Quoth Doctor Squill of Ponder's End,
"Of all the patients I attend,
Whate'er their aches or ails,
None ever will my fame attack."
"None ever can," retorted Jack:
"For dead men tell no tales"
_New Monthly Magazine_.

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THE SELECTOR, AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.


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CIRCASSIAN WOMEN.


We observed two women looking out of a balcony, and earnestly beckoning
to us. We were the more surprised at their appearance, as we believed
that the Mahometan women of the Caucasus, like those of Persia, were
strictly confined to the interior of their houses, or that, at all
events, they never went unveiled, a custom which we found was not
general among the inhabitants of the Caucasus. We, however, entered the
house, and saw in the court two Russian grenadiers, who, by a mistake of
their corporal, had taken there quarters here, and whose presence was