The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2

Name: The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2
Author: Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir

Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910

The spirit of Rabbi Ben Ezra. The latter years to be the best--Miss
  Nightingale's letters in this sense--Her own fullness of work.
  II. Continual interest in India--Lord Elgin's village sanitary
  inspection. III. Interest in army affairs--Letter to the Duke of
  Cambridge (1895)--The Hongkong barracks (1896)--Indian cantonments
  (1896-97)--The Victorian Era Exhibition (1897): Crimean
  "relics"--Note on Waterloo Day (1898)--The South African War (1899).
  IV. Interest in nursing--The "Nurses' Battle" again--The true
  "angels"--Correspondence with the Grand Duchess of Baden and
  Mr. Rathbone--Death of old friends and fellow-workers. V. Gradual
  failure of Miss Nightingale's powers--Loss of sight--Her
  companions--Her favourite reading--Visitors. VI. Honours--The Order
  of Merit (1907)--Freedom of the City (1908)--Her fame--Renewed cult
  of "The Popular Heroine." VII. Death and funeral--Memorials          402

  CONCLUSION                                                           424

                                APPENDICES

  A. Chronological List of Writings by Miss Nightingale                437

  B. List of Some Writings about Miss Nightingale                      459

  C. List of Portraits                                                 467

  INDEX                                                                471

                               ILLUSTRATIONS
                                                                 FACE PAGE

  Florence Nightingale: 1887. (_From the portrait by Sir William
  Richmond, K.C.B., R.A._)                                  _Frontispiece_

  Florence Nightingale in her Room at South Street. (_From a
  photograph by Miss E. F. Bosanquet, 1906_)                           306

  Florence Nightingale: 1907. (_From a water-colour drawing by Miss
  F. Amicia de Biden Footner_)                                         418

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  Florence Nightingale's Handwriting: _facsimile_ of part of a letter
  to John Stuart Mill, August 11, 1867                                 216

                                  PART V

                    FOR THE HEALTH OF THE ARMY IN INDIA

                               (1862-1865)

     The question is no less an one than this: How to create a public
     health department for India; how to bring a higher civilization
     into India. What a work, what a noble task for a Government--no
     "inglorious period of our dominion" that, but a most glorious one!
     That would be creating India anew. For God places His own power,
     His own life-giving laws in the hands of man. He permits man to
     create mankind by those laws, even as He permits man to destroy
     mankind by neglect of those laws.--FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: _How
     People may live and not die in India_, 1864.

                                 CHAPTER I

                     PRELIMINARY--THE LOSS OF FRIENDS

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The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2

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