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George Borrow and His Circle

CHAPTER XVII
14/18

Will you be so kind as to send the MS.

of the Russian Homilies to Mrs.Biller?
During Borrow's last month or two in St.Petersburg he printed two thin octavo volumes of translations--some of them verses which, undeterred by the disheartening reception of earlier efforts, he had continued to make from each language in succession that he had the happiness to acquire, although most of the poems are from his old portfolios.

These little books were named _Targum_ and _The Talisman_.

Dr.Knapp calls the latter an appendix to the former.

They are absolutely separate volumes of verse, and I reproduce their title-pages from the only copies that Borrow seems to have reserved for himself out of the hundred printed of each.


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