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Title: A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain

Author: George Borrow

Editor: Thomas J. Wise

Release Date: July 20, 2009 [eBook #29469]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER TO THE
BIBLE IN SPAIN***

Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library,
UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was
made.

[Picture: Cover of pamphlet]

[Picture: Facsimile of last page of pamphlet]

A
SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER
TO
THE BIBLE IN SPAIN

_Inspired by_
FORD'S "HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SPAIN."

BY
GEORGE BORROW

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
1913

PREFATORY NOTE

In 1845 Richard Ford published his _Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain and
Readers at Home_ [2 Vols. 8vo.], a work which still commands attention,
and the compilation of which is said to have occupied its author for more
than sixteen years. In conformity with the wish of Ford (who had himself
favourably reviewed _The Bible in Spain_) Borrow undertook to produce a
study of the _Hand-Book_ for _The Quarterly Review_. The following Essay
was the result.

But the Essay, brilliant as it is, was not a 'Review.' Not until page 6
of the suppressed edition (p. 25 of the present edition) is reached is
the _Hand-Book_ even mentioned, and but little concerning it appears
thereafter. Lockhart, then editing the _Quarterly_, proposed to render
it more suitable for the purpose for which it had been intended by
himself interpolating a series of extracts from Ford's volumes. But
Borr