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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,
