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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
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