There was, perhaps, when Shakespeare wrote the above lines, some thought of the Elizabethan nobleman, Edmund, Earl of Derby, who "was famous for chirurgerie, bone-setting, and hospitalite," as Ward says in his Diary; of the Marquis of Dorchester, who in his time was a Fellow of the College of Surgeons; or of the poet's son-in-law, Dr. Hall, a gentleman who resided in Stratford-on-Avon, in a fine old half timber house still standing, and known as Hall's Croft. To his wife, the poet's elder daughter, Shakespeare bequeathed his house and grounds, which Dr. Hall occupied when he died. His grave is near that of his glorious father-in-law, and on it is the following inscription:-- "HERE LYETH Y{E} BODY OF JOHN HALL, GENT: HE MARR: SVSANNA Y{E} DAUGHTER AND CO HEIRE OF WILL. SHAKESPEARE, GENT. HEE DECEASED NOVE{R} 25 A{O} 1635 AGED 60. Hallius hic situs est medica celeberrimus arte Expectans regni gaudia laeta Dei Dignus erat meritis qui Nestora vinceret annis, In terris omnes, sed rapit aequa dies; Ne tumulo, quid desit adest fidissima conjux Et vitae Comitem nunc quoque mortis habet." Dickens' Doctors. BY THOMAS FROST. Dickens, it must be admitted by even the greatest admirers of his inimitable genius, among whom the writer of this paper must be counted, was not successful in his delineations of the medical profession. Though his most humorous as well as his most pathetic pictures of human life are drawn from the humbler walks in the pilgrimage of humanity, he has given us some good touches of his skill in his presentments of other professions, and notably of lawyers and lawyers' clerks. Nothing in fiction can excel his legal characters in, for instance, "Bleak House,"--his Mr. Tulkinghorn, Mr. Guppy, the clerk, and Mr. Snagsby, the law stationer. But a life-like doctor cannot be found in his works, and the nearest approaches to such a description are the merest sketches.