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  [Illustration]


  The Blue Rose Fairy Book
  Maurice Baring


  [Illustration: THE HOOFS OF HIS STEED LEFT BEHIND THEM A TRAIL OF
  TWINKLING ANEMONES]


  THE BLUE ROSE
  FAIRY BOOK

  BY
  MAURICE BARING

  [Decoration]

  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