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Glimpses throii& [JMiBHimTiiSfiTfil!^ it.. :• .- - ,^^J. c« »).;•«, • ; , ,.^l|,-. '^^^J^;::^^-'^r--^;!^^^^^^^ •-^^-•:|-.''|n" --••-'' i' • .-•^ . • • ^ * ^' '•-.• •';*.•• NOVELS AT 2s. 6d. VicomtedeBragelonne,2vols. Dumas. The Three Musketeers, and Twenty Lewis Arundel, by Smedley. Years After, by Dumas. Frank Fairlegh, by Smedley. The Taking of the Bastile, Dumaa. Harry Coverdale, by Smedley. Tristram Shandy, and Sentimental: The Colville Family, by Smedley. Journey, by Sterne. Monte Cristo, Complete, by Dumas. Carleton's Traits and Stories of the Memoirs of a Physician, by Dumas. Irish Peasantry, complete edition,; NOVELS AT TWO SHILLINGS. •W. H. AINSWOBTH. A. B. EDWARDS. King's Own Borderers. Boscobel. The Ladder of Life. The White Cockade. Manchester Rebels. Half a Million of Money. Dick Rodney. Preston Fight. First Love & Last Love. Beau Nash. Miss FERBIEB. The Girl He Married. Marriage. Lady Wedderburn's Oapt. ARMSTRONG. The Inheritance. Wish. The Two Midshipmen. Destiny. Jack Manly. The Medora. FIELDING. Only an Ensign. The War Hawk Adventures of Rob Roy. "The Young Commander. Tom Jones. Joseph Andrews. Under the Red Dragon. BERTHA H. BUXTON. Amelia. The Queen's Cadet. Jennie of ' The Prince's.' Shall I Win Her ? Won! GERSTAECKEE. Fairer than a Fairy. Fetterless. A Wife to Order. The Secret Dispatch. Great Grenfell Gardens. The Two Convicts. One of the Six Hundred. The Feathered Arrow. Morley Ashton. Capt. CHAMIEB. Each for Himself. Did She Love Him? Life of a Sailor. The Ross-shire Buffs. Ben Brace. G. R. GLEIG. Six Years Ago. Tom Bowling. Chelsea Veterans. Vere of Ours. Jack Adams. The Hussar. The Lord Hermitage. HENRY COCKTON. Mrs. GORE. The Royal Regiment. Valentine Vox. The Money Lender The Duke of Albany's Stanley Thorn. Pin Money. Highlanders. The Dowager. The Cameronians. M. CROMMELIN. The Dead Tryst. My Love She's but a JAMES GRANT. Author of " Guy- Lassie Yet. Romance of War. Livingstone." Queenie. The Aide-de-Camp. Guy Livingstone. A Jewel of a Girl. The Scottish Cavalier. Barren Honour. Orange Lily. Bothwell. Maurice Dering. Black Abbey. Jane Seton; or, The Brakespeare. Q-jeen's Advocate. Anteros. Mrs. CROWE. Philip Rollo. Night Side of Nature. Legends of the Black Breaking a Butterfly. Susan Hopley. Watch. Sans Merci. Linny Lockwood. Mary ot Lorraine. Sword and Gown. CHAS. DICKENS. Oliver Ellis; or, The THEODORE HOOK. The Pickwic-k Papers. Fusiliers. Peregrine Bunce. Sketches by Boz. Lucy Arden ; or, Holly Cousin Geoffry. Nicholas Nickleby. wood Hall. Gilbert Gurney. Oliver Twist. Frank Hilton. The Parson's Daughter. Martin Chuzzlewit. The Yellow Frigate. AH in the Wrong. • Grimaldi, the Clown. Harry Ogilvis; or. The Widow and Marquess. Doinbey and Son. Black Dr.igDons. Gurney Married. ALEX. DUMAS. Arthur Blane. Jack Brag. The Half-Brothers. Laura Everingham. Maxwell. Margiierite de Valois. Captain of the Guard. Man of Many Friends. The Mohicans of Paris. Letty Hyde's Lovers. Passion and Principle. The Three Musketeers. Cavaliers of Fortune. Merton. Twenty Years After. Second to None. Gervase Skinner. Chicot, the Jester. Constable of France. Cousin William. "The 45 Guardsme-n. "The Phantom Regiment. Fathers and Sons. