Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-02-16
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
IL A ID L q s. M A G A ZINE
AND
LITERARY GAZETTE.
FOR 1880.
PROSPECTUS

NNHE LADIES' MAGAZINE has been.
Dl Tor two years, before the pubIick, receiving
measure oil encouragement, rarely if ever before in
IN tins country. extended to periodical devoted to
subjects of taste and general literature
The publishers Of the Ladies' Magazine
have now become proprietors of the Yankee and
Boston Literary Gazette and hencetorth the unit
ed publication will bear the title prefixed to this
prospectus.
Mrs. HALE will continue in the editorial
department,-and aided by friends and intelligent
correspondents, she hopes to give an increased in.
terest and value to the work.
Our readers will undoubtedly be much
gratifed to learn that Mrs. HEMANs has encouraged
US to hope that the pages of the Ladies' Magazine
VIII be enriched by original poems from her pen
She has already sent an Offering which will be found
In the January number.
With regard to our future course, we can
only state that shall put in exercise our best en-
deavoure to make the work worthy publick approba-
ton, and useful, well as entertaining to the La
dies, on whose aid and encouragement we conf
IDENTIFY depend.
In the literary department., the progress
OF education, and all improvements connected with
that most Important and, to mothers, deeply inter-
esting subject, the physical moral, and mental cul-
ture OF children, will receive particular attention.
The cultivation of the female mind is so obviously
connected with human happiness and the best inter-
Seto vi oOCtSly tHdL ITO eUOTtS De spared to
disseminate that knowledge which will improve the
taste call forth the talents and thereby make the vr-
tues nf women more effective in their influence or
the manners and morals of the world We would
not by this encourage display 1t is an excess of su-
perhclal accomplishments, not of real reformation
sound learning-that should, in republican America
be feared r
The established character of the work
Will be preserved, native ,criters encouraged. the
history, scenery, and characteristics of our own
country and people described and displayed ; and
should we receive she assistance contemplated ali
subjects connected with Literature Science and
the Fine-Arts, which are usually discussed in the
best periodicals. will here find a place. A monthly
list OF new publications will be furnished
There will be four ornaments, either en-
cravings or thographck drawings, executed by our
best artists given during the year, the first engrav-
ing to be inserted in the March number
Subscribers for the Yankee and Boston
Literary Gazette will be furnished with the LADIES'
Magazine and Literary Gazette. and we cannot but
hope they will continue to us the encouragement
! they have bestowed on the former work.
SARAH J. HALE Enron.
IEEMs-S3 per annum, to be paid in advance
Each number to contain about fifty pages of oric-
nal matter, the whole making beautifully executed
octave volume of six hundred plges, wit! title paee
and index. PUTNAM e. HUNT,
| Printers and Proprietors, CornhiH.
| Neutrality-suspicious. received by
CARTER, ANDREWS, & co.
! Feb y. Agents. in Lancaster