Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-01-05
Ladies' National Magazine
GODEY,S

nent writers of the age; and embellished with {
larger number and greater variety of costly, ele
giant, and attractive Pictorial illustrations, thar
any similar publication.
| EDITED BY---Mrs. Sarah j. Hale, Mrs. L. H
Stgomney, Morton MMichael, L. A. Cooley.
CONTRIBUTORS TO EACH MUNICIPALITIES &.
u. Sdgwick, Mass E. Leslie, Mrs. e. c. En-
burV, Iheo s. Fay ~ P. Wills. Mrs. c. Lee
Hent9, T. S. Arthur. Mrs. E. F. Ellet.
In announcing to his numerous patrons and the
public at large his arrangements for the year 1912
the proprietor of GOdey's Lady's Book takes oc-
casion to acknowledge the unparalleled and trl-
umphant success of his Magazine, which has now
reached the extraordinary number of
10000 Copies 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 superiority which the Lady's Book has al
ways maintained over the various contemporary
magazines which have attempted to rival its mer-
its, superiority which he is still determined to
preserve by keeping it. in all its departments Lit
erary, Intellectual and Moral, as well as Pictorial,
| Emblematic, Artistic and Mechanical.
That this is no idle boast, he appeals to the ex-
perience of the past twelve years, in which time
he has made no promise to the public that he has
not fully performed, nor undertaken any thing
| to the uttermoSt.
Entering, as he is about to do, on the 24th vol
ume OF the Lady's Book with increased energy and
accumulated resources; with an ample knowledge
of the business in which he is engaged, acquired
by long years of unremited application; with sub
scrpton list unparalleled in the annals of ltera-
ture; with numerous facilities not possessed by
any other publisher; with well-digested and wide
extended arrangements; and above all, with a
steadfast purpose of maintaining the lofty eleva-
ton has reached the proprietor has not hesltated
to incur expenses which under other circumstances
might we'll prove startling, but by means of which
he will he enabled to make the Lady's Book the
richest the rarest, the most attractive and the most
valuable PERIODICAL intrinsically and extrnsicaly,
ever offered to the public.
LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
Mrs. S. J. Hale, Mrs. L. II. Sigourney, Mss
E. Leslie, Mass C. NJ Sedgwick, Mrs. Emma C.
Embry, Mrs F. S. OSgOod, Mrs. A. H. F.
Annaa, Mrs z. F. EHet, Mass Dupuy, Mrs.
Volney E. Howard, Mrs. E Allen, Mrs. S. E.
FARLEY, Mrs. II. B. Stowe, Mrs. Seba Smith,
Mrs. j. Thayer, Mrs. C. Lee Hcnts, Mrs. E. c.
Stedman, Mass Meeta M. Duncan, Mrs. c. II.
w. Esl.ng, Mrs NJ st. Leon Loud, Mss M
B. Snow, Kate Franklin.
He will be enabled to furnish occasional articles
from Maria Edgeworth, Mary Rnssel Milford, Mrs.
Cornwell Baron Wilson, Mrs. S. G.. Hall, Mrs.
Holland, Mary Hewitt, and other English lady
writers of distinction, some OF whom have already
published in the Ladys Book the first original con-
tributions they have ever made to American Lite
rature.
Nor has he omitted to procure the services of
eminent writers of the opposite sex. Aware OF
the universal and well-deserved popularity Of n.
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fhis graceful and eloquent pen will be highly ac-
ceptible to the readers of the Lady's Book, the
proprietor has entered into an arrangement by
which he will be enabled to give in each number
of the work. an exclusive article from that gentle
man, and he has also retained all the contributors
whose writings have heretofore given such gene
raj satisfaction, including w. G.. Simms, ESQ.,,
Professor Ingraham, Professor Dimity, Professor
Frost Professor Walter, Park Benjamin, Esq, R.
S. Mackenzie, LII. d., L. S. Arthur, Esq, IL. w.
Herbert, Joseph c. Neal Hon. r. t. Conrad, DR..
]. K. Mitchell Epes Sargent, G. P. Morris, Jo-
seph r. Chandler, Robert Morris, P. Earle, M. D.,
n C. Brooks, A. NJ, E. Holden, A. M'Makin, L.
F. Tasstro Rufus Dawes, E. ID. Squier, j. M'Lel-
Ian, Jr., Jas. Aldrich.
With such ad it is not too much to say, that the
Literary Department ofthe Ladys Book will surpass
any thing that has ever been or can be attempted.
ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT
1t is source Of no little pride to the proprietor
Of the Lady's Book, that he first introduced into
the country the plan of furnishing, along with
monthly periodical felegant literature, embelsh-
ments of an attractive and costly character. The
first steel engravings accompanying such a work
were given by him; the first mezzotint engraving
was given by him; the first patterns of lace work
and embroidery were given by him. the first color
ed plates of fashions given by him; the first
music was givenb him. These are things to which
he would not REFER if some of those who have es-
sayed to follow in his footsteps. not content with
initiating all he designs, the form ofhs book,
the size ofhis type, and the color his cover, had
not fooshly put forward claims to originality, and
attempted to found right to an exclusive merit on
doing that which they had borrowed from his exam
ple Butwhat he has done heretofore in the way of
establishment to his book, though it far exceeded
any effort of those who strove to copy his move
ments, cannot compare with what he now means
to do. His arrangements for this department of
his work have been projected on the most liberal
scale Of expenditure, involving such an extent of
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