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GoDEY,s LADY's BOOK FOR 1912.

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR 1912.
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 a
larger number and greater variety of costly elegant
and attractive pictorial Illustrations than any similar
publication.
Edihdbu
Mrs. SARAH J. HALE, MoRroN M'MIcnAEL,
Mrs. L.. ii. SIGoURNEY, l.. A. Cooley.
Contributors TO each Number.
Miss Z. Nj. Sedgwick, Miss f.. Leslie, Mrs T.. C.
Embury, Mrs. c. Lee Hentz, Mrs. f. +. Eet, N. p.
Willis, L. 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 Godeys Lady's Book takes
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant
cess OF his Magazine, which has now reached the ex
traordnary number of
10000 MONTHLY!
being larger edition than has been printed Of
any other work of any description in America. This
success he is 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
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 iohich he has not strictly perform
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 Ladys
Book VITA increased energy and accumulated
sources; with an ample knowledge of the business in
which he is engaged, acquired by long years of unre
mitted applications with subscription list unparal-
leed in the annals of literature; with numerous faci
lties not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
dgested and wide extended arrangements and above
ALL with stedfast purpose of maintaining the lofty
q reached ho
not hesitated to incur expenses, which under other
circumstances might prove startling; but by means of
which he will be enabled to make the Ladys 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 COM
mtted its editorial supervision to Mrs. Sarah Hale,
Mrs. Lydia II. 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 overall other
publications. it is the only work devoted to ladies,
which ladies direct-an advantage, which must be OBJ
vos to every parent husband, brother, and friend,
well as to every lady who properly appreciates the
dignity and importance to her sex. To add to its su
periory in this particular the proprietor has secured,
in addition to the ladies already mentioned the inval
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 true rights of
woman, not less than her richygifted intellect and
varied information, have gained her a reputation
wide it will be enduring. He has also made
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. E Farley, Miss f. Leslie, Mrs II. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs, J. Thayer, Mrs. c. l.. Hentz,
Mrs. E. c. Stedman, Miss Meeta NJ Duncan, Mrs. M.
st. Leon Loud, Mrs. G. H. w. Eslng Miss M. 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. Hall, Mrs.
Holland, Mary Hewitt, and other English adywriters
of distinctions some of whom have already published
in the Ladys Book the only original contributions they
have made to Amer lean literature. Nor has he
omitted 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
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 contri-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such
pie satisfaction; including w. G. Smms, Esq, Pro-
fessor Ingraham, Professor Dmitry Professor Frost
Professor Walter, Park Benjamin Esq, r. S. Mac
kenze, LII. d., T. S. Arther, H. w. Herbert, JOS c.
Neal, Hon. Robert L. Conrad, DR.. J. X. Mitchell
Epes Sargent, George P. Morris, Joseph r. Chandler
Robert Earle, NJ d., N. G. Brooks, E. Holden, A.
M'Makn, l.. Fitzgerald Tasistro, Rufus Dawes f.
G. Squier, J. MLellan Jr., and James Aldrich.
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.