Books: The Juvenile Carroll

USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE POETRY (45 pp.] —Lewis Carroll—Macmillan ($2.50).

The juvenile Jenkins was jumping with joy, As he sported him over the sandy lea; In his small fat hand there was many a toy And many a cake in his mouth had, he . . .

Some 20 years before he sat on a sunny riverbank spinning the tale of Alice in Wonderland for the benefit of three entranced little girls, the man who became immortal as Lewis Carroll wrote these lines for his brother and sister (aged seven and five)...

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