Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by JOHN HOPPER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. WYNKOOP, HALLENBECK & THOMAS, PRINTERS, No. 113 FULTON STREET, New York. ΤΟ HENRIETTA B. HAINES, MY BELOVED KINSWOMAN AND REVERED FRIEND AND FELLOW-WORKER, A LARGE PORTION OF WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN MOST NOBLY AND SUCCESSFULLY DEVOTED TO THE SAME CAUSE WHICH THIS LITTLE BOOK IS INTENDED TO PROMOTE, IT IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED, PREFACE. WHEN the British public, in recognition of Miss Nightingale's invaluable services in the Crimean hospitals, bestowed upon her a very large sum of money, she received various suggestions from one and another as to its disposal. "Some of my friends," this she wrote to one with whom she was intimate, "advise me to have a statue made of myself; what do you think of that? Another suggests that I should build a magnificent hospital. I shall probably devote it to the refitting and refurnishing of hospitals already in use.” I have no pretension to place myself in the same category with this noble woman. It is simply the fact of my feeling the same interest in the young, which is inspired in her by the sick-that I would like to improve schools, as she would like to improve hospitals, that has suggested her name to me in this connection. I have written this little book as a sort of résumé of oral lessons on various subjects given, from time to time, to my scholars-repeated here, of course, with large amplifications—desiring thus to perpetuate myself, not merely in their memories, but in their lives-mayhap, also, to some degree, in the lives of their descendants-and of making it more sure that the work in which I have been so long engaged, and which I am still zealously pursuing, may, in the Scripture sense, "follow me," when "I shall go hence to be here no more." LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS, |