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE &- SONS. NOVELS AT TWO SHILLINGS, cofitinued. O. P. B. JAMES. CHARLES LEVER. The Captain's Wife. The Brigand. Arthur O'Leary. The Pride of the Mess. Morley Ernstein. Con Cregan. The Flying Dutchman. Horace Templeton. Will Watch. Darnley. Cavendish. Richelieu. S. LOVER. Gentleman Jack. The Gipsy. Rory O'More. Arabella Stuart. Handy Andy. Mrs. BADCLIFFE. The Woodman. Mysteries of Udolpho. Lord LTTTON. Romance of the Forest. Agincourt. Pelhaia. MATNE BEID. The Qua;droon. The War Trail. The Scalp Hunters. of The Rifle Rangers. The Maroon. The White Chief. The Wild Huntress. The White Gauntlet. MBERT W WOODRUFF The Half-Blood. Headless Horseman. Lost Lenore. The Hunters' Feast. LIBRARY The Wood Rangers. The Tiger Hunter. The Boy Slaves. The Cliff Climbers. The Giraffe Hunters. Afloat in the Forest.. ith The Ocean Waifs. The White Squaw. The Fatal Cord. The Guerilla Chief. BICHABDSON. Clarissa Harlowe. Pamela. Sir Charles Grandison. lis. Sir WALTEB SCOTT Waverley. Guy Mannering. Old Mortality. Heart of Midlothian. Rob Roy. Ivanhoe. The Antiquary. Bride of Lammermoor. The Black Dwarf, and A Legend of Montrose. The Monastery. The Abbot. Kenilworth. The Pirate. The Fortunes of Nigel. Peveril of the Peak. mm. Brian O'Linn; or. Luck Quentin Durward. A Pink Wedding. is Everything. St. Ronan's Well. The Roll of the Drum. Captain Blake. Redgauntlet. With the Colours. The Bivouac. The Betrothed and High HENBY KINGSLET. He.-;tor O'Halloran. land Widow. Stretton. Captain O'Sullivan. The Talisman, and Two Old Margaret. Stories of the Penin Drovers. The Harveys. sular War. Woodstock. Hornby Mills. Wild Sports in the West. The Fair Maid of Perth. JOHN LANG. Anne of Geierstein. W. J. N. NEALE. Count Robert of Paris. Win He Marry Her ? The Lost Ship. The Ex-Wife. TheSurgeon'sDaughter. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE &• SONS. .'^rC?'''^L,S AT TWO SHILLINGS, i :iiinu,s-cZ. .!J-".>»SRT SMITH. The Widow Married. Whitehall. T"n3 Marchioness of The Ward. Csesar Borgia. Owen Tudor. Hrinvilliers. [bury. Love and Jealousy. Adventures of Mr. Led- The Maid of Orleans. Scatiergood Family. JULES VEBNE. Westminster Abbey. Christopher Tadpole. Adventures of Captain Madeleine Graham. The Pottleton Legacy. Hatteras. Armourer's Daughter. Twenty Thousand EDMUND YATES. SMOLLETT. Leagues under the Sea. Roderick Random. Running the Gauntlet. Five Weeks in a Bal Kissing the Rod. Humphry Clinker. loon, and a Journey to Peregrine Pickle. The Rock Ahead. Centre of the Earth. Black Sheep. ANNIE THOMAS. Miss WETHERELL. .\ Righted Wrong. False Colours. The Old Helmet. The Yellow Flag. The Dower House. Melbourne House. The Cross of Honour. The Impending Sword. Ellen Montgomery's A Waiting Race. ANTHONY TEOLLOPE. Bookshelf. Broken to Harness. GoldenLion of Granpere The Two School Girls. Two by Tricks. John Caldigate. The Wide, Wide World. A Silent Witness, [tient. Queechy. Mrs. TROLLOPE. Dr. Wainwright's Pa- One Fault. Author of' 'Whitef rlars' Wrecked in Port. The Widow Barnaby. Whitefriars. Business of Pleasure. VARIOUS AOTHOBS. Caleb Williams, by Godwin. Mornings at Bow Street, with Cruik- The Scottish Chiefs, by Miss Porter. shank's Plates. Torlogh O'Brien, by Le Fanu. The Arctic Regions. P. L. Simmonds. The Hour and the Man. Martineau. Miss Forrester. Author of "Archie The Pastoi's Fireside. Jane Porter. Lovell." The Prairie Bird, by Sir C. Murray. The Pretty Widow, by Chas. Ross. The Rifleman, by Capt. Rafter. Recommended to Mercy. Salatliiel, by Dr. Croly. Love Stories of English Watering The Clockmaker, by " Sam Slick." Places. The Two Frigates, by Cupples. Saved by a Woman, by Author of The Bashful Irishman. " No Appeal." Deeds, Not Words, by M. M. Bell. .