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STAINED GLASS
AGENTS
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STAINED GLASS
OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN
ENGLAND AND FRANCE
PAINTED BY
LAWRENCE B. SAINT
DESCRIBED BY
HUGH ARNOLD
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
SOHO SQUARE·LONDON·MCMXIII
PREFACE
The Cathedral verger, conducting his flock oftourists round the building, while giving themplenty of really interesting and valuable informationabout it (for the verger of to-day is a different manfrom his predecessor, and is often very intelligentand well informed), remarks briefly, "The glass is ofthe thirteenth century"—or fourteenth or fifteenth,as the case may be; the procession gazes carelesslyat it, and passes on. Yet from out of thatdazzling and glowing labyrinth of coloured jewelsa past age is speaking far more articulately, if onestops to unravel the message, than ever in stone orwood, and it is for those who can be induced totake that second look which will be followed by athird and a fourth and many more that I havewritten this book.
It is impossible in a book of this size to give anadequate review of all the important windows evenviwithin the limits of place and time which I haveset myself. I have therefore chosen for study certaintypical windows in each century, and have writtenabout them some of the things which interest meand which, I hope, will interest others.
The work of the countries and period I havechosen is of course the most important of all.