Part II. Ch. VIII. Miss N. was denounced as "a semi-Romish Nun," an

"Anglican Papist." (5) Roebuck Committee. _Reports from the Select Committee on the Army before Sebastopol_, March 1, 1853-June 18, 1855. For this Report, see Vol. I. p. 176. (6) S. G. O. _Scutari and its Hospitals._ By the Hon. and Rev. Sydney Godolphin Osborne. London: Dickinson Brothers, 1855. This contains the best and fullest account by an eye-witness of Miss Nightingale at work at Scutari. 1855-57 (7) _Various Broadsheets, Popular Songs, etc._, about Miss Nightingale (see Vol. I. p. 266). A collection of them is preserved amongst her Papers. The following is the text of the most popular of the Songs:-- On a dark lonely night on the Crimea's dread shore There had been bloodshed and strife on the morning before; The dead and the dying lay bleeding around, Some crying for help--there was none to be found. Now God in His mercy He pitied their cries, And the soldiers so cheerful in the morning do arise. _So forward, my lads, may your hearts never fail You are cheered by the presence of a sweet Nightingale._ Now God sent this woman to succour the brave; Some thousands she saved from an untimely grave. Her eyes beam with pleasure, she's beauteous and good, The wants of the wounded are by her understood. With fever some brought in, with life almost gone, Some with dismantled limbs, some to fragments are torn. _But they keep up their spirits, their hearts never fail, They are cheered by the presence of a sweet Nightingale._ Her heart it means good, for no bounty she'll take, She'd lay down her life for the poor soldier's sake; She prays for the dying, she gives peace to the brave, She feels that a soldier has a soul to be saved. The wounded they love her as it has been seen, She's the soldier's preserver, they call her their Queen. _May God give her strength, and her heart never fail, One of Heaven's best gifts is Miss Nightingale._ The wives of the wounded, how thankful are they! Their husbands are cared for by night and by day. Whatever her country, this gift God has given, And the soldiers they say she's an Angel from Heaven. All praise to this woman, and deny it who can That woman was sent as a comfort to man: _Let's hope that no more against them you'll rail, Treat them well, and they'll prove like Miss Nightingale._ 1856 (8) _Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses; the Narrative of Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari._ By a Lady Volunteer. 2 vols. 1856; 3rd ed. in one vol. 1857. The author, Miss Fanny M. Taylor, was a member of the second party of nurses, which went out with Miss Stanley. (9) _Sayah; or, the Courier to the East._ [By H. Byng Hall.] London: Chapman & Hall. Contains a general tribute to Miss Nightingale, from one who visited Scutari. (10) McNeill. Speech by Sir John McNeill at the Crimean Banquet at Edinburgh, reported verbatim in the _Daily News_, Nov. 3, 1856. An excellent appreciation of Miss Nightingale, with many particulars of her work at Scutari. (11) _The Nightingale Fund. Report of Proceedings at a Public Meeting held in London, on Nov. 29, 1855.... Offices of the Nightingale Fund, 5 Parliament Street._ Pamphlet, in yellow wrappers, pp. 36 + 16 + 24. Pages 1-36, report of the Public Meeting; pp. 1-16, "Appendix." Extracts from Leading Articles in the London Journals, etc.; pp. 1-24, "Addenda," Report of Public Meetings in the provinces, 1856, etc. _Circ._ 1856 (12) _The Prophecy of Ada, late Countess of Lovelace, on her friend Miss Florence Nightingale._ Written in the year 1851. Music composed by W. H. Montgomery. London: G. Emery & Co. [no date]. The poem--"A Portrait: taken from Life"--is printed on the back of the song (see Vol. I. pp. 38, 142). 1857 (13) Davis. _The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse._ Edited by Jane Williams. 2 vols. Hurst & Blackett, 1857. Davis was one of Miss Stanley's party. She served as cook in the General Hospital at Balaclava. Though the work of an obviously uneducated and prejudiced woman, the book is useful as illustrating the intrigue against Miss Nightingale in the Crimea, and as reflecting the hostility which her strict discipline excited among some of the nurses. The book is not to be trusted. Miss Nightingale made very pungent remarks on this old woman's romancing about Lord Raglan and others. (14) Pincoffs. _Experiences of a Civilian in Eastern Military Hospitals...._ By Peter Pincoffs, M.D., late Civil Physician to the Scutari Hospitals. William & Norgate.