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                         _The Story of Bruges_

                  'I do love these ancient ruins;
                   We never tread upon them but we set
                   Our foot upon some reverend history.'
                             _Duchess of Malfi._

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                            [Illustration]




                         _The Story of_ Bruges

                       _by Ernest Gilliat-Smith

                     Illustrated by Edith Calvert
                         and Herbert Railton_

                            [Illustration]

                   _London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.
                Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street
                      Covent Garden W.C._ _1909_


                     _First Edition, July 1901.
                     Second Edition, October 1903.
                     Third Edition, December 1905.
                     Fourth Edition, November 1909._




PREFACE


Few great mediæval towns possess so many memorials of the past, alike in
masonry and on parchment, as does 'the ancient town of Bruges.'

They have been indited by the patience of the scribe in breviary and in
charter-roll; they have been perpetuated by the art of the painter, in
gold and glowing tones, in portrait and in altar-piece; they have been
graven with