Aug. 11. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11. 1855. 



COUNTRY DEALERS IN SECOND-HAND BOOKS. 



[We here publish a first list of Dealers in Second-hand 

 Books resident out of the Metropolis. We have thought 

 it better to issue such a list as we have been enabled to 

 collect, imperfect as it must be, partly because the in- 

 formation it contains will be useful as far as it goes, — 

 partly because such publication will no doubt be an effec- 

 tual means of procuring corrections or additions. Those 

 Booksellers who publish Catalogues are distinguished by 

 an asterisk prefixed to their names. We need scarcely 

 add that we shall be glad to receive such Catalogues. — 

 Ed. " N. & Q."] 



Aberdeen. * Alexander Smith, 92. George Street. 

 Bath. Mr. IJayward. 



Messrs. Simms and Co. 

 Berwick. J. Wilson, Hyde Hill. 

 Birmingham. * W. Brough, 22. Paradise Street. 



* J. H. W. Cadby, 83. New Street. 



* Cornish, Brothers, 37. New Street. 



* Wm. Cornish, 108. New Street. 

 M. Forbes, Market Hall. 



g. Harley, 3. Union Passage. 

 . C. Langbridge, U. Bull Street. 



* W. J. Sackelt, 9. Union Passage. 

 J. Weston, 197. Bradford Street. 

 Mrs. Wilks, 119. Gt. Hampton Street. 



Brighton. * G. Gancia, 73. King's Road. 

 Bristol. J. Axtens, 9. Lower Arcade. 



William Coombs, 54. Broad Street. 



* William George, 26. Bath Street. 



T. C. Jefferies, Cannyange House, and also 56. 

 RedclifF Street. 



* T. Kerslake, 3. Park Street. 



* O. Lasburv, 10. Park Street. 



* W. and E. Pickering, 66. Park Street. 

 Thomas Prescott, 9. Bridewell Street. 

 William Quick, 91. Redcliff Street. 

 Samuel Sherring, Upper Arcade. 

 Wm. Hy. Stone. College Street. 



* Wm. Way, 13. John Street. 

 Cambridge. Johnson, Sidney Street. 

 Chester. Messrs. Prichard, Roberts, and Co. 

 Derby. Keene, Irongate. 



Darlington. Sams. 



Dublin. T. Conolly, Upper Ormond Quay. 

 J. Fleming, Eden Quay. 



• C. Hedgelong, 20. and 26. Grafton Street. 

 W. McGee, 18. Nassau Street. 



E. Ponsonby, 116. Grafton Street. 



* W. B. Kelly, 8. Grafton Street. 

 M. Rooney, Anglesea Street. 



Edinburgh. * James Braidwood, 26. George Street. 



* Wm. Ferguson, 7. and 9. Bank Street. 



* James Mcintosh, South College Street. 



* Ogle and Murray, 49. South Bridge. 



* T. G. Stevenson, 87. Princes Street. 



* James Stillie, Princes Street. 

 Exeter. Holden, 60. High Street. 

 Halifax. J. Baildon. 



Hull. * J. M. Stark, 64. Market Place. 



J. W. Leng. 

 Ipswich. Burton. 



Leamington. Mr. Charles Blackburn. 

 Lewes. Mr. James Butland. 

 Lichfield. Mr. Lomax. 

 No. 302.] 



Liverpool. * Edward Howell, Church Street. 



Lincoln. Mr. Brook. 



Manchester. Messrs. Cornish, 33. Piccadilly. 



Messrs. Thompson. 



Mr. Haves, Hunt's Bank, ! 



* John Gray Bell, 11. Oxford Street. 

 Neiocastle-upon- Tyne. * Mr. Emerson Charnley, 5. Bigg 



Market. 

 Mr. Richardson. 

 Norwich. * Jarrold and Sons, London Street. 



* Muskett, Market Place. 

 Paisley. R. Stewart, Cross. 

 Salisbury. * Brown and Co., Canal. 



Beading. Mr. Barcham. ' ' 



Richmond, Surrey. Mr. Hiscocke. ^ 



York. * S. Sampson, 13. Coney Street. ). 



Sunter. , r 



"king LEAR," ACT IV. SC. 1.: " OUR MEANES SE- 

 CURES US," THE READING OP THE FIRST FOLIOS 

 ASSERTED BY REV. W. R. ARROWSMITH. 



" Old Man. Alack, Sir, j'ou cannot see j'our way. 



Glo. I have no wa}', and therefore want no eyes j 

 I stumbled when I saw : Full oft 'tis seen, , 



Our mean secures us ; and our mere defects , 



Prove our commodities." — King Lear, Act IV. So, 1.' 



"Our mean secures us"]; i.e. "moderate, 

 mediocre condition," Warburton. Hanmer writes 

 by an easy change " meanness secures." The ttuo 

 original editions have : " Our meanes secures us." 

 I do not remember that mean is ever used as a 

 substantive for low fortune, which is the sense 

 here required; nor for mediocrity, except in the 

 phrase, the " golden mean." I suspect the pas- 

 sage of corruption, and would either read " our 

 means seduce us," — our powers of body or fortune 

 draw us into evils, — or, "our maims secure us" — 

 that hurt or deprivation which makes us defence- 

 less proves our safeguard. This is very proper 

 in Gloster, newly maimed by the evulsion of 

 his eyes. (Johnson.) There is surely no reason 

 for alteration. Mean is here a substantive, and 

 signifies "a middle state," as Dr. Warburton 

 rightly interprets it. So again, in the Merchant of 

 Venice : " It is no mean happiness therefore to be 

 sealed in the mean." (See more instances in Dr. 

 Johnson's Dictionary ; Steevens ; Johnson and 

 Steevens' edition of Shakspeare in 10 vols., 

 London, 1778, vol. ix. pp. 495-6) 



That a sentence as perspicuous in its diction as 

 philosophical in its purport should have proved a 

 stumbling-block to the perverse subtlety of War- 

 burton, whose welcome task it was to be evermore 

 correcting magnificat — that it should have afforded 

 an easy subject for the unscrupulous surgery of 

 Hanmer — is nothing wonderful ; but that the sound 

 sense of Johnson, and verbal learning of Steevens, 

 should have been baffied by it, is strange indeed. 



These commentators were evidently led astray 

 by a twofold error, — one as to the signification of 

 the word means, the other as to its syntactical 

 usage, and their error is the more inexcusable 



