Classic Reprint The subject of this book was a man who was continually writing about himself, whether openly or in disguise. He was by nature inclined to thinking about himself and when he came to write he naturally wrote about himself; and his inclination was fortmed by the obvious impression made upon other men by himself and by his writings. He has been o.ead thirty years j much has been written about him by those who knew him or knew those that did: yet the impression still made by him, and it is one of the most powerful, is due mainly to his own books. N or has anything lately come to light to provide another writer on Borrow with an excuse. the impertinence of the task can be tempered only by its apparent hopelessness and by that necessity which Voltaire did not see. r shall attempt only a re-arrangement of the myriad details accessible to all in the writings of Borrow and about Borrow.