King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert by Henry Gilbert. Juvenile Literature, the book for Christmas gift, an early book of 19th century, yet tops our present literature books. The book story began; In the hall of his Roman palace at London, King Uther, Pendragon of the Island of Britain, lay dying. He had been long sick with a wasting disease, and forced to lie in his bed, gnawing his beard with wrath at his weakness, while the pagan Saxons ravened up and down the fair broad lands, leaving in their tracks the smoking ruin of broken towns and desolated villages, where mothers lay dead beside...