Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 41830-h.htm or 41830-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41830/41830-h/41830-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41830/41830-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://archive.org/details/spellofflanderso00vose THE SPELL OF FLANDERS * * * * * THE SPELL SERIES _Each volume with one or more colored plates and many illustrations from original drawings or special photographs. Octavo, with decorative cover, gilt top, boxed._ _Per volume $2.50 net, carriage paid $2.70_ THE SPELL OF ITALY By Caroline Atwater Mason THE SPELL OF FRANCE By Caroline Atwater Mason THE SPELL OF SOUTHERN SHORES By Caroline Atwater Mason THE SPELL OF ENGLAND By Julia de W. Addison THE SPELL OF HOLLAND By Burton E. Stevenson THE SPELL OF SWITZERLAND By Nathan Haskell Dole THE SPELL OF THE ITALIAN LAKES By William D. McCrackan THE SPELL OF TYROL By William D. McCrackan THE SPELL OF JAPAN By Isabel Anderson THE SPELL OF SPAIN By Keith Clark THE SPELL OF FLANDERS By Edward Neville Vose THE SPELL OF THE HOLY LAND By Archie Bell THE PAGE COMPANY 53 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. * * * * * [Illustration: _Cathedral of St. Sauveur, Bruges_ (_See page 47_)] THE SPELL OF FLANDERS An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces Being the story of a Twentieth Century Pilgrimage in a Sixteenth Century Land just before the Outbreak of the Great War by EDWARD NEVILLE VOSE Illustrated Boston The Page Company MDCCCCXV Copyright, 1915, by the Page Company All rights reserved First Impression, April, 1915 The Colonial Press C. H. Simonds Company, Boston, U. S. A. To ALBERT I., King of the Belgians, the guiding star of a brave nation and the hero of the Battle of Flanders in the Great War, this book is dedicated PUBLISHERS' NOTE