begins _Success to the Grand Fleet, or the Honest Briton’s Prayer_, announcing Hood’s departure for Toulon in August 1793. But the rest is too poor to quote. The temper of the moment is illustrated by some lines from _The Taking of Tobago_ (April 1793), which declares that ‘for murdering of Louis we will make these rebels rue.’ But for the most part very little sign of any feeling against the French as revolutionists appears in popular naval poetry; it is simply the old national hostility. ‘We’ll make them to knock under as we have done before,’ says the same ballad. Howe’s victory on June 1, 1794, is the subject of at least half a dozen ballads, two of which, with a song written by a lieutenant on board the Bellerophon, will be found on pp. 268-74. The battle of St. Vincent on February 14, 1797, is celebrated in _A new song on the victory over the Spanish Fleet by Admiral Jervis_, and in _Jervis taking the Spanish Fleet_. According to the author of the first, the tactics of the British ships were simple: ‘They, not heedful of orders, in courage confide; The best line of battle’s a thundering broadside.’ The second thus sums up the result: ‘Here’s a health to Admiral Jervis, our officers and crew; Spain with your surprising force we’ve made you for to rue. Two of your hundred and twenties and two of eighty-four By Britons brave were soon conveyed safe to old England’s shore.’ Neither deserves reprinting. Duncan was more fortunate than Jervis, and at least four ballads on Camperdown have survived. One by J. Pratt will be found on p. 283. Another by J. More, of the Royal Ayr Volunteers, to be sung to the tune of _The Garb of Old Gaul_, is printed in Ashton’s _Real Sailor Songs_ (p. 9). In one of the ballads Duncan’s religion is commended: ‘No power the pride of conquest has his heart to lead astray: He summoned his triumphant crew, and then was heard to say, “Let every man now bend his knee, and here in solemn prayer Give thanks to God, who in this fight has made our cause His care.”’ (_The Fight off Camperdown._) In the fourth a subscription for the widows of those who fell in the battle is advocated: ‘Fighting their country’s noble cause they near the Texel fell, No mutiny, but gloriously they died behaving well.’ (_The Widow’s Lamentation._) On the battle of the Nile the two most popular ballads--to judge from the frequency of the reprints--were _The Mouth of the Nile_ and _Battle of the Nile_. The former begins: ‘It was in the forenoon of the first day of August, One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight. After a long pursuit we o’ertook the Toulon fleet, And soon we let them know we came for to fight.’ The whole is reprinted in Ashton’s _Real Sailor Songs_. The other poem, more pretentious in style concludes with a sort of apotheosis: