I trust that even to those who may disapprove of the discursive method with which--solely for my own pleasure--I have written this book, will at least find a certain biographical value in the many new letters by and to George Borrow that are to be found in its pages.

The book has taken me ten years to write, and has been a labour of love.
FOOTNOTES: [1] As for example, _Garrick and his Circle_; _Johnson and his Circle_; _Reynolds and his Circle_; and even _The Empress Eugenie and her Circle_.
[2] William Ireland Knapp died in Paris in June 1908, aged seventy-four.
He was an American, and had held for many years the Chair of Modern Languages at Vassar College.

After eleven years in Spain he returned to occupy the Chair of Modern Languages at Yale, and later held a Professorship at Chicago.

After his _Life of Borrow_ was published he resided in Paris until his death..