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NOTES AND QUERIES. en s. i. JAX. 15, 1910.

Now, if a long and wide experience may be admitted to have value, all these examples misrepresent the colloquial practice of the Scottish Lowlands. The present writer has conversed with old people representative of the two periods to which the episodes of Borrow's fisherman and the Glasgow ironmaster are respectively assigned, and never once detected this solecism in their phraseology. Nor, it need hardly be said, was it ever noticed in the speech of those who were contemporaries of William Morris. A single instance would have clung to the memory, just because of its being unique ; but there is not one to put on record. On the other hand, so far as a fairly close observation has gone, the speaker of " broad Scotch " correctly discriminates in his employment of the various demonstra- tives. If he does not treat them as gram- marians say they ought to be treated, he must be of an uncommonly rude and alto- gether unlettered habit. Daily practice favours the conventional usage. When, for example, a song-writer proclaims, "We'll gang nae mair to yon toon, n he knows that his readers will understand that the town in question is at some distance, and that if they locate it in their interpretation they will be aware that it must be a place which can be reached only after a process of locomotion. It cannot by any possibility be the town on the borders of which they stand while they sing, even as the fisherman stood by the banks of the dividing water which he called " yon river.'* When another lyrist begins with the exclamation, " Yon sun was set," it is just possible to argue that he illustrates the survival of the earlier " thon,' ? which sometimes had little more force than that of the definite article ; but this opens up a question which is outside the present discussion. Burns's practice with regard to " yon " and its associates is that which has prevailed in Scotland during the last hundred years. There is no ambiguity about "yon reverend lad " as sung by Merry Andrew in 'The Jolly Beggars, 1 or "yon birkie ca'd a Lord " in 'A Man 's a Man for a'- That/ and the Scotsman has used the word in the poet's sense ever since these phrases were written. He also recognizes the dis- tinctions observed by the fervent minstrel when he writes in his inimitable ' Mary Morison ? :

Tho' this was fair, an' that was braw, An' yon the toast o' a' the town,

I sigh'd, an' said amang them a', " Ye are na Mary Morison."

THOMAS BAYNE.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHING AND

BOOKSELLING. (See 10 S. i. -81, 142, 184, 242, 304, 342 ;

ii. 11 ; v. 361 ; 11 S. i. 5.) I NOW conclude my list of additions to the articles in the Tenth Series : Fisher (Thomas). The Present Circumstances of Literary Property in England Considered. London, 1813.

Mr. Fisher protested against the Act of Parliament which required eleven copies of all new books to be pre- sented to Public Libraries. This was reduced to rive copies by the Copyright Act of 1842.

The eleven copies were claimed by the following libraries : British Museum ; Zion College ; The Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Perth ; The Advocates' Library, Edinburgh; Trinity College, Dublin ? King's Inn, Dublin. See Quarterly Revie^u, No. 41, May, 1819, on the subject of the compulsory eleven copies, with list of pamphlets, &c. Francis, John Collins. Notes by the Way.

Post 4to, London, 1909.

Chap. xiii. contains notes on various publishing houses, Trade Dinners, &c.

Gardiner, William Nelson, Bookseller, Pall Mall d. 1814. ' A Brief Memoir of Himself,' Gentleman's Magazine, vol. Ixxxiv. pp. 622-3. He was an eccentric man, with a considerable know- ledge of books, and a spirited engraver. He committed suicide, leaving behind him a letter to a friend ending : " I die in the principles I have published a sound Whig." With the letter was enclosed the ' Memoir of Himself,' printed in The Gentleman's Magazine, .Tune, 1814. Glasgow. Some Notes on the Early Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers of Glasgow. See ' Book- Auction Records,' edited by Frank Karslake, vol. v. part 3, April June, 1908.

Gray, G. J. William Pickering, the Earliest Bookseller on London Bridge, 1556-1571. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, vol. iv., 1898, pp. 57 to 102.

The Booksellers of London Bridge and their Dwellings. 6 S. vii. 461 (16 June, 1883). Index to W. C. Hazlitt's Bibliographical Collections and Notes, 1893.

The Earlier Stationers and Bookbinders and the First Printer of Cambridge. Biblio- graphical Society Monographs, No. XII., 1904.

Hill, Joseph. The Book-Makers of Old Bir- mingham : Authors, Printers, and Book- sellers. With Illustrations. 8vo, Birming- ham, 1908.

Hodgson & Co. A Century of Book-Auctions, being a Brief Record of the Firm of Hodgson & Co. (115, Chancery Lane). London, 1907. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, U.S. A Portrait Catalogue of the Books published by Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co., with a Sketch of the Firm, Brief Descriptions of the Various Depart- ments, and some Account of the Origin and , Character of the Literary Enterprises Under- taken. Boston, U.S., 1905-6. Jaggard, William. Shakespeare's Publishers : Notes on the Tudor-Stuart Period of the Jaggard Press. Liverpool, 1907.

Lists of omissions from ' D.N.B.,' contain- ing a considerable number of booksellers. See 10 S. ix. 21, 83 ; x. 183, 282 ; xii. 24, 124 262.