The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-05-06
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The prospectus for the new volume gives
the titles Of more than iifty papers mostly
Illustrated), by writers oil the highest merit.
Under the head of
Foreign Travel
we have "a Winter on the Nile" by Gen.
Mcclellan "saunterings About CONSTANT
NOBLE" py Charles Dudley Warner ''Out
of Ny window at Moscow" by Eugene
Schuyler. Gan American in Iurkistan,"
etc. Three serial stories are announced
Nicholas Minturn,"
BY DR.. Holland. the Editor.
whose story OF "sevenoaks " gave the hIgs
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 n
young man who has been always "tied TO q
woman's apron strings" but who, by the
death Of his mother, il left alone In the
world-to DRIFT on the current OF liie-with
a fortune, but without purpose.
Another serial, "His Inheritance" by
Mis- Trafton, will begin on the completion
OF THAT Lass O Lowrie's," by Mrs. Hodg-
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in August, has pathos and dramatic power
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| Mr. BarnArd's articles on yariou. indus
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''Some Experiments in Co-operaton,' "A
| Scottish Loaf Factory" in the November
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December. Other papers are, The British
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Household and Home ecoration"
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pear from month to month. The lst VI
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sketches, etc, Is long one.
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abroad There will be series OF letters on
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