THE SOLDIER'S FRIEND. formed gratuitously themselves, but insisted on de- fraying every expense connected with the concert. This munificence, showing that true genius is at all times kindred and sympathetic, excited such admi- ration, that several of those who took a deep interest in the success of the Nightingale undertaking re- solved to present to Mr. and Madame Goldschmidt, as a testimony of their regard, a copy in marble of Dunham's bust of Her Majesty. This desire was carried into effect at the Mansion House on the 17th of last June, when the Lord Mayor, Lord Monteagle, Mr. and Madame Bunsen, Mr. and Mrs. George Grote, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, Dr. Mackay, Mrs. and Miss Stanley, Mr. Bracebridge, and several other friends and subscribers were present. The Lord Mayor offered the bust in the name of the subscribers, and truly remarked, in a very happy speech, that "gifted as Madame Goldschmidt was with the divinest faculty of song, it has been and is her greatest honour that she has ever been pre- pared to devote a proportion of the proceeds of her genius to the large purposes of charity." It is only justice to Miss Nightingale to mention that the rumour of her having abjured the Protest- ant faith of her fathers has been contradicted on the very highest authority. One of the brightest, noblest names in the list of brave, heroic women, is-FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. 46
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