Quatrefoil

Through the Looking-Glass  and What Alice Found There 鏡の国のアリス

Lewis Carroll

• Chapter I  Looking-glass House 鏡の国の家
• Chapter II  The Garden of Live Flowers お喋りする花の庭
• Chapter III  Looking-glass Insects 鏡の国の虫たち
• Chapter IV  Tweedledum and Tweedledee トゥイードゥルダムとトゥイードゥルディー
• Chapter V  Wool and Water 羊毛と水
• Chapter VI  Humpty Dumpty ハンプティ・ダンプティ
• Chapter VII  The Lion and the Unicorn ライオンとユニコーン
• Chapter VIII  “It's My Own Invention” 「私独自の発明だ」
• Chapter IX  Queen Alice アリス女王
• Chapter X  Shaking 揺さぶると
• Chapter XI  Waking 目覚めると
• Chapter XII  Which Dreamed It? 夢を見たのはどっち？

• *  The Wasp in a Wig カツラをかぶった雀蜂

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

(As arranged before commencement of game)

WHITE			RED
PIECES	PAWNS		PAWNS	PIECES
Tweedledee	Daisy		Daisy	Humpty Dumpty
Unicorn	Haigha		Messenger	Carpenter
Sheep	Oyster		Oyster	Walrus
W. Queen	"Lily"		Tiger-lily	R. Queen
W. King	Fawn		Rose	R. King
Aged man	Oyster		Oyster	Crow
W. Knight	Hatta		Frog	R. Knight
Tweedledum	Daisy		Daisy	Lion

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R E D.

W H I T E.

White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves.

1.	Alice meets R. Q.		1.	R. Q. to K. R's 4th
2.	Alice through Q's 3rd (by railway) to Q's 4th (Tweedledum and Tweedledee)		2.	W. Q. to Q. B's 4th (after shawl)
3.	Alice meets W. Q. (with shawl)		3.	W. Q. to Q. B's 5th (becomes sheep)
4.	Alice to Q's 5th (shop, river, shop)		4.	W. Q. to K. B's 8th (leaves egg on shelf)
5.	Alice to Q's 6th (Humpty Dumpty)		5.	W. Q. to Q. B's 8th (flying from R. Kt.)
6.	Alice to Q's 7th (forest)		6.	R. Kt. to K's 2nd (ch.)
7.	W. Kt. takes R. Kt.		7.	W. Kt. to K. B's 5th
8.	Alice to Q's 8th (coronation)		8.	R. Q. to K's sq. (examination)
9.	Alice becomes Queen		9.	Queens castle
10.	Alice castles (feast)		10.	W. Q. to Q. R's 6th (soup)
11.	Alice takes R. Q. & wins

Preface to the Sixty-first Thousand Edition of Through the Looking-Glass

As the chess problem, given on a previous page, has puzzled some of my readers, it may be well to explain that it is correctly worked out, so far as the moves are concerned.  The alternation of Red and White is perhaps not so strictly observed as it might be, and the “castling” of the three Queens is merely a way of saying that they entered the palace: but the “check” of the White King at move 6, the capture of the Red Knight at move 7, and the final “checkmate” of the Red King, will be found, by any one who will take the trouble to set the pieces and play the moves as directed, to be strictly in accordance with the laws of the game.

The new words, in the poem “Jabberwocky”, have given rise to some differences of opinion as to their pronounciation: so it may be well to give instructions on that point also.  Pronounce “slithy” as if it were the two words “sly, the”: make the ‘g’ hard in “gyre” and “gimble”: and pronounce “rath” to rhyme with “bath.”

For this sixty-first thousand, fresh electrotypes have been taken from the wood-blocks (which, never having been used for printing from, are in as good condition as when first cut in 1871), and the whole book has been set up afresh with new type.  If the artistic qualities of this re-issue fall short, in any particular, of those possessed by the original issue, it will not be for want of painstaking on the part of author, publisher, or printer.

I take this opportunity of announcing that the Nursery “Alice,” hitherto priced at four shillings, net, is now to be had on the same terms as the ordinary shilling picture-books—although I feel sure that it is, in every quality (except the text itself, on which I am not qualified to pronounce), greatly superior to them.  Four shillings was a perfectly reasonable price to charge, considering the very heavy initial outlay I had incurred: still, as the Public have practically said “We will not give more than a shilling for a picture-book, however artistically got-up,” I am content to reckon y outlay on the book as so much dead loss, and, rather than let the little ones, for whom it was written, go without it, I am selling it at a price which is, to me, much the same thing as giving it away.

Christmas, 1896.