The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-04-13
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Under the head OF
Foreign Travel"
we have "A Winter on the Nile" by Gen.
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nople,' Jy Charles Dudley Warner; "Out
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Schuyler: IAN American in Iurkistan,"
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Nicholas Mintrrn."
BY DR.. Holland. the Editor.
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The scene OF this latest novel l. laid on
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"Some Experiment, in Cooperation" "a
Scottish Loaf Factory" in the November
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Household and Home Decoration"
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