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GODEY's LADY,S BOOK FOR ls42.

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR 1912.
TINE most splendid and valuable monthly periodi-
Il cal ever published The only magazine devoted
to ladies, and conducted by members of their 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.
Editedby
Mrs. SARAH J. HALE, MORTON MMIcHAEL,
Mrs. l.. Ii. SIGouRNEY, l.. A. Cooley.
Contributors TO each Number.
Miss c. M. Sedgwick, Miss E. Leslie, Mrs. E. C.
Embury, Mrs. c. Lee Hentz, Mrs f. F. Ellet, N. p
Willis, 7. 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 occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant
cess of his Magazine, which has now reached the ex-
traordnary number of
O,OOO MONTHLY
being larger edition than has ever been printed of
any other work OF any description in America. This
success he 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 as well
as pictorial, embematic artistic, and mechanical.
That this is no idle boast he appeals to the experience
OF the past twelve years. all which time, he has made
promise 10 the public chch he has not strictly perform
ed, undertaken anything which his means did not
enable him to accomplish to the utmost. Entering,
as he is about to do the Oath volume of the 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-
mitted application with subscription list unparal-
eled in the annals of literature with numerous facl
es not possessed by any other publisher with we'll
digested and wide extended arrangements and above
all with stedfast purpose OF maintaining the lofty
elevation his work has reached, the proprietor has
not hestated 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, ntrnsically and exrinsic
ally, offered to the American public.
Literary Departmental has ever been the aim of
the proprietor to impart to the Iady'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
mitted its editorial supervision to Mrs. Sarah j. 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 all other
publications. it is the only work devoted to ladies'
which ladies direct-an advantage, which must he OBJ
vious to every parent, husband, brother and friend
well to every lady who properly appreciates the
dignity and importance to her sex. To add to its
perory in this particular the proprietor has secured
in addition to the ladies already mentioned the inva
liable services of Miss G.. M. Sedgwick author of
Redwood, Clarence, Letters from England, &C., sc.
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
engagements, by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs. E. c. Embury, Mrs. F. S. Osgood, Mrs M.
II. Parsons, Mrs. A. Nj. F. AMMAN, Mrs. f. F. Ellet
Miss Dupuy Mrs. V. +. Howard, Miss f. Allen, Mrs.
S. E. Farley Miss E. 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. Esling Miss Nj. b.
Snow, and Kate Franklin, he will be enabled to fur
nish articles from Maria Edgeworth, Mary Russell
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in the Ladys Book the only original contributions they
have 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
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 gem
tleman; and he has also retained all of the contri-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such
pie satisfaction; including w. G. Simms, Esq, Pro-
iessor Ingraham Professor Dimty, Professor Frost,
Professor Walter Park Benjamin Esq, Il. S. Mac
kenzie, LIZ d.. L. S. Arther, II. w. Herbert Jos. c..
Neal Hon. Robert L. Conrad, DR.. J. X. Mitchell,
Robert Earle, M. d., n c. Brooks, E. Holden, A.
M'Makn, l.. Fitzgerald Tasstro, Rufus Dawes, f.
G.. Squer J. MLean, Jr., and James Aldrch.
With such aid, it is not too much to say, that the
literary department of the Iady's Book will surpass
any thing that has ever been can be attempted