The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-07

composed ehtlreIy oil original articles, by the most
eminent writers OF the age and embellished with
larger number and greater variety of costly elegant
and attractive pictorial illustrations than any similar
publication.
Edtedby
Mrs SARAH J. HALE, MoRroN M'MlcHAEL,
Mrs l.. IL. SIGoURNEY, L. A. Cooley
Contributors 10 each Number.
Miss C. NJ. Sedgwick, Miss f. Leslie, Mrs. f. c.
Embury, Mrs. c. Lee Hentz, Mrs. f. F. Ellet n p
Willis, T. 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 Godeys Ladys Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant sue
cess of his Magazine which has now reached the ex
traordinary number of
4UUUO MONTHLY.
being larger edition than has been printed of
any other work of any description in America This
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 well
PICTORIAL emblematc, artistic, and mechanical.
That this IS no idle boast he appeals to the experience
of the past twelve years in all which time he has made
promise to the public ichic he has not strictly perform
ed, nor undertaken any thing which his means did not
enable him to accomplish to the utmost Entering
he is about to do the oath volume of the Ladys
Book, with increased energy and accumulated
sources with ample knowledge of the business in
which he is engaged acquired by long years of unre
mitted applications with subscription list unparal
leled in the annals of literature; with faci
lties not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
digesed and wide extended arrangements and above
all, with sedfast purpose OF maintaining the lofty
elevation his work has reached, the proprietor has
not hesitated to incur expenses, which under other
circumstances might prove startling; but by means of
which he will be enabled to make the Ladys Book
the richest, the rarest, the most attractive, and the
most valuable PERIODICAL intrinsicaly and eXtrnsc-
ally, ever offered to the American public
Literary Departmental has ever been the aim of
the proprietor to impart to the I.ady's Book a 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
mted its editorial supervision to Mrs Sarah j. Hale,
Mrs. Lydia II. Sigoumey, and Miss +. 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 adecided advantage all other
publications, it is the only work devoted to ladies,
which ladies dlrectan advantage, which must be OBJ
vous to every parent, husband brother, and friend,
well to every lady who properly appreciates the
dignity and Importance to her To add TO its
perory in this particular the proprietor has secured,
in addition to the ladies already mentioned, the nval
liable services of Miss c. M. Sedgwick, author of
Redwood Clarence, Letters from England, &c. sc.
writer, whose efforts in raising the intellectual
standard of her sex, and vndcatng the true rights of
woman, not less than her rchly-gited intellect and
varied information have gained her reputation as
wide as it will be enduring. He has also made ar
rangements, by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs E. c. Embury Mrs. F. S. Osgood, Mrs. Nj.
Fl. Parsons, Mrs. A. M. f. Amman, Mrs. f. F. Ellet,
Miss Dupuy, Mrs. V. E. Howard, Miss E. Allen, Mrs.
S. f. Farley Miss f. Leslie, Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs j. Thayer, Mrs. c. L. Hentz,
Mrs. E. C. Stedman, Miss Meeta Nj. Duncan, Mrs NJ.
st. Leon Loud, Mrs. c. III. w. Esling, Miss Nj. B.
Snow and Kate Franklin, he will be enabled to fur
nsh articles from Maria Edgeworth, Mary Russell
Milford, Mrs. c. Baron Wilson, Mrs s. c. Hall, Mrs
Holland, Mary Hewitt and other English ady-writers
of distinction; some of whom have already published
in the Ladys Book the only original contributions they
have made to Amer lean 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
Ladys Book, the proprietor has entered into an
rangement, by which he will be able to give in each
number of his work exclusive article from that gen
tleman and he has also retained all of the contr-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such
pie satisfaction; including w. G.. Simms Esq, Pro-
fessor Ingraham, Professor Dimry, Professor Frost,
Professor Walter, Park Benjamin ESQ., II. S. Mac
kenzie, IL d., II. S. Arther, IL. W. Herbert, Jos. c.
Neal, Hon. Robert T. Conrad Dr. j. X Mitchell,
Epes Sargent, George p Norris Joseph r. Chandler,
Robert Earle, NJ d., N. G. Brooks, f. Holden A.
M'Makn, l.. Fitzgerald Tasisro, Rufus Dawes, E.
G.. Squier j. MLellan, Jr., and James Aldrich
With such aid it is not too much to say, that the
literary department of the Ladys Book will surpass
any thing that has ever been can be attempted.