12 JULY 1913, Page 3

On Saturday last at Norwich a number of distinguished visitors

took part in the George Borrow celebrat ions, th e occasion being the handing over to the Corporation, by the Lord Mayor, of the title deeds of Borrow's house, which is to be converted into a Borrow museum. Mr. Birrell proposed "the immortal memory of George Borrow" in a characteristic speech :— " Borrow was not a classical writer. He was vehement, whimsical, extravagant, careless, and occasionally very foolish; but he never played for safety. There was a good deal of humbug about Lavengro,' but once they invoked the spirit of George Borrow they became strangely indifferent to anything. He asked the company to drink to a memory which could never be obliterated until English letters had breathed their last."