Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-04-06
PROS TU 5
PROS PECTUS
OF THE
T. A DIES M A G ZIN E
AND
LITERARY GAZETTE.
FOR 1880.

YEHE LADIES' MAGAZINE has been,
IL for two years, before the publick, receiving a
measure of encouragement, rarely if ever before in
in this 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 henceforth the unit
ed publication will bear the title prefxed to this
prospectus.
Mrs. HALE will continue in the editorial
department. 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
gratiied to learn that Mrs. HEMANs has encouraged
us to hope that the pages of the Ladies' Magazine
will 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-
tion and useful, as 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 obviously
connected with human happiness and the best inter-
ests OF society that efforts should be spared to
disseminate that knowledge which wlllimprove the
call forth the talents and thereby make the vr-
tues of women more effective in their influence or
the manners and morals of the world. We would
not by this encourage display. 1t is excess Of SUI
per6cial accomplishments not of real reformation
sound learning-that should, in republican America,
be feared.
The established character of the work
will be preserved, natiUe ,criters encouraged, the
history, scenery, and characteristics of our own
country and people described and displayed and,
should we receive she assistance contemplated, all
subjects connected with Literature, Science and
the Fine-Arts, which are usually discussed in the
best periodicals, will here find place. monthly
list Of new publications. will be furnished.
There will be four ornaments, either en-
cravings or lithographck 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 ]. HALE, EDITOR.
TERms.-S3 per annum, to be paid in advance.
Each number to contain about fifty pages Of origi-
nal matter, the whole making beautifully executed
octave volume of six hundred pages with title page
and index PUTNAM & HUNT,
Printers and Proprietors, 8 Cornhiu
U7Subscriptions received by
CARTER, ANDREWS, & Cos
Feb. 9. Agents, in Lancaster.