Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Battle of Waterloo, and Other Stories, Vol. 17
It was obvious that' this author was familiar with the best French writers, and had acquired through them that clear and crisp incisiveness of utterance which was supposed, hitherto, to be untransferable to any other tongue.
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