[141] See second edition, vol. iii. p. 145.
[142] The references are: first edition, vol. iii. pp. 26 seq.; second edition, vol. ii. pp. 302 seq.
[143] “The Bishop has disallowed our ‘Versicles’ and some other things on legal grounds—i.e. on the opinion of Sir Travers Twiss (poor man!). We will have them in a particular book of our own. He says ‘they are admirably selected’” (Letter from Mr. Jowett, March 16, 1872).
[144] See Abbott and Campbell's Life and Letters of Jowett, vol. ii. pp. 35–36, and “Recollections of Professor Jowett” in Swinburne's Studies in Prose and Poetry, p. 33. The full title of the book was The School and Children's Bible prepared under the Superintendence of the Rev. William Rogers. London: Longmans, 1873.
[145] He made use of her suggestion in a postscript (in the second edition) to his Introduction to the Phaedrus.
[146] Sir Edwin Arnold's The Song Celestial (translated from the Mahâbhârata): see below, p. [401].
[147] Letter to Mr. Jowett, April 17, 1873.
[148] See Bibliography A, No. 67.
[149] The reference here was to Miss Nightingale's “Address to the Probationers” (1872) in which she had written: “To be a good nurse, one must be an improving woman; for stagnant waters sooner or later, and stagnant air, as we know ourselves, always grow corrupt and unfit for use. Is any one of us a stagnant woman?”
[150] The part of Home Sister was “created,” and was most efficiently filled for 21 years, by Miss Crossland, who retired on a pension in 1895. “Nearly 600 nurses completed their probationary course under her care, and subsequently entered upon their vocation as nurses in some general Hospital or Infirmary, or in training as District Nurses for the Poor, and a very large number of them became Matrons, Superintendents, or Ward Sisters.” (Nightingale Fund Report for 1895).