The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-09-22
CAIRO, ILLINOIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1877
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lllustrated), by writers 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; "Oul
Of My Window at Moscow" by Eugene
7 Schuyler! "An American in Turkistan,"
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nicholas Minturn."
BY Dr. Holland. the Editor.
whose story of "Sevenoaks " gave the hlga
est satisfaction TO the readers OF the
Monthly.
The scene Of this latest novel Is laid OIL
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world-tO DRIFT on the current OF lite-witb
a fortune, but without Il purpose.
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SON Burnett. Mrs. Burnett's story, begun
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Mr.. Barnard's articles on various indus.
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"Some Experiments in Corporations" ga
Scottish Loaf Factory" in the November
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