The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-03-14

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The prospectus for the new volume gies
the titles of more than fifty papers (moJy
liiustratedD, by writers OF the highest melt.
Under the mead Of
Foreign Travel"
we have "a Winter on the Nilc.o by G,n.
Mcclellan "saunteripgs Abont Constant
nopie. by Charles Dudley Warner; "1ut
OF My window at Moscow" by E,gene
schuyler: San American in Tirkiaan,"
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Nicholas Minturn,''
BY Dr. Holland. the Edito,
whose story of "Seyenoaks yayethe higs
est satisfaction to the readers Of the
Monthly.
The scene OF this latest novel il laid on
the banks of the Hudson. The Zero is a
young man who has been always tiled TO a
woman's apron strings" but wiD, by the
death OF his mother, il left alone in the
world-to dfit on the current OF Iiie-with
fortune, but without a purpose.
Another serial, Ellis Inherit.nce." by
Miss Trafton, viii begin on the Omple tion
OF That Lass o. Lowrie's,' by Mrs. IIodg-
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In August, has pathos aud dramatic power
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on
Home Life and Travel
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country NE, village improvements, ETC., by
wsll-known specialists.
Mr. Barnard's articles on various indus.
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"Some Experiments in Cooperation" "a
! Scottish Loaf Factory in the Novembe
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December. Other papers are, The Britisl
| WorkiDgman' Home, "a Nation OF Shop
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etc.
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VIII have prominent place, whilst TIA
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