Word: wonderland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given by the English universities, along with their diplomas, to their handsomer graduates, Author Ackerley takes a trip to India to tutor a native Maharajah's son, aged two years. In Chhokrapur (a fictitious name for the Maharajah's State) he finds much that Alice found in Wonderland, a topsy-turvy world with a peculiar logic all its own. Out of jottings in the journal kept during his stay he produces an effervescent book that will aerate many a reader's slough of midsummer despond...
Alice ("in Wonderland") Pleasance...
...comes at last not in the dusty books of cynics, but in things of greater moment. He looks out from the hills and moors of Gloucester, where the waves and the great gulls shoreward go and love and fame to nothingness do sink. Or he turns to a nearer wonderland, to a walled garden where the lilacs, now past their fullest bloom, but lovely still, run in purple and mauve along the quiet walks. A rampart of hills slope toward the sunset, and their sides are covered with the flower called the torch azalea, whose scentless beauty can teach...
...part of the books of Lewis Carroll in the College Library were donated by Mrs. Harcourt Amory after her husband's death in 1926, as a memorial to him. It is one of the best collections in existence and contains two copies of the 1865 edition of "Alice in Wonderland"; the earliest letters written by Lewis Carroll while at school; two of the magazines published at Rugby; and many other rare books and papers...
Harcourt Amory was a diligent collector of the works of Charles L. Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Lewis Carroll", and in addition to his collection of Dodgson's books, constructed a toy theater, in which he used miniatures of the characters in "Alice in Wonderland". Armory cared little for the pamphlets on mathematics and logic, which the versatile Dodgson published, and was, for the most part, concerned with the changing types of illustrations used in the various editions of "Alice...