Wish to die, indeed! a Romany chal would wish to live for ever." "In sickness, Jasper ?" "There's the sun and stars, brother." "In blindness, Jasper ?" "There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that I would gladly live for ever.

Daeta, we'll now go to the tents and put on the gloves, and I'll try to make you feel what a sweet thing it is to be alive, brother." Leaving Norwich and his legal trammels, a few weeks after his father's death, in 1824, Lavengro reaches London--the scene of Grub Street struggles not greatly relaxed in severity since the days of Newbery, Gardener and Christopher Smart.

As the genius of Hawthorne was cooped up and enslaved for the American "Peter Parley," so that of Borrow was hag- ridden by a bookseller publisher of an even worse type, the radical alderman and philanthropic sweater, Sir Richard Phillipps.

For this stony-hearted faddist he covered reams of paper with printers' copy; and we are told that the kind of compilation that he liked (and probably executed) best was that of _Newgate Lives and Trials_.

He had well-nigh reached the end of his tether when he had the conversation with Phillipps's head factotum, Taggart, which we cite below and recommend feelingly to the consideration of every literary aspirant.