BARNETT is Canon of Bristol City!
Pass the news around, my boys!
To leave Whitechapel seems half a pity;
Sorrow will go round, my boys!
St. Jude's, and thy great Hall, Toynbee,
Some right good Christians doubtless see;
But they're all small shakes along o' _he!_
Pass his health around, my boys!
BARNETT! BARNETT!
Well did he "arn" it--
That Bristol Canonree!
And when he gets to Bristol City,
Pass the cheers around, my boys!
He'll draw the wise, the kind, the pretty;
They _must_ gather round, my boys.
The slum he sweetened in London's east,
With Charity's boon, and Fine Arts' feast,
Will miss this good, sage, gentle priest;
Pass his health around, my boys!
BARNETT! BARNETT!
Your loss we'll larn it,
You were the Man for _we_!
_Your health, where'er you be!_
* * * * *
_NOUS_ AND NERVES.
[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_.]