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Issuing a Monthly Periodical devoted to Eastern subjects, on the plan of that which, under a simile titlerhas proved so popular during a long series of years in G eat Britain and America, the publishers have been encouraged by the already large and constantly increasing interest felt ju all parts of the civilized wold 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 ars, for embodying which in a form phe, ho means now exist. All notes and.
quiries 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 exténsivcirculation. necessary, in onder to avoid minayprehonsion, 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 charge copy of the paper in which it appears, All "Notes" and "Queries" are course, inserted without, charge.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.