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

FULL-PAGE COLOURED

THE CITY OF PRAGUE _Frontispiece_

PAGE

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"