17/18 Borrow, in any case, was now, for a few years, to become more than ever a vagabond. Not a single further appeal did he make to an unsympathetic literary public for a period of five years at least. 59. London: W.Kent and Co., Paternoster Row, 1864, Borrow's _Life and Death of Faustus_ was reprinted in 1840, again with Simpkin's imprint. Collating Borrow's translation with the issue of 1864, I find that, with a few trivial verbal alterations, they are identical--that is to say, the translator of the book of 1864 did not translate at all, but copied from Borrow's version of _Faustus_, copying even his errors in translation. |