_Albert Durer as a boy. From a drawing by himself at the age of thirteen_ 179 _St. Anthony, from the engraving by Albert Durer. Background of Nuremberg Scenery_ 189 _Sakramentshäuslein. Adam Krafft_ 203 _Nuremberg Spruchsprecher or State Poet_ 223 _Brautthüre, St. Sebalduskirche_ 232 _St. Lorenzkirche. From the river_ 241 _Hauptthor, St. Lorenzkirche_ 244 _St. Lorenzkirche. North side_ 246 _St. Lorenzkirche. Interior_ 251 _West Door, Frauenkirche_ 255 _House on the Pegnitz_ 268 _Fleischbrücke_ 271 _The Nuremberg Madonna_ 279 _The Seals of Nuremberg_ 291 _All the illustrations with the exception of the frontispiece, "St. Anthony" and "Albert Durer as a boy" have been drawn by Miss James, or cut in wood from the beautiful photographs by Captain Gladstone, R.N., to whose generosity the publishers are indebted for permission to reproduce the pictures in this volume._ The Story of Nuremberg CHAPTER I _Origin and Growth_ "In the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg the ancient stands."--LONGFELLOW.