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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, George Borrow, by Thomas Seccombe, Edited by
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+Title: George Borrow
+       Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903
+
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+Author: Thomas Seccombe
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+Editor: James Thursfield
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+Release Date: January 7, 2010  [eBook #30887]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GEORGE BORROW***
+
+
+Transcribed from the July 10th, 1903, Times Literary Supplement by David
+Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
+
+
+
+
+
+                          GEORGE BORROW. {213a}
+
+
+It is a singular coincidence, perhaps, that during one and the same
+summer we should be celebrating centenaries of Samuel Pepys and George
+Borrow.  Pepys died in the early summer of 1703; Borrow was born in July,
+1803.  Unlike each other in almost every respect, they are _dui palor_,
+{213b} as Borrow would say, in one very material point.  The reputation
+of each of them has risen to such a point that, except for injudicious
+and exaggerated praise, it can have little to fear in the future; and in
+each case this reputation is based primarily upon autobiography.  Among
+the world's autobiographers the author of "Lavengro" is entitled, we feel
+sure, to rank with St. Augustine, Cellini, Pepys, Rousseau, Franklin;
+and, for truthfulness, it is very probable, if we could only estimate it
+properly, that he would have to be put at the top of the class.  His
+nearest competitor in this respect would undoubtedly be Pepys, and the
+veracity in both cases not the result of a double share of innate
+truthfulness, but very largely an accident, due to lack of invention and
+an absence of that powerful literary style which in the case of a Leigh
+Hunt or a Stevenson distorts everything that passes through it.  In Pepys
+the malignity of the literary fairy is more than compensated by the
+worthy secretary's insatiable appetite for life; in Borrow by the
+_wanderlust_ or extraordinary passion and faculty for adventure, which
+makes his best books such an ambrosial hash of sorcery, Jews, Gentiles,
+gipsies, prisons, half-in-halves, _cosas de Espana_--what you will.
+
+George Henry Borrow, to give him for once his full baptismal name, was
+born at East Dereham, "a beautiful little town in the western division of
+Norfolk," on July 5, 1803.  His father, who came of an old Cornish
+family, was in his forty-fifth year when Borrow was born, having married
+ten years previously Anne Perfrement, of a family which had migrated from
+Dauphine in the days of Dutch William.  The father was captain in a
+marching regiment, the West Norfolk Militia.  Like Sterne's therefore,
+Borrow's early life was nomadic, and his school-life was broken between
+Edinburgh, Clonmel, and Norwich.  But his real mentors were found in this
+last city, where he came in contact with a French _emigre_ named
+d'Eterville.  Here, too, he fell under the influence of "godless Billy"
+Taylor, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and abusing religion.
+Here, too, while he ought to have been studying law, he was claiming
+acquaintance with gipsies, bruisers, and shady characters, such as the
+notorious Thurtell.  A more dangerous influence to Borrow than any,
+perhaps, was that of Sir John Bowring, a plausible polyglot, who
+deliberately used his facility in acquiring and translating tongues as a
+ladder to an administrative post abroad.  Borrow, as was perhaps natural,
+put a wrong construction upon his sympathy, and his apparently
+disinterested ambition to leave no poetic fragment in Russian, Swedish,
+Polish, Servian, Bohemian, or Hungarian unrendered into English.  He
+determined to emulate a purpose so lofty in its detachment, and the
+mistake cost him dear, for it led him for long years into a veritable
+_cul de sac_ of literature; it led also to the accentuation of that
+pseudo-philological mania which played such havoc with the ordinary
+development of rational ideas in a man in many respects so sane as
+Borrow.
+
+An entirely erroneous belief in the marketable value of Danish ballads,
+Welsh triads, Russian folk-songs, and the like in rococo English
+translations after the Bowring pattern led Borrow to exchange an
+attorney's office for a garret in Grub-street.  His immediate ambition
+was something between Goldsmith's and Chatterton's ballads, Homeric odes,
+epics, plays; he was, at all hazards, to write something grand--"to be
+stared at, lifted on peoples' shoulders."  He found his Griffiths in Sir
+Richard Phillips, the radical alderman and philanthropic sweater, under
+whose tender mercies he rapidly developed a suicidal tendency, until in
+May, 1825, a windfall of 20 pounds enabled him to break his chain and
+escape to the highway and the dingle and the picturesque group of
+moochers and gipsies enshrined for ever in the pages of "Lavengro."  The
+central portion of this marvellous composition is occupied by the Dingle
+episode, in which Lavengro (the "word-master," Borrow's gipsy name for
+himself) is revealed to us in conflict with "the flaming Tinman" and in
+colloquy with his Romany friend, Jasper Petulengro, with a subtle
+papistical propagandist, "the man in black," with the typical gipsy chi,
+Ursula, and with the peerless Isopel Berners.  His account of his
+relations with her we take to be strictly and almost literally accurate.
