The Port-guardship was riding in the anchorage, and fortunately her captain heard a scraping and knocking which could not be accounted for at the bottom of his ship. It occurred to him at last to signal to the station on shore asking if the submarine boat was out for practice, and on being told it was, he shifted his anchorage, whereupon the submarine boat came to the surface with a rush like a cork, and the crew were rescued in a very exhausted condition. The optical instrument used on the new British submarines is termed the “Hyphydroscope,” and is the invention of Sir Howard Grubb, F.R.S. CHAPTER V THE ROMANCE OF UNDER-WATER WARFARE “The Torpedo has brought into the Navy a fresh zest, a new romance, and possibilities more daring than were ever existent before its adoption.” “ . . . . . . . . For this cause I will make of your warfare a terrible thing, A thing impossible, vain; For a man shall set his hand to a handle and wither Invisible armies and fleets, And a lonely man with a breath shall exterminate armies, With a whisper annihilate fleets; And the captain shall sit in his chamber and level a city, That far-off capital city. Then the Tzar that dreameth in snow and broodeth in winter, That foilèd dreamer in frost, And the Teuton Emperor then, and the Gaul and the Briton Shall cease from impossible war, Discarding their glittering legions, armadas of iron As children toys that are old. As a man hath been brought, I will bring into judgment a nation; Nor shall numbers be pleaded for sin. And that people to whom I gave in commission the ocean, To use my waters for fight, Let them look to the inward things, to the searching of spirit, And cease from boasting and noise. Then nation shall cleave unto nation, and Babel shall fall: They shall speak in a common tongue And the soul of the Gaul shall leap to the soul of the Briton Through all disguises and shows; And soul shall speak unto soul—I weary of tongues, I weary of babble and strife. Lo! I am the bonder and knitter together of spirits, I dispense with nations and shores.” STEPHEN PHILLIPS. “A blending of the heroic, the marvellous, the mysterious, and the imaginative in actions, manners, ideas, language or literature; tendency of mind to dwell upon or give expression to the heroic, the marvellous, the mysterious or the imaginative.”