The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-09-23

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Under the head OF
Foreign Travel
We have "A Winter on the Nile" by Gen.
Mcclellan; "saunttrings About CONSTANT
noplf," by Charles Dudley Warner; "Out
OF My Window at Moscow" by Eusono
schuyler: Gan American IN Turkistan,"
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Nicholas Minturn,"
BY DR.. Holland, the Editor.
est satisfaction to the readers of the
Monthly.
The scene of thi. latest novel il laid OIL
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young man who has been always "tied TO u
woman's apron strings" but who, by the
death OF his mother, is left alone in the
world-to DRIFT on the current of liie--with
q fortune, but without purpose.
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Home Life and Travel"
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"Some Experiments in CO-opcratiOn," "a
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