+He was powerfully attracted by the magnanimity of spirit no less than by
+the physical charm of this Brynhildic damsel, tall, straight, and blonde,
+with loose-flowing flaxen hair, and with a carriage, especially of the
+neck and shoulders, which reminded the postilion of a certain marchioness
+of his acquaintance.  But Borrow was of a cold temperament, a despiser
+and mistruster of young women, whom he regarded primarily as invaluable
+repositories of nursery lore, folk-song, tradition, and similar toys,
+about which his male friends were apt to be reticent.  The attraction was
+so strong that he had serious thoughts of emigrating with "the beauteous
+Queen of the Dingle," but he dallied with the idea with characteristic
+waywardness until it was too late.  He sought to postpone awkward
+decisions, to divert himself and amuse Isopel by making his charmer learn
+Armenian--the language which he happened at the time to be studying.
+Isopel bore with it for some time, but the imposition of the verb "to
+love" in Armenian convinced her that the word-master was not only insane,
+but also inhuman.  Love-making and Armenian do not go well together, and
+Belle could not feel that the man who proposed to conjugate the verb "to
+love" in Armenian was master of his intentions in plain English.  It was
+even so.  The man of tongues lacked speech wherewith to make manifest his
+passion; the vocabulary of the word-master was insufficient to convince
+the workhouse girl of one of the plainest meanings a man can well have.
+When the distracted Borrow had reached the decision that it was high time
+to give over his "mocking and scoffing," and returned with this resolve
+to the dingle, Isopel Berners had quitted it, never to return.  She ran
+away to the nearest sea-port, and took shipping to America.  Lavengro
+with some anguish steeled his heart against following her.  The scene of
+these transactions was a wooded glen or dingle a few miles from
+Willenhall, in Staffordshire, where Lavengro and Isopel were encamped in
+their respective tents, having as their neighbours the gipsy clan of
+which Jasper was the chief.  Upon the whole the Dingle chapters are
+perhaps the most brilliant and the most enduring that Borrow ever
+achieved.  Their interest is greatly enhanced by the fact that they are
+probably a naked transcript from actual fact, for Borrow was a poor hand
+at invention.  He rarely, if ever, invented a character.  His surest
+source of inspiration was the unadorned truth.
+
+After the experience of a summer in the open, Borrow, who was now
+twenty-two, relapsed into the indifferent versification of Danish ballads
+and Welsh bards, was severely fleeced in obscure journeyings in Southern
+Europe, and so gained some experience for future use, vainly sought a
+post, on the strength of his linguistic attainments, as an assistant in
+the British Museum Library, and was reduced to writing reactionary
+political leaders for a Norwich paper; he was, in fact, waiting, like Mr.
+Micawber, for something to turn up, or, in his own graphic phrase,
+"digging holes in the sand and filling them up again."
