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GODEY'S LADY's BOOK FOR 1912.

'INHE most splendid and valuable monthly periodi-
Il 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.
| Ediiedb
Mrs SARAH HALE, MoaroN M'NlIcHAEL,
Mrs l.. \. SIoouRsEY, l.. A. Cooley.
| Contributors 10 each Number.
Miss G. M sedgwick, Miss E. Leslie, Mrs =. G.
Embury, Mrs. G. Lee Hentz, Mrs. 4. F. Eet, N p.
| Willis, IT, S. Arthur Theodore s. Fay
In announcing to his numerous patrons and the
public at large his arrangements for the year 1912,
the proprietor fGodeys Ladys Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant sue
cess of his Magazine, which has now reached the
traordinary number of
10000 MONTHLY
being a larger edition than has ever been printed of
any other work ofany description in America This
success he is awsre has been attained by the vast
periority which the Lady's Book has always main
tanned over thefeontemporary magazines which have
attempted to rival its merits, superiority which he
is still determined to preserve by keeping il, in all its
departments literary intellectual, and moral, well
as pictorial, embematic, 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
40 promise 10 the public Which he has not strictly perform
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 Ladys
Book, with increased energy and accumulated
sources with ample knowledge Of the business in
which he engaged, acquired by long years OF unre-
mted applications with a subscription list unparal-
eled in the annals of literature; with numerous faci
ties not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
dgested and wide-extended arrangements and above
all, with stedfast 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 extrinsc-
ally, ever offered to the American public
Literary Departmental has ever been the aim of
the proprietor to impart to the Lady's Book q 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
mtted its editorial supervision to Mrs Sarah J. Hale,
Mrs. Lydia H. 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 adecided 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 TO add to its
periority this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned, the nva-
liable services of Miss c. M. Sedgwick, author of
Redwood, Clarence, Letters from England, &c. sc.
writer, whose efforts IN raising the intellectual
standard of her SEX and vndcatng the true rights of
woman not less than her rchly-gfted 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. T.. c. Embury Mrs. + S. Osgood, Mrs Nj
II. Parsons, Mrs, A. M. F. Amman, Mrs. +. f. Ellet
Miss Dupuy, Mrs. " Z. Howard, Miss f. Allen, Mrs.
S. Il. Farley, Miss f. Leslie, Mrs. II. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs. Scba Smith, Mrs J. Ihayer, Mrs c. l.. Hentz
Mrs. +. G. Stedman, Miss Meeta Nj. Duncan, Mrs M.
st. Leon Loud, Mrs. c. ii. w. Esng, Miss Nj. 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. G. Hail. Mrs
Holland Mary Hewitt and other English lad y-writers
in 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
Ladys 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 gen
tleman and he has also retained all of the contri-
buors whose writings have heretofore given such am
pie satisfaction; including w. G.. Smms Esq, Pro
fessor ngraham, Professor Dmitry Professor Frost
Professor Walter Park Benjamin Esq, r. S. Mac
kenzie, IL d., L. S. Arther, H. 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, E. Holden, A.
M'Makn, l.. Fitzgerald Tasistro, Rufus Dawes, L.
G. Squer, J. M'Lellan, Jr, and James Adrich.
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