period.

[145] _The Zincali; or an Account of the Gypsies of Spain_. With an
original collection of their songs and poetry, and a copious dictionary
of their language. By George Borrow, Late Agent of the British and
Foreign Bible Society in Spain. '_For that which is unclean by nature,
thou canst entertain no hope; no washing will turn the gypsy
white_.'--Ferdousi. In two volumes. London: John Murray, Albemarle
Street, 1841.

[146] Knapp's _Life_, vol. i. p. 378.

[147] Mrs. Pennell. See _Charles Godfrey Leland: a Biography_, by
Elizabeth Robins Pennell. 2 vols. 1906.

[148] Given in Mrs. Pennell's _Leland: a Biography_, vol. ii. pp. 142-3.
The letter to which it is a reply is given in Knapp's _Borrow_, vol. ii.
pp. 228-9.

[149] _The Academy_, June 13, 1874.

[150] _Romano Lavo-Lil: Word Book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy
Language_. By George Borrow. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street,
1874.

[151] Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) better known as 'Hans
Breitmann' of the popular ballads, was born in Philadelphia and died in
Florence. He was always known among his friends as 'The Rye,' in
consequence of his enthusiasm for the gypsies concerning whom he wrote
four books, the best known being: _The English Gypsies and their
Language_, by Charles G. Leland: Truebner. _The Gypsies_, by Charles G.
Leland: Truebner.

[152] See Groome's _In Gipsy Tents_ (W. P. Nimmo, 1880), and _Gipsy
Folk-Tales_ (Hurst & Blackett, 1899). Francis Hindes Groome (1851-1902),
whom it was my privilege to know, was the son of Archdeacon Groome, the
friend of Edward FitzGerald. He was the greatest English authority of
his time on gypsy language and folk-lore. He celebrated his father's
friendship with the paraphraser of Omar Khayyam in _Two Suffolk
Friends_, 1895, and wrote a good novel of gypsydom in _Kriegspiel_,
1896. He also edited an edition of _Lavengro_ (Methuen), 1901.

[153] Groome to Leland in _Charles Godfrey Leland: a Biography_, by E.
R. Pennell, vol. ii. p. 141.

[154] Introduction to _Lavengro_ (Methuen), 1901.

CHAPTER XXII

_THE BIBLE IN SPAIN_

In an admirable appreciation of our author, the one in which he gives
the oft-quoted eulogy concerning him as 'the delightful, the bewitching,
the never-sufficiently-to-be-praised George Borrow,' Mr. Birrell records
the solace that may be found by small boys in the ambiguities of a
title-page, or at least might have been found in it in his youth and in
mine