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GODEY's LADY's BOOK FOR 1912.

| .ai c'oi PuDllsneu Inc only magazine ueVOtet
TO ladies, and conducted by members of their
Composed entirely of original articles, by the mos
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, MORTON M'MIcHAEL,
Mrs L. II. SIcouRNEy, l.. A. Cooley.
| Contributors 10 each Number.
Miss O. NJ Sedgwick, Miss +. Leslie, Mrs. +. c.
Embury, Mrs. G. 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 Ladys Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant sue
cess OF his Magazine, which has reached the ex-
traordnary number Of
10000 MONTHLY
being larger edition than has ever been printed of
any other work OF any description in America. This
success he aware has been attained by the vast
periorlly which the Ladys Book has always main
tanned over the contemporary magazines which have
attempted to nyal its merits, superiority which he
is still determined to preserve by ping it, in all its
departments, literary intellectual and moral, well
as pictorial, emblematic, 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 10 The public pc he has strictly PERFORM
ed nor undertaken any thing which his did not
enable him to accomplish TO the utmost. Entering
as he is about to do the oath volume fthe Ladys
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-
mited applications with subscription list unparal-
eled in the annals of literature with numerous fac-
es not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
dlgcsted and wldeeXtended arrangements and above
all, with stedtast purpose Of maintaining the lofty
elevation his work has reached the proprietor has
not hesiatcd to incur expenses, which under other
circumstances might prove startng but by means Of
which he will be enabled to make the I4adys Book
the richest the rarest the most attractive and the
most valuable periodical, intrnsically and extrinsc-
ally, ever offered 10 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
mltted its editorial supervision TO Mrs. Sarah Hale,
Mrs. Lydia II Sgourney, and Miss f. Leslie; ladies,
OF whom not only their own sex, but the whole
try, have reason to be proud In this respect, the
Lady's Book enjoys adecded advantage overall 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
as wclas to every lady who properly appreciates the
dignity and Importance to her sex. TO add to its su
perorty in this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned, the nval
liable services of Miss c. Nj. Sedgwck, author of
Redwood, Clarence, Letters from England, &c, &c;
writer, whose efforts in raising the intellectual
standard OF her sex, and yndcatng the true rights OF
woman, not less than her richly-giited intellect and
varied information have gained her reputation as
wide as il will be enduring. He has also made ar
rangements, by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs f. G. Embury Mrs. f. $. Osgood, Mrs Nj
II. Parsons, Mrs. A. Nj. f. Amman, Mrs. f. F Ellet
Miss Dupuy, Mrs. V. f. Howard, Miss E. Allen, Mrs
S f. Farley, Miss +. Leslie, Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs J. Ihayer, Mrs. c. l.. Henz,
Mrs. Il. c. Stcdman, Miss Meeta NJ. Duncan, Mrs NJ.
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 Edgeworth, Mary Russell
Milford, Mrs G Baron Wilson, Mrs = g e III Hall Mrs
OF distinction sys.s Of whom have already puuI,siiea
in the Lady 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 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
Iady'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
eman; and he has also retained all of the contri-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such am
pie satisfaction including w. G.. Simms Esq, Pro-
tessor Ingraham, Professor Dmitry Professor Frost
Professor Walter, Park Benjamin Esq, r.. $. Mac
kenze, LII. d., T. S. Arther, Ii. w Herbert, JOS G.
Neal, Hon. Robert L. Conrad DR.. j. H. Mitchell,
Epes Sargent, George 7, Morris, Joseph h. Chandler
Robert Earle, NJ D., n. G. Brooks E. Holden, A. /
M'Makin, l., Fitzgerald Tasistro Rufus Dawes, E.
G. Squier, J. Al'iellan Jr., and James Aldrich.
With such aid, il is not too much to say, that the
literary department of the l4adys Book viii surpass
any thing that has ever been or can be attempted,