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PREFACE[7]
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCES PRAGUE[14]
CHAPTER II
ABOUT GUIDES AND GUIDE BOOKS AND THE WEATHER OF PRAGUE[32]
CHAPTER III
VYŠEHRAD, LIBUŠA AND PŘEMYSL, AND OTHER EARLY NOTABLES OF
PRAGUE, AMONG THEM ST. WENCESLAUS[50]
CHAPTER IV
MORE ABOUT ST. WENCESLAUS AND HIS IMMEDIATE SUCCESSORS[70]
CHAPTER V
GOOD AND BAD RULERS OF BOHEMIA UP TO A CONTEMPORARY OF FREDERICK
BARBAROSSA. STRAHOV MONASTERY[88]
CHAPTER VI
FIVE KINGS OF THE HOUSE OF PŘEMYSL, INTRODUCES THE FIRST HABSBURG
TO VISIT BOHEMIA[106]
CHAPTER VII
BLIND KING JOHN OF BOHEMIA[130]
CHAPTER VIII
CHARLES IV KING OF BOHEMIA, OF THE GERMANS, AND ROMAN EMPEROR.
ŽIŠKA AND HIS HUSSITES. ABOUT SOME CHURCHES IN PRAGUE[148]
CHAPTER IX
CHARLES AND HIS BRIDGE. HIS SON WENCESLAUS. JOHN NEPOMUK
AND JOHN HUS[166]
CHAPTER X
A HOUSING PROBLEM. ANCIENT AND MODERN PRAGUE[192]
CHAPTER XI
SIGISMUND AND OTHER HABSBURGS. GEORGE PODIEBRAD, ALSO THE
"WINTER KING"[216]
CHAPTER XII
JESUITS AND THEIR WORK. SOME HISTORIC FIGURES AND SOME BRITONS
WHO CAME TO PRAGUE. EPILOGUE[234]
INDEX[257]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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THE CITY OF PRAGUE[Frontispiece]
THE "CHARLES BRIDGE" AND "HRADŠANY"[60]
THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. VITUS[154]
THE "POWDER TOWER"[220]
LINE DRAWINGS
INITIAL LETTER (ARMS OF CZECHO-SLOVAKIA)[15]
MAP[17]
INITIAL LETTER (A TOWER OF KARLOV TYN)[33]
INITIAL LETTER (A SENTRY)[51]
THE HRADŠANY FROM THE FÜRSTENBURG GARDEN[61]
INITIAL LETTER (VYŠEHRAD)[71]
OLD BOLESLAV[81]
INITIAL LETTER (QUEEN JUDITH'S BRIDGE-HEAD)[89]
ST. MARTIN'S, VYŠEHRAD[95]
STRAHOV MONASTERY[102]
INITIAL LETTER[107]
A RELIC OF THE GHETTO[115]
A TOWER OF THE HRADŠANY[123]
INITIAL LETTER[131]
INITIAL LETTER (KARLOV)[149]
ST. STEPHEN'S[160]
INITIAL LETTER[167]
VENICE IN PRAGUE[169]
TOWER OF NEW TOWN HALL[174]
RIVER SCENE[188]
"BE THOU LIKE A PROMONTORY"[189]
RIVER SCENE[190]
INITIAL LETTER[193]
ON THE WHITE MOUNTAIN[200]
THE CHAPEL OF THE TOWN HALL[201]
THE TOWERS OF OUR LADY OF TYN[205]
A CORNER OF THE OLD TOWN[207]
INITIAL LETTER[217]
THE HRADŠANY FROM THE NEBOZÍZEK GARDEN[225]
INITIAL LETTER[235]
A CORNER OF KŘIVOKLAT CASTLE[250]
TABOR, BY THE WATERS OF JORDAN[252]

CHAPTER I