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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
SECOND EDITION
THE LIFE OF
GEORGE BORROW
COMPILED FROM UNPUBLISHED OFFICIAL
DOCUMENTS, HIS WORKS, CORRESPONDENCE, &c
By HERBERT JENKINS
WITH A FRONTISPIECE IN PHOTOGRAVURE
AND : TWELVE : OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
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| Observer | "A masterpiece." |
| Bystander | "An admirable biography." |
| Country Life | "A new and excellent Life." |
| Sphere | "A monument of careful research." |
| Blackwood's Mag. | "Mr. Jenkins has earned our gratitude." |
| Standard | "This vivid and admirable biography." |
| Morning Post | "This book is to be read—and respected." |
| Truth | "An extraordinarily interesting biography." |
| Academy | "Must take its rank as the authoritative biography." |
| Pall Mall Gaz. | "An altogether human, fresh and vivid narrative." |
| Atheæum | "We congratulate Mr. Jenkins on his success." |
| Star | "The best Life of Borrow we have or are likely to have." |
| Daily Graphic | "Mr. Jenkins has made the most of a fine opportunity." |
| Church Times | "Excellently written and full of striking passages." |
| Daily Chronicle | "This is the definitive Life . . . every paragraph is interesting." |
| Mr. Wm. Canton | "The most accurate and complete account weareever likely to have." |
| Evening Standard | "For the first time full justice is done to the composite character of this genius." |
LONDON : JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE ST., W.
THE LIFE OF GEORGE BORROW (cont.)
| Globe | "As good a piece of literary biography as is likely to come the public's way." |
| Spectator | "We think this Life of Borrow will be found the most rational that has yet appeared." |
| Outlook | "Mr. Jenkms' admirable and authoritative biography has succeeded where others have failed." |
| Saturday Review | "In Mr. Jenkins' new Life, Borrow stands out clear and recognisable as a living human being." |
| T. P.'s Weekly | "Undoubtedly the best Life of George Borrow . . . more interesting than any single volume of Borrow himself." |
| Daily Telegraph | "The biographer does signal service to his subject, and raises his own contribution into the ranks of literature." |
| Graphic | "Mr, Jenkins' book is an unqualified success and gives him an enviable place among living biographers . . . the definite Life." |
| Daily News | "So far as a biography, careful, critical and exact, goes, Mr. Jenkins' admirable 'Life' holds and will continue to hold the field." |
| Daily Mail | "Here at last is a Life that combines the popular with the painstaking . . . we most heartily commend Mr. Jenkins' vivid portrait of a vivid personality." |
| Review of Reviews | "Mr. Herbert Jenkins deserves the congratulations heaped upon him by the press of all shades of opinion by the way in which he has compiled his life of George Borrow." |
| Montreal Gaz. | "A work of rare interest." |
| Johannesburg Star | "The definitive Life of Borrow." |
| Sydney Morning Herald | "An exceedingly interesting biography." |
| Times of India | "A book which no reader will put down without finishing." |
| New York Times | "The latest biography of the Scholar Gypsy reveals him fully." |
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE ST., W.
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