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St. John Baptist, Watling Street, London, by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. According to Lipscomb's ' History of Bucks,' published in 1847, he held the Bucks livings for two years only, his successor Thomas Smith, B.D., being appointed Vicar of Bierton, &c., in 1827. It does not mention how the living became vacant. The infor- mation in ' The Clerical Guide ' for 1829 was evidently not brought well up to date, although in an advertisement at the begin- ning of the work, dated 23 March, 1829, the proprietors offer their best acknowledgments to the numerous gentlemen who have sup- plied them with information of the changes and alterations that had taken place since the publication of the second edition.

L. EL CHAMBEBS. . Amersham.

SIB WALTER RALEIGH AND TOBACCO (US. ii. 489). See Arber's reprint of King James I.'s ' Counterblaste to Tobacco ' (pp. 81-94), where the whole story of the introduction of tobacco into England is told.

The earliest known authority for the Raleigh story is The British Apollo, in the 43rd number of the first volume of which (published 7 July, 1708) it occurs. The story had previously been told of Tarleton and an anonymous Welshman. In their case the extinguisher employed was water in Raleigh's, ale. The British Mercury intro- duces the story by the statement that Raleigh was the first person who brought tobacco- smoking into use in England, which is not true. The probability is that, so far as he is concerned at any rate, the story is equally untrue. C. C. B.

Small beer was the ingredient employed by Sir Walter Raleigh's servant to extinguish his master's apparently combustible ten- dencies. The story is said to have been a stock jest with Elizabethan and later dra- matists, and appears in various' guises. It is related in Adams's ' Elegant Anecdotes and Bons-Mots,' London, 1790, p. 113.

W. SCOTT.

It is extremely interesting bo find this publi- cation being so pleasantly recalled by many. I have a specially kindly recollection of it in respect that it was the first periodical that, as a small boy, I bought, in 1873, and continued to buy for some years. It was then the Young Folks Budget, and its special charm at that time lay in the ad- ventures of " Tim Pippin " and Princess Primrose, a story written by " Roland Quiz "
 * YOUNG FOLKS' (11 S. ii. 450, 511).

(Richard Quittenton), illustrated with wood- cuts by John Proctor. The periodical is now very difficult to come by, for remark- ably few copies seem to have been preserved. Although I have tried to obtain it, I have been unsuccessful so far, and have had to be content with a reprint, which is different.

R. L. Stevenson's connexion with the periodical was due to the late Alexander H. Japp, and has been set down once for all by Dr. Japp in his ' Robert Louis Stevenson : a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial.' (The writing of the story is told by Steven- son himself in the section * My First Book,' in ' Essays in the Art of Writing.') The story was written by Stevenson while he was resident at The Cottage, Braemar, in 1881. Japp visited him there, and carried off to London a portion of the manuscript of ' The Sea Cook ' (as the story was then named), and showed it to Henderson, proprietor of the Young Folks Budget not the Young Folks Paper, as Japp calls it, unless the name had been changed.

The details of the matter are, of course, too weil known to call for further remark. It may not be so well known, however, that in June, 1910, a polished granite memorial slab was placed on The Cottage, Braemar, bearing the inscription :

" Here K. L. Stevenson spent the summer of 1881, and wrote ' Treasure Island,' his first great work."

The credit of erecting this memorial of a character of which we have so few in this part of the country is due to the Braemar Mutual Improvement Association. The Cottage stands at the south end of what is known as Castleton Terrace, Braemar.

G. M. FBASEB.

Public Library, Aberdeen.

Young Folks Paper, to give it its full name, continued to be published weekly till some time early in 1891, when it changed its appearance and name, and was continued under the title of Old and Young. Old and Young appeared till towards the end of 1896. The last number was dated either 24 or 31 October in that year, its place being taken by Folks at Home, a paper which, under a different guise, contained most of the familiar features of Old and Young. Folks at Home died in the spring of 1897, and had no successor. G. L. APPEBSON.

ITINEBANT TAILOBS (US. ii. 505). I well remember one. of these who, sixty odd years ago, came to " our house," mended up my father's clothes, made two or three " pairs of gaiters," and cut out from cloth bought