text:  The attack may be very spirited and the culprit properly trounced in most cases--so we are contented to leave the fantastic and philosophic heroines--so bepraised by their countrymen--to the tender mercies of our Amazons at home; but we couch the lance in Maga's lists on behalf of one whose name is known very widely but whose character is little understood and constitute ourselves champion _a l'outrance_ of Bettina Brentano