text: " From exuberant 4to down to the fid-fad concentration of 12mo--from crown demy to diamond editions--no end to these chartered documentations of the sex! The women of this favoured kingdom of Queen Victoria appear to have been unexpectedly weighed in the balance and found wanting in morals and manners; or why this sudden emission of codes of morality? No one denies indeed that woman has of late ris' wonderfully in the market; or that the weaker sex is coming it amazingly strong