FOOTNOTES:
[178] It is thus that an old schoolfellow, Dalrymple, describes the episode in a fragment of manuscript in the possession of Mrs. James Stuart of Carrow Abbey, from which I have already quoted:
'In 1850/2/3 Borrow lived at Yarmouth; he here made rather a ludicrous exhibition of himself on the occasion of a wreck, when he ran into the sea through a full tide up to his knees, with the utmost apparent heroism, and retreated again as soon as he thought it might be dangerous. He incurred so much ridicule that he abruptly quitted the town, and I have not heard since of him.'
[179] Knapp's Life, vol. ii. p. 97. Letter from Mrs. Robert Taylor to Mrs. Wilkey.
[180] George Borrow, The Man and His Work. By R. A. J. Walling. Cassell, 1908.
[181] It is not generally known that not less than eleven books by Borrow were advertised in the first edition of The Romany Rye in 1857, of which only two were published in his lifetime:
1. Celtic Bards, Chiefs, and Kings. 2 volumes.
2. Wild Wales: Its People, Language, and Scenery. 2 volumes.
3. Songs of Europe, or Metrical Translations from all the European Languages. 2 volumes.
4. Kæmpe Viser. Songs about Giants and Heroes. 2 volumes.
5. The Turkish Jester. 1 volume.
6. Penquite and Pentyre; or, The Head of the Forest and the Headland. A Book on Cornwall. 2 volumes.
7. Russian Popular Tales. 1 volume.
8. The Sleeping Bard. 1 volume.
9. Norman Skalds, Kings, and Earls. 2 volumes.
10. The Death of Balder. 1 volume.
11. Bayr Jairgey and Glion Doo. Wanderings in Search of Manx Literature. 1 volume.
Of these The Sleeping Bard appeared in 1860 and Wild Wales in 1862; and after Borrow's death The Turkish Jester in 1884 and The Death of Balder in 1889. The remaining seven books have not yet been published. Their manuscript is partly in the Knapp Collection now in the Hispanic Society's possession, partly in my Collection, while certain fragments and the manuscript of Romano Lavo-Lil are in the possession of well-known Borrow enthusiasts.