BY CHARLOTTE A. EATON, AUTHOR OF "ROME IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY," "AT HOME AND ABROAD," ETC. NEW EDITION. WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND APPENDIX By EDWARD BELL, M.A. LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1888. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS....

The following little book which was first published within two years of the events which it describes, was republished in 1852, after some revision by the author, under the title of "The Days of Battle." It has now been out of print for a considerable time, but its merits as a very graphic and interesting description of those few momentous days which have left their mark on English literature no less than on the history of Europe, are sufficient, it is believed, to justify its republication in a

A. (p. 44). The desertion of General Bourmont did not take place during the Battle of Quatre Bras, but on the day before. He and his Staff joined the Prussian General Ziethen as the French were advancing on Charleroi, on June 15. The mistake, however, is hardly the writer's fault, as Sir F. Head, the English authority for the statement, misprints the date. (See Hooper's Waterloo , p. 68.) B. (p. 93). The decisive part which the Prussian army played in the Battle of Waterloo is often overlooked,