The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-09-20

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| The prospectus for the new volume gives
the titles OF more than fifty papers mostly
! llnstrated), by writers OF the h!ghestmcrt.
| Under the head OF
''Eoreign Travel
we have "A Winter on the Nile" By Gen.
/ Mcclellan "saunterings About Constant.
nople," by Charles Dudley Warner; .'Out
of My Window at Moscow by Eugene
Schuyler: "An American in Turki5tan,'
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Nicholas Minturn."
By DR.. Holland, the Editor,
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est satisfaction 10 the readers Of the
Monthly.
The scene OF this latest novel is laid OIL
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young man who has been always "tied 10
woman's apron strings" but who, by the
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world--to dfiit on the current Of liie-with
= fortune, but without purpose.
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Nils traitor, will begin on the compile ton
OF "Ihat Lass o. Lowrie's," By Mrs. Hodg.
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on
home Life and Travel"
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Well-knoWh specialists.
Mr.. BarnarG's articles on various indus
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"SOme Experiments in Cooperation" "a
Scottish Loaf Factory in the November
number, and TOAD Lane, ROcbdale," in
December. Other papers are, "The British
Workingman's Home "a Nation of shop
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etc.
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"Americnn Sports by Flood and Field" by
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"I3l3sl1,i ami Honee9orati On"
viii have 4 prominent place, whilst the
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"a Ilp.. hpt ~
abroad. There vii! be series OF letters on
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