The squirrel at his morning meal You see him through its ribs of green: These cocoa trees-not fair in woods, Ceylon Ceylon! 'tis naught to me By Hebrew king, or Grecian bold; I follow Sinbad on the shore. Yet these, the least of all thy wealth, Were India not where I must wend, 6 a little north of the port (see the Imp. Gaz. of India,' xiii.). Dapoli town is about five miles from the sea. In 1818 it was constituted the military station of the Southern Konkan. In 1840 the regular troops were withdrawn, but a veteran battalion was retained till 1857 " (ibid., xi.). Mrs. Fletcher's first impressions of India -both of Bombay, which was left in a native boat on 27 March, and of Suwarndrug -were most unfavourable, according to the extracts from her diary printed by Mr. Espinasse; but after a couple of months she seems to have become more reconciled to her lot, and to have ceased spending her time, as she quaintly puts it, "in conjugating the verb I hate India,' in every mood, form, tense, and person.' But just as Mrs. Fletcher had become accustomed to barren and desolate Karnai (she had never visited Dapoli), her husband was ordered to Sholapur ; and off the couple set, climbing the steep ascent to Mahābleshwar, where they were at the beginning of May, and descending on the other side of the ghat to Sātāra, which was reached on the 6th of the same month. Here the Fletchers rested a month, and then resumed their journey, along the road that runs almost due west and east between Sātāra and Sholapur. "On the 10th of June," says Mr. Espinasse, "the travellers were at Mussoor-Pelonne' (?) where the Journal contains the ominous jotting:- ‘I had an attack of semi-semi-cholera, only demi-semi.'” Mussoor-Pelonne " looks like a combination of the names of the two towns Mhaswad and Piliw (or perhaps Bhalawani), which would be traversed on the way to Sholapur. 66 The Fletchers reached their destination on 17 June, to find drought-famine sweeping off the natives"; and after a terrible period of three months the unfortunate couple were once more on the march, Mr. Fletcher having broken down in health, and been allowed, under medical certificate, to return to Karnai. But Mrs. Fletcher, at any rate, was fated never again to see that place of tombs. reaching which town the travellers appear to have struck off to join the direct road from Sholapur to Poona. Mrs. Fletcher records that they had left Sholapur at 1 o'clock that morning, and that they had 40 miles more to do before 10 that night; so that, apparently, the town where they were to make their next halt was Indapur, which is about the distance named from Ahirbabulgaon, and about 80 miles by that road from Sholapur. From Indapur to Poona the distance is 84 miles; and as Mrs. Fletcher says we go Dak (having Hamals posted, so as to proceed without stopping)," it is probable that the travellers reached Poona late at night on 27 September. Mrs. Fletcher had noted in her diary "I enjoy this rough marching"; but the fatigue of the forced march was evidently too great for her enfeebled body, and within a few days-on 4 Oct., 1833-she died, of cholera, at Poona, and there was buried. a 66 I have searched the pages of The Colombo Journal in vain for any reference to the death of the gifted woman whose glowing lines recording the impressions of her too brief sojourn in Ceylon had appeared only a few weeks earlier in the columns of that paper; not even among the extracts of Indian news is the sad event recorded. As The Colombo Journal was almost as much a magazine of literature as a newspaper, this silence is to me incomprehensible. 66 DONALD FERGUSON. 66 22 "YON": ITS USE BY SCOTSMEN. AMONG English men of letters there seems to be a persistent impression that Scotsmen say yon" when they would more accurately express their meaning by using this or "that." In the sixth chapter of Lavengro Borrow is prompted to illustrate what is supposed to be the national practice the moment he is able to look over the Tweed into Scotland. He assumes that a Northumberland fisherman will speak after the manner of his neighbours in Berwickshire, and in reporting an interview with such an eidolon for interlocutor he manages the Lowland Scotch fairly well. He describes himself as being "extended on the bank of a river," to which he pays a graceful and eloquent tribute, and he adds that several robust fellows were near him, "some knee-deep in water, employed in hauling the seine upon the strand." Everything shows that the river was at hand, and to be alluded to, therefore, in terms of its close proximity, and yet the writer makes his fisherman say, when telling him its name, "Yon river is called the Tweed; and yonder, over the brig, is Scotland." A second standard example of the same curious notion regarding Scottish phraseology occurs in a familiar story of the late Alexander Baird, a member of a famous stock of Glasgow ironmasters. According to the legend, Mr. Baird once visited Egypt with some friends, and was characteristically amazed at the wasteful extravagance that must have gone towards the making of the Pyramids. The popular version of the story may be inaccurate, but it is not without point and a measure of verisimilitude. In presence of one of the portentous monuments, the ironmaster, with his keen sense of values, is said to have summarized his view of an ancient speculator in the withering exclamation, Whatna fule sank his money in yon? So far as one's recollection of the narrative goes, this appeal was made while the practical critic and his friends were at the base of the venerable structure, and not after they were holding a discussion over their experiences in their hotel or in the course of their homeward journey. 