The publishers, it will be seen, are the German firm that printed the Manchu New Testament, Schultz and Beneze.

Borrow's preface to _Targum_ is dated 'St.Petersburg, June 1, 1835.' Here in _Targum_ we find the trial poem which in competition with a rival candidate had won him the privilege of going to Russia for the Bible Society--_The Mountain Chase_.

Here also among new verses are some from the Arabic, the Persian, and the Turkish.

If it be true, as his friend Hasfeld said, that here was a poet who was able to render another without robbing the garland of a single leaf--that would but prove that the poetry which Borrow rendered was not of the first order.

Nor, taking another standard--the capacity to render the ballad with a force that captures 'the common people,'-- can we agree with William Bodham Donne, who was delighted with _Targum_ and said that 'the language and rhythm are vastly superior to Macaulay's _Lays of Ancient Rome_.' In _The Talisman_ we have four little poems from the Russian of Pushkin followed by another poem, _The Mermaid_, by the same author.