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mentioned by MR. YOUNG at 11 S. viii. 441,
had appeared in The Daily Express. I was
in Canada in 1900. whon the stories were
published, and I have recently found in an
old diary, an entry to the effect that the
first instalment of ' With Number Three '
appeared also in The Toronto Globe on
April 21, 1900. J. R. H.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LEPERS IN ENGLAND '(12 S. vi. 150, 195, 218). Although the following list of articles upon Leper Hos- pitals does not profess to be complete, it presents a considerable body of information "which may be of use to your correspondent :
Bartleet (Kov. S. E.) The Leper Hospitals of St.
Margaret and St. Mary Magdalen. Gloucester.
' Bristol & Glouc. Arch. Soc.' xx., pp. 127-
137. 'Taylor (Rev. C. S.) A lease of the Master or
Warden of St. Lawrence Leper Hospital
without Lawfords Gate, Bristol. ' Clifton
Ant. Club,' iii., pp. 25-34.
(Doc (George M.) Some Notes on the Leper Hos- pital, which formerly existed at Taddiport,
Little Torringtoii. ' Devon Assoc.,' xxxii.,
pp. 289-295. .Andrews (R. T.) and Gerish (W. B.) The Leper
Hospital, Hoddesdon. ' East Herts, Arch.
Soc.,' 1. pp. 299-303. Hodson (W. W.) John Colney's or St. Leonard's
Hospital for Lepers at Sudbury. ' Suffolk
Arch. Instit.' vii., pp. 288-274. Fettigrew (T. J.) On Leper Hospitals or houses.
' Brit. Arch. Assoc.,' xi., pp. 9-34 and 95-1 1 7. Lower (M. A.) The Hospital of Lepers at Seaford,
Sussex. ' Arch. Soc. Coll.,' xii., 1 12-116.
Serjeanteon (Rev. R. M.) The Leper Hospitals of
Northampton, ' Northaiits. Nat. His. Soc.,' 1916.
Belcher (T. W.) Notes on the mediaeval Leper hospitals of Ireland. ' Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science,' 1808.
Wilson (E.) On a probable necessity for the revival of the Leper Hospitals of Great Britain. ' British Medical Journal,' 1860, vol. 2, p. 456.
Stanley (S. S.) A Leper's House in Warwickshire.
-' Warwickshire Nat. and Arch. Field Club, 1893,' pp. 61-65.
Extracts from original records relating to the burning of Lepers in the reign of Edward. II 'Arch. Instit.,' xxii., pp. 321-331.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
THE EARLIEST CLERICAL DIRECTORY ( 12 S. vi. 64, 157, 194, 237). I have a copy of what appears to be the first edition of Cox's ' Clerical Directory.' It is entitled ' The Clergy List for 1841,' and is a tall octavo volume, bound in cloth, consisting of pp. iv, 224 and 300, with sundry advertisements at the end. It promises on the title-page " to be published annually," though making no fresh appearance, it would seem, before 1847. WALTER J. KAYE.
BURNT CHAMPAGNE (12 S. iv. 217, 251).
It is quite likely that burnt brandy was
intended. I have often remarked fine
champagne that almost invariable accom-
paniment of a cup of black coffee in France
ignited in a spoon before mixing, though
I have never seen a Frenchman do this.
And what child has not been thrilled when
with lights turned low, brandy on fire has
been poured over the Christmas pudding
with such weird effect ? CECIL CLARKE.
FOLK-LORE OF THE ELDER (12 S. i. 94).
The folk-beliefs associated with the elder have been often discussed in these columns and the following random bibliographical notes are offered for what they are worth in completing the study. The most sig- nificant contributions are three mutually complementary articles : Majewski, ' Bez i hebd,' ' Wisia,' xiv. (1900), 527 ff. ; Jawor- skij, ' Zeitschrift fiir osterreichische Yolks- kunde,' ii. (1895), 355, n. 1 (reprinted in Dahnhardt, ' Natursagen,' ii. 238) ; and J. Harris Stone, ' England's Riviera,' London, 1912, pp. 456-64, Appendix II., ' The Elder Tree and Its Story.' See further Keightley, ' Fairy Mythology,' Lon- don, 1850, p. 93 ; Frazer, ' Golden Bough,' VII. ii. ('Balder, the Beautiful,' ii.), London, 1913, p. 64 ; A. Fischer, ' Aberglaube unter den Angelsachsen,' Programm, Meiningen, 1891 ; C. S. Burne, ' Shropshire Folklore,' pp. 193-194, 243-244 ; W. Henderson, ' Folk- lore of the Northern Counties,' pp. 219 ff. ; Thomas Browne, ' Works ' (ed. Sayle), i. 306 ( ' Pseudodoxia Epidemica,' II. .vii.) ; ' Byegones,' 1907, 104 ; Barbour, ' Folk-Lore, viii. (1897), 389; ibid., xxii. (1911), 24, 53, 187-188, 213, 235-236; E. M. Leather, ' Folklore of Herefordshire,' pp. 19, 53, 80 ; H. X. Ellacombe, ' The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare,' Exeter [1878] ; Jellinghaus, ' Anglia,' xx. (1898), 267 (elder in place-names) : ' Shakespeare's England,' i. 524. For the French traditions compare E. Holland, ' Flore populaire ' ; Sebillot, 'Le Folklore de France,' iii. 134, 369, 381, 385, 387, 390, 403, 413, 415, 419, 421 ; Hai'ou, ' Revue des traditions populaires,' xviii. (1903), 157. For Germany see Grimm, ' Deutsche Mythologie,' 4th ed., p. 543, and iii. 358 ; E. H. Meyer, ' Germanische Mythologie,' 1891, p. 85, 116 ; A. Freuden- thal, ' Der Hollunder,' ' Niedersachsen,' ii. (1895), 54-70; Sohns, 'Zeitschrift fiir den deutschen Unterricht,' xi. (1897), 123 ff. ; M. Hofler, ' Wald-und Baumkult in Be- ziehung zur Volksmedizin Oberbayerns ' ;
