, 1843-02-25
Literary, Domestic. and Fashionable
Family Magazine.
GODEY'S
HADWaS BOOZE

FoR lS43.
Edited By Nrs. 3. j. Hale & others
II LONG ESTABLISHED
Arb;ter Of taste, Fashion. and thu
BrIlesIet,ers, for the Ladies OF
America.
Godey's Lady's Book having been
for so long a series of wears, unIver
sally recognised rs the exclusive ant
indisputable guide to the fair sex, II
matters of taste. fashion, and lltera
ture-the only work conducted by
DISTINGUISHED FEMALE AUTHORS,
who have won for themselves a h!gF
place among the guiding spirits of the
age-the only work which in poin'
of fact has been Exclusively derote1
to the ladies, its favor with its fair pat
rons has not been less remarkable
than its perfect adaptation to then
feelings and tastes and their require
ments. In entering upon a new
year, the publisher, without diminish
inc in the least that Sterling an use.
nj literature, which has long result
ed from LAYING under contribution the
native coed sense and elegant fancy
of our American female ,griterS. viii,
as each successive number appears.
present in the several departments OF
! Literature, Fashion, and Pictorial
| EmbeliShment. a constant and ever
VARYING succession of New and Sh'ik-
ing Features. MOI does he promise
without ample ability to PERFORM
The best literary talent, the best ef-
forts of the
MOST DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS
in the countrv-and to crown as well
as TO adorn the whole, the most per-
feet arrangements for the reception
Of the,
AMERICAN LONDON, & rARis FASHIONS.
far in advance of any other publlca-
ton in this country, enable him to as
sure the patrons of the LADY'S
BOOK that the forthcoming volume
will more than justify its weiI-earned
title of the
MAGAZINE OF MAGAZINES,
for the ladies of u country.
il has passed into custom To assert
that dress is a matter Of trifing i'm
portance, but this every. lady knows
to be utterly false. Taste in dress is
universally felt TO be the index OF a
thousand desirable qualities in wo-
man. while a deficiency in this re-
spect always Injuries one in the estl-
nation Of strangers. and even of her
intimate friends the beauty of Helen
and the wit Of Aspasia, would hardly
commend to general favor an ac-
knowledged Dowpy in dress. Hence
the Importance Of an accredited
GUIDE TO THE FASHIONS.
This useful office, already filled for
fourteen years with universal accep-
lance by the LADY'S BOOK, the
publisher pledges himself to discharge
in future in a style surprising all his
former efforts. The Ladies know
perfectly well that our Magazine is
the Highest authority in Fashion,
Nc Lady considers herself well dress
ed who contravenes this authority,
and in our own city in New York,
Boston, Baltimore. Cincinnati, Louis
vile, Lexington, ST. Louis, New Or
Mobile, Richmond. Charleston,
Sovanah, and the other metropolitan
Cities Of the various States, the taste
full Fashion Plates OF the LADY'S
dictate the Lars Of Dress.
In future the figures will be thrown
into tasteful groups, displaying the
graces ofdress to the best advantage.
and the cack grounds of the plates
will present interesting views. design
ed by First rate Artists. As a furth-
err assurance of thorough excellence
in this department, the publisher has
secured the services Of MISS LES
LIE, who will illustrate the Fashion
in her usual felicitous and
style, uniting a thorough
knowledge of the subject, with a clear,
Ineligible and graceful name Of
reating it. Her descriptions are
Of the productions of her
'wn glowing pencil, which drew the
earliest Fashion Plates for the Lady's
Book.
The Publishers correspondent in
is possessed Of such ample
means of obtaining the Real and
Present Paris Fashions, and of trans
them in advance of all COM
EDITORS. that the Ladies may contin-
lie, as they have alwaysdone, to copy
rom our Plates what has received
he sanction of hdisputable Ton, the
asst, the newest, the best fashions,
resh from Paris. II,
The arrangements for producing a