Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) _The Cathedral Series_ _The following, each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top profusely illustrated. $2.50_ _The Cathedrals of Northern France BY FRANCIS MILTOUN_ _The Cathedrals of Southern France BY FRANCIS MILTOUN_ _The Cathedrals of England BY MARY J. TABER_ _The following, each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, profusely illustrated. Net, $2.00_ _The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine BY FRANCIS MILTOUN_ _The Cathedrals of Northern Spain BY CHARLES RUDY_ _L. C. PAGE & COMPANY New England Building, Boston, Mass._ [Illustration: NOTRE DAME ... _de NOYON_] THE CATHEDRALS OF NORTHERN FRANCE By FRANCIS MILTOUN WITH EIGHTY ILLUSTRATIONS, PLANS, AND DIAGRAMS, By BLANCHE McMANUS [Illustration] BOSTON L. C. Page and Company MDCCCCIIII _Copyright, 1903_ BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) _All rights reserved_ Published October, 1903 Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, Mass., U. S. A. _THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST TO THE GENIUS OF RACE WHICH MADE POSSIBLE THE EXISTENCE OF THESE ARCHITECTURAL "GLORIES OF FRANCE"_ APOLOGIA _"There are two ways of writing a book of travel: to recount the journey itself or the results of it." This is also the case with regard to any work which attempts to purvey topographical or historical information of a nature which is only to be gathered upon the spot; and, when an additional side-light is shown by reason of the inclusion, as in the present instance, of the artistic and religious element, it becomes more and more a question of judicious selection and arrangement of fact, rather than a mere hazarding of opinions, which, in many cases, can be naught but conjecture, and may, in spite of any good claim to authoritativeness, be misunderstood or perverted to an inutile end, or, what is worse, swallowed in that oblivion where lies so much excellent thought, which, lacking either balance or timeliness, has become stranded, wrecked, and practically lost to view because of its unappropriate and unattractive presentation._