tracts from Ford's volumes. But
Borrow would tolerate no interference with his work, and promptly
withdrew the Essay, which had meanwhile been set up in type. The
following letter, addressed by Lockhart to Ford, sufficiently explains
the position:

_London_,
_June_ 13_th_, 1845.

_Dear Ford_,

'_El Gitano_' _sent me a paper on the_ "_Hand-Book_" _which I read
with delight_. _It seemed just another capital chapter of his_
"_Bible in Spain_" _and I thought_, _as there was hardly a word of_
'_review_,' _and no extract giving the least notion of the peculiar
merits and style of the_ "_Hand-Book_," _that I could easily_ (_as is
my constant custom_) _supply the humbler part myself_, _and so
present at once a fair review of the work_, _and a lively specimen of
our friend's vein of eloquence in exordio_.

_But_, _behold_! _he will not allow any tampering_ . . . . _I now
write to condole with you_; _for I am very sensible_, _after all_,
_that you run a great risk in having your book committed to hands far
less competent for treating it or any other book of Spanish interest
than Borrow's would have been_ . . ._ and I consider that_, _after
all_, _in the case of a new author_, _it is the first duty of the_
"_Quarterly Review_" _to introduce that author fully and fairly to
the public_.

_Ever Yours Truly_,
_J. G. Lockhart_.

"Our author pictures Gibraltar as a human entity thus addressing
Spain:

_Accursed land_! _I hate thee_, _and far from being a defence_,
_will invariably prove a thorn in thy side_.

And so on through many sentences of excited rhetoric. Borrow forgot
while he wrote that he had a book to review--a book, moreover, issued
by the publishing house which issued the periodical in which his
review was to appear."--[_George Borrow and his Circle_, 1913, p.
257].

In 1913 Borrow's _Review_ was reprinted in the following Pamphlet:

_A_ / _Supplementary Chapter_ / _to_ / _The Bible in Spain_ / _Inspired
by_ / _Ford's_ "_Handbook for Travellers in Spain_." / _By_ / _George
Borrow_ / _London_: / _Printed for Private Circulation_ / 1913.--Square
demy 8vo, pp. 46. [See _post_, No