Lamp Going Out by Caesar (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 48 pages. no date (probably 1910). Original colored pictorial boards (tipped-in illust. on front board). Light rubbing to cover. Frontispiece (tipped-in color illustration with tissue guard -- painting by Frank Dadd "A Lady with the Lamp"). First Canadian edition (British edition put out by Hodder & Stoughton in 1910). Rare Canadian edition. Title-page reads : "by the author of Where's Master". Author is Sir John Ernest Hodder Williams (1876-1927), founder of Hodder and Houghton, who wrote also "Jack Cornwell; the Story of John Travers Cornwell." Hodder & Houghton, 1917. Very personal and emotional narrative from a Crimean War veteran, A nice little book, written by a "old, crippled, marred" Crimean war veteran : "I'm not proud of being a Crimean veteran but I am proud that after fifty years of battle I owe no man anything. I've clean hands in a dirty world". Dedicated "To the Heroic Memory of Florence Nightingale, The Lady with the Lamp". Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), an English hospital administrator, began studying methods of raising the drudgery of nursing the sick to the dignity of a profession. During the Crimean war (1854), she organized a unit of 38 nurses, and operated despite great criticism; she not only cared for the physical needs of wounded soldiers but looked at their social welfare. The press named her "The Lady With The Lamp" because she used to made rounds at night when everybody was asleep. She founded the Nightingale School and Home for training nurses, at St.Thomas Hospital, London, England (1860) . She became known as the founder of modern nursing. This book was published the year of the death of Nightingale in 1910. Frank Dadd (illustrator).…