VYŠEHRAD, LIBUŠA AND PŘEMYSL, 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 PŘEMYSL, 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. ŽIŠKA 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 FULL-PAGE COLOURED THE CITY OF PRAGUE _Frontispiece_ PAGE THE "CHARLES BRIDGE" AND "HRADŠANY" 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 HRADŠANY FROM THE FÜRSTENBURG GARDEN 61 INITIAL LETTER (VYŠEHRAD) 71 OLD BOLESLAV 81 INITIAL LETTER (QUEEN JUDITH'S BRIDGE-HEAD) 89 ST. MARTIN'S, VYŠEHRAD 95 STRAHOV MONASTERY 102 INITIAL LETTER 107 A RELIC OF THE GHETTO 115 A TOWER OF THE HRADŠANY 123 INITIAL LETTER 131 INITIAL LETTER (KARLOV) 149 ST. STEPHEN'S 160