Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-05-27
The Lady's World OF Fash
ion and Literature.
ME CHEAPEST and most elegant
Magazine in The Union. GTTwen-

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~ copies for ts enty Dolars.-E0
This elegant and most popular Lady's
+ Magazine viii commence new volume,
: in style of rare magnifcence, with the
January issue, q number containing
FOUR Splendid Engravings of the most
costly and expensive character. The
publisher has experienced. during the past
year, the Most unqualified success. and
enters upon the New Year with deter
mnarion to outstrip all contemporaries.
The Embellishments of the new vol
ume are of the most splendid and costly
character, combining every variety OF
style, and executed by the first artists the
country can produce. s
The work has been THE LADIES'
FAVORlTE, and this reputation 1t will
continue 10 maintain. lIence, the char
acter of its Literature will continue to be
such as to commend it especially to the
sex. 1t will contain articles from the
most popular and pleasing writer's of the
day, on every variety of subec but the
work will in the main be devoted 10 the
cultivation OF the home virtues. Hence,
most of the stories will be of a practical,
domestic character, from The pens Of our
best female writer's. The literary matter
will not be the reflex of any one female
mind, but will contain the choicest pro-
ductions of a galaxy of female writer's.
The effort shIll still be to render the
work an indispensable requisite TO the
boudoir of every lady of taste in the land;
and, therefore, not its literary matter alone
shall be compiled for their taste, but it will
contain MONTHLY FASHIONS, ele-
gantly coloured, which for excellence of
drawing, correctness in every particular,
and extreme beauty Of the clOuring and
engravings, shall far excel any thing from
other quarters. The fact that during the
last year the "Lady's World'' has been the
"guide book" in matters OF taste on cos
tune in every city ofihe Union. has given
il a position in the fashionable world.
which cannot lie shaken. The unwaver.
ing fidelity Of its designs to the Partisan
and London styles, in advance, too, at
least six weeks, Of all others, has placed it
in the very front rank as a work of au-
thority in matters of dress. II is well
known fact that the styles Of the ''Lady's
World" appear in the other periodicals,
10 give the fashions, often four
months later, when the styles have be.
come common or obsolete. .... Ca.
LACE AND NEEDLE WORQ.-Tho
most elegant and the newest design of
lace work, embroidery, &c, shall be given
inthe work, with latest style of caps, cut
tiins, head.dgesscs, &c., rendering the La
1y's World sample Of useiu ness as well
as OF taste ON the centre table of every lady.
0; the various sly les of engrvings,
which will grace the pages Of this work,
we MIST mention as among the most ele-
yant SARTAIN'S UNRIVLLED MEZ-
which will grace the coming
ana excel, in the beauty of de-
sign and delicacy of finish, any thing that
,as heretofore appeared from his burin.-
Mr.. Sartain is known from one end of the
Union to The other, ms the Master, in this
country, of this celebrated style. We
ave already under way five o. six mag
,ifcent plates, from this celebrated artist
or ike new volume, and shall follow them
Up with Mezzot!nts from. every artist of
epute IN the county. The mos, finished
nd beautiful Line and Stipple Engrav-
ngs will also grace the pages of the
york, from the hands of the very best ar
isis the sountry can produce. In fine, ev-
ny variety and novelty of embellsh-
rents that may be found elsewhere, NAV
9 confidently looked for in the "Lady's
World" But the main design of the work
to furnish, in elegant and attractive
lyle, the earliest, most correct, and full.
'st report in advance of all the other
[agazines, and prior to the issuing of
lem here, of the Monthly Fashions, d.
,ct from Paris and London.
This department will be under the con.
oil of French and English artists of the
ghest celebrity, so that every costume
hich appears in the Gladys Worldn NAV
; safely relied on as not having been
umped up at second hand in this country
ter they have been received. 1t is pro-
osed not only TO surpass in the excel.
nee, butto issue every month number
I'd variety of Costumes, which shall put
blush all other attempts at reporting for
e fashionable world.
TINE OF PUBLICATION.-The ala
rs World' will be issued from the 18th
the goth of the month proceeding the
onth for which it will be published, or da-
dor about the time the steamships,
hich sail from Europe on the first of the
onth, usually arrive. Thus the work
i'll be in the hands of every subscriber,
it'll the most correct fashions, before they
IN be got out here, and anticipating all
her Magazines at least six weeks.
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