Dr.Knapp in his anxiety to prove that Borrow wrote his own memoirs in _Lavengro_ and _Romany Rye_ tells us that he had no creative faculty--an absurd proposition.

But I think we may accept the contest between Ben Brain and Thomas Borrow, and what a revelation of heredity that impressive death-bed scene may be counted.
Borrow on one occasion in later life declared that his favourite hooks were the Bible and the Newgate Calendar.

We know that he specialised on the Bible and Prize-Fighting in no ordinary fashion--and here we see his father on his death-bed struggling between the religious sentiments of his maturity and the one great worldly escapade of his early manhood.
FOOTNOTES: [3] In the year 1870 Borrow was asked for material for a biography by the editor of _Men of the Time_, a publication which many years later was incorporated in the present _Who's Who_.

He drew up two drafts in his own handwriting, which are so interesting, and yet vary so much in certain particulars, that we are tempted to print both here, or at least that part of the second draft that differs from the first.

The concluding passages of both drafts are alike.