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 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 7 Rh