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GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR 1912.

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR 1912.
FTNHE most splendid and valuable monthly periodi-
J. cal ever published. The only magazine devoted
10 ladies, and conducted by members of their SEX
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
Edited by
Mrs. SARAH j. HALE, MORTON M'MIcHAEL,
Mrs L.. ii, SIcoURNEY, l.. A. GoDEY.
Contributors to each Number.
Miss c. Nj. Sedgwick, Miss +. Leslie, Mrs. f, c.
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 Ladys Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant
cess of his Magazine which has now reached the
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 aware 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 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
promise to the public which 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 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 ard above
all, with stedfast purpose of maintaining the lofty
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not hestated to incur expenses, which under other
circumstances might prove startlng 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, 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
mitted its editorial supervision to Mrs. Sarah Hale,
Mrs. Lydia III. Sigourney, and Miss f. Leslie; ladies,
of whom not only their own SEX but the whole caun-
try have reason to be proud. In this respect, the
Ladys Book enjoys decided advantage over all other
publications. is the only work devoted to ladies,
which ladies direct-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
periorty in this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned the nval
liable services of Miss C. Nj. Sedgwick, author Of
Redwood, Clarence, Letters from England, &C., &c.
writer, whose efforts in raising the intellectual
standard of her and indicating 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. T.. c. Embury, Mrs +. S. Osgood, Mrs. NJ.
r. Parsons, Mrs. A. Nj. f. Amman, Mrs. f. F. Elet,
Miss Dupuy, Mrs V. E. Howard, Miss Z. Allen, Mrs.
s. f. Farley, Miss +. Leslie, Mrs II. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs. J. Thayer, Mrs. c. l.. Hentz,
Mrs. f. c. Stcdman, Miss Meeta NJ Duncan Mrs. NJ.
ST Leon Loud, Mrs. C. ii. w. Eslimg, Miss NJ. b.
Snow and Kate Franklin, he will be enabled to fur
nish articles from Maria Edgeworth, Mary Russell
Milford Mrs q Raron Wilson, Mrs. >. Z. Hall, Mrs.
Holland Mary Hewitt, and other English writers
Of distinctions of whom have already published
in the 1adys Book the only original contributionsthey
have ever made to Amer lean literature. Nor has he
omitted to procure the assistance of eminent writers
of the other 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 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
butors whose writings have heretofore given such
pie satisfaction; including w. G. Smms, Esq, Pro-
iessor lngraham, Professor Dmitry, Professor Frost
Professor Walter Park Benjamin Esq, r. S. Mac
kenzie, IL d., T. S. Arther, H. W. Herbert, JOS c.
Neal, Hon. Robert T. Conrad, DR.. j. X. MITCHELL
Robert Earle, NJ d., N. c. Brooks E. Holden, A.
M'NIakn, l.. Fitzgerald Tasistro Rufus Dawes, f.
G. Squier, J. MLellan, 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 can be attempted.