The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-19

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larger number and agreater variety of costly elegant
and attractive pictorial illustrations than any similar
publication.
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Mrs. SARAH J. HALE, MORTON M'NlIcHAEL,
Mrs. l.. II. SlGoURNEY, l.. A. GopEv
Contributors TO each Number.
Miss c. NJ. Sedgwick, Miss Z. Leslie, Mrs. f, c..
Embury, Mrs. C. Lee Hentz Mrs. f. +. Ellet, N. F.
Willis, I. s. Arthur, Theodore s. Fay.
In announcing to his numerous patrons and the
public at large his arrangements for the year 1912
the proprietor fGodey's Ladys Book takes occasion
to acknowledge the unparalleled and triumphant
cess of his Magazine which has reached the ex-
traordinary number of
lUUUU MONTHLY.
being larger edition than has been printed of
any other work OF any description III America. This
he is aware has been attained by the vast
perority 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, emblematc, artistic, and mechanical.
That this no idle boast he appeals to the experience
OF the past twelve years, in all which time he has made
promise 10 The public phich he has not strictly perform
ed, nor 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 Iady's
Book, with increased energy and accumulated re-
sources; with ample knowledge of the business in
which he is engaged, acquired by long years of unre
mitted application; with subscription list unparal-
leled in the annals of literature; with numerous faci
ltes 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 hesitated TO incur expenses, which under other
circumstances might prove startling; but by of
which he will be enabled to make the Lady's Book
the richest the rarest the most attractive, and the
most valuable periodical, intrinsicay and extrinsc-
ally, offered to the American public
Literary Departmental has ever been the aim of
the proprietor to mpart to the I.ady'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
mited its editorial supervision to Mrs Sarah j. Hale,
Mrs. Lydia II. Sigourney and Miss f. Leslie ladies',
of whom not only their sex, but the whole coun-
try, have reason to be proud. In this respect, the
Lady's Book enjoys decided advantage overall other
publications, it is the only work devoted to ladies,
which ladies direc-an advantage which must be OBJ
yious to every parent husband brother, and friend,
well to every lady who properly appreciates the
dignity and importance to her To add to It's su
perory in this particular the proprietor has secured,
in addition to the ladies already mentioned, the nval
liable services of Miss c. M. Sedgwck, author of
Redwood Clarence Letters from England, &c, &c.
writer, whose efforts in raising the intellectual
standard of her SEX and indicating the true rights OF
woman, not less than her richly-giited intellect and
varied information, have gained her reputation rs
wide II Will be enduring. lie has also made ar
engagements, by which, besides regular contributions
from Mrs f. c. Embury, Mrs. +. S. Osgood, Mrs. NJ.
H. Parsons, Mrs. A. M. F. Amman, Mrs. f. f. Ellet,
Miss Dupuy, Mrs. " +. Howard, Miss f. Allen Mrs.
S. f. Farley, Miss f. Leslie, Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe,
Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs J. Thayer, Mrs. c. l.. Hentz,
Mrs. f. c. Stedman, Miss Meeta Nj. Duncan, Mrs. M.
st. Leon Loud, Mrs. c. H. w. Esling, Miss NJ b.
Snow, and Kate Franklin, he will be enabled to fur
nsh articles from Maria Edgeworth, Mary Russell
Milford, Mrs c. Baron Wilson, Mrs. 8 c. Hall, Mrs.
Holland Mary Hewitt, and other English lad y-wrters
of distinction; 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 to procure the assistance of eminent writers
of the other Aware OF the universal and we'll
deserved popularity of N. r. WILLIS Esq, and conf
dent that the productions of his graceful and elegant
pen will be highly acceptable to the readers of the
Ladys 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
tleman and he has also retained all of the contri-
butors whose writings have heretofore given such
pie satisfaction including W. c. Simms, Esq, Pro-
iessor ngraham Professor Dmitry, Professor Frost,
Professor Walter, Park Benjamin Esq, IL. $. Mac
kenze LII. d., T. S. Arther, II. w. Herbert Jos. c.
Neal, Hon. Robert L. Conrad, DR.. J. X. Mitchell,
Epes Sargent, George p. Morris Joseph h. Chandler,
Robert Earle NJ. d., n G. Brooks, f. Holden, A.
M'Makn, l.. Fitzgerald Tasistro, Rufus Dawes, f..
G.. Squier, J. MLelan, Jr., and James Aldrch.
With such aid it is not too much to say, that the
literary department of the Ladys Book will surpass
any thing that has ever been can be attempted,