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State"—The European Statesman Miss Corelli had in her
Mind when Drawing this Character—The "King" of
"Temporal Power"—Morganatic Marriages: the
Novelist's Denunciation—Attempts on the Part of Book
Trade Journals to Quash the Success of the Novel, and
their Retractations—The Rejection of the King's Love
by Lotys, Woman of the People: a Quotation 265


CHAPTER XV

SPEECHES AND LECTURES

The Novelist's First Public Speech: an Appeal for a Warwickshire
Church—An Address Delivered to Stratford
Working-men on "The Secret of Happiness"—Hard
Work the Best Tonic in the World—The Novelist at
the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution—"The Vanishing
Gift": an Address on the Decay of the Imagination—Art
in the "Old World" Period and Art now—Imagination
an Artist's First Necessary—Modern Wonders
Imagined when the World was Young—The Novelist at
Glasgow—An Address on "Signs of the Times" Delivered
before a Huge Audience—An Allusion to the Prince of
Wales and his Famous Speech at the Mansion House—"The
Old Country must Wake up"—"The Advancing
and Resistless Tide of Truth"—A Notable Peroration 281


CHAPTER XVI

MARIE CORELLI'S VIEWS ON MARRIAGE

The Novelist's Definition of Marriage—The Modern "Market"—"One
Woman, One Man"—Marie Corelli's Exhortation
to Women—"God will not be Mocked"—The Religious
Instruction of Children—The Abolition of Religious
Education in French Schools and its Unhappy Effect on
the Country—Lionel Valliscourt: a Pathetic Example of
"Cram"—And "Boy": of Parental Neglect 298