“Balbus was assisting his mother-in-law to convince the dragon” by A. B. Frost. This illustration comes from Eligible Apartments, the second of Lewis Carroll’s ‘knots’ (mathematical problems which apparently much keener brains than mine consider fun to unravel). These knots (or short stories) form a larger piece entitled A Tangled Tale which was published serially between April 1880Continue reading “Balbus was assisting his mother-in-law to convince the dragon”