people such as few individuals or circumstances have power to call
forth.

The work she has set herself to do, regardless of the dangers and
difficulties she will have to encounter, seems to us, who look out from
the security of our homes in this favoured land, almost beyond human
power to perform. It is, in fact, appalling.

Even Miss Nightingale, who never exaggerates, writes of this lady:
"Surely no human being ever needed the loving Father's help and guidance
more than this brave woman." And in this the readers of THE
ARGOSY will fully agree.

Her purpose is to travel through Russia to the extreme points of
Siberia, chiefly for the purpose of seeing the condition of those
affected with incurable disease, and what can be done to improve their
surroundings and mitigate their sufferings.

This, if it stood alone, would be a grand work; but it is by no means
all she hopes to do.

It is her purpose to join the gangs of exiles on their way to Siberia,
to note their treatment, to halt at their halting-stages, and see if it
be true that there is an utter absence of all sanitary appliances; that
filth and cruelty are in evidence; and that the strongest constitutions
break down under conditions unfit for brute beasts. She will investigate
the assertions that delicate innocent women and children are chained to
vile criminals, and so made to take their way on foot thousands of miles
to far-off Siberia; often for no other crime than some careless words
spoken against the Greek Church or the Czar.