'Let me know how you sold your manuscript,' writes Borrow's brother to him so late as the year 1829.

And this was doubtless _Faustus_.

The action of the Norwich libraries in burning the book would clearly have had the sympathy of one of its few reviewers had he been informed of the circumstance.

It is thus that the _Literary Gazette_ for 16th July 1825 refers to Borrow's little book: This is another work to which no respectable publisher ought to have allowed his name to be put.

The political allusions and metaphysics, which may have made it popular among a low class in Germany, do not sufficiently season its lewd scenes and coarse descriptions for British palates.