Oliver Ellis

OR,
The Fusiliers.
JAMES GRANT, ESQ.
( Late 62nd Regiment ),
AUTHOR OF THE ROMANCE OF WAR, THE AIDE-DE-CAMP, SECOND TO NONE, ETC. ETC.
A New Edition
LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL; NEW YORK: 129, GRAND STREET. 1865.
PREFACE.
In regard to prefaces, says the author of Curiosities of Literature, — ladies consider them so much space for a love story lost, though the Italians call them la salsa del libra ,—the spice of the book.
Be this as it may, I must mention that many of the men whose names occur in these pages, bore the part ascribed to them during the operations of Sir Charles Grey's army in the Antilles.