Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1840-04-09
VOLUME IL.
GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK.

EyIGHTEEN Original contributors to January
N number.--Nine;een Original contributors u
February numbsr.--EIeven Embellishments in the
two numbers ineiy-six pages threading matter,
by authors whose names stand among the foremost
in the literary ranks Of eur country, as follows:
EssAYrsTs.-A Miss Mary w. Hale, Prof Walter.
Mrs. Holland, Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs Hale, Mrs E.
F. Ellei. NovELisrs.-L. w Herbert, Professor
Ingraham, Richard Penn Smith, w. Lander. Pc
rTs-Miss Mary n. Milford, Miss c. II w ater
man, Eliza Earle, Miss II. r. Gould, Mrs siaoer
ucy, Mrs. F $. Osgood. Mrs. c. Baron Wilson.
WIN. Gutter, James u. Fields, Isaac G. Ray, j s.
Dusolle, James Montgomery, Miss Juliet II Lew
IS Miss A. ID Woodbridge. WRlrERs OF r Alrs
Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs Emma c Embury Mrs
Caroline L Henz, Mrs Mary H Parsons, Miss A.
NJ f. Buchanan, Mrs. Beecher Stowe, Mrs M
ST Leon Loud, Seba Smith.
OF the above eminent writer's celebrated in our
own and most of them well known 10 other coun-
tries each have had article either in the Jsnua-
ry February number of the Book 1t is unne-
cossary for US TO say that such array Of names
can be shown by any other Maya in this coun.
Try Of any price.
We give three times as many embellishments as
any other Magazine, and each plate is equal if not
superior to the of any contemporary, and vet
the price Of the Magazine is not increased. Our
edition is immense, therefore enabled to go
to greater expense than any other publisher A
better return may therefore be expected for the
La the two numbers just published, we have
given Plates Of Fashions, containing / Figures !
l beautiful specimen of Luce work; | splendid
Steel Piate-beyond comparable bestli eagra-
eng eocr published an Amesscan Magazine;
pages OF Music; New mathematical Cover.
In addition usual well arranged embeIlish-
ments, We always publish Steel THE pages t~ice
a gear.
The ~hole amount ofengravngs aud embellish-
ments Of various kinds that the Book contains, or
will contain this year, may be estimated at about
sixty.
A new series of papers of great value has been
lately commenced by Mrs. Hale. The Domes-
tic Department this, duriEg the year, will com
pose great amount of useful matter.
For enterprise, at least, we think we deserve
some credit; we have been tho first to give to an
American public original articles from The pens Of
Mary Russell Milford, author Of g Our Village ;
Mrs. Cornwall Baron Wilson, Editor of London La
Belle Assembled; Mrs. Holland, author Of several
useful and valuable works; james Montgomery
author of Omnpresence of the Deity" &c Tho
mas Miller. authot of Fair Rosamond and Royston
Gowef Ebenezer Elliott, author Of Corn Law
Rhymes.
We do not particularly mention these names be-
cause they al date from London--our object only
is to show that where there good articles to be
had, there Will we apply No author of any repu-
iaiion in our own country has sought admis-
sion =" The Book" in vain.
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