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INTRODUCTION 5
A. C. SWINBURNE to face page 8
THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON 18
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 70
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, AET 80, 120
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 178
MRS. ROSSETTI 182
DR. GORDON HAKE 208
WILLIAM MORRIS 240
FRANCIS HINDES GROOME 278
Though my own intimacy with Borrow did not begin till he was considerably advanced in years, and ended on his finally quitting London for Oulton, there were circumstances in our intercourse--circumstances, I mean, connected partly with temperament and partly with mutual experience--which make me doubt whether any one understood him better than I did, or broke more thoroughly through that exclusiveness of temper which isolated him from all but a few. However, be this as it may, no one at least realized more fully than I how lovable was his nature, with all his angularities--how simple and courageous, how manly and noble. His shyness, his apparent coldness, his crotchety obstinacy, repelled people, and consequently those who at any time during his life really understood him must have been very few. How was it, then, that such a man wandered about over Europe and fraternized so completely with a race so suspicious and intractable as the gipsies? A natural enough question, which I have often been asked, and this is my reply:--
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