The Hunting of the Snark based on a draft by Lewis Carroll, the Snark was allowed to show up in an illustration by Henry Holiday, where it appeared in a dream of the Barrister. The illustration to the chapter "The Banker's Fate" might contain pictorial references to the etching "The Image Breakers" by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, to William Sidney Mount's painting "The Bone Player" and to a photograph by Benjamin Duchenne used for a drawing in Charles Darwin's "The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals". Upon the printing of the book on 29 March 1876, Carroll gave away eighty signed copies to his
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (poem) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (poem) "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is the Hand That Rules the World" is a poem by William Ross Wallace that praises motherhood as the preeminent force for change in the world. The poem was first published in 1865 under the title "What Rules the World". The refrain of the poem is a commonly quoted phrase. In Thailand, the Thai author pennamed "Nam Obb" () wrote her novel by the translation of "Is the hand that rules the world.", Khe Hatta Khrong Pipop in 1994. The title of the poem was spoken in