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THE GLASS MENDER

THE BLUE ROSE

THE STORY OF VOX ANGELICA AND LIEBLICH GEDACHT

THE VAGABOND

THE MINSTREL

THE HUNCHBACK, THE POOL AND THE MAGIC RING

THE SILVER MOUNTAIN

THE RING

THE MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER

THE CUNNING APPRENTICE

ORESTES AND THE DRAGON

THE WISE PRINCESS

The Blue Rose Fairy Book
Maurice Baring

 

THE HOOFS OF HIS STEED LEFT BEHIND THEM A TRAIL OF TWINKLING ANEMONES

 

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The Blue Rose Fairy Book

 

BY

MAURICE BARING

 

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1911

 

DEDICATED

TO

MARY and AUBREY

 

NOTE

One of these stories, "The Glass Mender," appeared first in The English Review, and six of the shorter stories in The Morning Post. I wish to thank the editors and proprietors concerned for their kindness in letting me republish them. The rest of the stories are new.

M. B.

 

CONTENTS

  PAGE
THE GLASS MENDER 1
THE BLUE ROSE 31
THE STORY OF VOX ANGELICA AND LIEBLICH GEDACHT 45
THE VAGABOND 97
THE MINSTREL 137
THE HUNCHBACK, THE POOL, AND THE MAGIC RING 151
THE SILVER MOUNTAIN 165
THE RING 179
THE MERCHANT'S DAUGHTER 193
THE CUNNING APPRENTICE 219
ORESTES AND THE DRAGON 233
THE WISE PRINCESS 247

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

And as he galloped through the wood, the hoofs of his steed left behind them a trail of twinkling anemones Frontispiece
One evening he was playing his one-stringed instrument outside a dark wall To face p. 41
As he said this he climbed on to the manuals and disappeared into the heart of the organ " 95
And there stood before the throng a wonderful shining figure with wings " 133
And turning round she saw an old woman, bent and worn, who was muttering a supplication " 139
The sun was shining on the sea and a fresh breeze was blowing " 160
And towards the evening he emerged from the forest and saw the hill before him shining in the sunset " 176
Her mother, when she was walking in the garden of the palace, found a silver horseshoe lying on one of the paths " 181
A garment on which the month of May, and all its flowers, was painted " 210
He changed himself into a hawk " 223
The dragon appeared, and seizing the little Princess with its tail, flew away " 235
She went out on to the step and called out in a loud voice, "Oh, you boisterous winds, bring hither that same carpet on which I used to sit in the house of my father" " 252

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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