FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
LONDON, November 4. Mr E. T. Cocks’s “ Life of Florence Nightingale” has been published, and is acclaimed as one of the f nest biographies in the language. Miss Nightingale's diaries reveal a remarkable conflict between a desire for marriage and a life spent in pursuit of an ideal, opening new spheres of usefulness for women. November 7The “ Life of Florence Nightingale,” which was written by Sir Edward Cook, shows that she was a woman with strong passions, not quick to forgive, somewhat censorious, and not apt to forget. She was not only a gentle angel of compassion, but was more of a logician than a sentimentalist. She knew that good work required a hard head as well as a soft heart. The biography reveals a life-long romance of battle with ease and danger, com mencing when she became conscious, at the age of 32 years, of a call from God.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3113, 12 November 1913, Page 23
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