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My "Little Bit"

Chapter 63: Transcriber’s Notes
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About This Book

A collection of essays and speeches, mostly published as newspaper and magazine pieces before and during the Great War, that mix patriotic exhortation, moral critique, and social commentary. The author argues against the romanticisation of armed conflict while urging national unity, charity for occupied and starving peoples, and energetic civil mobilisation; she praises naval strength, the civic and moral virtues of women, and volunteer efforts, and criticises governmental incompetence, economic mismanagement, and radical agitation. Interwoven are religious reflections, appeals for aid, and meditations on national character and public duty.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and hyphenation were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors in English were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Misspelled non-English words were not corrected.

Page 15: Duplicate book title deleted by Transcriber.

Page 128: “Dux Fœmina facti” should be “Dux Fæmina facti”.

The French text on pages 141–144 contains several uncorrected spelling and accent errors.

Page 179: “names of scared things” probably should be “sacred”.

Page 213: “grudges you success” perhaps should be “your”.

Page 261: “in the thoat and palate” probably should be “throat”.

Page 262: “abnominations” was printed that way.