"Mysta, fidelis, amans, colui, docui, relevavi, Numen, oves, inopes, pectore, voce, manu. Laude orbem, splendore polum, cineresque beatos, Fama illustravit, mens colit, urna tenet." It will easily be seen that the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth words are to be read in connexion, as are those that follow these, and those next in succession. The person on whose tomb the lines occur was the Rev. William Richardson, who died in 1670, having been minister of Killyleagh for twenty-one years. By the way, is not _mysta_ a strange designation for a Presbyterian minister? I should think it would be now considered as objectionable as _sacerdos_. E. H. D. D. Killyleagh, co. Down. * * * * * _The Curse of Scotland_ (Vol. i., pp. 61. 90.; Vol. iii., p. 22.).-- "The queen of clubs is called in Northamptonshire Queen Bess, perhaps, because that queen, history says, was of a swarthy complexion; the four of spades, Ned Stokes, but why I know not; the nine of diamonds, the curse of Scotland, because every ninth monarch of that nation was a bad king to his subjects. I have been told by old people, that this card was so called long before the Rebellion in 1745, and therefore it could not arise from the circumstance of the Duke of Cumberland's sending orders, accidentally written upon the card, the night before the battle of Culloden, for General Campbell to give no quarter." The above extract from a communication to the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1791, p. 141., is quoted in Mr. Singer's _Researches into the History of Playing Cards_, p. 271.; but the reason assigned by the writer does not explain why the nine of _diamonds_ should have acquired the name in question. The nine of any _other_ suit would be equally applicable. L. * * * * * _The Female Captive: a Narrative of Facts which happened in Barbary in the Year 1756. Written by Herself_, 2 vols. 12mo. Lond., 1769.--Sir William Musgrave has written this note in the copy which is now in the library at the British Museum: "This is a true story. The lady's maiden name was Marsh. She married Mr. Crisp, as related in the narrative. But he having failed in business went to India, where she remained with her father, then agent Victualler at Chatham, during which she wrote and published these little volumes. On her husband's success in India, she went thither to him. "The book having, as it is said, been bought up by the lady's friends, is become very scarce." Y. S. * * * * * _Pictorial Antiquities._--The following memorandum, in the _autograph_ of Edward, Earl of Oxford (the Harleian collector), seems worth preserving: "A picture of Edward IV. on board at Kensington.