Chapter 8

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_

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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