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Marie Corelli. My "Little Bit"
My "Little Bit"
Table of Contents
PREFACE
MY “LITTLE BIT”
ENGLAND. 1918
SAVAGE GLORY. AN APPEAL AGAINST WAR
FOR BELGIUM! THE PRAYER OF THE ALLIES (Written for “King Albert’s Book”)
THE GREAT UNREST
THE WHIRLWIND
THE KAISER’S HARVEST OF DEATH. A CRIME OF STUPIDITY (First published in the “Sunday Times”)
WASTED OPPORTUNITY
A TRAGIC WITNESS
THE CRIME OF STUPIDITY
BRITISH APATHY
LOSS AND GAIN
THIS AMAZING WAR. A WOMAN’S POINT OF VIEW (Reprinted by special request from the “Sunday Pictorial” of March 28, 1915)
IDEAL WORTH FIGHTING FOR
POISONOUS TEACHING
“ALL WE LIKE SHEEP” A PEOPLE’S PATIENCE (First published in the “Sunday Times”)
WANTED—MORE WOMEN! AN APPEAL (Written for the London “Daily Chronicle”)
THE QUALITY OF MERCY. AN APPEAL TO AMERICA FOR SUFFERERS IN THE GREAT WAR (Written by special request for the American “Committee of Mercy”)
STARVING BELGIUM. AN APPEAL (Written by request for Mr. Hoover’s “Belgium Relief Fund,” and circulated through the United States Press)
“THE TIME OF OUR LIVES” OUR WOMEN IN WAR (An answer to an American misjudgment)
THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEED. AN APPEAL TO THE SANITY OF GOVERNMENTS ’Tis a mad world, my masters.—J. Taylor
SANITY IN RELIGION
BRAIN BALANCE
THE IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER
SCIENCE AND RELIGION
HAS CHRISTIANITY FAILED?
SNOOKS’S OPINION
SEA POWER, 1805–1918
THE SPLENDID SERVICE OF THE SEA (Written by request for the Navy League)
THE LILIES OF FRANCE (Written by request for “The Golden Book of France”)
“WHOSO SHALL RECEIVE ONE SUCH LITTLE CHILD!” (Written on behalf of St. Nicholas Home for “Raid-shock” Children at Chailry, Sussex)
APPEAL FOR THE FRENCH RED CROSS (Written for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, July, 1918)
GLORY OF THE WORCESTERS (Written by request in aid of the Homes for Disabled Worcestershire Soldiers and Sailors) A TRIBUTE TO A FAMOUS REGIMENT
EYES OF THE SEA (Written by special request of the Directors for the British and Foreign Sailors’ Society) A TRIBUTE TO THE GRAND FLEET AND ADMIRAL BEATTY
IS ALL WELL WITH ENGLAND? A QUESTION OF THE MOMENT
THE WORLD IN TEARS
GOD AND THE WAR (Written for “Some 1918 Reflections.” A collection arranged by Guy Glendower Croft)
TRIUMPH OF WOMANHOOD (Written for the Scottish Women’s Hospital)
IN PRAISE OF ENEMIES (Published in the “Sunday Times”)
RECRUITING SPEECH (Delivered in the De Montfort Hall, Leicester)
SPLENDID CANADA. A TRIBUTE
SHELLS; AND OTHER SHELLS (Written by request for the Magazine published on behalf of the Munition Workers of Georgetown, Paisley) A THOUGHT
DARKNESS AND LIGHT (Written at the request of Sir Arthur Pearson as the Prologue to an Entertainment on behalf of St. Dunstan’s Hostel for Soldiers and Sailors Blinded in the War)
SWEEPING THE COUNTRY
TO SAVE LIFE OR DESTROY IT? A CHALLENGE TO CERTAIN CLERGY (Published in the “Pall-Mall Gazette”)
THE WAR LOAN. HOW IT MIGHT BE INCREASED (Published in the “Pall-Mall Gazette”)
FOOD PRODUCTION. A PLEA FOR COMMON SENSE (Published in the “Pall-Mall Gazette”)
OUR FORTUNATE “RESTRICTIONS” (Published in the “Pall-Mall Gazette”)
“HIS PAINFUL DUTY” THE SORROWS OF THE HOME SECRETARY (Published in the “Pall-Mall Gazette”)
THE POTATO “SCREAM” A PROTEST AGAINST A STUPID PANIC (Published in the “Pall-Mall Gazette”)
“HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF” A STUDY IN WAR BREAD (Published in the “Pall-Mall Gazette”)
“SHODDY CHIVALRY” A NAVAL CHADBAND (Published in the “Pall-Mall Gazette”)
“HINDENBURG’S EYE!” THE BABIES’ BOGEY (Published in the “Pall-Mall Gazette”)
“HOARDING” A MODERN SETTING OF AN OLD PLAY AND A LITTLE STORY OF THE Y.M.C.A
THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF FAME. AVE SHAKESPEARE!
SHAKESPEARE’S WAR BIRTHDAY IN 1917. NEGLECTED HONOURS
“DON’T TRAVEL” A HARD HIT (Published in the “Pall-Mall Gazette”)
“TE DEUM LAUDAMUS” THE GREAT THANKSGIVING (Published in the “Pall-Mall Gazette”)
THE WOMEN’S VOTE. NATURE VERSUS POLITICS
A “HAPPY THOUGHTS” DAY (Written specially for the Grantham Red Cross Outings Fund)
WHY DID I——?
IN THE HUSH OF THE DAWN. A THOUGHT
