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Title: Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
Author: George Borrow
Editor: Theodore Watts
Release Date: December 27, 2006 [eBook #20198]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed from the 1893 Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
LAVENGRO: THE SCHOLAR--THE GYPSY--THE PRIEST.
BY GEORGE BORROW, AUTHOR OF "THE BIBLE IN SPAIN," ETC.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THEODORE WATTS.
WARD, LOCK, BOWDEN, AND CO. LONDON: WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C. NEW YORK: EAST 12TH STREET. MELBOURNE: ST. JAMES'S STREET. SYDNEY: YORK STREET.
1893.
{Borrow's home at Oulton (now pulled down), showing the summer house where much of his work was written. (From a Photograph kindly lent by Mr. Welchman, of Lowestoft, and taken by Mr. F. G. Mayhew, of the same place.): p0.jpg}
NOTES UPON GEORGE BORROW.
I. BORROW AS A SPLENDID LITERARY AMATEUR.
There are some writers who cannot be adequately criticised--who cannot, indeed, be adequately written about at all--save by those to whom they are personally known. I allude to those writers of genius who, ha