to cxlvii.) are wholly taken up by the incidents of less than four months, the four summer months of 1825.

The first twenty-two years of the author's life are far from commonplace.

The interest is well sustained, but is seldom intense,--at no point is the author's memory sufficiently teeming to cause an overflow; but with the conclusion of his sojourn in London, May 22nd, 1825, commences an itinerant life, the novelty of which graves every incident in the most vivid possible manner upon the writer's recollection.

With his emancipation from town life a new graphic impulse is developed.

Borrow seizes a new palette and sets to work with fresher colours upon a stupendous canvas.