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