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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. IV. SEPT., 1918.

4. ' The Book of British Ballads,' by S. C. Hall.

8 designs to ' King Estmere.' [1846.]

5. ' JSsop's Fables.' 108 illus. 1848. For the

2nd edition the artist retouched many of his designs.

6. ' The Haunted Man,' by Charles Dickens.

6 illus. 1848.

7. Milton's ' L' Allegro," Art Union edition.

Illus. 1848.

8. Punch, Punch's Almanack, Punch's Pocket

Book. From 1850 to 1860 Tenniel did a large amount of excellent humorous work for these ; for the next 40 years he confined his efforts to the cartoons in the first-named. There are well over 2,000 of these.

9. Ornamental title and 3 illus. to ' Master Walter '

in The Illustrated London News Art Supple- ment for Jan. 17, 1852.

10. Byron's ' Childe Harold,' Art Union edition. 2 illus. 1857.

11. ' Poets of the Nineteenth Century.' 4 illus. 1857.

12. 'Poetry of W. C. Bryant.' 3 illua. n.d. [1857].

13. ' The Course of Time,' by Pollok. 10 illug. 1857.

14. ' Barry Cornwall's Poems.' 4 illus. 1857.

15. ' Home Affections of the Poets.' 2 illus.

n.d. [1857].

16. 'Passages from Tom Hood,' by the Junior Etching Club. 1 illus. 1858.

17. ' Lays of the Holy Land.' i illus. 1858.

18. Tupper's ' Proverbial Philosophy.' 17 illus. n.d. [1858].

19. Once a Week, vols. I. to x. 68 cuts, including

40 to Shirley Brooks's novel ' The Silver Cord.' These were never reprinted. 1859-64.

20. ' The Gordian Knot,' by Shirley Brooks. 22 illus. 1860.

21. ' Ballads of Brittany,' by Tom Taylor. 1 illus. which appeared in Once a Week. This also exists in three sizes of enlargement, to illustrate a new process. 1863.

22. ' Ingoldsby Legends,' 27th edition. 31 illus.

1864.

23. ' Arabian Nights,' Dalziel's edition. 7 cuts.

1864.

24. ' English Sacred Poetry of the Olden Times.'

1 illus. 1864.

25. Mrs. Gatty's ' Parables from Nature,' 3rd

Series. 1 illus. 1865.

26. Longfellow's ' Tales of a Wayside Inn.' 3 illus. 1865.

27. ' Poems of E. A. Poe.' 4 illus. to ' The Raven.'

1866.

28. The Mirage of Life ' (by W. Haigh Miller). 29 small illus. 1866.

29. ' Alice in Wonderland,' by Lewis Carroll.

41 illus. 1868.

30. ' Through the Looking-Glass,* by Lewis Carroll. 48 illus. 1872.

31. ' Lalla Rookh,' by T. Moore. 69 illus. 1868.

32. The Grave,' by R. Blair. 4 illus. 1869.

33. 'Puck on Pegasus,' by C. Pennell. 6 illus.

1869.

34. ' Touches of Nature ' (poems). 3 illus. 1869.

35. ' The Trial of Sir Jasper,' by S. C. Hall.

1 illus. 1874.

36. ' Legends and Lyrics,' by A. A. Procter.

2 illus. 1881.

F. C.

" GENERAL DEUX Sous," FOCH'S NICK- NAME, AND WELLINGTON. It may be worth noticing that Marshal Foch's nickname Deux Sous, from his favourite expressions, " Not worth twopence " and " I don't care twopence," links him up with the great Duke of Wellington, whose expression " Not worth a twopenny dam " will be found in vol. i. of the ' Wellington Despatches,' in a letter from the then Col. Wellesley to his brother the Governor-General. The " dam " was a email silver Indian coin, now out of circulation, though the phrase is current in ou^ language. " Not worth a dam," or " I don't- care a dam," would appear to come from this source. The expression is sometimes considered objectionable and spelt "damn," and Lord Beresford, using the expression recently in the Upper House, was received with laughter, the idea evi- dently being that he had brought a naughty swear-word with him from the quarter- deck and exploded it in the House. The Right Hon. G. W. E. Russell in his de- lightful ' Recollections' also " damns " the expression, but I hold unjustly ; for a " damn " hardly denotes what is of little worth or consequence. But I am now eighty years of age, and abroad, and my memory and reference library are both limited. Still, the opinion is advanced that the expression " Not worth a dam," equi- valent to twopence, and akin to " Not worth a rap," a small Swiss coin, also no longer current, is perfectly innocent and proper, and need not shock the susceptibilities of even the most scrupulous and virtuous of old ladies. That, however, some of them are rather particular on the subject appears from a recorded instance of an old lady who declined to sign a contract for the construction of a dam on a watercourse on her estate until the naughty word had been expunged and " weir " substituted !

J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC. Vevey, Switzerland.

[Wellington and " twopenny dam " or " damn " have been discussed several times in ' N. & Q.' See 5 S. xii. 126, 233, 257 ; 7 S. iii. 232, 326, 462 ; iv. 32 ; 8 S. xii. 92 ; 9 S. xi. 425.]

RICHARD MANSFIELD AT WEYBRIDGE. The American actor Richard Mansfield (1854-1907), who is remembered in London by his dual performance of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the Lyceum, and as King Richard III. at the old Globe Theatre (1888-9), came to Weybridge with his wife (Beatrice Cameron) and their son George Gibbs Mansfield in the summer of 1C02,