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GoDEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR 1912.

GOJE . LAD - BOOk FUN lo4S.
TINE most splendid and valuable monthly periodi-
Il cal ever published The only magazine devoted
to ladies, and conducted by members of their
Composed entirely of original articles, by the most
eminent writers of the age and embelllshed with
larger number and greater variety of costly elegant
and attractive pictorial Illustrations, than any similar
publication.
Editdby
Mrs. SARAH J. HALE, MonroN M'MIcHAEL,
Mrs. l.. ii. SIcouRNEr, l.. A. Cooley
Contributors 10 each Nuaber.
Miss G.. NJ. Sedgwick, Miss E. Leslie, Mrs. r. C.
Embury, Mrs. C. Lee Hentz, Mrs. E. F. Ellet, N. 7.
Willis, L. s. Arthur, Theodore S. Fay.
In announcing TO his numerous patrons and the
public at large his arrangements for the year 1912
the proprietor of Godey's Ladys Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant sue
cess of his Magazine which has reached the cx-
traordinary number of
10000 MONTHLY!
being larger edition than has been printed of
any other work OF any description IN America lhls
success he is aware has been attained by the vast SUI
periority which the Lady's Book has always main
tanned over the contemporary magazines which have
attempted to rival its merits, superiority which he
is still determined TO preserve by keeping it, in all its
departments, literary, intellectual, and moral, as well
as picteria embematic, artistic and mechanical.
That this is no idle boast he appeals to the experience
OF the past twelve years. all which tme he has made
promise 10 the public heh he has not strictly perform
ed, nor undertaken nything which his did not
enable him to accomplish to the utmost Enterlng
he is about to do the Oath volume of the Ladys
Book, with increased energy and accumulated re-
sources with ample knowledge of the business in
which he is engaged acquired by long years of unre-
mitted application with subscription list unparal-
eled in the annals of literature with numerous tac
es not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
digested and wideextcnded arrangements and above
all, with stedfts purpose of maintaining the lofty
elevation his work has reached the proprietor has
not hestated to incur expenses which under other
circumstances might prove startling but by means OF
which he will be enabled to make the Eady's Book
the richest the rarest the most attractive, and the
most valuable periodical, nrinsically and extrinsic
ally, ever offered to the American public.
Litelurv Department. has ever been the aim of
the proprietor to mpart to the l.ady's Book high
literary and moral tone; and for this purpose he has
without regard to cost procured the aid OF the most
eminent writers and for several years past has com
mited its editorial supervision to Mrs. Sarah j. Hale
Mrs. Lydia H. Sgourney, and Miss f. Leslie ladies'
of whom not only their own sex, but the whole coun-
try, have reason to be proud. In this respect, the
Lady's Book enjoys decided advantage overall other
publications, as il is the only work devoted to ladies'
which ladies direc--an advantage, which must be OBJ
vious to every parent, husband BROTHER and friend
well to every lady who properly appreciates the
dignity and Importance to her sex To add to its SUI
perority in this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned the inval-
liable services Of Miss C. M Sedgwick author of
Redwood, Clarence, Letters from England, Sc, SC. ;
a writer whose efforts in raising the intellectual
standard of her SEX and indicating the true rights of
woman not less than her richly-gfted intellect and
varied information, have gained her reputation as
wide as it will be enduring He has also made ar
fragments, by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs f. c. Embury, Mrs. F. S. Osgood, Mrs. M.
IL Parsons Mrs. A, NJ. F. Annan Mrs. f. f, Elet,
Miss Dupuy, Mrs V. f. Howard Miss f. Allen, Mrs.
S. f. Farley Miss f. Leslie, Mrs. II. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs. Scba Smith, Mrs. J. Thayer Mrs G. l.. Hentz,
Mrs +. C. Stcdman, Miss Meeta NJ. Duncan, Mrs. M.
ST Leon Loud, Mrs. c. ii. w. Esling, Miss M. b.
Snow and Kate Franklin he will be enabled to fur
nish articles from Maria Edgeworth Mary Russell
Milford Mrs C. Baron Wilson, Mrs, S. C. Hall, Mrs.
Holland Mary Hewitt, and other English adywriters
of distinction; some of whom have already published
the ladys Book the only original contributionsthey
have made to American literature. Nor has he
omitted to procure the assistance of eminent writers
of the other sex. Aware of the universal and we'll
deserved popularity Of n. P. WILLIS Esq, and conf
dent that the productions of his graceful and elegant
pen will be highly acceptable to the readers of the
Lady's Book the proprietor has entered into
rangement, by which he will be able to give in each
number of his work an exclusive article from that gen
eman; and he has also retained all Of the contri-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such
pie satisfaction; including w. e, Smms, Esq, Pro-
fessor Ingraham, Professor Dmitry Professor Frost
Professor Walter, Park Benjamin Esq, II. S. Mac
kenzie LII. d., T. s. Arther, H. W. Herbert, Jos. C.
Neal Hon. Robert T. Conrad, DR.. J X. Mitchell,
Epes Sargent, George p Morris, Joseph r. Chandler,
Robert Earle, NJ. D. N. G. Brooks, Il. Holden, A,
M'Makin, l.. Fitzgerald Tasistro, Rufus Dawes, E.
G. Squicr, y, MLellan, Jr and James Aldrich.
With such aid, it is not too much to say, that the
literary department of the Lady's Book will surpass
any thing that has been can be attempted