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The per deserves support, as it is full of good things.” San Francisco Chronicle, ** WE are in receipt of the new, humorous, and satir- | cal paper, LiFe. It is edited and printed in a first- | class manner, and is of convenient size; is issued Thursday of each week, and we predict will be the weekly most anxiously looked for by thousands. The first nine numbers have received a hearty encourage- ment from the leading journals of the country."— Niagara Falls Gazette. “Lire, the new illustrated weekly, has already shown enough sparkling wit and brilliantly conceived cartoons to entitle it to the first place among journals of its class. Its refined and pungent paragraphs are in marked contrast to the dullness of * * * and its pictorial strokes are more happy. Our local news dealers do not yet keep it on their counters, but they ought."—St. Joseph Gazette, ‘Lire, the new illustrated humorous weekly, is one of the best publications of the time, and deserves signal success."—Nashville Banner. * Lire.”—The current number of this new illus- trated weekly, is a example of what its publish- ers intend making it, Its cuts are of a higher order than those in some of the other illustrated weeklies, and fully bear out the promises of its proprietors to give the pobc a first-class publication. A high | Order of humor pervades it."—Rochester Pos | press. “New York's new comic paper, LIFE, is con- tinually improving. To our mind it is by far the best humorous and satirical publication of the day. It is high-toned, pure and handsome."—Rochester Union and Advertiser. “THE new humorous paper, LiFe, makes notic able improvement, and promises to rank first of its kind."—S¢. Paul Pioneer Press. “Lire is one of the very best printed, best illus- trated, best edited publications that gladden this vale of “THERE are two periodicals in New York which | tears. There is no handsomer paper put out anywhere, we seriously hope will live long and prosper. One | and few tuat can compare with it for genuine wit, is the Critic, which is the finest literary journal in | subtile, scholarly and refined. It completely eclipses this country, and the other is Lire, the neatest, the old-time Lampoon, and that is saying a good brightest and cleverest paper of its class on either deal. May its shadow. its reflection: it has no side of the ocean.” Albany Exports, shadow—never grow less."—Chillicothe Gazette. “THe new comic paper, Lire, is vastly superior to anything heretofore attempted in its line. 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