From English Literature,
'i^iCTURES
KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS, The
picture that I
first
not the work of a single
want It
artist.
to
show you was
was begun, more
than six hundred years ago, by a Welsh monk, called Geoffrey of Monmouth.
made many increased
In later times, other artists
additions to
its
beauty.
it,
At
some of which greatly
length, the great painter,
Alfred Tennyson, retouched the whole picture, giving it its it
is
present rich coloring and perfect finish
numbered to-day among
so that
most fascinating
the
paintings in the whole gallery of literature. It represents
knights,
seated
King Arthur and about
the
his
famous
twelve brave
Round
Table,
which was built by Merlin, the wonderful magician.
Do you There,
at
see the king at the
his
right,
sits
the
head of the table?
bold Sir Launcelot
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