\t His Gates, by Mrs. Oliphant. The Secret of a Life, ditto. Helen, by Miss Edgeworth. Murder will Out. First Lieutenant's Story. Lady Long. Sir Roland Ashton, by Lady C. Long. Clement Lorimer, by A. B. Reach. The Greatest Plague of Life, with Tom Cringle's Log. Michael Scott. Cruikshauk's Plates. Private Life of an Eastern King. The Attach^, by " Sam Slick." Heirths & Watchfires. Col.Colomb. 'The Gre.-n Hand, by CuppUs. The City of the Sultan, Miss Pardee. H.-ijji Liaba of Ispahan, by Moricr. Through the Mist, byjeanie Hering. Whom to Marry, with Cruiksh.ii>k's Tales of the Coastguard. Warneford. I'l lies. [" Sam Slick." Leonard Lindsay, by A. B. Reach. Litter Hag of the Great Western, by Traits and Stories of Irish Peasantry, Black and Gold, by P. Sanders. ist & 2nd series, 2 vols. Carleton. Viducq, the French Police Spy. Romance of Military Life. CiiUle.roy. by Fittis. Robber oi the Rhine, by Ritchie. Singleton Fontenoy, by Hannay. The Polish Lancer, by Keelstab. The Lamplighter, by Miss Cummins, Jasper Lyle, by Mrs. Ward. (iiileon Giles the Roper. T. Miller. Flower of the Forest, by St. John. The Wandering Jew, by Sue. Cruise of the Midge, by M. Scott. The Mysteries of Paris, ditto. Thaddeus of Warsaw. Jane Porter. Land and Sea Tales, "Old Sailor." The Hazel hurst Mystery. M.ibet Vaughan, by Miss Cummins. J.es Misirables, by Victor Hugo. Peep o* Day, by Banim. Love or Lucre, by R. Black. The Smuggler, ditto. Strafford, by H. B. baker. Stuart of Dunleath.Hon.Mrs. Norton. The Prodigal Daughter, Mark Hope. Adventuies ©f a Strolling Player. Madge Dunraven. [Kingston. The Solitary Hunter, by Falisser. Roger KyflSn's Ward, by W. H. G. Kaloolah, by Mayo. Miss Roberts's Fortune. S.Winthrop. Won in a Canter, by *'01d Calabar.'* An Uninhabited House. Mrs.Riddell. Blount Tempest. J. C. M. Bellew. Children of the Abbey. R. M. Roche. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE <&• SONS. GLIMPSES THROUGH THE CANNON-SMOKE MILITARY NOVELS. 2.r. cacli, fancy hoards. TOM SINGLETON, DRAGOON & DRAMATIST. BY W. "W. FOLLETT SYGNE. VIOLET JERMYN. „ ^ BY J.'VMES C>K-\NT. TOM BULLKLEY OF LISSINGTON. BY R. M. JEPHBON. THE CAMERONIANS. BY JAMES GRANT. THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM. BY R. M. JEI'HSON. THE SCOTS' BRIGADE. Bv J.\MES GRANT. THE ROLL OF THE DRUM. BY R. M. JEI'IISON. WITH THE COLOURS. IJY R. .M. JKI'HSON. GLIMPSES THROUGH THE CANNON-SMOKE A SERIES OF SKETCHES BY ARCHIBALD FORBES LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL NEW YORK : 9, LAFAYETTE PLACE 1883 LONDON: BR.^DBURY, AGKEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. TO THE READER. I HAVE certain compunctions of conscience as to the title under which this little volume goes out to take its chance. It may be thought to have rather a lurid aspect of sensationalism : but there is nevertheless some fitness in it. I have spent the last decade almost wholly in campaigning, and have witnessed the cannon- smoke almost as often as I have seen the peaceful smoke from the domestic grate. My poor pen has been mostly engaged in efforts to describe military operations—marches, battles, concentrations, and retreats.