C.K.W.

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THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND.

The origin of the nine of diamonds being called the Curse of Scotland is not generally known.  It arose from the following circumstance:—­The night before the battle of Culloden, the Duke of Cumberland thought proper to send orders to General Campbell not to give quarter; and this order being despatched in much haste, was written on a card.  This card happened to be the nine of diamonds, from which circumstance it got the appellation above named.

W.M.

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POLITICAL PUNS.

Among the many expedients resorted to by the depressed party in a state to indulge their sentiments safely, and probably at the same time, according to situation, to sound those of their companions, puns and other quibbles have been of notable service.  The following is worthy of notice:—­The cavaliers during Cromwell’s usurpation, usually put a crumb of bread into a glass of wine, and before they drank it, would exclaim with cautious ambiguity, “God send this Crum well down!” A royalist divine also, during the Protectorate, did not scruple to quibble in the following prayer, which he was accustomed to deliver:—­“O Lord, who hast put a sword into the hand of thy servant, Oliver, put it into his heart ALSO—­to do according to thy word.”  He would drop his voice at the word also, and, after a significant pause, repeat the concluding sentence in an under tone.

W.M.

Erratum at page 306.—­For Hemiptetera read HEMIPTERA.

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ANNUALS FOR 1830.

With No. 398 was published a SUPPLEMENT, containing the first portion of the SPIRIT OF THE ANNUALS, with a splendid Engraving of the CITY OF VERONA, and Notices of the Gem, Literary Souvenir, Friendship’s Offering, and Amulet.

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LIMBIRD’S EDITION OF THE
Following Novels is already Published:

s. d. 
Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling              0  6
Paul and Virginia                       0  6
The Castle of Otranto                   0  6
Almoran and Hamet                       0  6
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia     0  6
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne      0  6
Rasselas                                0  8
The Old English Baron                   0  8
Nature and Art                          0  8
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield          0 10
Sicilian Romance                        1  0
The Man of the World                    1  0
A Simple Story                          1  4
Joseph Andrews                          1  6
Humphry Clinker                         1  8
The Romance of the Forest               1  8
The Italian                             2  0
Zeluco, by Dr  Moore                    2  6
Edward, by Dr  Moore                    2  6
Roderick Random                         2  6
The Mysteries of Udolpho                3  6
Peregrine Pickle                        4  6

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