I should like to say a few words concerning the author’s MSS. So many conflicting rumours have appeared with reference to the late Sir Richard Burton’s MSS., that it is well to state that these are here reproduced practically as they left the author’s hands.[4] It has been my endeavour to avoid over-editing, and to interfere as little as possible with the original text. Hence editorial notes, always in square brackets, are sparingly introduced. It has not been found necessary to make any verbal changes of importance. But the case is different with the spelling of proper names, which were left in such a chaotic condition that a revision was found indispensable, so as to reduce them to some measure of uniformity. The variants were so many and the MS. so difficult to decipher, that I am fain to crave indulgence for my performance of this somewhat troublesome task. In conclusion, I will only add that it has been my endeavour to give a full and accurate presentment of these hitherto unpublished MSS. There are more to follow; but these form a good sample of the work of the famous Oriental traveller in fields which he made peculiarly his own. They are eminently characteristic of the man. They give glimpses of him once more as a bold and original thinker, a profound student of men and things, as a rare genius, if a wayward one, and as one of the most remarkable personalities of our day and generation. W. H. WILKINS. FOOTNOTES: [1] January, 1891. [2] Lady Burton’s life of Her Husband, Vol. I., p. 252. [3] Burton’s _Reminiscences_, written for Mr. Hitchman in 1888. [4] In the case of the Appendix on Human Sacrifice among the Sephardím or Eastern Jews and the murder of Padre Tomaso, I have (as before stated) preferred to hold it over to publishing it in a mutilated form. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE PREFACE v CONTENTS xvii I. THE JEW I. GENERAL OPINION OF THE JEW 3 II. OPINION OF THE JEW IN ENGLAND 20 III. THE JEW OF THE HOLY LAND AND HIS DESTINY 46 IV. THE JEW AND THE TALMUD 72 V. THE CONTINUITY OF TRADITION IN THE EAST 115 II. THE GYPSY Part I. NOTES ON MODERN STUDIES OF “CHINGANOLOGY” I. THE INDIAN AFFINITIES OF THE GYPSIES 136 II. THE CLAIMS AND PRETENSIONS OF M. PAUL BATAILLARD 144 III. A REVIEW OF M. PAUL BATAILLARD’S REVIEWS 157 § 1. Preliminaries 157 § 2. “Derniers Travaux, etc.” 172 § 3. “Origines, etc.” 183