The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-03-30
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the titles OF more than fifty papers (mostly
lllustrated), by writers OF the highest merit.
Under the head OF
FOREIGN Travel
we have "A Winter on the Nile,v by Gen.
Mcclellan "saunteTings About CONSTANT
nople," ny Charles Dudley Warner; 'out
Of My Window at Moscow by Eugene
Schuyler: San American in Iurkistan,' -
etc. Three serial stories are aDnounced:
Nicholas Minturn,"
BY Dr. Holland, the Editor.
whose story OF. Sovenoalls " gave the hig.
est satisfaction TO the readers OF the
Monthly.
The scene OF this latest novel {. laid on
the banks of the Hudson. The hero is Ia
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
| 4 fortune, but without purpose.
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There are to be. from various pens, papers
Home Life and Travel"
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well-known specialists
Mr.. Barnard's articles on various indus
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''Some Experiments in Cooperation" "a
Scottish Loaf Factory" in the November
number, and TOAD Lane, Rochdaie," in
December. Other papers are, zine British
Worklngman's Home, "A Nation OF Shop
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etc.
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various writers, and each on a different
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Household and Home Decoration"
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