The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-09-21
CAIRO, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1877
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the titles OF more than fifty papers imOStly
| lllustrated), by writer's OF tie highest merit.
Under the head OF
"Foreign Travel
VIC 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: "An American in Iurkistan,"
etc. Three serial stories are announced
Nicholas Minturn."
By DR.. Holland. the Editor,
whose story Of "scvenoaks gave the h.!
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 u
young man who has been always "tied TO
Woman's apron strings" but who, by the
death OF his mother, il left alone in the
world--to dTilt on the current OF liie-with
d fortune, but without q purpose.
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on
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Mr.. Barnard's articles on various indus.
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"S0me Experiments in Cooperation" ~
Scottish Loaf Factory" in th9 November
and Toad Lane, ROchdale," in
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"Holsaholi and Homeecora ii on
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