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ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND, by the Rev. C. L. Dodgson. The Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Dormouse and Ugly Duchess may be absent in the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but this charming facsimile of the preliminary manuscript is laced with Dodgson's (nom de plume: Lewis Carroll) own penmanship and fanciful, spidery sketches of White Rabbit, Mock Turtle and Alice as he first conceived them...
ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND, by the Rev. C. L. Dodgson. The Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Dormouse and Ugly Duchess may be absent in the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but this charming facsimile of the preliminary manuscript is laced with Dodgson's (nom de plume: Lewis Carroll) own penmanship and fanciful, spidery sketches of White Rabbit, Mock Turtle and Alice as he first conceived them...
...turns out, is something more than a literary curiosity. It is only half as long as the Alice everybody knows; the White Rabbit, the Mock Turtle, Father William and the Queen of Hearts are all there, but the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse, the Cheshire Cat and the Ugly Duchess are still swimming undiscovered in Dodgson's inkwell. The earlier Alice, however, is much more than half as interesting; though it lacks the rococo richness of the final version, it has a primitive charm and artless appeal that make it, on the whole, rather the better...
...meaning to show off a bit-explained French Perfume Queen Hélène Rochas after her My Fair Lady ball in the Bois de Boulogne. A bit! Mme. Rochas herself wore $250,000 worth of diamonds to decorate her egret-plumed Guy Laroche gown. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Begum Aga Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford and all the other jet-set guests showed up in ascots, ostrich feathers and grey top hats. "There was not an egret plume or a false moustache to be had in Paris that evening," purred Mme. Rochas happily...
...LAST GRAND DUCHESS by Ian Vorres. 264 pages. Scr/bner...