66 66 66 One of the most recent illustrations of the assumption that " yon" is the provincial Scotsman's regular demonstrative occurs in the prefatory note to Mr. Noyes's monograph on William Morris in the “ English Men of Letters." When Morris, according to Mr. Noyes, was once in Scotland, he was taken by a clergyman to see his church, and immediately arrested the attention of an observer with a quick eye for personal distinction. The verger saw the poet, and instantly perceived that he was in the presence of one who was not an ordeenary 22 man. Naturally, he was eager for information, and, plucking his minister violently by the sleeve, kept vehemently asking, Wha's yon? Wha's yon??? The three, we may presume, were close together, Morris perhaps being a few steps in front and just beyond earshot, when the ardent Scotsman thus darted gratuitous queries at his ecclesiastical superior. We are, indeed, explicitly informed that the alert official started the cry just as Morris entered his church.' Thus no room is left for doubting as to the significance intended to be attached to the man's use of the pronominal term. Plainly he said 'yon," and not that,' because he was a Scotsman regarding whom an Englishman was able to tell a diverting story. 66 22 66 66 46 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. which required eleven copies of all new books to be preMr. Fisher protested against the Act of Parliament sented to Public Libraries. This was reduced to five copies by the Copyright Act of 1842. Now, if a long and wide experience may BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHING AND be admitted to have value, all these examples BOOKSELLING. misrepresent the colloquial practice of the Scottish Lowlands. The present writer has (See 10 S. i. 81, 142, 184, 242, 304, 342; 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 demonstratives. If he does not treat them as grammarians say they ought to be treated, he must be of an uncommonly rude and altogether unlettered habit. Daily practice favours the conventional usage. When, for example, a song-writer proclaims, "We'll gang nae mair to yon toon," he knows that his readers will understand that the town 22 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 66 22 yon" and its associates is that which has Tho' this was fair, an' that was braw, sigh'd, an' said amang them a', Ye are na Mary Morison." Mary THOMAS BAYNE. The The eleven copies were claimed by the following libraries: Post 4to, London, 1909. Chap. xiii. contains notes on various publishing houses, printed in The Gentleman's Magazine, June, 1814. 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.—Bibliographical Society Monographs, No. XII., 1904. Hill, Joseph.-The Book-Makers of Old Birmingham: Authors, Printers, and Booksellers. With Illustrations. 8vo, Birmingham, 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 Houghton, Mifflin & Co., with a Sketch of the Firm, Brief Descriptions of the Various Departments, and some Account of the Origin and Character of the Literary Enterprises Undertaken. Boston, U.S., 1905-6. Jaggard, William. - Shakespeare's Publishers : Lists of omissions from D.N.B.,' containing a considerable number of booksellers. See 10 S. ix. 21, 83; x. 183, 282; xii. 24, 124 262. Junk (W.), Internationales Adressbuch der Antiquar-Buchhändler. With Portrait and Memoir of Bernard Quaritch. Berlin, 1906. King, Philip Stephen, 1819-1908.-Reminiscences of an Octogenarian. Privately Printed. 1905. Mr. King was the founder of the well-known firm of Parliamentary publishers and booksellers. These reminiscences, however, only relate to Mr. King's life up to the time of his commencing business for himself in 1853. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873.-Charles Knight, This contained the succession of partners and imprints of the firm from 1724, and was reprinted at 10 S. xi. 2. Miller, George, bookseller of Dunbar, 1770-1835, and John Miller, printer and publisher, 1778-1852, Bibliography of. See articles by T. F. U(nwin) at 10 S. xii. 1, 42, 374. Morgan, R. C., his Life and Times. By his son George E. Morgan. 8vo, London, 1909. Founder of the firm of Morgan & Chase, afterwards Morgan & Scott. Munsey, Frank A.-The Founding of the Munsey Publishing House. A Quarter of a Century Old. New York, 1907. Murray, House of.-Murray v. The Times. See The Times Book Club. Newbery, John, 1713-67.-See Austin Dobson's Eighteenth Century Vignettes,' First Series (art. 'An Old London Bookseller '). London, 1906. Newbery was said to be the original of Johnson's "Jack Whirler" in The Idler, No. 19. (?) Page, Walter H.-A Publisher's Confessions. Crown 8vo, New York, 1905. Ten chapters on 'The Ruinous Policy of Large Royalties, Has Publishing become Commercialized?' The Advertising of Books," &c. Payne, Thomas, "At the Mews-Gate."-See 10 S. vii. 409, 492; Mathias's Pursuits of Literature'; Gentleman's Magazine, vol. Ixix. pp. 171-2; D.N.B.,' art. by W. P. Courtney; and Austin Dobson's Eighteenth Century Vignettes,' Second Series, art. The Two Paynes.' Pitman, Sir Isaac, The Life of.-By Alfred Baker. With 50 Illustrations. 