text:  You will therefore probably sympathize in the general amazement that at a moment when the sex is signalizing itself from pole to pole--when a Grace Darling obtains the palm for intrepidity--when the Honourable Miss Grimston's _Prayer-Book_ is read in churches--when Mrs Fry like hunger eats through stone walls to call felons to repentance--when a king has descended from his throne and a prince from royal highnesshood to reward the virtues of the fair partners to whom they were unable to impart the rights of the blood-royal--when the fairest specimen of modern sculpture has been supplied by a female hand and woman in short is at a premium throughout the universe all this waste of sermonizing should have been thrown like a wet blanket over her shoulders! But this is not enough dear Mr Editor