Schott's Original Miscellany

About this book

Schotts Original Miscellany makes few claims to be exhaustive or even practical. It does however claim to be essential. It will afford you great wisdom in the morning several conversational bons mots for the afternoon and many an enlightened smile after dark. Where else can you find packed onto one page the thirteen principles of witchcraft the structure of military hierarchy all of the clothing-care symbols a list of the countries where you drive on the left and a nursery rhyme about sneezing? Where else but Schotts Original Miscellany will you stumble across the name of John Lennons cat the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen and the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple? An encyclopedia? A dictionary? An anthology? An almanac? An amphigouri? A treasury? A commonplace book? Well... yes. Schotts Original Miscellany is all these and of course more. A book like no other Schotts Original Miscellany is entertaining informative unpredictable and utterly addictive.