Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The Narrative is faithfully - indeed literally printed from the Author's ms. As he left it at his death. The critical reader may therefore detect vari ous inaccuracies which, had life been spared to the Author, would probably have been corrected; but he will find much to approve, and, hackneyed as Narra tives of the Peninsular War have become, he will also find much that is new. There is no embellishment in the style of the Author's composition, but there is a quiet Defoe-like sincerity and simplicity character istic of his pages, and a strain of unaffected piety, that is very pleasing; and the scenes and descriptions which he gives, though sometimes singularly chosen, and re ported quite with a manner of his own, are on the whole portrayed with strong graphic effect. One word, however, before closing, - our Author is never vulgar.

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