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# Catalog Note

This December 10, 1925 issue of Adventure presents seven stories ranging from ancient history to contemporary Western settings. The featured complete novel, "The Dancing Girl of Gades" by Talbot Mundy, opens with the ship Liafail anchored off Britain's coast circa 54 B.C., where the protagonist Tros—a ship's master, designer, and trader—debates with a Druid and the British king Caswallon about voyage preparations. Tros intends to sail to Rome and then Gades to settle affairs, driven by ambition to prove the world's roundness, despite warnings of danger from Caesar's forces and piracy. Other offerings include Hal Borland's "Dobe" (set in Mexico), Thomson Burtis's "Dumpy Docks" (Texas aviation), Robert Carte's "The Kid" (sea adventure), Bruce Johns's "Danny Slips the Noose" (canine narrative), Parsel Hazels Lamb's three-part serial "White Falcon" (Central Asia treasure), Wilkerson O'Connell's "The Standards of the Sixteenth" (military history), Joe Joseph's "The Gun Fighter's Code" (Western), and T.S. Stribling's "Cricket" (West Indies). Supporting material includes reader forums and a practical information service.