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iODEY's LADY'S BOOK FOR 1912.

0ODE 1 - LAD > DUN Oh lo4S.
YNHE most splendid and valuable monthly periodi-
j. 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 embeshed with
larger number and greater variety of costly, elegant
and attractive pictorial illustrations than any similar
publication.
Mrs. SARAH J. HALE, MoRToN M'MIcHAEL,
Mrs L. H. SreouRsEr, l.. A, Cooley
Contributors 10 each Number.
Miss c. NJ. Sedgwick Miss f. Leslie, Mrs. T.. c.
Embury, Mrs. C. Lee Hentz, Mrs. Z. F. Ellet, N. p
Willis, I. s. Arthur, Theodore S Fay.
In announcing to his patrons and the
public at large his arrangements for the year 1912
the proprietor Godeys Ladys Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant
cess of his Magazine which has reached the ex-
traordinary number Of
40 600 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 It's
departments, literary, intellectual and moral well
as pictorial, emblemac, 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
promise to the public phieh 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 Gath volume of the Ladys
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 unparal-
leled in the annals of literature; with numerous faci
lities not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
digested and wide extended arrangements and above
all, with sedfast purpose of maintaining the lofty
elevation his work has reached, the proprietor has
not hesitated to incur expenses, which under other
circumstances might prove startling; but by means 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 COM
mtted its editorial supervision to Mrs. Sarah j. Hale,
Mrs. Lydia I'll. 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
Ladys Book enjoys adecded advantage overall other
publications. it 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 sex. To add to its su
perorty in this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition the ladies already mentioned the nyal
liable services of Miss c. NJ. Sedgwick, author of
Redwood, Clarence, Letters from England, &C., SC.
a 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 ar
engagements, by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs. f.. C. Embury, Mrs +. S. Osgood, Mrs. nj.
II. Parsons, Mrs. A. M. F. AMMAN, Mrs. f. F. Ellet,
Miss Dupuy, Mrs V. L. Howard, Miss E. Allen, Mrs.
S. f. Farley, Miss E. Leslie Mrs III. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs. J. Thayer, Mrs. c. l.. Hentz,
Mrs. f. C. Stedman, Miss Meeta NJ Duncan, Mrs. M.
st. Leon Loud, Mrs. G. ii. w. Esling, Miss M. b.
Snow and Kate Franklin, he will be enabled to fur
nish articles from Maria Edgeworth Mary Russell
Milford Mrs G.. Baron Wilson, Mrs. s. c. Hail. Mrs.
Hofand Mary Hewitt, and other English ady-writers
of distinctio some of whom have already published
in the Ladys Book the only original contributions they
have ever 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 WELL
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 an ar
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 contri-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such am
pie satisfaction; including w. G.. Simms Esq, Pro-
fessor Ingraham, Professor Dmitry Professor Frost,
Professor Walter Park Benjamin Esq, r. S. Mac
kenzie IL d., L. S. Arther, III. W. Herbert, JOS G.
Neal Hon. Robert T. Conrad, DR.. j. X Mitchell,
Epes Sargent, George P. Morris, Joseph r. Chandler
Robert Earle, NJ d., N. C. Brooks, f. Holden, A.
M'Makn, l.. Fitzgerald Tasistro Rufus Dawes, f.
G. Squier, J. 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
any thing that has ever been or can be attempted.