KOHILA - The Shaping of an Indian Nurse by Carmichael, Amy - 1939

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1939. (xii) 187 pp. Followed by a list of illustrations, which is then followed by sepia-toned photographs. Blue cloth with a small gilt pictorial on the front panel; lettered in gilt on the spine; blue edged all round; illustrated endpapers. A bit of wear at the corners of the dustjacket with some darkening around the edges and on the spine; price intact; some aging but no interior markings. Mostly written while the author was in India, the Contents are: Part One: Childhood: Kohila; The Upper Springs and the Nether Springs; Remove Silly Objects; The Cuttle-Fish's Ink Pot; The Nugget; From an Old Preface; Seeds of Song Are Immortal Things; There Arose a Storm and He Arose. Part Two: Girlhood: Carrying Stones and Earth and Sand; About the Pattern; How We Were Helped; Deserve More Rather Than Win More; You Have Come to Learn How to Read; Forgiven from Egypt Even Until Now; The Half Hour; Porana. Part Three: Soldiership: Vocational Training; Rather Like King David; Climbing; Unimpeded Commerce with the Sun; Fallings from Us, Vanishings; Live Loose to Them; Self Discipline, Self Pity; Preparing for the Place of Healing; The Stone Breaker; Through Dimness to Clearness; A Note; Stand Up to the Difficulties of Life; Their King Knew; Must, Must Not; Of One Mind in an House; Send Us to the Seeking Heart; Free Solitude; In Whatsoever Day; God Never Wastes His Servants' Time; The Wheel; The First Baptism in the Hall of Good Tidings; and Lilies.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.