_Old Roofs below the Belfry_ 255 _The Belfry from the Quai Vert_ 263 _Porte des Baudets_ 280 _Hôtel Gruthuise_ 287 _Kitchen in Gruthuise_ 290 _Chimney-piece in the Gruthuise Palace_ 292 _The 'Paradise' of Notre Dame and Gruthuise_ 307 _Hooded Fire-place in the Gruthuise_ 312 _Tribune of the Gruthuise in Notre Dame_ 314 _The Hôtel Bladelin_ 317 _The Ghistelhof_ 321 _Courtyard of the Hôtel Adornes_ 322 _Tomb of Anselm Adornes_ 324 _Van Oudvelde's Window by the Pont Flamand_ 328 _Quai du Rosaire_ 329 _Guild Hall of Archers of St. Sebastian_ 332 _Portrait of George Van der Pale_ 349 _Gerard David's 'Baptism of Christ'_ 359 _Memlinc's 'Adoration of the Magi'_ 377 _Memlinc's 'St. John the Baptist'_ 382 _Memlinc's 'St. Veronica'_ 383 _Bruges from the River Yperlet_ 392 _Godshuis, Quai des Marbriers_ 394 _Lancelot Blondeel's Chimney-piece in the Palais du Franc_ 399 _The Vlissinghe Tavern, frequented by Rubens_ 404 _Quai des Ménétriers_ 406 _Pont St. Augustin_ 408 _Plan of Bruges Facing_ 410 [Illustration: BRUGES] The Story of Bruges CHAPTER I _The First Flemings_ It is not to the stalwart Celtic tribes which Cæsar found scattered about the low-lying sandy plain which stretches along the coast from the mouth of the Rhine to the Canche that this part of Europe owes either its name or its greatness. The Menapii and the Morini, the bravest of them all and the last to withstand the Roman legions, were at length compelled to bend their necks beneath the yoke of Rome's enervating and effete civilization, and when, four centuries later, a whirlwind of Northern barbarism had swept the land, only a handful of them, sparsely scattered, abject, cringing, hidden away in forest and marsh, were left to tell the tale.