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CHARLES LUTWIDGE, an English humorist (better known by his pen-name of Lewis Carroll ); was born in 1832. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, graduated in 1854. He was elected a student of his college, took orders in 1861, and from 1855 to 1881 was mathematical lecturer. Under the name of Lewis Carroll he issued in 1865 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ," which, with its continuation "Through the Looking-Glass" (1872), has become a nursery classic. He also published some poems and parodies entitled "Phantasmagoria" (1869); "Hunting of the Snark" (1876) "Doublets" (1879); "Rhyme? and Reason?" (1883); "Euclid and His Modern Rivals" (1879); "A "Tangled Tale" (1886) ; "Game of Logic" (1887); and "Mathematica Curiosa" (1888), the last a valuable contribution to mathematics. He died Jan. 14, 1898.

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