Forbes, Archibald. Glimpses Through Cannon-Smoke, A Series of Sketches. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881. [12035]
Brown publisher's cloth decorated in bright gilt and black, near-fine binding with very little wear, clean, 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches. 1881 owner's inscription in purple ink on the ffep. [viii], 230 clean pp., tight. Very good. Hardcover.
A collection chosen by Forbes as representing some of his best writing around the time of the Franco-Prussian War, with chapters such as Matrimony among the Bomb-shells, An Evening Party among the Navvies, The Parade of the Commissionaires, On the Line of March, George Martell's Bundobust, Reverencing the Golden Fleet, Christmas Day on a "Growler," Railway Lizz, and The Cawnpore of To-day.
Archibald Forbes (1838-1900). b. Morayshire, Scotland; d. London, England. Forbes was a war correspondent, having enlisted in the 1st Royal Regiment of Dragoons, and invalided out of the service in 1867, he turned to reporting for the Daily News to cover the Franco-Prussian War. His revolutionary use of the telegraph brought his first-hand reports to the British public in a remarkably timely manner. His correspondence and books covered the major military movements in Serbia, Turkey, Russia, Afghanistan, the Zulu War, and the Sudan.
