anecdotes of Borrow _aetat_. 60-70, pp. 312-315. leaves London and goes to Oulton in 1874, p. 315. is often in Norwich, _id_. death in 1881, p. 316. (ii.) CHARACTER:-- appearance, pp. 55, 56, 61, 70, 105-106 (at twenty-two), 201-202 (at forty), 308 (at eighty). portraits, pp. 105, 112, 204. manners, pp. 170-172. habits as a child, pp. 56, 60. self-centred, p. 1; reserved and solitary, p. 70; melancholy, pp. 85, 110, 112, 117; mysterious and impressive, pp. 12-13, 19, 167; sensitive, p. 86 attacks of "horrors," pp. 34, 98, 117 sqq., 131. surly and ill-tempered in middle life, pp. 208, 209. kindness to animals, pp. 210-211. passion for horses, pp. 60, 107-109, 192, 203. dislike of smoking, pp. 116, 315; and other prejudices, pp. 297-298. attitude towards vagrants and criminals, pp. 258-263. patriotism, pp. 214, 227-228. religious belief, pp. 24, 30-31, 33, 50, 56-57, 71, 81, 114, 122-123, 126, 127-129, 168-169, 175, 218, 242, 299-300. his memory, pp. 29-30, 70, 75. (iii.) CHARACTERISTICS AS A WRITER:-- collection and choice of material, pp. 20, 163-165, 218. personality and observation, p. 148. descriptive power, pp. 173-180. vocabulary, pp. 226, 242. use of the marvellous and supernatural, p. 85. treatment of facts, pp. 2, 5, 12-13, 25, 27, 32, 35, 36, 39, 50-51, 93, 94, 95, 180, 188, 228-229. use of dramatic re-appearances, pp. 11, 93, 185, 189-190, 229-230, 233, 254, 321. love of mystery and romance, pp. 12, 193-194, 196, 217-218, 227, 320, 321. final estimate, pp. 317-322. (iv.) LITERARY DEVELOPMENT:-- his imagination stimulated by Danish relics, p. 23. his reading, pp. 40-51, 77-79, 85. character of his early work, pp. 74-75, 77, 79-80, 117. (v.) KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES:-- Latin, pp. 57, 60; Greek, pp. 60, 61; Irish, pp. 60, 65; French, p. 62; Italian, _id_.; Spanish, _id_.; Gypsy, pp. 64, 137-138, 236; Welsh, pp. 65, 267-268; Danish, p. 65; Hebrew, p. 65; Arabic, pp. 65, 113; Armenian, pp. 65, 98, 103; German, p. 70; Portuguese, p. 70; Old English, p. 73; Old Norse, p. 73; Swedish, p. 73; Dutch, p. 73; Persian, pp. 113, 204; Manchu-Tartar, pp. 125, 129; Russian, pp. 131-132; Manx, pp. 268- 269: Translations from Welsh, pp. 73, 75, 114; from Danish, pp. 73, 75; from German, pp. 73, 75, from Swedish, p. 73; from Dutch, p. 73; from Gypsy, pp. 79-80; from Russian, pp. 131-132; from Manx, p. 269; from "thirty languages," pp. 79, 114. (vi.) PORTRAYAL OF HIMSELF:-- general references, pp. 1, 6, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 28, 51, 53-54. as a child, p. 56. as a missionary, p. 128. in "The Zincali," pp. 149-154. in "The Bible in Spain," pp. 173, 188, 192, 194-195. in "Lavengro," pp. 213-215. in "The Romany Rye," pp. 255-256, 256-257. in "Wild Wales," pp. 297-301. Borrow, Mary, pp. 147, 166, 273, 274. Borrow, Thomas, pp. 24, 61-62, 70, 201, 231. early life and marriage, p. 25. at Norwich, pp. 24, 61-62, 70. death, p. 81.