The Weekly register. (Ponola [sic] Panola, Miss.) 1843-1844, 1843-11-04

The Bellies I.ettres.
FOR THE LADIES OF AMERICA.
HODEY,S LADY'S BOOK having been for
AWso long series of years, universally recogni-
zed as the exclusive and indisputable guide TO the
fair sex, in matters of taste, fashion, and litera
ture-ths only work conducted by distinguished
female authors, who have won for themselves a
high place among the guiding spirits of the age
the only work which i'll point of fact has been ex-
clusivey devoted to the adies-its favor with its
talr patrons has not been less remarkable than its
perfect adaptation their feelings and tastes and
! their requirements. In entering upon new year,
the publisher without diminishing in the least that
sterling and useful literature, which has long
suited from laying under contribution the native
good sense and elegant fancy of our Am srican Fee
ma writers, will, as each successive number APP
pears, present in the several departments of Liter
AZURE, BhiQa. and Pictorial Establishment,
constant and er varying succession of new and
s:rking Features. Nor does he promise without
ample ability to perform. The bes, literary tai
ent, the best efforts of the distinguished artists
| in tie country-and. to crown well adorn the
whole, the most perfect arrangements for the re-
lception of the American, London and Paris FASH
ons, far in advance of any other publication in
this country, enable him to the patrons of
| the LADI'S BOOK that the forthcoming volume
will more than justify its well earned title of the
Magazine Of Magazines fer the ladies Of our
! country. ~
1t has PASSED into custom 20 assert that dress is
ma ter Of trhng Importance, but this every lady
knows TO be utterly false. Taste in dress is uni
vetsally felt to be the index of thousand desirable
qualities III woman, while deficiency III this res
pect always Injuries in the estimation of stan
gers, end even of her Intimate friends-the beauty
of Helen and the wit of Aspasia, would hardly
ESnmend to gsaeIal favor an acknowledged DowDY
N9iress. Hence the Importance of an accredited
guide to the Fashions. .-..'
This useful Office, already filed for fourteen
years, with universal acceptance, by the Lldy's
Book, the publisher pledges himsefto discharge 10
future, in style Surprising all his former efforts.
| The ladies know perfectly we'll that our Magazine
| is the highest authority in Fashion.
| No lady considers herself we'll dressed who con-
traNenes this authority, and, in our own city, in n.
| York, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville,
Lexington, St. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah, and the other metrop-
olitiaa cities of the various States, the tasteful
Fashion Plates of the Lady's Book diIgtet the laws
| ofdIess. 50
As further assurance of thorough excellence in
this department, the publisher has secured the ser
vices of Miss LESLIE, who will illustrate the
Fashion Plates in her usual felicitous and graph
ic style uniting thorough knowledge of the sub
| iect, with clear. graceful and Ineligible man
ner of treating it, Her descriptions worthy of
the productions of her own glowing pencil, which
drew the eatliest Fashion Plates for the Lady'S
| Book.
The publishers correspondent in Paris is pos
| sessed of such ample means of obtaining the real
. and present Paris Fashions, and of transmitting
them in advance Of all competitors, thatthe ladies
may continue, they have always done, to copy
from our plates what has received the sanction Of
indsputabe ton the last, the newest, the best fash
ions, fresh from Paris.
The arrangements for Producing most brilliant
and attractive series of. Line and Mezzotint En-
cravings now complete. Pictures fresh from
L. H. - A
now actually in the hands of the ablest American
engravers, the subjects embracing not only the
al popular AMI domestic topics, but others which
nterwoF en- into the very heart strings of Amer
lean nationality, treating as they do of stirring in
cidents in the glorious and heroic age of Amer
lea
With respect the general literary and moral
tone of the Lady's Book, for lS43, it will main
! tain its usual consistent character Of domestic
and fashionable family Magazine. While such
contributors Miss Leslie, Miss Sedgwck, Mrs
| Hall, Mrs Embury, Mrs E F Ellet, Mrs Sgour-
ney, Mrs E Howard, Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs A
! NJ AMMAN, Mrs & Lee Hentz, Mrs Parsons, and
/ Mrs 5 Hale continue their contributors, the
beautiful and the useful, all that charms the fancy
and ell that mends the heart and guides the best
affections of cur nature, viii continue to adoTnand
dignity our pages. -.
The lovers of historical romance, and those who
| regard our nations glory the prime objects of
our nations literature, will have their peculiar
tastes gratfed by the contributions of DR. RobertM
Bird, the author of the Gladiator, sCalvar, &c.
| The admirers of Southern scenery and manners
will recognise with pleasure, among correspond
ents, the name of w Gilmore Simms, the novelist,
author of 'Guy Rivers Yemasses' &C..
:, Those who partial to graceful, easy, noncha-
halant, gentlemanly story telling, viii always
hail with pleasure the monthly return of n Will
lis, the most piquant lively and fertile of all mag
azne writers
The admirers of the high toned, moral and do
mestc Nou9ellette, will recognise with pleasure,
among our contributors, the name of ) Arthur,
author of six Nights with the w ashingtonaas,'
&c. Contributions are also ready from the pens of
Professor Alexander Dallas Bache, late Principal
of the Philadelphia High School, Professor John
Sanderson, author of "a Year in Paris Professor
Ohm Frost, editor Of 'the Young Peoples Book
Oar limits will not give us space enough to en-
| rmerate the names of tithe of our contributors;
Our list Of foreign contributors is enriched with
the names of i
Joanna Baltic, Mary Russell Milford,
Mary Hewitt, Maria Edgeworth,
Hon. Mrs C.. Norton, Mrs. S. G. Hall,
recognised in Europe as the elite of British female
authors.
The publishers means of increasing the beauty
nd value of the Lady's Book accommodating
ear by year. Tohis already inestirnabe list of
yntribators he is constantly receiving accession
booth at home aud abroad.
I His arrangements with respect to ORlGISs
| PA1NTINGs. from such Artists as
Rothermel, Frankenstein, Croome,
Chapman, .Maclise, Huntingdon,
I are now complete, and he numbers among the en-
gravers whose services are constantly retained,
Tucker, Smith, Warner,
Dick, Sadd, Ellis,
Classen Gimhredge Jones