A little while ago someone posted an enquiry to the list regarding the origin of a quotation along the lines of trying to choose a birthday present for someone and rejecting the idea of a book as the recipient 'already had a book'. I never saw anyone identify it at the time, however Lucinda Lampton referred to it on television the other night as being a 19th century Punch cartoon. Does this help? ***** Message Was Scanned For Viruses ***** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%