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...They very soon came upon a Gryphon . . . (If you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture)." - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Manhattan collectors last week came upon Lewis Carroll's fantastic Gryphon in all his original scaly glory. Up at auction was the largest group in the U.S. of the great Sir John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice, Through the Looking-Glass and other drawings (collection of the late Bronson Winthrop, onetime law partner of War Secretary Henry L. Stim-son). The Gryphon, as well as the King and Queen of Hearts...
...latter having the "conceit taken out of him" in a very ingenious and amusing way. The poems, with which the book is interspersed, are by no means as good as the stories, and they bear, we think, a too loose resemblance to some of those in Through the Looking-glass. Mr. Barlow's French Exercise, too, is very like that of the German Professor in our author's More Happy Thoughts, but, as it is short and funny, the repetition may be excused...