to pass some severe strictures upon the obvious cant which
characterised the Bible Society in its relations with Borrow. These
strictures, although supported by ample quotations from unpublished
documents, the London publishers, being a semi-religious house, persuaded
the author to cancel.

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A / Bibliography / of / The Writings in Prose and Verse / of / George
Henry Borrow / By / Thomas J. Wise / London: / Printed for Private
Circulation only / By Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. / 1914.

Collation:--Foolscap quarto, pp. xxii + 316, with Sixty-nine facsimiles
of Title-pages and Manuscripts.

Issued in bright green paper boards, lettered across the back, and with
the title-page reproduced upon the front. One hundred copies only were
printed.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY
BY RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LTD.
1914.

Footnotes:

{0a} The majority of the Manuscripts of Ballads written in or about 1829
are upon paper watermarked with the date 1828. The majority of the
Manuscripts of Ballads written in or about 1854 are upon paper
watermarked with the date 1852.

{0b} Among the advertisements at the end of _The Romany Rye_, 1857,
three works (1) _Celtic Bards_, _Chiefs_, _and Kings_, (2) _Songs of
Europe_, and (3) _Koempe Viser_, were announced as 'ready for the Press';
whilst a fourth, _Northern Skalds_, _Kings_, _and Earls_, was noted as
'unfinished.'

{0c} No doubt a considerable number of the Ballads prepared for the
_Songs of Scandinavia_ in 1829, and surviving in the Manuscripts of that
date, were actually composed during the three previous years. The
production of the complete series must have formed a substantial part of
Borrow's occupation during that "veiled period," the mists surrounding
which Mr. Shorter has so effectually dissipated.

{0d} "What you have written has given me great pleasure, as it holds out
hope that I may be employed usefully to the Deity, to man, and to
myself."--[_From Borrow's letter to the Rev. J. Jowett_.]

"Our Committee stumbled at an expression in your letter of yesterday
. . . at which a humble Christian might not unreasonably take
umbrage. It is where you speak of becoming '_useful to the Deity_,
_to man_, _and to yourself_.' Doubtless you meant _the prospect of
glorifying God_."--[_From the Rev. J. Jowett's reply_.