The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-05-05
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the titles Of more than fifty papers mostly
llustrated), by writer's OF 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. "An American In Turkistan,"
etc. Three serial stories are announced
Nicholas Minturn,"
BY DR.. Holland. the Editor.
whose story of ''Sevenoaks ~ gave the higE
est satisfaction TO the readers Of the
Monthly.
the banks Of the Hudson. The hero 10 u
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 liie-with
a fortune, but without purpose.
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OF "That Lass o Lowrie's," by Mrs. Hodg-
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Alse, practical suggestions rs to town and
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Mr.. Barnsrd'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, Hs'penny AWeek for the Chile, -
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Household and Home ecoration"
Will have prominent place, whilst the
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