8vo, London, 1908. percent Two papers which were intended to appear in a magazineor review. but which, from the nature of the assertions made as to certain publishing methods, were refused insertion. It is interesting to note that Mr. Spedding suggests that the system of paying authors by means of a age npon the retail price of the volume sold" should be more generally adopted. This system of "royalties" was a that it was introduced to his notice by Mr. H. O. Houghton, novelty in England when Mr. Spedding wrote. He says of Messrs. Hurd & Houghton, of New York. Stationers' Company, The.-A Paper read at Stationers' Hall, 27th March, 1906. By Charles Robert Rivington. 8vo, London, 1906. Suttaby, The Firm of, 1801-90. See The Bookseller, 5 July, 1890. Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846.-Memoir of the late Thomas Tegg. Abridged from his Autobiography by permission of his son, William Tegg. By Aleph (i.e., Dr. Harvey of Lonsdale Square). From The City Press of August 6, 1870. Printed for Private Circulation. a Thin, James.-Reminiscences of Booksellers and Bookselling in Edinburgh in the Time of William IV. An Address delivered to a Meeting of Booksellers' Assistants....EdinWith October, 1904. burgh, Portrait of James Thin. Privately Printed. Post. 4to, Edinburgh, 1905. Thomason, George, Bookseller, The Rose and Crown, St. Paul's Churchyard, c. 1602–66.— Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and MSS. relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, 16401661, now in the British Museum, and known as the Thomason Tracts.' 2 vols.. Royal 8vo, London, 1908. and A life of George Thomason, by G. K. Fortescue, is prefixed to the Catalogue. Times, The, the Publishers. Privately Printed for the Publishers' Association. London, 1906. Times, The, Book Club.-See The Trust Movement in British Industry,' by H. W. Macrosty, pp. 276-83. London, 1907. Times, The, Book Club, and Publishers' Association and the Associated Booksellers.-See The Times, and other daily and weekly papers, 1906-8; Publisher and Bookseller, 1906-8; Bookseller, 1906-8; Publishers' Circular, 1906-8; and' Murray, John and A. H. Hallam, v. Walter and others,' Privately merchant, whose son Godfrey, a barrister Walch's Literary Intelligencer, Jubilee Number, Major J. W. H. Walch in 1842 and of its subsequent history. This book was announced as in preparation in March, 1908, just after Mr. Westell's death. New York, 1904. an index to those whose names occur in the 1906. .... Dobell, Bertram, Bookseller and Man of Letters. Various letters from Daniel Stuart, of The Morning Post, with reference to a dispute between the publishers and himself as to the high charges made for advertisements, and to the refusal of the publishers to be relegated to the back page of the paper. "To obtain the accommodation refused by The Morning Post they set up a morning paper, The British Press; and to oppose The Courier an evening one, The Globe." These letters also contain very interesting details about Coleridge. His connexion with The Morning Post was said "to have raised that paper from some small number to 7,000 in one year." WM. H. PEET. GODFREY SYKES.-The kindly mention of the designer of the Cornhill cover (10 S. xii. 481) may make some further notice of him acceptable. Hr properly finds a place in Mr. Boase's wonderfully useful book, "Modern English Biography,' iii. 852. George Sykes above named became a Wesleyan, and afterwards a Congregational minister, and made sufficient mark to cause his Life' to be published, and his portrait twice engraved Memoir of the Life, Ministry, and Correspondence of the late Rev. George Sykes,' by W. Greenwood, printed at Malton in 1827. He married Mary, daughter of Matthew Glenton, Esq., of Boroughbridge, and by her had a son George Sykes, born in 1801, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Jagger. Godfrey Sykes, the artist, was their first child, and was born 3 Dec., 1824. In early life he worked with Messrs. Bell & Tompkins, engravers, at Sheffield, and afterwards was an engraver there on his own account. In September, 1860, he married Ellen Palfreyman, and had two sons: Godfrey, born in May, 1861, and Stanley in April, 1864. After his death, 28 Feb., 1866, a collection of his works was exhibited at the South Kensington Museum, and noticed in The Athenæum, 18 Aug., 1866. W. C. B. Magazine can be seen at the new South Kensington [The original design of the cover of The Cornhill Museum, in a glass case. The drawing is on paper, bearing the late Mr. George Smith's crest.] SOWING BY HAND. (See 10 S. xii. 482.)— Both the critic who objected to the design of the sower on the cover of The Cornhill, and Mr. Smith in defending it, were wrong, so far as my observation goes, and I have been familiar with the process for the greater part of my life. In sowing by hand-or broadcast," as it is usually called-the sower walks along the ridge of the land" to be sown, and scatters the seed to left and right of him, using both hands alternately. He does not sow one side of the land first with his right hand, and afterwards the other side with his left. The case Mr. Smith saw is without parallel in my experience; but that method may of course be followed in some places. C. C. B. His earliest recorded ancestor is John 'A LAD OF THE O'FRIELS.'-This is the Sykes, a mason, of Calver, co. Derby, whose title of a well-known book by Seumas son Godfrey had a grandson George, born MacManus. The surname O'Friel is known in Sheffield in 1761. Godfrey was a favourite to me only from its pages, so I presume this Christian name in the family. This George orthography was coined by the author. Sykes had a cousin Dennis Sykes, a Sheffield | judge it to be a jocular attempt to represent I |