Note 3 — Chapter III

Of all amusing writers on Spain, commend me to Richard Ford and George Borrow. What a fantastic world they lived in, and how much they contrived to see where other people would have beheld blank space and “nothing more.” Ford’s opinions, and I should say Borrow’s stories, must both be swallowed with a grain of salt; with the exception, perhaps, of what the former says about bull-fights. See the Quarterly Review, No. cxxiv., The Handbook, and The Gatherings.