  (FROM A FAIRY TO A CHILD.) Lady dear, if Fairies may For a moment lay aside Cunning tricks and elfish play, ’Tis at happy Christmas-tide. We have heard the children say— Gentle children, whom we love— Long ago, on Christmas Day, Came a message from above. Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again— Echo still the joyful sound “Peace on earth, good-will to men!” Yet the hearts must childlike be Where such heavenly guests abide: Unto children, in their glee, All the year is Christmas-tide! Thus, forgetting tricks and play For a moment, Lady dear, We would wish you, if we may, Merry Christmas, glad New Year! LEWIS CARROLL WORKS BY LEWIS CARROLL PUBLISHED BY MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. With Forty-two Illustrations by Tenniel. (First published in 1865.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 6s. Eighty-second Thousand. THE SAME; PEOPLE’S EDITION. (First published in 1887.) Crown 8vo, cloth, price 2s. 6d. Fourteenth Thousand. AVENTURES D’ALICE AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES. Traduit de l’Anglais par Henri Bue. Ouvrage illustrÉ de 42 Vignettes par John Tenniel. (First published in 1869.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 6s. Second Thousand. Alice’s Abenteuer im Wundererland. Aus dem Englischen, von Antonie Zimmermann. Mit 42 Illustrationen von John Tenniel. (First published in 1869.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 6s. LE AVVENTURE D’ALICE NEL PAESE DELLE MERAVIGLIE. Tradotte dall’ Inglese da T. PietrocÒla-Rossetti. Con 42 Vignette di Giovanni Tenniel. (First published in 1872.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 6s. ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND. Being a Facsimile of the original MS. Book, which was afterwards developed into “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” With Thirty-seven Illustrations by the Author. (Begun, July, 1862; finished, Feb. 1863; first published, in Facsimile, in 1886.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 4s. Second Thousand. THE NURSERY “ALICE.” Containing Twenty Coloured Enlargements from Tenniel’s Illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” With Text adapted to Nursery Readers by Lewis Carroll. The Cover designed and coloured by E. Gertrude Thomson. (First published in 1889.) 4to, boards, price 3s. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE. With Fifty Illustrations by Tenniel. (First published in 1871.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 6s. Fifty-ninth thousand. THE SAME; PEOPLE’S EDITION. (First published in 1887.) Crown 8vo, cloth, price 2s. 6d. Ninth Thousand. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND: AND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS; PEOPLE’S EDITIONS. Both Books together in One Volume. (First published in 1887.) Crown 8vo, cloth, price 4s. 6d. Second Thousand. THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK. An Agony in Eight Fits. With Nine Illustrations by H. Holiday. (First published in 1876.) Crown 8vo, cloth, large gilt designs on cover, and gilt edges, price 4s. 6d. Eighteenth Thousand. RHYME? AND REASON? With Sixty-five Illustrations by Arthur B. Frost, and Nine by Henry Holiday. (First published in 1883, being a reprint, with a few additions, of the comic portion of “Phantasmagoria and other Poems,” published in 1869, and of “The Hunting of the Snark,” published in 1876.) Crown 8vo, cloth, coloured edges, price 6s. Fourth Thousand. A TANGLED TALE. Reprinted from The Monthly Packet. With Six Illustrations by Arthur B. Frost. (First published in 1885.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 4s. 6d. Third Thousand. THE GAME OF LOGIC. With an Envelope containing a card diagram and nine counters—four red and five grey. (First published in 1886.) Crown 8vo, cloth, price 3s. Second Thousand. N.B.—In selling Mr. Lewis Carroll’s books to the Trade, Messrs. Macmillan & Co. will abate 2d. in the shilling (no odd copies), and allow 5 per cent. discount for payment within six months, and 10 per cent. for cash. In selling them to the Public (for cash only) they will allow 10 per cent. discount. Mr. Lewis Carroll, having been requested to allow “An Easter Greeting” (a leaflet, addressed to children, first published in 1876, and frequently given with his books) to be sold separately, has arranged with Messrs. Harrison, of 59, Pall Mall, who will supply a single copy for 1d., or 12 for 9d., or 100 for 5s. CAUTIONS TO READERS. On August 1st, 1881, a story appeared in Aunt Judy’s Magazine No. 184, entitled “The Land of Idleness, by Lewis Carroll.” This story was really written by a lady, FrÄulein Ida Lackowitz. Acting on her behalf, Mr. Carroll forwarded it to the Editor: and this led to the mistake of naming him as its author. In October, 1887, the writer of an article on “Literature for the Little ones,” in The Nineteenth Century, stated that, in 1864, “Tom Hood was delighting the world with such works as From Nowhere to the North Pole. Between Tom Hood and Mr. Lewis Carroll there is more than a suspicion of resemblance in some particulars. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland narrowly escapes challenging a comparison with From Nowhere to the North Pole. The idea of both is so similar that Mr. Carroll can hardly have been surprised if some people have believed he was inspired by Hood.” The date 1864 is a mistake. From Nowhere to the North Pole was first published in 1874. |
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