14th, 1850.
_Lavengro; the Scholar_, _the Gypsy_, _the Priest_, eventually appeared in three volumes on Feb.

7th, 1851.

The autobiographical _Lavengro_ stopped short in July 1825, at the conclusion of the hundredth chapter, with an abruptness worthy of the _Sentimental Journey_.

The Author had succeeded in extending the area of mystery, but not in satisfying the public.

Borrow's confidences were so very different in complexion from those which the critics seemed to have expected, that they were taken aback and declared to the public almost with one accord that the writer's eccentricities had developed into mannerisms, that his theories of life were political manifestoes, that his dialects were gibberish, and his defiance of the orthodox canons of autobiography scarcely less than an outrage upon the public taste.
From the general public came a fusillade of requests to solve the prevailing mystery of the book.