^ The Blue Flower 

Q By Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) 

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^ "Sometimes short stories are brought together hke parcels in a basket. 
>^ Sometimes they grow together hke blossoms on a bush. Then, of course, 
g they really belong to one another, because they have the same life in them. 
M ...There is such a thought in this book. It is the idea of the search for inward 
happiness, which all men who are really alive are following, along what 
various paths, and with what different fortunes! Glimpses of this idea, traces 
of this search, I thought that I could see in certain tales that were in my 
mind, — tales of times old and new, of lands near and far away. So I tried to 
tell them, as best as I could, hoping that other men, being also seekers, 
might find some meaning in them" (Summary by from the preface) 

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