The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-06-12

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LY for June contains, as usual, an abundance
of good things, literary and artistic. The
articles are beautifully and literally illustrat-
ed and they are timely and highly interesting
and instructive. The opening article ''The
British Empire in South Africa is especially
so, for the Cape and Natal colonies are attract
ing universal attention at this time. There arc
Is admirable Illustrations sThe City of the
Doge,' "Some Indian Hill Tribes NAVAL
Architecture of the Present with Is Illus
| trations); 1.-THE Rhine Delta" by Lady Blanche
Murphy, will well repay perusal, The depart
| ments of fiction and poetry are of very at
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| some of our most popular writers There is
| a more than usually eopious miscellany, EN-
bracing an immense variety of subjects replctc
| with interest, instruction and entertainment
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