PREFACE
CONTENTS
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" )
THIS AMAZING WAR A WOMAN'S POINT OF VIEW ( Reprinted by special
"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
STARVING BELGIUM AN APPEAL ( Written by request for Mr.
"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
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
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
EYES OF THE SEA ( Written by special request of the Directors
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
DARKNESS AND LIGHT ( Written at the request of Sir Arthur
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
Transcriber's Notes
MARIE CORELLI
MY “LITTLE BIT”
BY
MARIE CORELLI
AUTHOR OF “THE YOUNG DIANA,” “THE LIFE EVERLASTING,”
“INNOCENT,” “ROMANCE OF TWO WORLDS,”
“BARABBAS,” ETC.
NEW publisher's logo YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Copyright, 1919,
By George H. Doran Company
Printed in the United States of America
DEDICATED
TO
MY FRIEND
A. R. M. L.
AND HIS FELLOW-MEMBERS
OF THE CARLTON CLUB
