(_Voyage en Perse_) speaking of a peculiar sort of veil, "Only married
women wear it; and it is the mark by which it is known _that they are
under subjection_ or power."

I will not enlarge further upon the subject, but leave it to your
readers to draw their own conclusions.

JOSEPH TEMPLE E----K.

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THE SKETCH-BOOK.


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A NIGHT IN A SEDAN CHAIR.

_From the German of Theodore Koerner._

(_For the Mirror._)


I came from a party where the wine had not been spared, and the guests
had but just separated, in a state of tolerable elevation. It was a
drear and stormy autumn night. On reaching the door of my abode, I first
became aware that I had forgotten the key. As I could not imagine that