972 Route 22. HERENTHALS. From Contich

The Hore: pe VitLE is a small isolated building in the centre
of the Grande Place, c. 1480, with an octagonal turret of red brick
and white-stone, c. 1540.

The Gacrca, S. Waltrude, is a 3 aisled cruciform building with
a central Tower dating from 1417, except the Choir, erected in
1449, the apse of which has been pulled down; the W. entrance is
blocked up. The clerestory-windows of Nave contain some consi-
derable remains of stained glass. Behind the high altar is a superb
oak reredos, carved in 1470 by B. Van Raephorst, repr. the
Martyrdom of SS. Crispin and Crispinian.

In the Choir Ambulatory are 2 carved statuettes of S. Job
and S. Christopher, XV cent.,.an aumbrye of Renaissance style,
divided into panels with medallions containing busts and surroun-
ded by arabesques, and a painting by O. Van Veen repr. the
Descent of Christ into Limbo. -In the Nave is a Pulpit, carved
by Geefs in bad taste; and in N. Aisle a Romanesque font sup-
ported by 5 cylindrical columns.

The Church of the Beguinage, built in 1614 of alternate
courses of red brick and white stone, contains a carved pulpit
of XVII cent. supported by 4 figures symbolical of Virtues.

Herenthals was the birth-place of the family of Franck from
which so many painters have sprung.

DILIGENCE : daily to aed from the H. du Saumon at 8. 30 a, m. and
6. 40. p. m..in 1 1/2 hr.; fare, 1 f.

Gure.. — Inns: H. des armes de Turnhout, opposite the
church of S. Amandus; — H. de la Campine, Place du Marché.
10,713 Inhabs. This little town, situated in the midst of the
Campine, is one of the most curious places in Belgium, having
been from time immemorial the abode of a colony of lunatics who
are sent hither from all parts of Belgium; the number residing
here on 41 Jan. 1857 was 765; they ave divided into 3 classes, those
paid for by the Government, those at the charge of their parish,
and those supported by their relations or friends ; they lodge in
the houses of the peasants who have for generations devoted them-
selves to this strange occupation. Idiots and harmless lunatics pay
170 frs. per annum; those who are violent or bedridden 200; and
in addition to the pension an annual sum of 30 frs. for clothing
and 9 frs. for medical attendance; all medecines, as also their

coffins if they die here, must be paid for as well. A very mild
, treatment has always prevailed here, the lunatics being allowed

to rove about the streets at their pleasure ; those however who are
at all dangerous have their hands and feet manacled. As the sane
portion of the community are usually occupied éither out in the
fields or within doors, the greater portion of those one meets in