Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1843-03-15
LADIES' COMPANION

LAOIES 0OlMI AIN lO4H.
STANDARD NATIONAL MAGAZINE,
Published Monthly in the City Of Ne,O- York, By
WILLIAM w. .SNOWDEN.
NUMEROUS ENGRAvINGs IN EACH NUMBER.
The exalted reputation of this popular naga-
zine has been so long and so widely established
that it may perhaps be deemed by some supere-
rogatory on the part of the proprietor to offer di
rect exposition ofits merits and its claims. The
Ladies' Companion needs no laudatory puffs to
force it into precarous existence: it has, for
number of years, spoken for itself, and in voice
which has found most satisfactory response in
the literary taste ofthe age. Conforming, howev-
er, TO custom, which seems to demand few
words occasionally from the proprietor to his pat
rons and the public. we will simply and suscinctly
enumerate the chief titles which this standard ma
tional magazine has to the enormous patronage
which it has for many wears enjoyed, and to
that regular and uninterrupted advance in the ia
vor of the critical, the literary and the refined,
which has ever, in degree peculiar to ITSELF char
acterized the progress of the work.
On the minor merits of the Ladies' Companion,
the mechanical execution, paper, Typography,
ETC., it is needless to dwell. 1t has ever been the
object of the proprietor to place his magazine,
even in these points, beyond competitions; but in
doing so, he has had no disposition to sacrifice
the more important and substantial qualities which
ought to distinguish national and standard peri
odica 1t is It's preeminence in the literary depart
ment, upon which is based the principal claims OF
the Ladies Companion. To its pages the propri-
etor boldly refers for proof othe assertion that by
none Of its numerous rivals and imfators, has the
Companion ever been equaed or even approach
ed in It's
Literary Character.
If further proof were needed, the proprietor
would point with emotions of pleasure and pride,
bracing the principal regular contributors whose
able pens have exerted so much influence through
the pages ofthis magazine upon the literary taste
Of the day.
PROMINENT CONTRIBUTORS.
Emma G Embury, author Of Pictures of Early
Life the ''Blind Girl, ETC.; Lydia II Sigourney;
Frances s Osgood; Mrs Seba Smith; Mrs. E. +.
Ellet, author of Character of Schiller ETC.; Ann
S Stephens; Hannah L Gould; Mrs. E. r. Steele;
Mrs. A. NJ. f. AMMAN, late Miss Buchanan; Miss
A. ID. Woodbridge Mrs. Emeline Smith; f. W
Thomas author Of "Clnton Bradshaw" ETC., Car
oline Orne of Wofsboro', n. H.. Miss Mary Ann
Browne, England, Mrs. NJ St. Leon Loud, Penn
sylvania; Professor J. II. Ingraham; Louis Ftz-
gerald Tasistro; Nathaniel P. Willis; Theodore
Fay; Edgar A. Poe; George P Morris, author of
"Brier Cliff and the National Melodies, TO
gether with large number OF prominent writers,
whose pames we have not room here to insert
This list, embracing some of the most profound
original and vigorous intellects Of the male sex,
and the most brilliant, graceful and witty OF the
fair, cannot easily be paraelled by any other mag
azne in the country IL affords the su1est guaran-
tee of the determination aud the ability the pro-
prietor to make the literary character of his work
commensurate with its immense and increasing
circulation From the variety of talent every d.
versty of taste may expect to be gratifed and ev
cry kind of elegant literature receive proper at
tention Poetry, tales, sketches, essays embody-
ing the brilliant conceptions, the graceful imagn-
ings, the original inventions, and the witty or pro-
found thoughts Of the able writers we have emu
merated, have and will continue to administer,
each in proportion, to the amusement and instruc
ton of the readers oithe Companion.
EDITORS TABLE
In this department is embraced short notices of
those occurrences which are deemed of sufficient
interest 10 demand atteutIon-critical remarks up
on new books, and upon the productions of the
stage 1t will be an object of the proprietor TO
preserve the reputation, which this department has
acquired for sound and unprejudiced decisions.
THE EMBELLISHMENTS.
It NAV be safely asserted that in this interesting
and striking feature, the Ladies Companion is yet
unriyalled Ii is not merely in the beauty and
perfection of the engravings that it excels but al
so in the character Of the subjects which are IN
yarably selected with the greatest care and rehec
ton, and with reference to their utility and artlstl
cal merit, not TO the facility and consequent cheap
ness with which they yield themselves to the burin
of the engraver. Every number is ornamented
with steel plates, executed by the first artists in
the most finished manner, expressly for the work!
Scriptlral engrauings are also occasionally pub
lishod The reader therefore, for the low price at
which the 'Companion' is afforded, in addition to
It's admirable literary articles, obtains port folio
OF elegant steel engravings.
THE MONTHLY FASHIONS.
make another and the proprietor thinks, valuable
department. Attention is paid as well to the ex-
ceience and finish of the plate, as to correctness
Of costume To the ladies', it furnishes faithful
and beautiful record of the mutations in dress.
THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT.
offers an opportunity to the display OF taste in the
selection Of pieces, which it may be safely affirm
ed has been always taken advantage Of Most Of
the popular and valuable songs published under the
immediate supervision of a distinguished musical
professor, have been given to the world in the
pages of this magazine. Continued attention will
te paid to this department.
Terms AND CoNDlTIoNs--The Ladies' Compan
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