Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) [Every attempt has been made to replicate the original as printed. Some typographical errors have been corrected; a list follows the text. (etext transcriber note.)] _The Story of Prague_ _The Mediæval Town Series_ =VERONA.=(A) By ALETHEA WIEL. =CHARTRES.=(B) By CECIL HEADLAM. =CAIRO.=(B) By STANLEY LANE-POOLE. =BRUGES.=(B) By ERNEST GILLIAT-SMITH. =ROME.=(B) [_2nd Edition._ By NORWOOD YOUNG. =FLORENCE.=(B) [_3rd Edition._ By EDMUND G. GARDNER. =ASSISI.=(A) [_2nd Edition._ By LINA DUFF GORDON. =CONSTANTINOPLE.=(A) By WILLIAM H. HUTTON. =MOSCOW.=(A) By WIRT GERRARE. =ROUEN.=(B) [_2nd Edition._ By THEODORE A. COOK. =NUREMBERG.=(A) [_3rd Edition._ By CECIL HEADLAM. =PERUGIA.=(A) [_4th Edition._ By MARGARET SYMONDS and LINA DUFF GORDON. =TOLEDO.=(A) By HANNAH LYNCH. _The volumes marked_ (A) _are_ 3_s._ 6_d._ _net in cloth_, 4_s._ 6_d._ _net in leather_; _those marked_ (B) _are_ 4_s._ 6_d._ _net in cloth_, 5_s._ 6_d._ _net in leather_. [Illustration: The Pulverthurm Prague] _The Story of_ =PRAGUE= _by Count Lützow_ _Illustrated by Nelly Erichsen_ [Illustration: colophon] _London: J. M. Dent & Co._ _Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street_ _Covent Garden, W.C._ [Illustration] 1902 _All rights reserved_ To PROFESSOR MORFILL, M.A. _Corresponding Member of the Royal Scientific Society of Bohemia, who has so largely contributed to making Bohemia known to England_ CONTENTS PAGE _Introduction_ xv CHAPTER I _Prague at the Earliest Period_ 1 CHAPTER II _From the Reign of Charles IV. to the Executions at Prague in 1621_ 23 CHAPTER III _Prague in Modern Times_ 128