King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table! What magic is in the words! How they carry us straight to the days of chivalry to the witchcraft of Merlin to the wonderful deeds of Lancelot and Perceval and Galahad to the Quest for the Holy Grail to all that "glorious company the flower of men " as Tennyson has called the king and his companions! Down through the ages the stories have come to us one of the few great romances which like the tales of Homer are as fresh and vivid to-day as ever.