Price $6 per annum, Issuing a Monthly Periodical devoted to Eastern subjects, on the plan of that which, under a similar in Great Detain and America, the publishers have been title has proved so popular during a long series of years encouraged by the already lange and constantly ineressing 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 Varriers 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 tothe 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, a list of books wanted, or for diso 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.
The subscription has been fixed at $4 per annum. necessary, in order to avoid misapprehension, to add that 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.