_The Old Synagogue_ 129 _Secret Seal of the Malá Strana_ 133 _The Oldest Great Seal of the Old Town_ 139 _Gate of the Clam-Gallas Palace_ 141 _The Hall of Vladislav in the Hradcany Castle_ 145 _The Most Ancient Shield of the Old Town_ 148 _View of Strahov_ 150 _St. Vitus from the 'Stag's Ditch'_ 153 _The Tyn Church_ 157 _The Library, Strahov_ 161 _Most Ancient Arms of the Malá Strana_ 163 _The Powder Tower_ 169 _Door of Old Synagogue_ 171 _Jewish Town Hall and Old Synagogue_ 175 _Chapel of St. Martin_ 182 _Karlov_ 186 _From the Bridge Looking Towards the Old Town_ 188 _View of the Bridge from the Mills of the Old Town_ 191 _The 'Star' Hunting Lodge_ 199 _The Oldest Great Seal of the Malá Strana, Thirteenth Century_ 200 _View of Prague in 1606, after Sadeler's famous Engraving, in Three Sections_ _facing_ 206 _Map of Prague_ " 212 INTRODUCTION Few cities in the world have a more striking and feverish historical record than Prague, the ancient capital of Bohemia and of the lands of the Bohemian crown. It is a very ancient saying at Prague that when throwing a stone through a window you throw with it a morsel of history. The story of Prague is to a great extent the history of Bohemia, and all Bohemians have always shown a devoted affection for the 'hundred-towered, golden Prague,' as they fondly call it. As Mr. Arthur Symons has well said, Prague is to a Bohemian 'still the epitome of the history of his country; he sees it, as a man sees the woman he loves, with her first beauty, and he loves it as a man loves a woman, more for what she has suffered.' Foreigners, however, have not been backward in admiring the beauties of Prague. The words of Humboldt, who declared that Prague was the most beautiful inland town of Europe, have often been quoted, and it is certain that a traveller who looks at the town from the bridge, or the Strahov Monastery or the Belvedere, will share this opinion.