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GODEY,s LADY's BOOK FOR 1912.

| TIME most splendid and valuable monthly periodi-
| i 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 a
larger number and greater variety of costly, elegant,
and attractive pictorial illustrations, than any similar
publication
! Ediiedby
| Mrs. SARAH J. Hale, MORTON MMlcHAEL,
Mrs. l.. ii. SIGoURNEy, l.. A. GopEy.
Contributors to each Number.
Miss C. Nj. Sedgwick, Miss +. Leslie, Mrs. t. G.
Embury, Mrs. C. Lee Hentz, Mrs. T.. 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 Godey's Ladys Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant sue
cess of his Magazine which has now reached the ex-
traordinary number of
OOOO MONTHLY
being a larger edition than has been printed of
any other work of any description in America. This
success he is has been attained by the
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 10 preserve by keeping it, in all its
departments, literary, intellectual and moral well
as pictorial, emblematic, artistic, and mechanical.
That tins no idle boast he appeals to the experience
OF the past twelve years, IN all which time, he has made
promise TO the public ,chich he has not strictly perform
ed nor undertaken anythng 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 5
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
mtted application; with subscription list unpara-
leed in the annals of literature; with numerous tac-
lities not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
dgested and wide extended arrangements and above
ALL with stediast purpose OF maintaining the lofty
elevation his work has reached, the proprietor has
not hesltaed to incur expenses, which under other
circumstances might prove startling 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 inrinsically and eXtrinsic
ally, ever offered TO the American public.
Literary Departmental has been the aim of
the proprietor to impart to the Ladys 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
mted its editorial supervision to Mrs Sarah j. Hale,
Mrs Lydia II. Sigouney, and Miss E. Leslie ladies,
of whom not only their sex, but the whole coun-
try, have to be proud. In this respect the
Ladys Book enjoys adecided advantage over all other
publications. as il is the only work devoted to ladies,
which ladies directan 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
perorty in this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned, the nva
| liable services of Miss c. Nj. Sedgwick, author of
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 gtted intellect and
varied information, have gained her reputation
wide as it will be enduring. He has also made ar
rangements by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs. f. c. Embury Mrs. F. S. Osgood, Mrs M
| II. Parsons Mrs. A. NJ. F. AMMAN, Mrs. f.. F. Ellet
Miss Dupuy Mrs. " K. Howard, Miss f. Allen, Mrs
S. f. Farley, Miss E. Leslie Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs. j. Thayer, Mrs. C. L. Hentz,
Mrs. f, c. 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. $. c. Hall, Mrs.
Holland, Mary Hewitt, and other English lady-writers
| of distinctions 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
| 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 gem
| teman and he has also retained all of the contr-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such
pie satisfaction including w G. Simms, ESQ., Pro-
essor Ingraham, Professor Dimitry, Professor Frost
| Professor Walter, Park Benjamin Esq, r. S. Mac
kenzie, LII. d., T. s Arther, II w. Herbert Jos. c.
| Neal Hon. Robert T. Conrad, DR. J. n. Mitchell,
Epes Sargent George I. Morris, Joseph r.. Chandler,
Robert Earle, NJ. D. n. c. Brooks, E. Holden A.
| MMakin, J.. Fitzgerald Tasstro, Rufus Dawes, E.
G. Squier, }. M'Lellan, 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
| H., tt.th hoo h,