+
+His deliverance was effected in rather a singular manner.  About 1833 he
+became acquainted with the Skeppers of Oulton Hall, in that pleasant
+stretch of country which borders on the river Waveney.  By Mrs. Clarke
+(afterwards Mrs. Borrow), the widowed sister of the owner of the Hall, he
+was introduced to the Rev. Francis Cunningham, rector of Pakefield, a
+fine type of the Evangelical clergyman of a past generation, who had
+married the sister of Joseph John Gurney.  It seemed to this good man
+that Borrow's gift of tongues might well be employed in the service of
+the Bible Society, of which the famous Norfolk Quaker was an influential
+member.  The hour of the former would-be martyr to infidelity had now
+come; he was taken into the regular service of the society upon an
+average salary of about 250 pounds, in addition to expenses, and was
+employed as editor, translator, and colporteur of Bibles in strange
+lands.  The labours of the next eight years of his life were as fruitful
+and honourable as those of the preceding eight had been desultory and
+obscure.  His first commission was to go to St. Petersburg and there edit
+and superintend the setting up and printing of Lipoftsof's version of the
+New Testament into Manchu.  Borrow acquired the language and performed
+his task with an almost incredible expedition.  He also learned Russian,
+and in the summer of 1835 proposed to the society that he should himself
+distribute the work which he had seen through the press upon the confines
+of the Far East.  This scheme was scotched by the refusal of the Russian
+Government to grant him the necessary authorization and passports.  But
+Borrow's energies were transferred to a project which scarcely, if at
+all, less deserves the epithet Quixotic.  It was to disseminate a
+Castilian translation of the Vulgate (made by Father Scio at Valencia
+between 1790 and 1793) in Spain and Portugal.  To disperse Bibles in
+Papua or in Park-lane were, it might be argued, an enterprise fully as
+hopeful as to scatter them in Galicia or La Mancha; but this is neither
+here nor there, and the stimulus that was lacking in other directions was
+abundantly supplied to the society and their emissary by the fact that,
+according to the _regla quinta_ of the old Index, all Spanish versions of
+the Bible or of any part of it were absolutely forbidden, and that as a
+necessary consequence the Bible was a book as unfamiliar in Spain as it
+was held to be dangerous and revolutionary.  Spain was to Borrow what the
+Harley Ministry was to Swift.  It seemed to develop in him an almost
+superhuman activity and power; and, fond of cant as Borrow's employers
+too often were, it is infinitely to their credit that they not only
+tolerated but even applauded the unconventional epistles which he wrote
+to them of his exploits during his three long journeys in Spain, which
+with two brief intervals occupied him from November, 1835, down to April,
+1840.  These letters with the addition of a few chapters and a number of
+insignificant changes made up "The Bible in Spain," which was published
+by John Murray on December 10, 1812, when "El Gitano," as the
+enthusiastic Ford dubbed the author, literally woke up to find himself
+famous.  His experience for a season was that of "the man Sterne"; he
+dined with peers, Ambassadors, and Bishops, and, like Major Pendennis,
+was particularly complacent with Bishops.  We might here for a moment
+compare his position to that of Johnson in 1763.  He had gone down into
+the arena and fought his wild beasts, and had come up triumphant, as
+Johnson had done after the Dictionary.  He still had difficulties to meet
+and debts to face, for he had gradually become estranged from "the
+sub-committee," and the Bible Society suddenly found that "no sphere
+remained open in which his services could be utilized."  Fortunately, he
+had provided for his future, not by obtaining a pension, but by marrying,
+in April, 1840, an old ally of his, Mary Clarke, a widow with a good
+jointure (over 400 pounds a year), a skilful hand at dumplings and
+treacle posset, and "an excellent woman of business."  He was now fifteen
+years older than when he had "lost" Isopel.  The motives which prompted
+this scorner of matrimony to marry a woman seven or eight years his
+senior were similar, it may be surmised, to those which actuated Disraeli
+on his marriage.  The compact was based upon convenience and mutual
+esteem, and there is no reason to doubt that it conduced not only to
+Borrow's comfort and security, but also to his happiness.  There were no
+children.  The "daughter" whose accomplishments Borrow celebrated in the
+exordium to "Wild Wales" was his stepdaughter, Henrietta Clarke.  He
+seemed now in an enviable position, with a small but agreeable freehold
+on the banks of Oulton Broad, able to indulge in "idleness and the pride
+of literature" to his heart's content.  If he had had a "club" or a
+Boswell about him, he might still have been tolerably happy.  But he was
+not a clubbable man, Borrow!  Nevertheless it was during the years that
+followed that, like Johnson, he achieved his best title to fame, the
+wondrous five volumes of autobiography so capriciously planned and so
+strangely entitled "Lavengro--Romany Rye."  The stimulus in his case was
+largely, we believe, if not mainly, pecuniary.  "Money is our best
+friend" he wrote to his wife in 1844.  He wanted a purse of his own to
+travel and give dinners with, for the edge of episcopal hospitality was
+already wearing off.  He desired too, no doubt, to put a coping stone to
+his fame.  Already in January, 1843, he wrote to his publisher that he
+had begun upon a Robinson Borrow, and Murray, Ford, and other friends
+threw up their caps.  The publisher may have well seen a veritable gold
+mine in prospect.  One has only to imagine the fervent curiosity which
+the personal element in "The Bible in Spain," so suggestive of mystery
+and romance, must have exalted in the reading public of 1843, to perceive
+that any such anticipation was fully warranted by the facts of the case.
