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THE COSMOPOLITAN.
A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
......Everyone is bound to appreciate certainly a heterogenous collection of the departare from the stereotyped canons wit and wisdom, but it is the ideal of which this magazine promises...its a Far Eastern magazine, for it will pages are bright without being ebocking, Its articles are crisp, original, and well written, its illustrations are artistic and euhare the value of the journal... mungking Daily Press, 27th October, 1905
The praise which we gave to the first wamber of the COSMOPOLITAN MAY honestly be repeated in reference to the second number... There is some thing very attractive in the anit which pervades the magazine through its being a one-men affair, and that ors man being such an acute student of paraing events and wielding such vigorona "—N.C. Daily News, 30th October, 1905
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Eastern journalism..... the quality of the "... quite a new feature in Far letterpress is well worth the band- meatting...... We bave found good deal of Board common in articles as well as nolittle fun and mattera calculated to interest
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