Part 5 (2/2)

I a views on the Arctic regions, and, while the information there received is still fresh in ive you some of it

In the first place, you may not know that one of the objects of the Arctic expeditions was to discover ”the intensity of the netic needle” He [the lecturer] did not tell us, however, whether they had succeeded in discovering it, or whether that rather obscure question is still doubtful One of the explorers, Baffin, ”_though_ he did not suffer all the hardshi+ps the others did, _yet_ he came to an untiions), _for instance_ (what follows being, I suppose, one of the untiuese against the Prussians, while round in front of a fortification, a cannon-ball caainst him, with the force hich cannon-balls in that day _did_ come, and killed him dead on the spot” How many instances of this kind would you demand to prove that he did come to an untimely end? One of the shi+ps was laid up three years in the ice, during which time, he told us, ”Summer came and went frequently” This, I think, was the most reave _ions

On Tuesday I went to a concert at St Leonard's On the front seat sat a youth about twelve years of age, of whom the enclosed is a tolerably accurate sketch He really was, I think, the ugliest boy I ever saish I could get an opportunity of photographing him

[Illustration: Sketch fro note occurs in his Journal for May 6th:--

A Christ Church man, named Wilmot, who is just returned from the West Indies, dined in Hall He told us sos about the insects in South A a cockroach with flashes of light; they were both on the wall, the spider about a yard the highest, and the light was like a gloorm, only that it came by flashes and did not shi+ne continuously; the cockroach gradually crawled up to it, and allowed itself to be taken and killed

A fewMr

Munroe's studio, he found there two of the children of Mr

George Macdonald, whose acquaintance he had already irl and boy, about seven and six years old--I clai to the boy, Greville, that he had better take the opportunity of having his head changed for a marble one The effect was that in about two er, and were earnestly arguing the question as if ere old acquaintances” Mr Dodgson urged that a marble head would not have to be brushed and combed

At this the boy turned to his sister with an air of great relief, saying, ”Do you hear _that_, Mary? It needn't be co, with his great head of long hair, like Hallaument was that a marble head couldn't speak, and as I couldn't convince either that he would be all the better for that, I gave in”

[Illustration: George Macdonald and his daughter Lily

_Froave a lecture at a in?” The proble, may be thus stated: If a man could travel round the world so fast that the sun would be always directly above his head, and if he were to start travelling at midday on Tuesday, then in twenty-four hours he would return to his original point of departure, and would find that the day was now called Wednesday--at what point of his journey would the day change its na this apparently siloom over many a pleasant party

On December 12th he wrote in his Diary:--

Visit of the Queen to Oxford, to the great surprise of everybody, as it had been kept a secret up to the time She arrived in Christ Church about twelve, and caoing on, about a dozenin Hall The party consisted of the Queen, Prince Albert, Princess Alice and her intended husband, the Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and suite They re at the pictures, and the Sub-Dean was presented: they then visited the Cathedral and Library Evening entertainment at the Deanery, _tableaux vivants_ I went a little after half-past eight, and found a great party assembled--the Prince had not yet come He arrived before nine, and I found an opportunity of re General Bruce of his promise to introduce me to the Prince, which he did at the next break in the conversation HRH was holding with Mrs Fellowes He shook hands very graciously, and I began with a sort of apology for having been so i of the weather being against it, and I asked if the Americans had victimised him much as a sitter; he said they had, but he did not think they had succeeded well, and I told hiraphs in an hour

Edith Liddell co by at the moment, I reht make: he assented, and also said, in answer to raphs of theraph, he would at least give raph inI had better bring the talk to an end, I concluded by saying that, if he would like copies of any ofthem; he thanked me for this, and I then drew back, as he did not seem inclined to pursue the conversation

A few days afterwards the Prince gave hiraph (sic)

[Illustration: Mrs Rossetti and her children Dante Gabriel, Christina, and Williaraph by Lewis Carroll_]

CHAPTER III

(1861-1867)

Jowett--Index to ”In Me of ”Alice”--Tenniel--Artistic friends--”Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”--”Bruno's Revenge”--Tour with Dr

Liddon--Cologne--Berlin architecture--The ”Majesty of Justice”--Peterhof--Moscow--A Russian wedding--Nijni--The Troitska Monastery--”Hieroglyphic” writing--Giessen

It is son tell his own story as much as possible In order to effect this object I have drawn largely upon his Diary and correspondence Very few men have left behind them such copious information about their lives as he has; unfortunately it is not equally copious throughout, and this fact y for the somewhat haphazard and disconnected way in which parts of this book are written That it is the best which, under the circu, but the circuh in later years Mr Dodgson al out, at this time of his life he used to do it pretty frequently, and several of the notes in his Diary refer to after-dinner and Co extracts will show the sort of facts he recorded:--

_January 2, 1861_--Mr Grey (Canon) caht He told me a curious old custom of millers, that they place the sails of the mill as a Saint Andrew's Cross ork is entirely suspended, thus x, but in an upright cross, thus +, if they are just going to resume work He also mentioned that he was at school with Dr

Tennyson (father of the poet), and was a great favourite of his He remembers that Tennyson used to do his school-translations in rhyht, and the Hon'ble FJ Parker, both of Boston, US The for seen Oliver Wendell Hol _extempore_ on the head of a freshly killed turtle, whose eyes and jaws still showedall ”cram,” but accepted as sober earnest by the mob outside