Rollo in Emblemland

John Kendrick Bangs (1862 1922) was born in Yonkers, New York, and is known for his work as an author, editor, and satirist. He worked for Life, a number of Harper s periodicals, and Puck, perhaps the foremost American humour magazine of its day. Inspired by the fantasy of Lewis Carroll s Alice, Bangs wrote Rollo in Emblemland together with Charles Raymond Macauley in 1902. The story tells of a young boy named Rollo who visits a strange country peopled with symbols and icons emblems of culture like John Bull, Uncle Sam, the Owl, the?Stork, Puck, Mr Punch, Father Time, Cupid, and others. Macauley s line drawings are charming and some of the verse in the book is reminiscent of Carroll s.