Book jacket discolored and some small tears Henry Regency Company, 1958, 176 pages Protected from the grimness of World War I in Germany, a little girl and her mother find safety amid the beauty and peace of the ancient convent of Sankt Georgen. Here, among fields and rich woodlands, sheltered by old stone cloisters, nurtured by the warmly human religion of her gentle great-uncle and practical aunt, the child is cherished and loved. The grown-ups, with their concerns, their talk, and their rules, however, exist only vaguely for the little girl. Reality is the gypsy boy who lures her into the forest to show her a secret pool, the Corpus Christi lily that comes alive in the moonlight, the unseen menace that lies hidden in the grass of a sunny meadow in the stillness of noon. When the child's father returns from the war and the family settles down to normal living, the young girl is torn from her magic world and placed in a boarding school. How, under the rigid discipline of the school and the demands of her teachers and fellow students, she reconstitutes her earlier life of uncontrolled imagination into a more adult refuge of mind and spirit is the theme of Rings of Glass.