The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-04-29
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The prospectus for the new volume gives
the titles OF more than fifty papers mostly
IllustratedD, by writers OF the highest merit.
Under the mead 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. Gan American in 1urkistan,"
etc. Three serial stories are announced
Nicholas Minturn,"
BY DR.. Holland. the Editor.
whose story of "Sevenoalls " gave the Ing
est satisfaction TO the readers of the
Monthly.
The scene OF this latest novel is laid on
the banks of the Hudson. The hero is
young man who has been always ''tied TO a
woman's apron strings" but who, by the
death of his mother, is left alone in the
world-to DRIFT on the current OF lite-with
a fortune, but without purpose.
Another serial, "His Inheritance" by
Miss Traitor, will begin on the completion
OF "fhat Lass o. Lowrie's," by Mrs. Hodg.
son Burnett. Mrs. Burnett's story, begun
in August, has pathos and dramatic power
which have been a surprise to the public.
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There are to be. from various pens, papers
Home Life and Travel"
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wsll-known specialists.
MIR. Barnard's articles on various indus
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"Some Experiments in Cooperation" "a
Scottish Loaf Factory" in the November
number, and Toad Lane, Rochdale," in
December. Other papers are, "The British
Workingman's Home, "a Nation of Shop
keepers, ""Ha'penny aWe eek for the Child"
etc.
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theme. The subject Of
Household and Home eooration'
will have a prominent place, whilst the
productions OF American humOrists will APP
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sketches, etc. is a long enc.
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