+Here was a book which bore upon its title-page its passport to Sunday
+reading as a good, serious, missionary work, but for which it was
+manifest, as the surprised and delighted reader proceeded, that not
+Bishop Heber or the good Schwartz, but Mendoza and Lesage had been taken
+as models.  May not people well have wondered (the good, pious English
+folk, to whom "luck" was a scandal, as the Bible Society's secretary
+wrote to Borrow) what manner of man this muleteer-missionary might be?
+The incongruity was only heightened by familiarity with Borrow's
+Pharaoh-like visage, abundant grey hair, and tall blonde Scandinavian
+figure, which reminded those who came under his spell of those roving
+Northmen of the days of simple medieval devotion, who were wont to
+signalize their conversion from heathen darkness by a Mediterranean
+venture, combining the characters of a piratical cruise and a pious
+pilgrimage.  But if publisher and client were justified in believing that
+they had discovered an autobiographical El Dorado, they were, none the
+less, to be sadly undeceived.
+
+To whatever cause the disappointment may be attributed, it was certainly
+not due to any lack of pains on the part of Don Jorge.  The labour which
+he bestowed upon his Life was immense, quite disproportionate to his
+previous efforts.  "The Gypsies in Spain," for instance, was built up
+upon already existing jottings, extracts, and notes, very loosely thrown
+together; while "The Bible in Spain" itself was, in regard to its
+composition, nothing more than an _olla podrida_ of journalized letters.
+But he wrote "Lavengro," as it were, with his life's blood.  It cost him
+the same agony that parts of "David Copperfield" cost Dickens, while he
+had none of Dickens's trained fluency or descriptive power.  His lack of
+ease in writing often gives a wrong impression of insincerity or
+artificiality.  Most of his apostrophes, even the most strained, are
+expressions of genuine feeling, which he was simply incapable of
+assimilating to the prevailing tone of the book, that of a _novela
+picaresca_.  His determination to be original and to tell the truth, to
+avoid all padding and second-hand ideas, kept him on the rack; yet he
+persevered, working hard at the Life with intervals of discouragement for
+no less than six years.  "Lavengro" eventually appeared, in three
+volumes, in February, 1851, and was received not merely with coldness and
+unconcern, but with hostile carping and even derision.  The critics and
+Borrow pronounced themselves mutually disillusioned.  It was natural that
+a man like Borrow should magnify and should misinterpret this unexpected
+blow.
+
+The attitude of his critics was due to a very complex system of causes.
+The English have always been the most self-complacent of peoples, and
+1851 was perhaps the one year in the whole of our history when this
+little weakness reached its climax.  The Oxford Movement, with Newman and
+Ward as its prophets, had been succeeded by the Manchester Movement, upon
+which Cobden and Macaulay had long been busily engaged in shedding the
+most brilliant rays of the prevailing Whig optimism; factories, railways,
+penny postage, free trade, commercial expansion, universal peace and
+plenty, industrial exhibitions, religious toleration, general
+education--these were the watchwords of the day, and all these things
+alike were repulsive in the highest degree to George Borrow.  He was as
+conservative as a gipsy or a tramp, while his hatred of novelty was
+worthy of the race among whom _Vaya usted con Dios_, _y que no haya
+Novedad_! is a common form of valediction.  His hatred of aesthetic
+culture, of sentimental toleration, and of the modern woman amounted to a
+positive mania.  Of the great writers of his own century he never spoke
+unless it were to condemn, as in the case of Scott, Wordsworth,
+Thackeray, and Keats, of whom he once asked, "Have they not been trying
+to resuscitate him?"  In his conversations with Agnes Strickland and Miss
+Cobbe, as recorded by the latter, he appears to have behaved like an
+escaped lunatic, while, upon the occasion of his meeting with Anna
+Gurney, we know that he literally took to flight and ran without stopping
+from Sheringham to the Old Tucker's Inn at Cromer.  An interview with
+Mrs. Browning or George Eliot would have probably driven him stark
+staring mad.  Another stumbling block to the critics of 1851 was the
+peculiar dryness, if we may so describe it, of Borrow's style.  He could
+respond to the thrill of natural beauty.  He could enjoy and find
+utterance for his mood when it came upon him, just as he could enjoy a
+tankard of old ale or linger to gaze upon a sympathetic face; but he
+refused to pamper such feelings, still more to simulate them; he refused
+to allow himself to become the creature of literary or poetic ecstasy; he
+refused to indulge in the fashionable debauch of _dilettante_ melancholy.
