PREFACE 7
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCES PRAGUE 14
CHAPTER II
ABOUT GUIDES AND GUIDE BOOKS AND THE WEATHER OF PRAGUE 32
CHAPTER III
VY[vS]EHRAD, LIBU[vS]A AND P[vR]EMYSL, 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 P[vR]EMYSL, 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. [vZ]I[vS]KA 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 "CHARLES BRIDGE" AND "HRAD[vS]ANY" 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 HRAD[vS]ANY FROM THE FUeRSTENBURG GARDEN 61
INITIAL LETTER (VY[vS]EHRAD) 71
OLD BOLESLAV 81
INITIAL LETTER (QUEEN JUDITH'S BRIDGE-HEAD) 89
ST. MARTIN'S, VY[vS]EHRAD 95
STRAHOV MONASTERY 102
INITIAL LETTER 107
A RELIC OF THE GHETTO 115
A TOWER OF THE HRAD[vS]ANY 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 HRAD[vS]ANY FROM THE NEBOZIZEK GARDEN 225
INITIAL LETTER 235
A CORNER OF K[vR]IVOKLAT CASTLE 250
TABOR, BY THE WATERS OF JORDAN 252