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GODEY,s LADY,s BOOK FOR 1912.

rJNHE 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
larger number and greater variety of costly elegant
and attractive pictorial Illustrations than any similar
publication.
Editdby
Mrs. SARAH J. HALE, MoRroN MMlcHAEL,
Mrs. L. ii. SIeouRNEY, l.. A. Cooley.
Contributors 10 each Number
Miss c. NJ Sedgwick, Miss E. Leslie, Mrs. f. C.
Embury, Mrs. c. Lee Hentz Mrs f. F. Ellet N. P.
Willis, L. 5. Arthur, Theodore S. Fay.
In announcing TO his numerous patrons and the
public at large his arrangements for the year 1912,
the proprietor ofGodeys Lady's Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant
cess of his Magazine, which has now reached the ex-
traordinary number of
10000 MONTHLY,
being larger edition than has ever been printed Of
any other work of any description in America. This
success he is has been attained by the vast
periorty 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
pictorial emblematic, 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 och he has strictly perform
ed, 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 Lady
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 applications 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 stedfast purpose of maintaining the lofty
elevation his work has reached, the proprietor has
not hestated 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, ntrnslcally and eXrinslc
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
mted its editorial supervision to Mrs Sarah j. Hale,
Mrs. Lydia ii. Sgourney, and Miss +. Leslie ladies,
of whom not only their own sex, but the whole coun-
try, have reason TO be proud. In this respect the
Lady's Book enjoys decided advantage over all other
publications, it is the only work devoted to ladies',
which ladies dlrec-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 It's su
perory 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 III raising the intellectual
standard of her SEX and indicating the true rights of
woman, not less than her richly gifted intellect and
varied information have gained her reputation as
wide 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. Nj.
II. Parsons, Mrs. A. M. F. AMMAN, Mrs. f. F. Ellet,
Miss Dupuy Mrs. V f.. Howard, Miss f. Allen Mrs.
S. f, Farley Miss f. Leslie, Mrs, H. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs J. Thayer, Mrs. c. l.. Hentz,
Mrs +. c. Stedman, Miss Meeta NJ. Duncan, Mrs. Nj.
St Leon Loud, Mrs. c. H. w. Esling, Miss NJ b.
Snow and Kate Franklin, he will he enabled to fur
nsh articles from Maria Edgeworth, Mary Russell
Milford Mrs c. Baron Wilson, Mrs. S. c. Hail. Mrs.
Holland, Mary Hewitt and other English lady writers
of distinction; some of whom have already published
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
rangement, by which he will be able to give in each
number of his work an exclusive article from that gen
tleman and he has also retained all of the contri-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such
pie satsfacton including w G. Simms, Esq. Pro-
fessor ngraham Professor Dmitry, 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. X. Mitchell,
Epes Sargent George p. Morris, Joseph r. Chandler,
Robert Earle, M. d., N G. Brooks, E. Holden, A.
M'NIakin, L. Fitzgerald Tasstro, Rufus Dawes, f.
q. Squer J. MLean, 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.