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GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR 1912

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR 1912.
TIME most splendid and valuable monthly period-
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 embeshed with
larger number and greater variety of costly elegant
and attractive pictorial illustrations dian any similar
publication.
Edtedby
Mrs SARAH J. HALE, MoRroN M'MIoHAEL,
Mrs. l.. ii. SIGouRNEY, L. A. GopEY.
Contributors to each Number.
Miss g. NJ. Sedgwick, Miss T.. 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 reached the ex-
traordinary number of
10000 MONTHLY
being larger edition than has been printed of
any other work of any description in America. This
success 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 superiority which he
IS still determined TO preserve by keeping it, in all Its
departments, literary, intellectual, and moral as well
as PICTORIAL embematc, 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 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 re-
sources with ample knowledge of the business in
which he is engaged acquired by long years of unre
mitted application with subscription list unparal
eled in the annals of literature; with numerous faci
es not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
digested and wide extended arrangements and above
all, with stedtast purpose of maintaining the lofty
Gle ynfip Vprk hos ched he hos
not hesated to incur expenses, which under other
circumstances might prove startling; but by of
which he will be enabled to make the Ladys Book
the richest the rarest, the most attractive, and the
most valuable periodical, intrnscally and extrnsc-
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
mitted its editorial supervision to Mrs. Sarah j. Hale,
Mrs. Lydia IL Sigourney, and Miss f. Leslie ladies,
Of whom not only their own SEX but the whole
try have reason to be proud In this respect, the
Lady's Book enjoys adecded advantage over all other
publications is the only work devoted to ladies,
which ladies drect-an 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 su
perorty in this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned, the nval
liable services of Miss c, Nj. Sedgwck, 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 richly giited intellect and
varied information, have gained her reputation as
wide as it will be enduring. He has also made ar
rangemens, by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs. E. c. Embury, Mrs F. s. Osgood, Mrs. M.
II. Parsons, Mrs. A. M. +. Amman, Mrs Z. F. Ellet,
Miss Dupuy, Mrs. " F.. Howard, Miss L. Allen, Mrs.
S. +. Farley, Miss f. Leslie Mrs. Fl. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs, j. Thayer, Mrs, c, l.. Hentz,
Mrs. Il. 9. Stedman, Miss Meeta Nj Duncan, Mrs. NJ
ST Leon Loud Mrs. c. H. w Esling, Miss M b.
Snow Kate Franklin, VIII be enabled to r1r-
nish articles from Maria Edgeworth, Mary Russell
Milford Mrs. c. Baron Wilson, Mrs. S. c. Hall, Mrs.
Holland, Mary Hewitt, and other English lady -wrers
Of distinction; some of whom have already published
in the Ladys Book the only original contributions they
have ever made to Amer lean literature Nor has ne
omitted to procure the assistance of eminent writers
of the other sex. Aware of the universal and we'll
deserved popularity of N. p. WILLS 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 ar
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 conri
butors whose writings have heretofore given such am
pie satisfaction; including w. G. Simms, Esq, Pro-
lessor Ingraham Professor Dimitry, Professor Frost,
Professor Walter, Park Benjamin Esq, r. s. Mac
kenze, LII. d., T. s. Arther H. w. Herbert, Jos. c.
Neal Hon. Robert T. Conrad, DR.. J. X. Mitchell,
Epes Sargent George p Morris, Joseph r. Chandler,
Robert Earle, M, d., N, c. Brooks, Il. Holden, A.
M'Makin, l.. Fitzgerald Tasistro, Rufus Dawes, +.
G.. Squier, J. M'Lellan, 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 or can be attempted