[It is said by some of his friends that Dr. CHARCOT, lately dead, who spent a considerable part of his life in the study of neurosis, found this disease everywhere at last, especially in the naturalistic school of French writers.] If this Neurosis, As some suppose, is The _causa causans_ of Naturalism, The spring ubiquitous Of aught iniquitous That puts 'twixt genius and sense a schism; Then must we pray For the dawn of a day When the Glorious Gift that the world so serves May cut chlorosis, And shun neurosis; In fact, that Genius may have no "nerves." * * * * * "READY, AYE READY!" (_A Sailor Song Up to Date._) [Illustration: _Master John Bull._ "JUST YOU WAIT TWO OR THREE YEARS, TILL I MAKE HER SWIM,--THEN _I'LL_ SHOW YOU!"] [Sir EDWARD REED said that with the armoured citadel intact, and an unarmoured end destroyed, the ship is in imminent danger of upsetting. The _Victoria_ was bound to capsize with the injury she received. There were other ships that were equally bound to capsize, when they were injured in the same manner; the reason being that instead of the armed citadel being the major part of the structure, and the unarmoured ends the minor portion, we had chosen to make the unarmoured ends the major part, measuring more than half the entire length of the ship. The ships likely to capsize in a similar manner, if they received like injury in peace or in action, were the _Agamemnon_, _Ajax_, _Anson_, _Benbow_, _Camperdown_, _Collingwood_, _Colossus_, _Edinburgh_, _Howe_, _Inflexible_, _Rodney_, and _Sans Pareil_.] AIR--"_Hearts of Oak._" Come, cheer up, my lads! 'tis to Davy we steer! (We add to his Locker 'bout one ship per year.) To capsizing we call you in cheeriest staves, For what is so certain as death 'neath the waves? Iron coffins our ships, Death-doomed tars are our men. Our ships are unsteady! Ready, aye ready! We'll sink or turn turtle again and again! We ne'er see our ships (for which millions they pay), The _Ajax_, the _Anson_, and such, but we say, "Will they ram, or capsize, or but run slap ashore? When we go to the bottom JOHN BULL must--build more!" Iron coffins our ships, &c. Our _Camperdowns_, _Collingwoods_, _Rodneys_, _Benbows_, REED says are all "dangerous"--_not_ to our foes! If struck in their unarmoured ends they turn o'er, And go to the bottom! How DAVY must roar! Iron coffins our ships, &c. The Frenchy and Rooshian must laugh as they look, And see JOHN BULL trying, by hook or by crook, To get his tin-kettles to keep right side up, Agin touch of a ram, agin tap of a Krupp! Iron coffins our ships, &c.