text:  Those among our readers who may have attended principally to the selections which we made from these volumes before we animadverted on the "Drama of Exile " may perhaps be of opinion that we have treated Miss Barrett with undue severity and have not done justice to the vigour and rare originality of her powers; while others who may have attended chiefly to the blemishes of style and execution which we have thought it our duty to point out in our later quotations may possibly think that we have ranked her higher than she deserves