Any biographer who has not met his hero face to face and is dependent solely on documents is crippled in his undertaking.

Moreover, such a biographer is always liable to be in a manner superseded or at least supplemented by the appearance of still more documents.

However, Mr.Jenkins's excellent biography has the advantage of many new documents from Mr.John Murray's archives and from the Record Office Manuscripts.

His work was the first to make use of the letters of George Borrow to the Bible Society, which the Rev.T.H.
Darlow has published as a book under that title, a book to which I owe him an acknowledgment for such use of it as I have made, as also for permission to reproduce the title-page of Borrow's Basque version of St.
Luke's gospel.

There only remains for me to say a word in praise of Mr.
Edward Thomas's fine critical study of Borrow which was published under the title of _George Borrow: The Man and his Books_.