In 1835 Borrow returned to London, and being already known to the Bible Society for his biblical labours in Russia, was offered, and accepted, the task of circulating the Scriptures in the Spanish Peninsula.

As for his labours in this field, which occupied him so agreeably for four or five years, are they not narrated in _The Bible in Spain_, a book first published by 'Glorious John Murray' in three volumes in 1843?
This is the book which made Borrow famous, though his earlier work, _The Zincali_; _or an Account of the Gypsies of Spain_ (two vols.

1841), had attracted a good deal of notice.

But _The Bible in Spain_ took readers by storm, and no wonder! Sir Robert Peel named it in the House of Commons; its perusal imparted a new sensation, the sensation of literature, to many a pious subscriber to the Bible Society.

The book, wherever it went,--and it went where such like books do not often go,--carried joy and rapture with it.