The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-21

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR 1912.
TINE most splendid and valuable monthly periodi-
l. 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.
Edited bu
Mrs. SARAHJ Hale, MORTON M'MlcHAEL,
Mrs. l.. ii. SicouRNEy, L. A. Cooley
Contributors TO each Number.
Miss Z. M. Sedgwck, Miss f. Leslie, Mrs. +. 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 Godey's Ladys Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant
cess of his Magazine, which has now reached the
traordnary number of
Az QUO 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
rs still determined to preserve by keeping it, in all its
departments, literary intellectual, and moral, as well
as pictorial, embematic, 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 whch 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 an 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 fac-
tes not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
digested and wide extended arrangements and above
all, with stedfa.t purpose of maintaining the lofty
elevation his work has reached, the proprietor has
not hesitated to incur expenses, which under other
circumstances might prove startng 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 extrnsc
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
mitted 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 coun-
try, have reason to be proud In this respect, the
Ladys Book enjoys adecded advantage all other
publications. it 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 to every lady who properly appreciates the
dignity and Importance to her To add to its
perorty in this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned the inval
liable services of Miss G. Nj. Sedgwick, author of
Redwood, Clarence, Letters from England, NC, &c
a writer, whose efforts in raising the intellectual
standard of her SEX and indicating the true rights of
woman not less than her richygifted intellect and
varied information, have gained her reputation as
wide as it will be enduring. He has also made ar
rangements by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs. E. c. Embury, Mrs. F. s. Osgood, Mrs. Nj.
ii. Parsons, Mrs. A. M. F. Amman, Mrs f. F. Ellet,
Miss Dupuy, Mrs. V. +. Howard, Miss Z. Allen, Mrs.
S. T.. Farley, Miss E. Leslie Mrs. Fl. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs. j. Thayer, Mrs. c. l.. Hentz,
Mrs. E. c. Stedman, Miss Meeta M. Duncan, Mrs. M.
st. Leon Loud, Mrs. c. II. w Esling Miss M. 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. Hall, Mrs.
Holland, Mary Hewitt, and other English lad ywrters
of distinction; some of whom have already published
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
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.
teman and he has also retained all of the conri-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such
pie satisfaction; including w. G. Smms, Esq, Pro-
essor Ingraham, Professor Dmitry, Professor Frost,
Professor Walter, Park Benjamin Esq, r.. s. Mac
kenzie, LII. d., r. S. Arther H. w. Herbert, Jos. G.
Neal Hon. Robert L. Conrad, DR.. J. X. Mitchell,
Epes Sargent, George p Morris, Joseph r. Chandler,
Robert Earle, NJ. d., n. c. Brooks, +. Holden, A.
G. Squier J. M'Lellan, Jr and James Adrich.
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 or can be attempted