Word: looking-glass
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...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...