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Show Failed to Appreciats "Alice in Wonderland' Alt those who have been fuuious In Imaginative woik for children were children spoilt children themselves, asserts Hurry Kumiss In his book, "Some Victorian Women." Mr. Kuril Kur-il Iss, a famous Punch artist, nays that "Huns Andersen cried at the tub's If he was not beled tirxt, and v. 1:4 not given more Jam on his biviid tii..a , any one el He." Lewis Carroll's childishness was of a different kind; hit was pure lit erury egotism. "It wus his habit to watch the children chil-dren of well-to-do people on II. e sands at Eusthourne and then, wiihmt disclosing dis-closing bis Identity, present thove he admired most with a copy of 'Alice lu Wonderland.' Subsequently lie formally for-mally culled on the parents. Then e.ime the moment at which the Itev. C. i. tiiiitgHiiu Informed the grs'leful parem Hint tin whs 'Lewis t'niroll,' the tiTeet being niiiglcol and t'lir.oll's delight immense. "However, one day, the dlpiilied iady whose little daughter had been the recipient of a beuutifully hound copy of 'Alice, by the strange, un--canny clergyman, remarked: "'Oh, you are the writer of tluwe rubbishy boiils, are you? Well. Perhaps Per-haps you may like to know thnt I threw the book you gave my daughter away I certainly could never dreuiu of her poisoning her mind with such as that!" |