Issuing a Monthly Periodical devoted to Eastern subjects, on the plan of that which, under a similar title has proved so popular during a long, series of years encouraged by the already large and constantly increasing Great Britain and America, the publishers lave been interest felt in all parts of the civilized world with relation to China, Japan, and the adjacent Countries. With Peking and Yeuo open to travellers and officials, with the whole Empire of China accessible to explorers, and the barriers hitherto so jealously maintained in Japan becoming daily weakened, nunibers of new facts and. much curious information is' being accumulated in the note books of individuals, who are glul to preserve in type many little partlet, for embodying which ina form accessible to the public, no means now exist. Allnotes and inquiries recei are carefully classified and indexed with minute care; whilst, as in the home work which has been adopted as a model, a list of wanted, or for dis? Posal relating to China or Jap ested free of charge.
The favourable reception which this periodical has m with lads the publishers to hope for ayer more extensive circulation.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.