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GODEY's LADY's BOOK FOR 1912.

GODEI - LADY Is BOOK FOX lS42.
TINE most splendid and valuable monthly perodi-
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 embellished with a
larger number and greater variety of costly elegant
and attractive pictorial illustrations, than any similar
publication.
Edihdby
Mrs SARAH J. HALE, MoRroN MMrcHAEL,
Mrs l.. ii. SIGouRNEY, l.. A. Cooley.
Contributors to each Number
Miss C. Nj. Sedgwick, Miss f. Leslie, Mrs. f. c.
Embury, Mrs. C. Lee Hentz, Mrs Z. 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 ofGodey's Lady's Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant
cess of his Magazine, which has reached the
traordinary numberof
10000 MONTHLY
being larger edition than has been printed OF
any other work of any description in America. This
he is 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, a superiority which he
is still determined to preserve by keeping it. in all its
departments, literary, intellectual and moral well
as pictorial, emblematic, 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
ed, nor undertaken anything which his means did not
enable him to accomplish to the utmost. Entering,
as he is about to do, the oath volume of the Lady
Book, with increased energy and accumulated re-
sources; with ample knowledge of the business in
which he is engaged, acquired by long years of
mtted application; with a subscription list unpara-
eled in the annals of literature with numerous fac-
ties not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
digested and wide extended arrangements and above
all, with stedfast purpose of maintaining the lofty
haer ahnI tha lot. hoe
not hesitated to incur expenses, which under other
circumstances might prove startmg but by means of
which he will be enabled to make the Lady's Book
the richest the rarest, the most attractive, and the
most valuable periodical, intrnsically and exrinsic
ally, ever offered to the American public.
Literary Departmental has 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
mted its editorial supervision to Mrs. Sarah j. Hale
Mrs. Lydia II. Sigourney, and Miss E. Leslie; ladies'
Of whom not only their sex, but the whole coun-
try, have reason to be proud In this respect, the
Ladys Book enjoys adecided advantage all other
publications, il is the only work devoted to ladies,
which ladies direct--an 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 su
perory in this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned the inva-
liable services oil MISS y. vi. oeugWlck, autNOr OIL
Redwood Clarence Letters from England, &C., sc. !;
writer, whose efforts in raising the intellectual
standard of her sex, and indicating the true rights of
woman not less than her richly-gifted intellect and
varied information, have gained her reputation as
wide it win be enduring. He has also made ar
rangements by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs. f. c. Embury, Mrs F. S. Osgood, Mrs NJ
II. Parsons, Mrs. A. NJ. F. Amman, Mrs. E. F. Ellet
Miss Dupuy Mrs. " f. Howard, Miss E. Allen, Mrs
S. f. Farley, Miss f. Leslie, Mrs II. Beecher Stowe
Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs. J. Thayer Mrs c. l.. Hentz,
Mrs. f. C. Stedman Miss Meeta M. Duncan, Mrs NJ
st. Leon Loud, Mrs. c. II. w. Eslng, 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 lady-wrters
Of distinction some of whom have already published
the Ladys Book the only original contributions they
have ever 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 exclusive article from that gen
tleman and he has also retained all of the contri-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such am
pie satisfaction; including w. G.. Simms, Esq, Pro-
lessor Ingraham Professor Dmitry, Professor Frost
Professor Walter Park Benjamin Esq, r.. S. Mac
kenze Ill. d., T. S. Arther, II. 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 Tasistro, Rufus Dawes, T..
G. Squier J. MLellan, Jr., and James Aldrch.
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