From a Terrace in Prague

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
	PAGE
PREFACE	7
INTRODUCES PRAGUE	14
CHAPTER II
ABOUT GUIDES AND GUIDE BOOKS AND THE WEATHER OF PRAGUE	32
CHAPTER III
VYŠEHRAD, LIBUŠA AND P?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?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.
IŠKA 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

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