THE SATURDAY
EVENING POST.
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NEW ATTRACTIONS.


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which has been accorded to it, for Pc
riod of


A QUARTER OF A CENTURY.
ln this time which has served for the life and
death Of whole generations of periodicals.
and the rise, meridian, and decline of many
rival, The PosT has kept the even tenor of
lis way, by It's own intrinsic health and
strength--now following, ofiener leading
the public taste, but not departing from lis
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the existence the Post, are indeed ephe
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WEEKLY MAGAZINE, embracing.
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Whole Literature of the World
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European Literature which have fom
time to time appeared in this journal, are
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TO make the PosT truly Cosmopolitan in
the


Great Republic of Letters.


Volume Iaventy Seventh, upon which we
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ors blend with these peculiar advantages.
mot to be acquired in day. all the i'm.
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the better, which occur to men intent on
doing well by reading public which has
always done well for The SATURDAY EVE
MING PosT.


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