Contents

Page
Advertisement[vii]
By Way of Introduction[xi]
Flowers of History from the Romantic Thirteenth Century  [ 3]
Mystics as Builders[15]
The Golden Madonna of Rheims[26]
The Little Old Abbé of Saint Denis and the Imagiers[38]
The Mystic Cathedral of Chartres[50]
Caen: An Eleventh Century Tableau[73]
The Grandniece of the Grand Inquisitor[87]
Stray Leaves from Old, Old Books[98]
The Romantic Twentieth Century: A Deduction[118]
A Word Regarding Bibliography[139]
Index[143]

Illustrations

Facing Page
The Abbatical Church of Saint Ouen[Title]
As Art, Early Painting is Often Taken too Seriously; but as Literature, it is Charming[xiv]
The Crucifix in the Town Hall of Rouen[ 4]
The Virgin Greets the Angel of Death [ 8]
Sainte Chapelle[10]
Interior of Sainte Chapelle[12]
Saint Martin Dividing His Coat, from an Old Antiphone[20]
From the Certosa of Pavia[22]
Tomb of Dante, Ravenna[24]
A Recent Tribute to Clovis and Saint Remi, on the Interior Frieze of the Pantheon, Paris[26]
The Flying Buttress[32]
The Sculptured Saint Upon a Gothic Cathedral[34]
In the Sixteenth Century the French Academy Changed the Name of the Imagiers’ Guild
to the Sculptors’[42]
A Thirteenth Century Window[44]
The Old-Time House of Prayer, which Still Dominates the City of Chartres[52]
A Pillar at Chartres[54]
A View Through the Portail of Chartres[56]
A Detail of the Portail Septentrionale[60]
South Portal of Chartres[64]
A Page from the Sculptured “Bible of the Laity,” Chartres[68]
Altar-piece at Chartres[70]
William the Conqueror’s Old Fortress[74]
Dinan[84]
Old Moats Do Make Such Charming Gardens[86]
A Peep Into the Cranium of a Bible Reader in Lope de Vega’s Time[88]
The Literal, Limited God of a Fanatic and Father Adam Stock-taking in Eden[92]
A Tribute to the Scribes of the Dark Ages[100]
The Baptistry Doors[102]
A Page from the Bible of Jean Sans Peur[110]
Head of Justice, from Fiore’s Group[130]
An Ideal of the Gracious Republic of Venice, Paul Veronese[134]
A Mediæval Expression of Justice Attended by Archangels, by Fiore[136]