Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-04-21

Eeos that cost Lttle, but Is worth
Much.

Eeos that cost little, but Is worth
Much.
Among the things not eener4Hg
Known IS this fact. 1uere is at lhe
present moment, someth ng Ike
si1o, 600 worth Of particular md
OF book floating around America Had
nobody knows where the volumes lie,
nor is IL likely that the present rs
SCISSORS are aware OF the value y
them
The name OF the book is 'sAiite III
Wonderland. - aud this is how Allied
got into Wonderland in the first
pace:
This most popular imaginative
work was written by mathemati-
clan, Of all persons on the earth. AS
everybody knows, his nom de guerre
is Lewis Carol, and as everybody dies
not know his real name is G
l.. podgson. Mr.. Dodgson Is
mathematical tutor in Oxford
aud is l believe, a Christ Church
man. am told that Mr. Dodgson
knows absolutely nothing Of Lewis
Carroll The delightful and charm
| ing writer Lewis Carol, on the other
hand, probably cares very little about
4 tho man of figures in Oxford, They
are the Doctor Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde
! Of literature 10 way, although Of
course neither Carol nor the maths=
matieian are given to the deplorahIe
habits Of Mr.. HYDE. II you W sh to
communicate with the author OF
''Allce in Wonderland you must
write to Mr. Lewis Carol, care Of his
London publishers. Ii you wish to
consult an authority on figures, write
] to MIR, Dodgs0n at oxford, -,
The editor Of a big London Saliy,
ignorant Of the etiquette In these
matters, wrote sir. Dodgson asking
/ HIM to contribute to the big London
weekly The editor was much Of
Tended at the reply he received. He
found that the grave mathematician
knew nothing a.out the frivolous
writings of Lewis Carroll
But all this has no more to do with
the books in America than the writer
OF children's stories has to do with
mathematics.
alice in Wonderland was writ
ten nearly thirty years ago. The au-
thor secured John Tenniel OF Punch,
as illustrator The looks we're
I printed at Oxford. The Oxford press
at that day knew very little about
/ printing wood cuts. When Tenniel
saw the book he was wroth and he
absolutely refused to have a copy
sent out with his name attached to
It, because his Illustrations had been
so badly produced. The Oxford press
was evidently not proud OF the pF8duc.
ton, for its name does not appear on
the volume. The publishers found
themselves with 1000 copies Of a
book by an unknown writer ON their
hands which they dare not circulate
In England. At that day anything
was thought good enough for Amer
lea, so the whole 1000 were dumped
In at New York to be sold for what
they would bring,
They were sold and are now scat
tered all over the land Anyone who
has copy is hereby Informed that it
is worth $50 to-day On the London
market. When the 1000 books were
landed in New York anyone might
have bought the package for about
the price Of the paper and the print
ing II he hal kept them until to-
day he would have made good thing
out of it.
Even the English first edition IS
valuable, It hea the imprint Of
4 Clay Of London, and fetches from ia
% $40 OF course sAlice in Won
derland'' was lsllg.ls mixes s.. tbs
United States. These Suw fork
editions however. are yaiueiess from
the book celle stor's poiatof view.