Time however, will do them justice.

As it is, your good Borrow lover has always appreciated their merits.

Take Lionel Johnson for example, a good critic and a master of style.

After saying that these 'lengthy and rich volumes are a monument of love's labour, but not of literary art or biographical skill,' he adds: 'Of his over eight hundred pages there is not one for which I am not grateful' and every new biographer of Borrow is bound to re-echo that sentiment.

Dr.Knapp did the spade work and other biographers have but entered into his inheritance.