Price $6 per annum, Issuing a Monthly Periodical devoted to Eastern subjects, on the plan of that which, under a similar ttle has proved so popular during a long series of years in Great Britain and America, the publishers have been encouraged by the already large and constantly increasing interest felt in all parts of the civilized world with relation to China, Japan, and the adjacent Countries. With Peking and Yedo 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, numbers of new facts and much curious information is being accumulated in the notebooks of individuals, who are glad to preserve in type many little particulars, for embodying which ina form accessible to the public, no means now exist. All notes and inquiries received are carefully classified and indexed with minute care; whilst, as in the home work which has been adopted as a model, alist 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 lads the publishers to hope for a yet more ete circulation. necessary, in order to avoid misapprehension, to add that The subscription has been fixed at $4 per annum, It is no communication, of whatever description, can entitle a contributor, in the case of a publication of this kind, to receive without chargee copy of the paper in which it appears. All "Notes" and ' Queries" are of course, inserted without charge.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.