+His life was in many ways the reverse of normal, but he insisted in
+writing about it quite naturally, "as if there were nothing in it."  It
+is perfectly true, then; Borrow is dry.  What needs to be appreciated is
+that his dryness is not that of dry rot, but the dryness of high
+elevation, of a somewhat solitary and craggy humour--the dryness of
+"Robinson Crusoe," of "Gil Blas," of "Hadji Baba," and, we might add, of
+"Don Quixote."  There is an absence of verdure.  You will not find much
+sentiment in Borrow.  As to word-painting, picturesque glamour and
+deference to the prejudices of earnest people, a quality so dearly prized
+by Englishmen of every rank and period, Borrow would have none of them.
+You will find none of them in his works; but you will find "part of the
+secret, brother," especially in the Dingle.  For there Borrow is at his
+best, in the open air, among the gipsies--with Jasper, Pakomovna, Tawno,
+Ursula, the Man in Black, and Belle Berners, interlocutors in dialogues
+of the greenwood unrivalled since the heyday of the forest of Arden.
+Once more "Lavengro" badly belied the expectations of those who were
+looking out for another "Eothen"; and finally, apart the author's
+objectionable and reactionary prejudices, there were other and obvious
+faults about the book (mainly of literary detail, style, and arrangement)
+which were abundantly manifest to the strenuous critics of 1851.  What
+these gentry did not perceive was the unique character of the book--its
+truth, its reality, its open-air quality, its distinctive humour, its
+dramatic power, the genius which revealed to Borrow instinctively the
+literary form and the picaresque manner which formed the right, nay the
+inevitable, setting of the particular story that he had to tell.
+
+Borrow's previous success only served to emphasize the bitterness of his
+defeat, for so he regarded the failure of his originality to carry his
+darling "Lavengro" through the breakers.  He complained that he had "had
+the honour" of being rancorously abused by every unmanly scoundrel, every
+sycophantic lackey, and every political and religious renegade in the
+kingdom.  His fury was that of an angry bull tormented by gnats.  His
+worst passions were aroused, his most violent prejudices confirmed.  But
+the abuse did not divert him by a hairbreadth from his preconceived plan.
+He proceeded with deliberation to carry on in "The Romany Rye" the story
+so abruptly suspended at the close of the hundredth chapter of
+"Lavengro."  The first chapters of "The Romany Rye" (which was not
+actually published until May, 1857) are quite equal to anything that
+Borrow ever wrote.  The book falls off a little towards the close, which
+is, if possible, even more abrupt and inconclusive than that of
+"Lavengro" itself.  In the appendix, the bigotries, hatreds, and
+centrifugal propensities which made up the George Borrow of 1850-57 were
+emphasized and underlined for the benefit of the flunkeys, vipers, and
+"yahoos" who had dared to asperse his autobiography.  He never carried
+his story on from 1825 to 1832 or wrote the once projected "Bible in
+Russia"; perhaps he never meant to do so; but, even if he had, we more
+than doubt whether they would have approached in value the first 116
+chapters of his immortal autobiography.  His remaining work was the
+detailed journal of a vacation tour in "Wild Wales," which was in no way
+inferior to its predecessors in literary value, though it is considerably
+below them in general interest.  Wild people and old word-music, in its
+"native wood-notes wild," were a passion with Borrow to the last, and
+helped to save him from himself.  He suffered terribly from horror of
+death, religious gloom ("the horrors"), solitariness, and disappointment.
