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GODEY'S LADY's BOOK FOR 1912.

! THE most splendid and valuable monthly periodi-
i cal ever published. The only magazine devoted
to ladies, and conducted by members of their own sex
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,
Editedby
Mrs. SARAH j. HALE, MORTON MMlcHAEL,
Mrs, L. ii SIGouRSEy l.. A. Cooley.
Contributors 10 each Number
Miss c. NJ Sedgwick, Miss f. Leslie Mrs f. G..
Embury, Mrs. C. Lee Hentz Mrs. +. 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 Lady's Book takes occasion
TO acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant sue
cess OF his Magazine, which has now reached the ex-
traordnary number of
Az Ot0 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 SUI
periority which the Lady's Book has always main
tanned over the contemporary magazines which nave
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 embematic artistic, and mechanical.
That this is no idle boast he appeals to the experience
ofthe past twelve years in all which tme he has made
promise TO The public phch he has not strictly perform
enable him to accomplish to the utmost. Entering,
he is about to do on 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-
eled in the annals of literature with numerous fac
es not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
digested and wide-extended arrangements and above
all, with stedias purpose of maintaining the lofty
elevation his work has reached the proprietor has
mt hpstatpd n which
circumstances might prove startlng but by means OF
which he will be enabled to make the Lady's Book
the richest the farest the most attractive, and the
most valuable periodical ntrinsically and exrinsic-
ally, ever offered to the American public.
Literary Deparfmenf.-It has ever been the aim of
the proprietor to mpart 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
itted its editorial supervision to Mrs Sarah j. Hale,
Mrs. Lydia H. Sgourney, and Miss T.. Leslie ladies,
Of whom not only their own sex, but the whole coun-
try, have reason to be proud. In this respect the
Ladys Book enjoys decided advantage over all other
publications, it is the only work devoted to ladies'
which ladies directan advantage, which must be OBJ
vious to every parent husband brother, and friend,
well as to every lady who properly appreciates the
dignity and Importance to her sex. To add TO its SUI
pcriority this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies' already mentioned the inva-
liable services of Miss G. NJ Sedgwick author of
Redwood Clarence, Letters from England, Sc, &c. :;
writer whose efforts in raising the intellectual
standard of her SEX and yindicang the true rights of
woman, not less than her richy-gifted intellect and
varied information, have gained her reputation
wide as it will be enduring. He has also made
rangements, by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs. f.. G. Embury, Mrs. +. 5. Osgood Mrs. NJ.
II. Parsons, Mrs. A. NJ. f. AMMAN, Mrs. f.. F. Efet,
Miss Dupuy, Mrs V. +. Howard, Miss E. Allen, Mrs.
S. L. Farley Miss f. Leslie, Mrs III. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs. j. Thayer, Mrs. C. L. Hentz,
Mrs. +. 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
nish articles from Maria Edgcworth, Mary Russell
Milford Mrs. c. Baron Wilson, Mrs. S. G. Hall, Mrs.
Hohand Mary Hewitt, and other English lad writers
of distinction; of whom have already published
in the Lady's Book the only original contributions they
omitted TO procure the assistance OF eminent writers
of the other sex. Aware OF the universal and we'll
deserved popularity of ~ p. WILLS, 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
rangement by which he will be able to give in each
number of his work an exc usye article from that gen
tieman and he has also retained all of the conri-
buors whose writings have heretofore given such am
pie satisfaction including W. G Simms, Esq, Pro
fessor ngraham Professor Dimitry, Professor Frost
Professor Walter, Park Benjamin Esq, h. $. Mac
kenzie Ill. d. Il. S. Arther, FL, w. Herbert, Jos. G.
Neal Hon. Robert II. Conrad, DR. J.'k. Mitchell,
Epes Sargent George p. Norris Joseph X. Chandler,
Robert Earle, Nj. d., n c. Brooks, Z. Holden, A.
M'Makn, L. Fitzgerald Tasistro, Rufus Dawes, f..
G. Squer J. MLelan, Jr,, and James Aldrch.
With such aid il 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,
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