This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1869 ... CHAPTER XXXV. Battle of Waterloo—Letter of Sir Charles Belt—Visit to the Continent—Waterloo—Letters from Brussels and Paris—Anecdotes of Scott at Paris—The Duke of Wellington—The Emperor Alexander—Blucher—Platoff—Party at Ermenonville, SfC.—London—Parting with Lord Byron—Scotfs Sheffield Knife V—Return to Abbotsford—Anecdotes by Mr Skene and James Ballantyne. 1815. Goethe expressed, I fancy, a very general sentiment, when he said, that to him the great charm and value of my friend's Life of Buonaparte seemed quite independent of the question of its accuracy as to small details; that he turned eagerly to the book, not to find dates sifted, and countermarches analyzed, but to contenrolate what could not but be a true record of the broad impressions made on the mind of Scott by the marvellous revolutions of his own time in their progress. Feeling how justly in the main that work has preserved those impressions, though gracefully softened and sobered in the retrospect of peaceful and more advanced years, I the less regret that I have it not in my power to quote any letters of his touching the re-appearance of Napoleon on the soil of France—the immortal march from Cannes—the reign of the Hundred Days, and the preparations for another struggle, which fixed the gaze of Europe in May 1815. That he should have been among the first civilians who hurried over to see the field of Waterloo, and hear English bugles sound about the walls of Paris, could have surprised none who knew the lively concern he had always taken in the military efforts of his countrymen, and the career of the illustrious captain, who had taught them to re-establish the rencvvn of Agincourt and Blenheim,—" Victor of Assaye' s Eastern plain, Victor of all the fields of Spain." I ha...
