Bruges, Ghent, Louvain (though ruined, or never completed),
Oudenarde, Malines, Mons--save Brussels, where the church of Ste.
Gudule, called persistently, but wrongly, the cathedral, has the
full complement of two, and Antwerp, where two were intended,
though only one has been actually raised. This tower at Ypres,
however, fails to illustrate--perhaps because it is earlier, and
therefore in better taste--that astounding disproportion in height
that is so frequently exhibited by Belgian towers, as at Malines,
or in the case of the famous belfry in the market-place at Bruges,
when considered with reference to the church, or town hall, below.
In front of the High Altar, in the pavement, is an inconspicuous
square of white stone, which marks the burial-place of Cornelius
Jansen, who died of the plague, as Bishop of Ypres, in 1638. The
monument, if you can call it monument, is scarcely less
insignificant than the simple block, in the cemetery of
Plainpalais at Geneva, that is traditionally said to mark the
resting-place of Calvin. Yet Jansen, in his way, proved almost a
second Calvin in his death, and menaced the Church from his grave
with a second Reformation. He left behind in manuscript a book
called "Augustinus," the predestinarian tenor of which was
condemned finally, though nearly a century later, by Pope Clement
XI., in 1713, in the Bull called Unigenitus. Jansenism, however,
had struck deep its roots in France, and still survives in Holland
at the present day, at Utrecht, as a sect that is small, indeed,
but not altogether obscure. Jansen himself, it may be noted, was a
Hollander by birth, having been born in 1585 at Akkoi in that
kingdom.

If Ypres is to be praised appropriately as a still delightful old
city that has managed to retain to a quite singular degree the