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GODEY's LADY'S BOOK FOR 1912.

uODE - LAD L - DOOh FUN IO4S.
THE most splendid and valuable monthly periodi-
l. cal ever published The only magazine devoted
TO ladies, and conducted by members of their own
Composed entirely Of 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.
Ediiedby
Mrs, SARAH J. Hale, MoRroS MNllcHAEL
Mrs. l., II. SiGouRNEY, l.. A. GopEY
Contributors 10 each Number.
Miss c. NJ. Sedgwick, Miss Z. Leslie, Mrs. f. c..
Embury, Mrs. c. Lee Hentz, Mrs. f. +, Ellet, n p.
Willis, It, g. Arthur, Theodore S. Fay.
In announcing to his numerous patrons and the
public at large his arrangements for the year 1912
the proprietor ofGodeys Ladys Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant
of his Magazine which has now reached the ex-
traordnary number Of
Az OOO 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
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
pictorial, emblematc, artistic, and mechanical
That this is idle boast, he appeals to the experience
of the past twelve years IN all which time he has made
no promise 10 The public uhich he has not strictly perform
ed, undertaken anything which his means did not
enable him to accomplish to the utmost Entering
he is about to do, the oath volume OF the Lady,
Book, with increased energy and accumulated re-
sources; with an ample knowledge of the business in
which he is engaged, acquired by long years of unre
mitted application with subscription list unpara-
leled in the annals of literature with numerous fac-
ites not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
digested and wide-extended arrangements and above
all, with sedfast purpose of maintaining the lofty
not hestated to incur expenses, which under other
circumstances might prove startling but by means Of
which he will be enabled to make the l4ady's Book
the richest the rarest, the most attractive, and the
most valuable periodical, ntrnscally and eXtrlnsic-
ally, ever offered to the American public.
Literary Departmental has ever been the aim of
the proprietor to impart to the Lady'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
mitted its editorial supervision to Mrs, Sarah j. Hale
Mrs. Lydia II Sigourney, 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 over all other
publications. it is the only work devoted to ladies'
which ladies drect7an advantage, which must be OBJ
vious to every parent, husband, BROTHER and friend
as well as to every lady who properly appreciates the
dignity and Importance to her sex, To add TO It's sn
periory in this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned the inval-
liable services of Miss c. Nj. Sedgwick, author of
Redwood, Clarence, Letters from England, Sc, sc. ;
writer, whose efforts in raising the intellectual
standard of her SEX and indicating the true rights of
woman not less than her richy-gifted intellect and
varied information, have gained her reputation as
wide as it will be enduring. He has also made
engagements, by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs, +. G. Embury, Mrs +. $ Osgood, Mrs. M.
II. Parsons, Mrs. A. NJ. f. Amman, Mrs E. +. Ellet,
Miss Dupuy Mrs. " f. Howard, Miss +. Allen Mrs,
$. f. Farley, Miss f. Leslie Mrs. Fl, Beecher Stowe,
Mrs Seba Smith Mrs j Thayer Mrs c. l., HentZ
Mrs. H. G. Stedman, Miss Meeta Nj. Duncan, Mrs. NJ,
St Leon Loud, Mrs. c. II. W. Esling, Miss NJ 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 writers
Of distinction; some of whom have already published
in the Lady 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 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 ar
rangcment, by which he will be able to give in each
number of his work exclusive article from that gem
tleman and he has also retained all of the contri-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such
pie satisfaction; including w G.. Simms Esq, Pro-
fessor lngraham, Professor Dmtry, Professor Frost
Professor Walter Park Benjamin Esq, r. $. Mac
kenze, LII. d., T. S. Arther, II. w Herbert Jos, c.
Neal, Hon. Robert II. Conrad DR. J. X Mitchell,
Epes Sargent George p. Norris Joseph r. Chandler,
Robert Earle, Nj d., N G. Brooks, +. Holden, A
M'Makn, l.. Fitzgerald Tasisro, Rufus Dawes, f.
G. Squier, J. M'Lellam, 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.
NOUNG LADIES' INSTITUTE, Pitsdeld,
i Massachusetts,. This Institution, pleasantly To-