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any other cause than the difference in the daily 

 use of the one to the prejudice of the other ?" 



Baucher says : '^ To prove the complete 

 success of my mission to Saumur, I will 

 back, according to my custom, my assertions 

 by positive facts. The officers present at 

 my course of instruction were seventy-two 

 in number ; of these, sixty-nine have sent 

 in reports favorable to my method. There 

 were but tlii^ee dissenting voices'' 



This statement is followed by letters from 

 General Prevost, De Novital, (fee, all highly 

 commending the system. 



Baucher's method has been reprinted in 

 Belgium, and translated into Dutch and 

 German. In the latter language, several 

 different translations have been written, one 

 by M. Ritgen, Lieutenant of the 4th Regi- 

 ment of Houlans (Prussian), and the other 

 by M. de Willisen, Lieutenant-Colonel of 

 the 7th Cuirassiers (Prussian). 



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