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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

Everyone is bound to appreciate certainly a beterogenous collection of The departure from the stereotyped canons wit and wisdom, but it is the ideal of which this magazine promises.....ita o Far Easter magazine, for it will pages are bright without being shocking, sober the over-spirited or brighten the Its articles pro-crisy, original, and well ploomy, just as the spirit moves the written, ita Blustrations are artistic and reader..... Takes all altogether. THE

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enhance the value of the journtober, Hongkong Dealy Press, arth

The praise which we gave to the first namber of the COSMOPOLITAN msy honestly be repeated in reference to the soccnd number. There is rome- bing very attractive in the urity which pervades the magazine throng its being a one-man affair, and tint.ona man being sneb an sents student of pa sing orents and wielding such vigorous pon.-N.-C. Daily News, 30th October, 1905.

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"... Though the language of the staff is not English, the English of THE COSMOPOLITAN, idiomatically and matically is irreproseliable. China Gazette, 22nd September, 1505,

...... Among these are The Art of Eating, a witty and observant die course on modern table manners......It is

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