The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-02-24
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the titles OF more than fifty papers mostly
llustrated), 10y writers OF the highest merit.
Under the head of
Foreign Travel
we have "a Winter on the Nile" by Gen.
Mcclellan ; "saunterings About CONSTANT
nople," by Charles Dudley Warner; "Out
of My Window at Moscow" by Eugene
Schuyler. San American in Turkistan,'
etc. Three serial stories are announced:
Nicholas Minturn,"
BY DR.. Holland. the Editor
whose story OF" Seyenoaks " gave the higA
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Monthly.
The scene OF this latest novel is laid on
| the banks of the Hudson The hero is a
| young man who has been always tied 10 a
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| a fortune, but without purpose.
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| MISS Trafton, will begin on the compile tion
oil THAT Lass o. Lowrie's," by Mrs. lLodg.
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Home Life and Travel"
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well-known specialist,
MIR. Barnard's articles on various indus
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"Some Experiments In Cooperation" "a
Scottish Loaf Factory in the Novembe
number, and Toad Lane, Rochdale," ii
December. Other papers are, "1ne Births
Workingman's Home" "a Nation Of SHOP
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"American sports by Flood and Field" b.
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