LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Statue of Florence Nightingale by A. G. Walker | [Frontispiece] | |
| “The Lady with the Lamp.” Statuette | Facing p. | [8] |
| Embley Park, Romsey, Hants | ” | [16] |
| Florence Nightingale’s Father | ” | [32] |
| Florence Nightingale (after Augustus Egg, R.A.) | ” | [88] |
| Florence Nightingale in 1854 | ” | [112] |
| At the Therapia Hospital | ” | [176] |
| At Scutari | ” | [192] |
| Miss Nightingale’s Medals and Decorations | ” | [280] |
| The Nightingale Nursing Carriage | ” | [296] |
| At the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich | ” | [304] |
| A Letter from Miss Nightingale | ” | [320] |
| Miss Nightingale’s London House | ” | [344] |
| Florence Nightingale in her Last Days | ” | [352] |
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER FOR THE ELDERS IN MY AUDIENCE.
It is my hope that my younger readers may find this volume all the more to their liking if it is not without interest to people of my own generation. Girls and boys of fourteen to sixteen are already on the threshold of manhood and womanhood, but even of children I am sure it is true that they hate to be “written down to,” since they are eagerly drinking in hopes and ideas which they cannot always put into words, and to such hopes and ideas they give eager sympathy of heart and curiosity of mind.
Florence Nightingale’s Home, Embley Park, Romsey, Hants.
For one of her St. Thomas’s nurses, among the first nine women to be decorated with the Red Cross, the heroine of this story wrote what might well be the marching orders of many a good soldier in the divine army, and not least, perhaps, of those boy scouts and girl guides who would like better a life of adventure than the discipline of a big school or the “duties enough and little cares” of a luxurious home; and as the words have not, so far as I am aware, appeared in print before, it may be worth while to give them here:—