The Blue Rose Fairy Book

Maurice Baring was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. During World War I, Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force.Baring is remembered in verse in Belloc's Cautionary Verses:Like many of the upper classHe liked the sound of broken glass** A line I stole with subtle daringFrom Wing-Commander Maurice BaringHe once gave Virginia Woolf a copy of his book C. She was not impressed, writing in her diary:Second-rate art i.e. C., by Maurice Baring. Within it limits, it is not second rate, or there is nothing markedly so, at first go off. The limits are the proof of its non-existence. He can only do one thing; himself to wit; charming, clean, modest, sensitive Englishman. Outside that radius and it does not carry far nor illumine much, all is-as it should be-light, sure, proportioned, affecting even; told in so well bred a manner that nothing is exaggerated, all related, proportioned. I could read this for ever, I said. L. said one would soon be sick to death of it.-blue fairy book-blue fairy book andrew lang-blue fairy book illustrated-blue fairy book hardcover-blue fairy book free-blue fairy book dover-fairy books-tooth fairy book-rainbow magic fairy books-fairy books-fairy books for girls 4-8-fairy books for girls 8-10-tooth fairy book-rainbow fairy books-blue fairy book-rainbow magic fairy books-fairy books for toddlers-fairy bookmark-fairy books for children-fairy book series-fairy books for girls-fairy books for adults-fairy bookends-fairy books for 8 year olds-fairy book box-fairy books for young adults-fairy bookmarks