Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-03-30
PROS PECTUS
OF THE
l. A DIES MAG I'm E
AND
LITERARY GAZET TIE,
FoR 1870.

lTHE LADIES' MAGAZINE has been,
III 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, land aided by friends and inteligen,
correspondents, she hopes to give an increased in
terest and value to the work. II
| Our readers will undoubtedly be much
gratfed to learn that Mrs. HEMASs 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 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.
ests Ot society," tnat no ef0fts should be spared In
disseminate that knowledge which will improve the
taste call forth the talents and thereby make the viz
tues of women more effective in their influence IN
the manners and morals of the world. We would
not by this encourage display. 1t is an excess of s
perfcial accomplishments, not of real Reformation,
sound learnng-that should, in republican America,
be feared.
The established character of the work
WIN De preserved, 'sative rriters 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 usually discussed in the
best periodicals, will here find place. A month";
list Of new publications will be furnished.
Elere will be four ornaments. either en-
cravings or lthographick drawings, executed bv our
best artists, given during the year the FIRST
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 hnt
hope they will continue to us the announcement
they have bestowed on the former work.
SARAH J. HALE, EDlroR.
IERMs.--S3 per annum, to be paid in advance
Each number to contain about ifty pages of or;r;
nal matter, the whole making beautfnlv erecrtsa
octave volume Of six hundred pages. with ttIs ,.s
ana inaeA. PUTNAM g. HUNT.
-, Printers and Perpetrators, s Coruh;u.
misconceptions received BY
CARTER, ANDREWS, e. CO..
rep. ,. Agents, in Lancaster.