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Title: Marie Corelli : the writer and the woman
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Coates, Thomas F. G Bell, Robert Stanley Warren, 1871- joint author
Subjects: Corelli, Marie, 1864-1924
Publisher: Philadelphia : George W. Jacobs
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d the rooms want cleaning. She attacksneither the Roman Catholic Faith nor even theChurch. She makes a terrible onslaught upon therats. The Master Christian is both a novel and asermon. The story of the book is intensely in-teresting, in *plot clever and original. It is oneof the refreshing features of Miss Corellis booksthat the plots always are original. She does not goto the British Museum or to the productions of Con-tinental novelists to find her themes. Wherever,in *The Master Christian, the mission of thebook can best be emphasized, even though whatcritics call the **art of the story —as to which weshould like something in the nature of a cleardefinition—gives way to it, she pursues themission. After all, we have an idea that if litera-ture possesses merit, it is rather because it isfollowed as a means of influencing mens mindsthan as an attempt to write a story, the lines ofwhich fall together as harmoniously as do the notesof a perfect string band. Such a book if produced
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The Master Christian 229 would, we fancy, be so harmonious that it wouldhave no influence to raise men and women tothink. With The Master Christian the reader hasto think all the time. It is a sermon of greatpower, and the text of it is supplied, as it shouldbe, by the fair preacher. It will be rememberedthat in the year 1900 the late Dr. St. GeorgeMivart, a priest of the Church of Rome, was in-hibited by His Eminence Cardinal Vaughan, onaccount of certain scientific works which were dis-pleasing to the Church. Shortly afterwards Dr.Mivart died and the Romish Church even deniedhim religious rites of burial. In an In Memoriam note appended to her Open letter to CardinalVaughan on this subject, Marie Corelli wrote: In the name of the all-loving and merciful Christ,whose teachings we, as Christians, profess tofollow, it is necessary to enter a strong protestagainst this barbarous act in a civilized age, and toset it down beside the blind stupidity which ar-raigned glorious Galileo, and t

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