HIS Work, now in the SEVENTH year of its existence, will be published as early' as practicable after the close of the year.
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N Issuing a Monthly Periodical devoted to Eastera subjects, on the phu 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 in all parts of the civilized world with relation to Chin, 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 notobooks 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. Allnotes 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 disa posal relating to China or Japan is inserted free of charge.
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