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GODEY,s IADY,s BOOK FOR 1912.

| GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR 1912.
| TINE most splendid and valuable monthly perlodi-
| 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 mosi
| eminent writers of the age and embelshed with q
larger number and greater variety of costly, elegant
and attractive pictorial illustrations than any similar
publication
! Editedby
| Mrs. SARAH J. Hale, MoRroN M'MIoHAEL,
| Mrs. l.. III. SiGouRNEy, l.. A. GopEy.
Contributors TO eack Number.
Miss c. M. Sedgwick Miss f. 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 1912
the proprietor ofGodeys Lady's Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant sue
cess of his Magazine, which has reached the ex-
traordinary number of
Az 900 MONTHLY
being larger edition than has been printed of
any other work of any description in America. This
he is has been attained by the vast
perorty which the Ladys Book has always main
tanned over the contemporary magazines which have
attempted to rival its merits, a superiority which he
is still determined TO preserve by keeping it, in all its
departments literary, intellectual and moral as well
as pictorial, emblematic, artistic, and mechanical
That this is no idle boast he appeals the experience
OF the past twelve years, in all which time he has made
ed, nor undertaken anything which his did not
enable him TO accomplish TO the utmost. Entering,
as he is about to do the oath volume Of the Lady 5
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 a subscription list unpara-
eled in the annals of literature with numerous fac-
tes not possessed by any other publisher; with we'll
digested and wide extended arrangements and above
all, with stedfas purpose of maintaining the lofty
aIn hou .laI
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, ntrnsically and exrinsic
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 yearspast has com
mitted its editorial supervision to Mrs Sarah j. Hale,
Mrs. Lydia H. Sgourney, and Miss f. Leslie ladies,
of whom not only their own sex, but the whole cou-
try, have reason to be proud. In this respect the
Ladys Book enjoys decided advantage over all other
publications it is the only work devoted to ladies'
which ladies directan 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 su
periortyn this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned, the inva-
Redwood Clarence, Letters from England, &C., &c, !;
writer, whose efforts in raising the intellectual
standard of her sex and indicating the true rights of
woman, not less than her rchlygfted intellect and
varied information have gained her reputation
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. +. Elle,
Miss Dupuy, Mrs. V. f. Howard, Miss f. Allen, Mrs.
S E. Farley, Miss E. Leslie, Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe
Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs. J, Thayer, Mrs. G. L. Hentz
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 Edgewortb, Merry Russell
Milford, Mrs. c. Baron Wilson, Mrs. S. G. Hall, Mrs
Holland, Mary Hewitt and other English ladywriters
of distinctions some of whom have already published
in the adys Book the only original contributions they
have 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
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 ar
rangement by which he will be able to give in each
number of his work exclusive article from that gen.
tlcman and he has also retained all of the contr-
buors whose writings have heretofore given such am
pie satisfaction; including w. G. Simms, Esq, Pro-
fessor lngraham Professor Dimry, Professor Frost
Professor Walter, Park Benjamin Esq, II. 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. Norris Joseph r. Chandler
Robert Earle, NJ. d., n. c. Brooks, f. Holden A.
M'NIakn, l.. Fitzgerald Tasistro, Rufus Dawes, f.
G. Squer }. MLellan, Jr., and James Aldrich
With such aid II 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.