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INTRODUCTION.
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and is published by Trubner. It should be read by all who care to know as much as possible of the story of this brave woman.

Still more recently, the United Kingdom Branch of the National Association for Supplying Medical Aid to the Women of India, which has hardly as yet received the support it is entitled to expect in England, has received a generous gift of 100 from a gentleman in New York; only one among many proofs of the genuine interest taken by Americans in the cause of Indian female welfare.

Surely these things should stir up the hearts of English men and women to emulate the generosity shown on the other side of the Atlantic, towards those who have so much greater claims on us, and are bound to us by so many ties of duty and of common interest.