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Title: Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Milner, Florence
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, etc. Rand, McNally & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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be darkened, and fitted up with a magic lantern, for the pur-pose of exhibiting circulating Decimals in the actof circulation. E. A narrow strip of ground, railed off andcarefully leveled, for testing practically whether Parallel Lines meet or not:for this purpose it should reach, to use the expres-sive language of Euclid, ever so far. But it is as Lewis Carroll that the manbecomes most interesting. This name is merelya part of his real name made over.and turnedaround. Write Lutwidge in Latin and it is Lu-dovicus. Change it back into English and itbecomes Lewis. Likewise Charles- -Carolus-—Carroll. This name he kept always for childrenand never allowed it to be confused with thename of the man who wrote about mathemat-ics. So particular was he in this matter thatwhen people wrote to Mr. Dodgson about Alices11 V d «  $ -2 r< V. ,« o tf 5 13 r-3 •3 3 d o <js^ V •3 3 K, ^ M V ^. i 9 S cfl Q
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§ K^V •5! v. 2 a I 182 A Biographical Sketch Adventures in Wonderland, he would reply that thebook was written by a man called Lewis Carroll.He kept a large corner of his heart for children,and much of his time was devoted to them. Hewas very fond of inventing puzzles, and wentabout with his pockets full of them and of littlegames. Whenever he traveled he made friendswith children, entertaining them with these treas-ures, but he never tld who he was, and they wereoften astonished afterwards to discover that theirplayfellow was such a noted man. Little girls pleased him most, and they werefrequently entertained b« »th in his beautifulrooms at Christ Church and at Eastbourne, wherehe spent his summers by the sea. While with him the young guests hadto live very systematic-ally ~g° t-° 1JL(1 early,eat proper food, and ex-ercise regularly. I.ut l-rom a drawing by UT.-IS Can . tllCSC tilings had tllcir compensations. His rooms were a treasure-house of delights for chil-dren.

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