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THE COSMOPOLITAN,

A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE.

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..... its a Far Eastern magasine, for it will pages are bright without being shocking. sober the over-spirited or brighton the Ite articles are crisp, original, and wall gloomy, just as the spirit moves the writion, its illustrations are artistic and reader..... Taken all altogether Tax enhance the value of the journal......" COSMOPOLITAN is brightly written. Hongkong Daily Press, 27th October, up-to-date, and entirely interesting......" Hongkong Telegraph, 20th September, 15.

1900,

The praise which we gave to the first number of the COSMOPOLITAN may honestly be repeated in reference to the Recond number...... There is some thing very attractive in the urity which portades the magazine through its being a car-man affair, and that one man being such an acute student of passing

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