NOTABLE WOMEN. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, THE SOLDIER'S FRIEND. " The dying Looked up into her face, and thought, indeed, to behold there Gleams of celestial li ht encircle her forehead with splendour, Such as the artist paints o'er the brows of saints and apostles, Or such as hangs by night o'er a city seen at a distance. Unto their eyes it seemed the lamps of the city celestial, Into whose shining gates ere long their spirits would enter." LONGF'ELLOW. IN the year 1323, in Florence, that lovely city, " where earth and sky Are picture both and poetry," was born the younger of the two daughters of William Shore Nightingale, Esq.; and, in memory ofher birth- place, its beautiful name was given to her who will be known to all time as FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. Her father, William Shore Nightingale, son of William Shore, Esq., of Tapton, is a descendant of the ancient Derbyshire family of Shore-of which Lord Teignmouth is the representative of another branch. He assumed the name of Nightingale by the Prince Regent's sign manual in 1815, in accor- dance with the will of his maternal uncle, Peter Nightingale, whose niece and sole heiress his father A
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