FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, under the direction of PAbbé Legendre, almoner of the hospital of Bourbonne-les-bains, a town to which large numbers of military men resort annually for the benefit of the waters. A relief fund being set on foot to aid infirm soldiers on their discharge from the hospital, Miss Nightingale forwarded a donation of one hundred francs, through Lady Fox Strang - ways, widow of the General who fell at Inkerman. Accompanying this donation was a graceful letter, addressed to the Abbé, in which she said : -"I feel the warmest sympathy with you in the touching ob- ject of your work, and I am happy to join in it to the limited extent which my own engagements allow. I received, too, from the excellent religious ladies who were attached to the French army in theEast, so many tokens of their friendship,they gave me their assist- ance with such entire self-denial, and lightened my hard task in the hospitals with so much devotedness, that I shall always seekany opportunity of showingmy gratitude to France, and to her brave children, whom I have been taught by those ladies to love and respect." A graceful and interesting incident, in connection with the Nightingale Fund, occurred very re- cently. It will scarcely be forgotten that Mr. and Madame Goldschmidt contributed more than two thousand pounds to the Fund, being the proceeds of a grand concert given at Exeter Hall for the purpose, when the generous donors not only per- 44
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