In Watt's _Bibliotheca Britannica_, 1824, Sir Richard is thus contemptuously referred to: 'This personage is the editor of _The Monthly Magazine_, in which many of his effusions may be found with the signature of "Common Sense."' It is not too much to say that but for Borrow this nefarious man would be utterly forgotten; as it is, he lives for ever in the pages of _Lavengro_, a hissing and a reproach.
Authors have an ugly trick of getting the better of their publishers in the long run.

After leaving London Borrow began the wanderings described in _Lavengro_ and _The Romany Rye_.

Those concluded, probably in 1829 or 1830, he crossed the British Channel, and like another Goldsmith, wandered on foot over the Continent of Europe, visiting France, Italy, Austria, and Russia.

Of his adventures in these countries there is unhappily no record.

In St.Petersburg he must have made a long stay, for there he superintended the translation of the Bible into Mandschu- Tartar, and published in 1835 his _Targum_; _or Metrical Translations from Thirty Languages and Dialects_.