+He experienced a series of rebuffs, failing in succession to obtain a
+Consulship, a seat on the quorum, employment in China, and a
+manuscript-hunting mission from the British Museum.  His unrivalled
+qualifications as a linguist failed to obtain for him posts for which he
+was eminently fitted, but to which he saw inferior men preferred.  If a
+roving commission or an administrative post could have been found for him
+abroad, by preference in the East as he himself desired, hard work might
+have gone far to exorcise his melancholy, and we might have had from his
+pen contributions to the study of Eastern life that would have added
+lustre to a group of writers already represented in England by Curzon and
+Kinglake, Lane and Morier, Palgrave and Burton.  With Burton's love of
+roving adventure, of strange tongues, and of anthropology in its widest
+sense, the author of "The Bible in Spain" had many points in common.  As
+it was, with brief intervals of solitary excursion in the "Celtic fringe"
+or the Near East, Borrow remained glooming at home, working himself up
+into a state of nervous excitement bordering upon dementia about a
+neighbour's dog or a railway bisecting his wife's land.  The gloom, of
+course, was not chronic.  There were days upon which he was himself
+again, the old George Borrow.  Generally speaking, his days and years
+were passed in a moody inactivity, now at Oulton, then at Yarmouth, next
+in London, finally at Oulton again, where he "died, as he had lived,
+alone" on July 26, 1881.  It seemed for the time as if he had outlived
+his reputation.  Appearances are proverbially deceptive.
+
+George Borrow's life and works are one and the same thing.  Few great
+writers have been more persistently autobiographical than Borrow was.
+Boswell, said Johnson once, had only two subjects, Dr. Johnson and James
+Boswell, and he, the Doctor, was heartily sick of both; but Borrow had
+only one subject--himself, from which he practically never wandered.  The
+merry gests and marvellous exploits of the incomparable George
+Borrow--these form the unique theme of our Gitano Crusoe.  But it is not
+enough to say that Borrow's autobiographical methods are unique.  His
+life is presented to us in four panels, each as unlike the others as it
+is possible to be in size, shape, texture, and surface.  The scale varies
+as much as that of an ordnance map, sometimes 25 inches to the mile, at
+others five miles to the inch.  The colours upon the palette are artfully
+changed, details are sometimes obtruded, at others significantly hidden.
+A casual glance obscures rather than reveals the fact that, whether he is
+writing of his early life and struggles ("Lavengro," i.-lviii.), of one
+vivid Bohemian episode of his early manhood ("Lavengro"--"Romany Rye"),
+of the crowning triumph of his maturity ("Bible in Spain"), or of a
+vacation tour during the autumn of a disappointed life ("Wild Wales"),
+Borrow was always working upon the same model, with the same desperate
+and conscientious zeal, with the same extraordinary gust and vigour, with
+the same genius, the same bias, the same limitations.
+
+As a man of letters he must be judged primarily as a biographer, and, if
+this be done, it will be found that Borrow has achieved the great object
+of biography; he has transmitted a great personality.  The blemishes in
+his work are not particularly hard to find.  Inadvertently we may have
+been betrayed into indicating one or two of them.  But it is not by any
+means safe ground.  With the exception of Jane Austen (and temporarily
+speaking, perhaps Charles Dickens) there is hardly any literary character
+whom it is so dangerous to approach without passports and periphrases
+(securing retreat, if necessary) and plentiful kow-tows as George Borrow.
+Among all literary clansmen you shall hardly find one more implacable,
+more fierce, or more blindly fanatical than your Borrovian.  Charles Lamb
+is almost the only author we can think of (out of Scotland) who is
+worshipped by his admirers with quite the same canine sort of affection.
+But the cult of Lamb is restricted largely to briefless Templars, to
+University men and "Oxford M.A.'s"; the Borrovian is drawn from a lower
+social stratum, from printers, librarians, booksellers, and others who
+seldom read books, from indexers, dictionary makers, and such harmless
+drudges of literature.  To men of such close and restricted horizons the
+breath of the Romany Rye is as that of "the wind on the heath, brother."
+Hence the stern and unbending jealousy of their cult.  Real literary
+enthusiasts of advanced years are almost as rare in our streets as
+elderly naval men of the peculiar type discovered by Mr. Gilbert.  Yet a
+chance word in a London thoroughfare has before now elicited this
+ingenuous confession of faith: "I'd walk any distance to see anything
+belonging to George Borrow or to read anything fresh of his.  Lord bless
+you, I almost worship that man!"
+
+
+
+
+Footnotes:
+
+
+{213a}  It was not the policy of the Times Literary Supplement to give
+the name of the author.  For completeness the author is Thomas Seccombe,
+and the editor of the TLS. at the time was James Thursfield.--DP.
+
+{213b}  Two brothers.  See "Gypsies in Spain," Preface to Second Edition.
+
+
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