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GODEY,s LADY's BOOK FOR 1912.

bOI)E.1 . IAAJ > DOOk l. Oh ISqS.
TINE most splendid and valuable monthly periodi-
i cal ever published. The only magazine devoted
TO ladies' and conducted by members of their own sex
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.
Mrs. SARAH J. HALE, MoRroN M'MIcHAEL,
Mrs. l.. H. SIcouRsEr, l.. A. Cooley.
Contributors to each Number.
Miss c. NJ. Sedgwick Miss Il. 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 1872
the proprietor ofGodeys Ladys Book takes occasion
To acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant sue
cess OF his Magazine, which has reached the
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 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
pictorial, emblematc, artistic, and mechanical.
That this is idle boast he appeals to the experience
of the past twelve years all which time he has made
promise 10 the public phich 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 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 application with subscription list unparal
leled in the annals of literature with numerous fac-
lites not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
digested and wide extended arrangements and above
all, with stedfast purpose of maintaining the lofty
reached.
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, intrnscally and extrinsic
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
mitted its editorial supervision to Mrs. Sarah j. Hale
Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney, and Miss E. Leslie ladies'
of whom not only their sex, but the whole coun-
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 To add to its
periority this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned the inva-
liable services of Miss C. Nj. Sedgwick, author of
Redwood, Clarence, Letters from England, &C., sc. ;
writer whose efforts in raising the intellectual
standard of her SEX and indicating the rights of
woman not less than her richly gifted intellect and
varied information, have gained her reputation
wide it will be enduring He has also made
rangements, by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs. L. 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 +. Leslie, Mrs III. Beecher Stowe
Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs, J. Thayer Mrs c. l.. Hentz,
Mrs f. c. Stedman, Miss Mceta NJ Duncan, Mrs M.
ST. Leon Loud, Mrs. C. II. w. Esling, Miss Nj. b.
Snow, and Kate Franklin he will be enabled to fur
nish articles from Maria Edgeworth Mary Russell
Milford, Mrs. c. Baron Wilson, Mrs. S. c. Hail. Mrs
Holland, Mary Hewitt and other English writers
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 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 contr-
buors whose writings have heretofore given such ann
Pile sasfacton including w. G. Simms, ESQ., Pro-
fessor Ingraham Professor Dimry, Professor Frost,
Professor Walter, Park Benjamin Esq, r. S. Mac
kenzie LII. D. Il. S. Arther, II. w. Herbert Jos. c.
Neal Hon. Robert T. Conrad, Dr. J. X. Mitchell,
Epes Sargent George p. Norris Joseph r. Chandler,
Robert Earle, Nj. d., N. c. Brooks, E. Holden, A.
| MMakin L. Fitzgerald Tasstro, Rufus Dawes, Z.
G.. Squier, j. M'Lelan, Jr., and James Aldrch.
With such aid, it is hot too much to say, that the
literary department of the Ladys Book will surpass
any thing that has been be attempted.
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