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 strenuously opposed to the political and educational system of Jesuitry, and believes that the whole civilized world is with her.

The much-discussed question of "royal bigamy" as condemned by the action of Miss Corelli's young Prince Humphry and his love for "Gloria," is a matter that has nothing to do with one Royal Family more than another. Our author's ideas are, that if any crime is a crime in commoners, it should not be excused in persons of Royal birth; moreover, she thinks that many a Royal Prince has been made hopelessly miserable, and the springs of his life poisoned at their very fount, by his being forced to wed where he does not love, merely for "Reasons of State." The Pope has quite recently condemned Royal alliances between cousins; and as all Royal Families are at the present day very closely allied, Miss Corelli thinks it will soon be necessary for heirs to thrones to enjoy the same honest freedom of purpose in their loves and marriages as the simplest gentlemen in the land.

The novelist has been told that she has made enemies among the "extra-loyal" and "Imperialistic" party. She presumes the "extra-loyal" means the "extra-toadies." If the "Imperialistic" party is a party which seeks to curtail and restrict