were
printed. The published price was 21_s._ A Second Edition was published
in 1858, a Third in 1872, a Fourth in 1888, and a Fifth in 1896. The
book is included in _Everyman's Library_, and in other series of popular
reprints.

The series of Advertisements of _Works_ by Borrow, announced as "Ready
for the Press," which occupy the last eight pages of the second volume of
_The Romany Rye_ are of especial interest. No less than twelve distinct
works are included in these advertisements. Of these twelve _The Bible
in Spain_ was already in the hands of the public, _Wild Wales_ duly
appeared in 1862, and _The Sleeping Bard_ in 1860. These three were all
that Borrow lived to see in print. Two others, _The Turkish Jester_ and
_The Death of Balder_, were published posthumously in 1884 and 1889
respectively; but the remaining seven, _Celtic Bards_, _Chiefs_, _and
Kings_, _Songs of Europe_, _Koempe Viser_, _Penquite and Pentyre_,
_Russian Popular Tales_, _Northern Skalds_, _Kings_, _and Earls_, and
_Bayr Jairgey and Glion Doo_: _The Red Path and the Black Valley_, were
never destined to see the light. However, practically the whole of the
verse prepared for them was included in the series of Pamphlets which
have been printed for private circulation during the past twelve months.

As was the case with _Lavengro_, Borrow delayed the completion of _The
Romany Rye_ to an extent that much disconcerted his publisher, John
Murray. The correspondence which passed between author and publisher is
given at some length by Dr. Knapp, in whose pages the whole question is
fully discussed.

Mr. Shorter presents the matter clearly and fairly in the paragraphs he
devotes to the subject:

"The most distinctly English book--at least in a certain absence of
cosmopolitanism--that Victorian literature produced was to a great
extent written on scraps of paper during a prolonged Continental tour
which included Constantinople and Budapest. In _Lavengro_ we have
only half a book, the whole work, which included what came to be
published as _The Romany Rye_, having been intended to appear in four
volumes. The first volume was written in 1843, the second in 1845,
and the third volume in the years between 1845 and 1848. Then in
1852 Borrow wrote out an advertisement of a fourth volume, which runs
as follows:

_Shortly will be published in one volume_. _Price_ 10_s._ _The
Rommany Rye_, _Being t