The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-05-01
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the titles OF more than fifty papers mostly
| Illustrated), by writer's OIL The highest merit,
| Under the head OF
FOREIGN Travel
we have "A Winter on the Nile" by Gen.
Mcclellan "saunterings About Constants.
nople," by Charles Dudley Warner; "Out
of My Window at Moscow" by Eugene
Schuyler. IAN American in Turkistan,"
etc. Three serial stories are announced.
Nicholas Minturn,"
BY DR.. Holland. the Editor.
whose story OF "Sevenoaks " gave the hIgS
est satisfaction 10 the readers OF the
Monthly.
The scene OF this latest novel is laid on
the banks OF the Hudson The hero Is q
young man who has been always TIED TO a
womans apron strings" but who, by the
death of his mother, is left alone in the
WDEiu-lO III On CuITtul Vi ult-Nlln
fortune, but without purpose.
Another serial, "His Inheritance" by
Miss Traitor, will begin on the compile ton
OF "Ihat Lass o. LOwrie's," by Mrs. Hodg-
son Burnett. Mrs. Burnett's story, begun
in August, has patnos ana dramatic power
which have been surprise to the public.
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plete in itself.
There are to be. from various pens, papers
Home Life and Travel"
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country life, village improvements, etc., by
wsll-known specialists
MIR. Barnard's articles on various indus
cries OF Great Britain include the history OF
"Some Experiments in Cooperation" "a
Scottish Loaf Factory" in the November
number, and Toad Lane. Roehdale," in
December. Other papers are, The British
Workingman's Home, "A Nation OF shop
keepers" "Ha'penny aN eek for the Chlid,"
| etc.
A richly Illustrated series will be given on
| american Sports by Flood and Field" by
various writers, and each on different
| theme. The subject OF
Household and Home eooration"
will have a prominent place, whilst the
productions of American humorists will APP
pear from month to month. The list OF
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| sketches, etc, is long enc.
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