These stanzas are interesting in a way which compels one to welcome them, despite the poverty of the verse. The little poem is a fragment of autobiographical juvenilia, and moreover it is an original composition, and not a translation, as is the greater part of Borrow’s poetical work.
Up to the present date no Complete Collected Edition of Borrow’s Works has been published, either in this country or in America. There is, however, good reason for hoping that this omission will soon be remedied, for such an edition is now in contemplation, to be produced under the agreeable editorship of Mr. Clement Shorter.
It is, I presume, hardly necessary to note that every Book, Pamphlet, and Magazine dealt with in the following pages has been described de visu.
T. J. W.
CONTENTS
| PART I.—EDITIONES PRINCIPES | page |
| Preface | [ix] |
| Celebrated Trials, 1825 | [3] |
| Faustus, 1825 | [4] |
| Romantic Ballads, 1826: | |
| First issue | [11] |
| Second issue | [44] |
| Third issue | [47] |
| Targum, 1835 | [47] |
| The Talisman, 1835 | [58] |
| The Gospel of St. Luke, 1837 | [62] |
| The Zincali, 1841 | [66] |
| The Bible in Spain, 1843 | [69] |
| Review of Ford’s “Hand-book for Travellers in Spain,” 1845 | [72] |
| A Supplementary Chapter to “The Bible in Spain,” 1913 | [81] |
| Lavengro, 1851 | [85] |
| The Romany Rye, 1857 | [88] |
| The Sleeping Bard, 1860 | [92] |
| Wild Wales, 1862 | [94] |
| Romano Lavo-Lil, 1874 | [103] |
| The Turkish Jester, 1884 | [110] |
| The Death of Balder, 1889 | [111] |
| Letters to the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1911 | [113] |
| Letters to his Wife, Mary Borrow, 1913 | [115] |
| Marsk Stig, A Ballad, 1913 | [116] |
| The Serpent Knight, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [127] |
| The King’s Wake, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [131] |
| The Dalby Bear, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [139] |
| The Mermaid’s Prophecy, and Other Songs relating to Queen Dagmar, 1913 | [140] |
| Hafbur and Signe, A Ballad, 1913 | [144] |
| The Story of Yvashka with the Bear’s Ear, 1913 | [153] |
| The Verner Raven, The Count of Vendel’s Daughter, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [157] |
| The Return of the Dead, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [158] |
| Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg, 1913 | [165] |
| King Hacon’s Death, and Bran and the Black Dog, 1913 | [166] |
| Marsk Stig’s Daughters, and Other Songs and Ballads, 1913 | [170] |
| The Tale of Brynild, and King Valdemar and His Sister, 1913 | [177] |
| Proud Signild, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [181] |
| Ulf van Yern, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [182] |
| Ellen of Villenskov, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [188] |
| The Songs of Ranild, 1913 | [191] |
| Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne, 1913 | [192] |
| Child Maidelvold, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [195] |
| Ermeline, A Ballad, 1913 | [203] |
| The Giant of Bern and Orm Ungerswayne, 1913 | [207] |
| Little Engel, A Ballad, 1913 | [208] |
| Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [212] |
| King Diderik and the Fight between the Lion and Dragon, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [215] |
| The Nightingale, The Valkyrie and Raven, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [219] |
| Grimmer and Kamper, The End of Sivard Snarenswayne, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [223] |
| The Fountain of Maribo, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [227] |
| Queen Berngerd, The Bard and The Dreams, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [231] |
| Finnish Arts, Or, Sir Thor and Damsel Thure, 1913 | [237] |
| Brown William, The Power of the Harp, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [238] |
| The Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and His Brothers, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [244] |
| Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [247] |
| Young Swaigder or the Force of Runes, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [251] |
| Emelian the Fool, 1913 | [253] |
| The Story of Tim, 1913 | [254] |
| Mollie Charane, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [257] |
| Grimhild’s Vengeance, Three Ballads, 1913 | [262] |
| Letters to His Mother, Ann Borrow, 1913 | [266] |
| The Brother Avenged, and Other Ballads, 1913 | [267] |
| The Gold Horns, 1913 | [271] |
| Tord of Hafsborough, and Other Ballads, 1914 | [273] |
| The Expedition to Birting’s Land, and Other Ballads, 1914 | [275] |
| PART II. | |
| Contributions to Periodical Literature, etc. | [283] |
| PART III. | |
| Borroviana: Complete Volumes of Biography and Criticism | [311] |
PART I.
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, etc.
(1) [Celebrated Trials: 1825]
Celebrated Trials, / and / Remarkable Cases / of / Criminal Jurisprudence, / from / The Earliest Records / to / The Year 1825. / [Thirteen-line quotation from Burke] / In Six Volumes. / Vol. I. [Vol. II, &c.] / London: / Printed for Knight and Lacey, / Paternoster-Row. / 1825. / Price £3. 12s. in Boards.
Collation:—Demy octavo.