published in Amsterdam in 1798.

The reception accorded to _Faustus_ was the reverse of favourable. _The
Literary Gazette_ said (_July_ 16_th_, 1825):--

"This is another work to which no respectable publisher ought to have
allowed his name to be put. The political allusion and metaphysics,
which may have made it popular among a low class in Germany, do not
sufficiently season its lewd scenes and coarse descriptions for
British palates. We have occasionally publications for the
fireside,--these are only fit for the fire."

Borrow's translation of Klinger's novel was reprinted in 1864, without
any acknowledgment of the name of the translator. Only a few stray words
in the text were altered. But five passages were deleted from the
Preface, which, not being otherwise modified or supplemented, gave--as
was no doubt the intention of the publishers--the work the appearance of
a new translation specially prepared. This unhallowed edition bears the
following title-page:

_Faustus_: / _His_ / _Life_, _Death_, _and Doom_. / _A Romance in Prose_.
/ _Translated from the German_. / [Quotation as in the original edition,
followed by a Printer's ornament.] / _London_: / _W. Kent and Co._,
_Paternoster Row_. / 1864.--Crown 8vo, pp. viii + 302.

"There is no reason to suppose," remarks Mr. Shorter (_George Borrow and
his Circle_, p. 104) "that the individual, whoever he may have been, who
prepared the 1864 edition of _Faustus_ for the Press, had ever seen
either the German original or the French translation of Klinger's book."

There is a copy of the First Edition of _Faustus_ in the Library of the
British Museum. The Press-mark is N.351.

[Picture: Title page of Romantic Ballads]

(3) [ROMANTIC BALLADS: 1826]

Romantic Ballads, / Translated from the Danish; / and / Miscellaneous
Pieces; / By / George Borrow. / _Through gloomy paths unknown_-- / _Paths
which untrodden be_, / _From rock to rock I roam_ / _Along the dashing
sea_. / Bowring. / Norwich: / Printed and Published by S. Wilkin, Upper
Haymarket. / 1826.

Collation:--Demy octavo, pp. xii + 187; consisting of: Half-title (with
imprint "_Norwich_: / _Printed by S. Wilkin_, _Upper Haymarket_" upon the
centre of the reverse) pp. i-ii; Title-page, as above (with blank
reverse) pp. iii-iv; Table of _Contents_ (with blank reverse) pp. v-vi;
_Preface_ pp. vii-viii; Prefatory Poem _From Allan Cunningham to George
Borrow_ pp