. The spell of Flanders; an outline of the history, legends and art of Belgium's famous northern provinces, being the story of a twentieth century pilgrimage in a sixteenth century land just before the outbreak of the great war . the sisters, makes a charmingbackground for many of the accounts of his lifeand work, but the painstaking scholarship ofmodern days has shown that at the time whenhe was supposed to be lying wounded and des-titute at the hospital he was in fact very pros-perous, having lately bought the house in whichhe lived and his name appearing as one of theleading citizens of who
. The spell of Flanders; an outline of the history, legends and art of Belgium's famous northern provinces, being the story of a twentieth century pilgrimage in a sixteenth century land just before the outbreak of the great war . the sisters, makes a charmingbackground for many of the accounts of his lifeand work, but the painstaking scholarship ofmodern days has shown that at the time whenhe was supposed to be lying wounded and des-titute at the hospital he was in fact very pros-perous, having lately bought the house in whichhe lived and his name appearing as one of theleading citizens of whom the commune had bor-rowed money. It is perhaps pleasanter on thewhole to think of the artist as rich and hon-oured instead of at the other extreme of thesocial scale — but the legend is, after all, somuch more romantic that we cannot give it upwithout regret. At Bruges the first spot for the admirer ofMemling to visit is, of course, the hospital ofSt. Jean, and at the hospital the first thing tosee is the world-famous shrine of St. it is, yet beyond price in value. It wasconstructed as a casket to contain the relicsof the Saint and was completed in 1489. Indesign it is a miniature Gothic chapel two feet. SHRINE OF ST. URSULA, HOSPITAL OF ST. JEAN BRUGES. The Fall of Charles the Bold 297 ten inches high and three feet long, with threelittle panels on each side which contain Mem-lings famous pictures setting forth the lifeand martyrdom of the Saint and the eleventhousand other virgins who shared her story of the famous pilgrimage to Eomeand its melancholy ending at Cologne has beentold so often that it need not be repeated one of the sisters to tell it to you in hercharming broken French — for they are Flem-ish, these sweet-faced sisters, and, as a rule,understand neither French nor English. This fact is said to have served them in goodstead on the terrible day when the bandit-sol-diery of the French Republic clamoured at thedoors of the hosp
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