouded in the magical mist of time Merlin is the wizard that all other wizards are measured against. Collected here in one edition are the stories and legends that inspired a tradition including Merlin's Youth by George Parker Bidder; The Prophecies of Merlin, and the Birth of Arthur by Sir James Knowles; Merlin by Beatrice Clay; The Prophecy of Merlin by Anne Bannerman; The Wisdom of Merlyn by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; Wise Merlin's Foolishness by U. Waldo Cutler; Merlin I by Ralph Waldo Emerson; The Story of Merlin by Howard Pyle; The Egyptian Maid or The Romance of the Water-Lily by William Wordsworth; Merlin and Vivien by Lord Alfred Tennyson; Merlin II by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Merlin and the Gleam by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Excalibur by Sir Thomas Malory; Merlin's Song by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Merlin's Grave by Sallie Bridges; Merlin's Last Prophecy by George Darley; Merlin in Avalon by Geoffrey Junior; Merlin's Tomb by Robert Buchanan.