A Woman's Example and a Nation's Work. (William Ridgway.) — .A. short
account of the origin, working, and achievements of the United States Sanitary Commission, which one would be disposed to welcome, as calculated to extend the fame of that most remarkable and successful
enterprise. It is, however, to be regretted that the writer has thought fit to prefix a dedication to Miss Nightingale and a chapter on woman in the Crimea which for absurdity and bad taste equal anything we ever remember. The lady (for we think wo cannot be mistaken in the writer's sex) further thinks that the medical congress which has just been sitting at Geneva, with a view of agreeing on rules to mitigate the sufferings of the wounded in time of war, should have included " women' among the deliberators, because "the chamber of the sick and suffering is woman's own domain, and man with the best intentions can never be so useful there as she."
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