The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-02-25
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the titles OF more than fifty papers (mostiy
iIlustrated), by writer's OF the highest merit
Under the head of
"FOreign Travel"
we have IA Winter on the Nile,u bv Gen.
Mcclellan 'saunterlngs About CONSTANT
nopie," by Charles Dudley Warner; "Out
OF My Window at Moscow" By Eugene
Schuyler. Gan American In 2ilrkistan,n
etc, Three serial stories are announced;
Nicholas Miuturn,"
By Or. Holland. the Editor,
whose story Of "Sevenoaks" gave the hieA
Monthly,
The scene OF this latest novel 10 laid on
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young man who has been always tiled 10
womans apron strings" but who, by the
| death Of his mother, is left alone In the
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| . fortune, but without purpose.
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Home Life and Travel"
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Mr.. Barnard's articles on various indus
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some Experiments in Cooperation" "a
number, and TOAD Lane, Rochdale," In
December. Other papers are, 'sThe British
Workingmsn's Home, !" "a Nation Of Shop
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etc.
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Household and Home Decoration"
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