The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-09-08
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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" by Gen.
Mcclellan "saunterings About Constants.
nople," by Charles Dudley Warner; "Out
of My Window at Moscow" by Eugene
Schuyler. can American in Turkistan,"
etc. Three serial stories are announced.
Nicholas Minturn,"
BY DR.. Holland, the Editor,
whose story o" Sevenoaks " gave the higs
est satisfaction to the readers of the
Monthly.
The scene OF this latest novel is laid OIL
the banks OF The Hudson. The hero is
young man who has been always tiled 10 u
woman's apron strings" but who, by the
death OF his mother, is left alone in the
wOrld-to drlt ON the current of iie-witb
a fortune, but without purpose.
Another serial, "His Inheritance" by
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OF THAT LASS o. Lowrle's," by Mrs Hodg.
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Home Life and Travel"
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wsll-kn0wn specialists
MIR. Barnard's articles on various indus.
cries OF Great Britain include the history OF
"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
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etc.
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