One of the outstanding examples of serious argument cast in an amusing style, designed to prove that for elementary geometry a revised Euclid is better than any proposed modern substitute. The form is dramatic: Minos and Rhadamanthus .. sit in judgement on twelve Euclid-wreckers and their manuals, and much fun results, with comic but conclusive discomfitures of all kinds .. This is a most elaborate mathematical work produced by Dodgson, and at the same time a piece of literature.