g lines which concealed the withdrawal. These words had to be
suppressed on the restoration of the passages.

The insertions will be met with as follows:--

The Poet Parkinson, pp. 119-25.

The Wake of Freya, pp. 128-33.

Cromwell's Statue and the _Dairyman's Daughter_, pp. 196-98.

Portobello or the Irish Patriot, pp. 231-39.

Thomas d'Eterville, in the _Notes_, pp. 558-59.

Thus we have made a full statement as regards the text of the present
reprint. Any one who takes up this edition will discover no visible
name, or preface, or introduction, save only those of George Borrow, from
the title to the close. The book is, therefore, "all Borrow," and we
have sought to render the helping hand as inconspicuous as possible.
Should, however, the prejudiced stumble at the _Notes_, we can say in the
language of the fairy smith of Loughmore: _is agad an t-leigheas_, you
have the remedy in your own power.

Speaking of the _Notes_, they have been drawn up on the unimpeachable
testimony of contemporaneous record. Especially have we sought the works
which Mr. Borrow was accustomed to read in his younger days, and at times
with curious results. A list of these is given at the close of _The
Romany Rye_, and is referred to in these notes as "Bibliography" for the
sake of concision. What is not here explained can be easily looked up in
our _Life_, _Writings_, _and Correspondence of George Borrow_, London,
1899, which of itself furnishes a sufficient and unalterable exhibition
of the facts concerning the man and his work.

W. I. KNAPP.

HIGH ST., OXFORD,
_November_, 1899.

NOTES TO _LAVENGRO_,
WITH
CORRECTIONS, IDENTIFICATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS.

Page 1. East D---: East Dereham, a small town in Norfolk, 16 miles W. of
Norwich, and 102 N.E. of London. Here Capt. Thomas Borrow, the father of
George, was often stationed from 1792 to 1812.--1. East Anglia: This
Anglo-Saxon kingdom comprised the present counties of Norfolk, Suffolk
and Cambridge.--1. Tredinnock, read _Trethinnick_; Parish of St. Cleer,
Cornwall.--2. Big Ben: Benjamin Brain or Bryan was born in 1753. Some of
his most severe "battles" were fought between 1780 and 1790--one on the
30th of August in the latter year, with Hooper at Newbury, Berks. A few
days after this exploit, he picked a quarrel with Sergeant Borrow of the
Coldstream Guards, which resulted in the Hyde Park encounter. Some four
months later, _i.e._, 17th January, 1791, the decis