Excerpt from Rainbows for Children I wish these Fairy-stories were written by myself; but they are not. The author merely intended them for the private amusement of a few juvenile relatives; but the MS. accidentally met my eye, and I was so charmed with the freshness and beauty of the stories, that I begged permission to publish them. Their liveliness and simplicity will, I am sure, render them great favorites with children, while more mature minds will often perceive a wise significance within the poetic beauty of the Style. Thus in Fiamma, or the Vase of Golden Water, eyesight is restored at home by first carrying a web of light all round the world. In the Crystal Palace, whoever hopefully plants flowers, or tenderly feeds birds, helps some other soul, who, through tangled woods, is seeking for the palace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.