ies
than with any other question. He did his work well for the Bible
Society no doubt . . . but there is a humourous note in the fact that
Borrow should have utilised his position as a missionary--for so we
must count him--to make himself thoroughly acquainted with gypsy
folklore, and gypsy songs and dances."--[Shorter, _George Borrow and
his Circle_, p. 240.]

(12) _The Illustrated London News_, _December_ 8_th_, 1855, p. 685.

ANCIENT RUNIC STONE, RECENTLY FOUND IN THE ISLE OF MAN.

Reprinted in _George Borrow and his Circle_, by Clement King Shorter,
1913, pp. 301-303.

(13.) _A Practical Grammar of the Antient Gaelic_. By the Rev. John
Kelly, LL.D. Edited by the Rev. William Gill, 8vo, 1859.

p. xi.

TRANSLATION FROM THE MANX. [_And what is glory_, _but the radiance of a
name_,--]

Borrow's statement in the closing paragraph (printed _post_, p. 299) of
his Essay on _The Welsh and their Literature_ renders it possible to
place this Translation to his credit.

p. xix.

A LETTER FROM BORROW TO THE EDITOR, regarding Manx Ballads.

(14) _ The Quarterly Review_, _January_, 1861, pp. 38-63.

THE WELSH AND THEIR LITERATURE. A Prose Essay.

This Essay was in fact a review, by Borrow himself, of his own work _The
Sleeping Bard_.

"In the autumn [of 1860] Borrow determined to call attention to it
[_The Sleeping Bard_] himself. He revamped an old article he had
written in 1830, entitled _The Welsh and their Literature_, and sent
it to Mr. Murray for _The Quarterly Review_. . . . The modern
literature and things of Wales were not introduced into the article .
. . and it appeared anonymously in _The Quarterly Review_ for
January, 1861. It is in fact Borrow's own (and the only) review of
_The Sleeping Bard_, which, however, had the decisive result of
selling off the whole edition in a month."--[Knapp's _Life and
Correspondence of George Borrow_, 1899, vol. ii, pp. 195-196.]

The Manuscript of this Essay, or Review, is not at present forthcoming.
But, fortunately, the MS. of certain paragraphs with which Borrow brought
the Essay to a conclusion, and which the Editor in the exercise of his
editorial function quite properly struck out, have been preserved. The
barefaced manner in which Borrow anonymously praised and advertised his
own work fully justified the