F A PAGE OF THE MANUSCRIPT OF 'THE ROMANY
RYE,' 346

_From the Borrow Papers in the possession of the Author of
'George Borrow and his Circle._'

'WILD WALES' IN ITS BEGINNINGS, 365

_Two pages from one of George Borrow's Pocket-books with pencilled
notes made on his journey through Wales._

FACSIMILE OF THE TITLE-PAGE OF 'WILD WALES,' 368

_From the original Manuscript in the possession of the Author of
'George Borrow and his Circle.'_

FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST PAGE OF 'WILD WALES,' 370

_From the original Manuscript in the possession of the Author of
'George Borrow and his Circle.'_

FACSIMILE OF A POEM FROM 'TARGUM,' 403

_A Translation from the French by George Borrow._

BORROW AS A PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGES--AN ADVERTISEMENT, 409

A PAGE OF THE MANUSCRIPT OF BORROW'S 'SONGS OF SCANDINAVIA'--AN
UNPUBLISHED WORK, 411

A LETTER FROM BORROW TO HIS WIFE WRITTEN FROM ROME IN
HIS CONTINENTAL JOURNEY OF 1844, 418

INTRODUCTION

It is now exactly seventeen years ago since I published a volume not
dissimilar in form to this under the title of _Charlotte Bronte and her
Circle_. The title had then an element of novelty, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti's _Dante and his Circle_, at the time the only book of this
particular character, having quite another aim. There are now some
twenty or more biographies based upon a similar plan.[1] The method has
its convenience where there are earlier lives of a given writer, as one
can in this way differentiate the book from previous efforts by making
one's hero stand out among his friends. Some such apology, I feel, is
necessary, because, in these days of the multiplication of books, every
book, at least other than a work of imagination, requires ample apology.
In _Charlotte Bronte and her Circle_ I was able to claim that, even
though following in the footsteps of Mrs. Gaskell, I had added some four
hundred new letters by Charlotte Bronte to the world's knowledge of that
interesting woman, and still more considerably enlarged our knowledge of
her sister Emily. This achievement has been generously acknowledged, and
I am most proud of the testimony of the most accomplished of living
biographers, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, who once rendered me the
following quite spontaneous tribute:

We have