The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-05-09
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the title OF more than fifty papers mostly
lnustratedJ, by writers OF the highest merit.
Under the head OF
Foreign Travel
we have ~ Winter on the Nile" by Gen.
Mcclellan "saunteTings About Constants.
noplc," by Charles Dudley Warner; "Uut
of My Window ut Moscow" by Eugene
schuyler: "An American in Tlukstan,"
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Nicholas Minturn,"
BY DR.. Holland. the Editor,
whose story of "Sevenoaks " gave the hlgs
est satisfaction 10 the readers Of the
Monthly.
The scene OF this latest novel il laid on
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young man who has been always "tied 10
womau's apron strings" but who, by the
death Of his mother, is left alone in the
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a
Another serial, "Ilis Inheritance" by
! Miss Tratton, viii begin on the completi ton
! OF THAT Lass o. Iowrie's,' by Mrs. liodg-
| Ion 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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Home Life and Travel
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| Mr.. BaTuards 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 a W eek for the Child,
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