Part 7 (1/2)

In 1867 he contributed a story to _Aunt Judy's Magazine_ called ”Bruno's Revenge,” the charrew The creation of Bruno was the only act of hoe Lewis Carroll ever paid to boy-nature, for which, as a rule, he professed an aversion al to terror Nevertheless, on the few occasions on which I have seen hihly at his ease, telling theive an extract fro the receipt of ”Bruno's Revenge” for her azine:--

I need hardly tell you that the story is _delicious_

It is beautiful and fantastic and childlike, and I cannot sufficiently thank you I am so _proud_ for _Aunt Judy_ that you have honoured _her_ by sending it here, rather than to the _Cornhill_, or one of the grander Magazines

To-morrow I shall send the Manuscript to London probably; to-day I keep it to enjoy a little further, and that the young ladies may do so too One word reat mathematical abilities, but so have hundreds of others This talent is peculiarly your own, and as an English it

If you covet faained by this Soht nothing short of intercourse with fairies could have put them into your head

Somewhere about this time he was invited to witness a rehearsal of a children's play at a London theatre As he sat in the wings, chatting to the irl, one of the perfor to him She was very anxious to be allowed to play the principal part (Mrs Mite), which had been assigned to soht act Mrs Mite,” she said; ”I know all her part, and I'd get an _encore_ for every word”

During the year he published his book on ”Deterard mathematics as the driest of dry subjects, and mathematicians as necessarily devoid of humour, it seems scarcely credible that ”An Elementary Treatise on Determinants,” and ”Alice in Wonderland” ritten by the saraduate who heard for the first tison of Christ Church and Lewis Carroll were identical

The book in question, ade sale The nature of the subject would be against it, as ood a place as possible in the class lists cannot afford the luxury of a separate work, and have to be content with the few chapters devoted to ”Deterebra or the Theory of Equations, suppleson's hich can be found in the College libraries

The general acceptance of the book would be rather restricted by the employment of neords and symbols, which, as the author himself felt, ”are always a most unwelcome addition to a science already burdened with an enorinal, and its arrangement and style are, perhaps, as attractive as the nature of the subject will allow Such a book as this has little interest for the general reader, yet, ast the leisured feho are able to read mathematics for their own sake, the treatise has found warm admirers

In the Summer Vacation of 1867 he went for a tour on the Continent, acco been one of histhe whole of this tour Mr Dodgson kept a diary, more with the idea that it would help him afterwards to remember what he had seen than with any notion of publication However, in later years it did occur to hiht be interested in his ih he never actually took any steps towards putting them before the public Perhaps he ise, for a traveller's diary always contains uide-book In the extracts which I reproduce here, I hope that I have not retained anything which coory

[Illustration: Dr Liddon _Froraph by Lewis Carroll_]

_July 12th_--The Sultan and I arrived in London almost at the sa Paddington, and _his_ Charing Cross I reatest at the latter place

Mr Dodgson and Dr Liddon ht at one of the hotels there:--

_July 13th_--We breakfasted, as agreed, at eight, or at least we then sat down and nibbled bread and butter till such tireat event took place about half past We tried pathetic appeals to the wandering waiters, who told us, ”They are co tone, and we tried stern re, sir,” in a more injured tone; and after all such appeals they retired into their dens, and hid themselves behind side-boards and dish-covers, and still the chops careed that of all virtues a waiter can display, that of a retiring disposition is quite the least desirable

The pen refuses to describe the sufferings of so our smooth trip of ninety minutes: my own sensations were those of extre no other sensations--it was not for _that_ I paid my money

We landed at Calais in the usual swar services and advice of all kinds; to all such remarks I returned one simple answer, _Non!_ It was probably not strictly applicable in all cases, but it answered the purpose of getting rid of the the _Non_! in various tones, but all expressive of disgust

At Cologne began that feast of beautiful things which his artistic teh the churches he visited and the cereious systeenerosity of his mind always led him to insist upon that substratum of true devotion--to use a favourite word of his--which underlies all forms of Christianity

We spent an hour in the cathedral, which I will not atte it was the ine If one could iine the spirit of devotion e

In spite of all the wealth of words that has been expended upon Ger new to say on this most fertile subject:--

The aion of Potsdam is marvellous; some of the tops of the palaces were like forests of statues, and they were all over the gardens, set on pedestals In fact, the two principles of Berlin architecture appear to me to be these On the house-tops, wherever there is a convenient place, put up the figure of aWherever there is rooroup of busts on pedestals, in consultation, all looking inwards--or else the colossal figure of akilled (the present tense is preferred) a beast; the on is the correct thing, but if that is beyond the artist, heprinciple has been carried out everywhere with a relentless monotony, which hter-house

He never n drama, which was most praiseworthy, as he knew very little Ger] was a green parrot on a stand; we addressed it as ”Pretty Poll,” and it put its head on one side and thought about it, but wouldn't commit itself to any statement The waiter came up to inforlisch; er spricht nicht Deutsch” It appeared that the unfortunate bird could speak nothing but Mexican! Not knowing a word of that language, we could only pity it

_July 23rd_--We strolled about and bought a few photographs, and at 1139 left for Konigsberg On our way to the station we carandest instance of the ”Majesty of Justice” that I have ever witnessed A little boy was being taken to thea pocket) The achievement of this feat had been entrusted to two soldiers in full unifor, one in front of the poor little urchin and one behind, with bayonets fixed, of course, to be ready to charge in case he should atte I visited the theatre at Konigsberg, which was fairly good in every way, and very good in the singing and so The play was ”Anno 66,” but I could only catch a feords here and there, so have very little idea of the plot One of the characters was a correspondent of an English newspaper This singular being came on in the midst of a soldiers' bivouac before Sadowa, dressed very nearly in white--a very long frock-coat, and a tall hat on the back of his head, both nearly white He said ”Morning” as a general remark, when he first came on, but afterwards talked what I suppose was broken Gerarded as a butt by the soldiers, and ended his career by falling into a dru the travellers went on to St Petersburg, where they stayed several days, exploring the wonderful city and its environs:--

There is a fine equestrian statue of Peter the Great near the Admiralty The lower part is not a pedestal, but left shapeless and rough like a real rock The horse is rearing, and has a serpent coiled about its hind feet, on which, I think, it is treading If this had been put up in Berlin, Peter would no doubt have been actively engaged in killing the monster, but here he takes no notice of it; in fact, the killing theory is not recognised We found two colossal figures of lions, which are so painfully reat ball about like a kitten