Excerpt from Belgium the Land of Art, Its History, Legends, Industry, and Modern Expansion

"What can an American see in Belgium?" asked a twentieth-century friend. My answer was, "What he has eyes to see." This little book, written after four journeyings in the Low Countries between France and Germany, is intended to give pleasure to the reader at home, and to the traveler the means of enjoying what he sees. Furthermore, it shows how numerous and vital are the points of contact between American and Belgic history. No other land is richer in history or more affluent in art than is Belgium. In none have devout, industrious, patriotic and gifted sons told their country's story more attractively. By pen and in print, on canvas, in mural decoration, in sculpture, in monuments of bronze and marble, in fireplaces and in wood-carving, the story may be read as in an illuminated missal. Belfries, town-halls, churches, guild-houses, have each and all a charm of their own. Yet what avails all this historic and artistic wealth, to the unread and uncultured, if he fail to understand or appreciate what is before his eyes?

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