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Gustavus Adolphus.* Colonel Dodge, A Learned,...

has taken to heart the advice of Napoleon—to read and read again the wars of the great captains—and is pre. senting the results of his studies in a series of bulky treatises. He......

Recent Novels.*

THERE are few, if any, contemporary novelists to whom one can turn with a greater certainty of procuring good entertain- ment than Mr. Marion Crawford, and these agreeable......