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 12 s. vii. AUG. 14, i92o.] NOTES AND QUERIES. neighbours, and used to be worried by the The following stories deal chiefly with the small boys who called after her when they Crimean War : saw her. Possibly some of your readers may have lieard of the case and may be able to give a more accurate version than the above. J. C. D.0 Besant (Sir Walter): 'By Celia's Arbour.' A. story of Portsmouth and the Crimea. Griffiths (Major A.j : 'The Thin Bed Line.' Oxenham (John): 'The Coil of Came.' Battles' of the Alma, Balaclava, Inkermann, and the siege of Sevastopol. Tolstoy (L.): 'Sevastopol.' Grant ( J.) : ' Lady Wedderburn's Wish : a Tale of the Crimean War.' ARCHIBALD SPARKE. Hearths and Watch-fires : a Tale of the Crimean War.' By Colonel George Hatton Colomb (George Boutledge & Sons, London; 1877. Crown 8vo., pp. iv.-378). I observe at the last reference that W. Newick states that " they tried to hang John Lee (1885), twice and not three times as stated." It would be interest- ing to learn on what authority Mr. Newick Ibases this assertion. Every account that InSthevTl, ^sSrS 1 ^ were I " ** published as a serial but in .and what he endured on each of them. 1 1 $* Crlmea m the tltle of the edltlon of think Mr. Newick must be mistaken. WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. TDTIA (12 S. vii. 92, sub Master Gunner). I cannot assert that this term was never applied to "a powder from a dried herb " (ante, p. 92), but it is certainly the Latin tform of the English word tutty, an oxide of zinc formerly used for ointments and lotions, <and now as a well-known polishing powder. See ' N.E.D.' under " Tutty," sb.l. " Tutty," 1862. I have a copy of the 1877 edition, which I shall be glad to give the inquirer if he cares to have it,, .. ... J. H. LESLIE, Lieut. -Col. Gunnersholme, Melbourne Avenue, Sheffield. The Crimean W T ar figures in a novel ' The Young Stepmother,' by Charlotte Yonge published by Macmillan & Co., 1864. ' c. B. E. ?;;; [Mr. A. H. ARKLE, who mentions 'A gallant ' sb. 2 is there given as a dialect word for a Grenadier,' also thanked for reply.] nosegay. Winterton, Lines. J. T. F. charge, as private in a hussar regiment. C. L. S. THE PALACE OF THE SAVOY (12 S. vii. 45, ' 97). The following matter relating to the , CRIMEAN WAR IN FICTION (12 S. vii. 90). I Savoy has long baffled me : perhaps one 'of The hero of Henry Kingsley's novel, your readers may help to solve the problem. 'Ravenshoe,' takes part in the Balaclava On Au 8- 30 > 1721 Dr - Alexander Stuart, one 1 of the physicians to the Westminster In- firmary, procured for the Governors of that institution copies of certain records in the Richard Dehan (pseudonym): 'Between Two I Tower relating to the Savoy Hospital, and Thieves.' A modern novel published about | was desired to get others, among which was a copy of the will of Henry VIII. No Miss Thackeray (Lady Ritchie) : ' Old Kensing- I further mention of the matter appears in ton ' (date unknown to me). London at the the West minster Minutes, but on Julv 18, 4-iwv*j-h s*. 4-K n O C-**. >T1T, 3 A v* <** MM ,* +-.,^,^,,,. I * ' 1735, Mr. Thomas Lowndes made a proposal to the Governors of St. George's, which Hospital had been evolved by the secession of certain of the Westminster subscribers, to There is a novel entitled ' One of the Six I add 900?. and upwards per annum to the Hundred,' by James Grant (author of ' The revenue, in return for a sum of six hundred Romance of War ') describing the battles guineas and a salary for collecting the said mentioned by your correspondent, especially revenue. As showing that the proposal was ithe battle of Balaclava, in great detail.-"* seriously considered by the Governors, a ' H. ~] committee was appointed to treat with him ; Wandsworth. I and three months later his proposal was time of the Crimean War, departure of troops, mews of losses &c. M. H. DODDS. Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.