_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