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THE MEN OF PHYSIC:

AN EASTERN TALE.

By the Author of " Glances from the Moon."

It happened that a certain absolute and capri-cious despot of an eastern province, on perceiving,after a few years' domination, that the number ofhis subjects had considerably decreased, insteadof instituting a cautious inquiry into the possiblecauses of this lowered population, determined tolay the whole charge, the wonder, and the mis-chief, on the professed practisers of what wasthere termed the healing art, but, according to hisprincely suspicion, the art of poisoning and de-stroying. Long did he cherish, whether warrantedor otherwise doth not clearly appear, this peculiarsentiment, strengthened by progressive observa-tion, and now matured into immoveable convic-tion : and, indeed, as his province had neither been