This work describes Northern France, Belgium and Flanders, and the treasures of art and beauty enshrined in that beautiful land before the devastation of the great war. This is a book of history and of art, of civilization and those forces which a war against civilization. It is as stirring as the most vital romance, a book which when begun is hard to put down. It is the story of the middles ages and of contemporary, the one thrown in silhouette against the other. And it is more than this for through its pages are to be found prophecies of the future. Mr. Cram is not one who merely looks...
This work describes Northern France, Belgium and Flanders, and the treasures of art and beauty enshrined in that beautiful land before the devastation...