which, not without, it is to be hoped, some stirring-up
of shame and pity, we are often called to look upon. Two girls are the " heroines " of the story, if we are to use the word where there is nothing heroic. They
are two quite ordinary creatures, yet each with a quality which lifts them out of the mire,—in Polly, a resolute will, in Joanna, a strong power of love. We are made to feel throughout that we have to do with real persons. There is no attempt at idealising. The picture is only too pain- fully true. Miss Drummond has, she tells us in her preface, the special object of showing that "it is not only nurses, but trained nurses which
are required for the sick poor ;" and of promoting the welfare of the Westminster Training School for Nurses, an institution which is to be
connected with the honoured name of Lady Augusta Stanley. It is sufficient to say that her book, the outcome of an evidently genuine love and sympathy, is worthy of its object.
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