The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
With Edith CdDeU Tn Belgium

Two years ago in New York, charming friend of mine asked me if I would like to meet a very inter- esting French nurse who was at the Vanderbilt, a girl who was a close personal friend of the late beloved English nurse, Edith Caven, who gave her life for her country during the World war.
 Of course I said I would like 1t and one day sitting in a remote cor ner of the big Vanderbilt lobby my friend found little Miss Jacqueline Van Til, demure. pretty. gentle, and sad beyond her years, because of the 1 trying ordeal she had passed through | "OYer There" when as one of Edith Cavell's assistants at the Edith Cs'- we'll Clinique," called "LEcole Beige les Infirmieres Diplomees" in Brus- sels-she had experienced the most terrifying and frightful days and nights, finally to see her beloved
 madame" as Edith Cavell was called 1 by the nurses. led to the prison of St. Giles. where later she was exc cuted because of her love of her co ountry-England- the assist ence she gave to English and French soldiers in getting over the border. AhA eAtqudAhAdittG W1AH AhtSH JdNQuC- line Van Til proved very interesting and then somehow lost her. but a few days ago what should happen but that l received a letter from her. SC sweet and so gentle. from Prince Bay, Staten Island, New York, from the Richmond Memorial hospital. in which she told me that since I saw her she had been lecturing and had written book, which she sent me, entitled With Edith Cavell in Bel gium."
 Her English, so quaint and attrac- tive, as I remember it, still carries with 1t that little lapse" which Is most fascinating, her letter saying:
 Many things have been passed since that day two years ago you saw the lonely little French nurse sitting in the big lobby of the Vanderbilt I hope you can help me to sell some of my books in Bir- mingham and Alabama, With Edith Cavell in Belgium the proceeds of which will go for charity work am looking towards to a letter from you and I have been thinking at you many times"
 It all came back to me so insist ently, the earnestness of the little French nurse and the terrible experi- encess she had passed through, and her eager desire to do something in memory of Edith Cavell, the nurse she loved so well. and so I am 'cSf- rying on the desire of Miss Jacque- line Van Til in Belgium, which l read yesterday, just a tiny little volume, but it contains such worlds of information.
 fpF the graphic description of those dreadful days of 1914-15, the depri- vations, and the sacrifices, that Edith cave1l made, and those nurses at the Edith Cavell Clinique" In Brus- sells, 1t seemed to me that Jacqueline Van Til has a very sweet motive in her work, a very tender desire back of the writing of the little book which shows the heart of the little French nurse, loyal, faithful heart, and a spirit of chain mail.
 Particularly touching to me is the description in With Edith Cavell in Belgium" of the discovery by the German officers of the fact that Edith Caven and her nurses were housing English and French soldiers; the diabollca1 Gaston Quin and his ignoble friend who had been hidden in the "clinique% and known to the nurses as "Mr. x, an Englishman," these being none other than German spies who found out what Edith Ca veil and her nurses were doing and made report of it. all is heart breaking episode, and reveal the character of the wonderful English nurse as few descriptions have ever read of her could do,
 Miss Jacqueline Van Till does not claim any great literary merit for her book as she says in the intro- duction," her slight knowledge of the English language as she explains making it a very difficult task to write at all, but what she does claim absolutely for the book, is that it