Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-12-29
American Ladies' National Ma gazins
GODEY'S
IlAlDX'S BOOK FOR 1899.

hADX'5 BOOK LE'O& 48zk2n
The most splendid and calua5le Mqgaeine crer
published.
The only Magazine devoted TO the Ladies, and
conducted by members of their own SEX Com
posed entirely of original articles by the most en-
nent writer's of the age; and emhellished with a
larger number and greater variety of costly, ele-
giant, and attractive Pictorial illustrations, than
any similar publication
EDITED BY---MrS Sarah J. Hale, Mrs. L. II.
.Sigourney, Morton WNichdel, L. A. Cooley.
Contributors TO EACH NUMBER.---MiSS G..
~ Sedgwick, hiss E. Leslie, Mrs. E. G. EN-
Jurv, THeo s. Fay, ~ p Wills. Mrs. C. Lee
Henta, T. S. Arthur. Mrs. E. F. ElIet.
In announcing to his numerous patrons and the
public at large his arrangements tor the year 1912,
the proprietor of Godey's Lady's Book takes oc-
casion to acknowledge the unparalleled and tr-
umphant success of his Magazine, which has now
reached the extraordinary number of
AO,0Oa Copies Monthly,
being a larger edition than has ever been printed
of any other work, of any description, in America
This success he is aware has been attained by the
vast superiority which the Lady's Book has al
wayS maintained over the various contemporary
magazines which have attempted to rival its mer-
its superiority which he is still determined TO
preserve, by keeping it, in all its departments, Lit
erary Intellectual and Moral. well Pictorial,
Emblematic, Artistic and Mechanical.
hat lnlS Is no lQle boast. ne appeals 10 the eA-
perien &c of the past twelve years, in which time
Le has made no promise to the public that he has
not fully performed, nor undertaken any thing
which his means did not enable HIM 10 accomplish
10 the uttermost.
Entering, as he is about to do, on the 9th vol
ume OF the Ladys Book with increased energy and
accumulated resources; with an ample knowledge
of the business in which he is engaged, acquired
by long years of unremtted application; with a sub
scrpton list unparalleled in the annals of litera-
Tpre; with numerous facilities not possessed by
any other publisher with well-digested and wide
extended arrangements; and above all, with
steadfast purpose of maintaining the lofty eleva-
tion has reached the proprietor has not hesitated
TO incur expenses which under other circumstances
might well prove startling, but by means of which
he will be enabled to make the Lady's BOOK the
richest, the rarest, the most attractive, and the mos
valuable periodical, intrnsicay and extrinsically
offered to the public.
LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
Mrs s. J. Hale, Mrs L. H. SigOurney, Mas:
E. Leslie, Mass C. NJ 'Sedgscick, Mrs. Emma G
EnnJmv, Mrs f. S. Osgood, Mrs. A. NJ. +
Annan, MIS- e. F. EHet, Mss Dupuy, Mrs
VoIaey E. Hoaoard Mrs e Allen, Mrs. S. E
Farlev, Mrs. H. b. Store, Mrs. Seba Smith
Mrs. J. Thayer, Mrs c. Lee Hentz, Mrs. E. G
Stefnqn. Mss Meeta M Duncan, Mrs c. H
". Eslang, Mrs. NJ ST. Leon Loud, Mss II
B. Snov, Kate FrGnkha
He will be enabled to furnish occasional articles
from Maria Edgeworth, Mary Rnssel Milford, Mrs
Cornwel Baron Wilson, Mrs. S. G. Hall, Mrs
Holland Mary Hewitt and other English lady
writers ofdistnction, some of whom have already
published In the Ladys Book the first original con
trbutions they have evernade TO American Lite
rature.
Nor has he omitted to- procure the services o
eminent writers Of the opposite sex. Aware 0
the universal and well-deserved popularity IF N
p WILLIS ESQ and confident that the productions
ofhis graceful and eloquent pen will be highly ac
ceptibe to the readers Of tie Lady's Book, the
proprietor has entered into an arrangement BY
which he will be enabled TO give in each numbe
of the work an exclusive article from that gentle
man and he has also retained all the contributor
whose writings have heretofore given such gene
raj satisfaction, including w. G. Simms, Esq.
Professor Ingraham, Professor Dimlty, Proiesso
Frost Professor Walter, Park Benjamin, Esq, II
S. Mackenzie, LIZ d., T. S. Arthur, Esq, Ill. w
Herbert Joseph G. Neal, Hon. r. /. Conrad, Dr
] X Mitchell Epes Sargent, G. p. Morris, 10
seph r. Chandler Robert Morris, L. Earle, M "
r. c. Brooks, A. ~, +. Holden, A. M'Makln,
+. Tasistro. Rufus Dawes, f. d. Squier, j. R'Lei
Ian, Jr Jas. Aldnch
With such aid il is NOT too much TO say, that thf
Literary Department of the Ladys Book will surpas
any thing that has ever been or~can be attempted
ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT.
1t a source Of no little pride to the proprietor
Of the Lady's Book, that he first introduced int
the country the plan Of furnishing, along with
monthly periodical ofeleeant literature, embelllsh
ments of an attractive and costly character. The
first steel engravings accompanying such wori
were given by him; the first mezzotlnt engraving
was given by him; the first patterns of lace WORK
and embroidery were given by him; the first color
ed plates of fashions were given by him; the hrs
music was givenby him. These are things to winch