Eniten uy N. B. per annum, Issning a Monthly Periodical devoted to Eastern subjects, ea the plan of that which, under a similar title has proved so popular during a long series of years nil ica, the publishers lave been ge and constantly increasing of the civillyed world with re-"adjacent Countries, With and officials, with the a accessible to explorers, and the so jealously maintained in Japan bo-Ly weakened, numbers of new facts and much curious information is' being accumulated in the notebooks of individuals, who are glad to preserve in typo articulars, for embodying which ina form public, no means now exist. All notes ant inquiries received are enrcfully classified and indexed with minute care; whilst, as in the home work which has been adopted as a model, a list of books wanted, or for dis? posal relating to China or Japan is inserted free of charge.
The favourable reception which this periodical has met with Inds the publishers to hope for a yet more extensive circulation.
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