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77 once to one of its compilers, who said that he considered it the most touching compliment which he and his co-laborer had ever received. The book —well thumbed by more than one generation of young students—is still carefully preserved and cherished in a private library in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the name of the boy was John Fiske!

Oxford knew well, and still well remembers, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was Mathematical Lecturer from 1855 until 1881, and his rooms at Christ Church are still pointed out. They were the large suite, in the Tower, on the First Quadrangle, Staircase No. Seven, on the left as one enters the establishment.

He must have been, if all the stories still told about him are true, one of the most eccentric of Eccentrics. He did not care for young men, it seems, but he liked young women, who all liked him; and Oxford is now full of women, mature and immature, who adore the gentle memory of the creator of " Alice." One of them, still a young woman, who was but a baby when "Wonderland" was originally visited, says of him that " he was a man whom one had to read backward." He had to be looked at "As Through a Looking Glass." She describes him as moody, and as a man of strong dislikes. But he liked her; and, hand in hand, on the roofs of the College, she, as a child,