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The New York Press says: "To tell, and tell well, in a few pages what 9 

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 what is clean and yet exhilarating, and to present itself every month in such handsome 

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 of author, things so heavily banked on by other publishers for the allurement and 

 beguilement of the public ; to pay the right writers of the right stories the highest 

 prices ever paid for short stories, and to pay on acceptance, as all 

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 poor devil author — all this and more, has been the ambition, the 

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 on entirely new lines, it has never deviated by a hair from its pur- 

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 It prints No Continued Stories, No Translations, No Borrowings. 

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