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Reichertz (McGill Univ.) provides 75 pages of text surveying the background of the Alice books and 148 pages of appendixes reprinting 34 examples. Chapter 2 suggests some specific indebtedness (e.g., the garden of live flowers in Through the Looking-Glass to Ann Taylor's The Wedding among the Flowers, 1808). Subsequent chapters investigate Carroll's religious, moral, and informational didacticism (Alice's recitations of multiplication tables and geography); the motif of the world turned upside down (Reichertz argues that Alice fell through the world as illustrated in such works as Ann Taylor's Signor Topsy-Turvy's Wonderful Magic Lantern, 1810); Alice's use of the looking-glass for moral purposes when talking to the black kitten; and the dream-vision topos, used in the literary, not the Freudian, tradition. The appendixes, most of them photographic reproductions of the originals, print short items (e.g., most poems) complete, and excerpts from books. This volume is very valuable for academic collections supporting studies of children's literature, both for Reichertz's survey and for the materials reprinted. An excellent supplement to Carolyn Sigler's post-Alice anthology, Alternative Alices (1997). J. R. Christopher; Tarleton State University