SIR WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL 80 SIDNEY, LORD HERBERT OF LEA 96 MR. _PUNCH’S_ CARTOON OF “THE LADY-BIRDS” 113 THE BARRACK HOSPITAL AT SCUTARI 125 BOULOGNE FISHERWOMEN CARRYING THE LUGGAGE OF MISS NIGHTINGALE AND HER NURSES 128 THE LADY-IN-CHIEF IN HER QUARTERS AT THE BARRACK HOSPITAL 133 MISS NIGHTINGALE IN THE HOSPITAL AT SCUTARI 144 MISS NIGHTINGALE AND THE DYING SOLDIER--A SCENE AT SCUTARI HOSPITAL WITNESSED BY M. SOYER 176 LADY HERBERT OF LEA 192 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AS A GIRL 208 THE NIGHTINGALE JEWEL 237 THE CARRIAGE USED BY MISS NIGHTINGALE IN THE CRIMEA 240 MISS NIGHTINGALE AFTER HER RETURN FROM THE CRIMEA 272 PARTHENOPE, LADY VERNEY 288 MRS. DACRE CRAVEN (_née_ FLORENCE LEES) 304 CLAYDON HOUSE, THE SEAT OF SIR EDMUND VERNEY, WHERE THE “FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE” ROOMS ARE PRESERVED 320 SPECIMEN OF MISS NIGHTINGALE’S HANDWRITING 335 MISS NIGHTINGALE’S OLD ROOM AT CLAYDON 336 MISS NIGHTINGALE 340 THE LIFE OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE CHAPTER I _BIRTH AND ANCESTRY_ Birth at Florence--Shore Ancestry--Peter Nightingale of Lea-- Florence Nightingale’s Parents. We are born into life--it is sweet, it is strange, We lie still on the knee of a mild mystery Which smiles with a change; But we doubt not of changes, we know not of spaces, The heavens seem as near as our own mother’s face is, And we think we could touch all the stars that we see. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame.--GENERAL SKOBELEFF. At a dinner given to the military and naval officers who had served in the Crimean War, it was suggested that each guest should write on a slip of paper the name of the person whose services during the late campaign would be longest remembered by posterity. When the papers were examined, each bore the same name--“Florence Nightingale.”