Ponola [sic] weekly register. (Ponola [sic], Miss.) 1843-1843, 1843-05-06
LITERARY, DOMESTit3 & FAsHIONA
BILE FAMILY MAGAZINE.

* ODEY'S LADY'S BOOK having been for
STso long series of years, universally recogni-
zed as the exclusive and indisputabe guide to the
fair SEX in matters of taste, fashion, and itera
Iare--tlls only work conducted by distinguished
female authors, VINO have Tor themselves
high place among the guiding spirits of the age
the only work which in point of fact has been ex-
clnsively devoted to the ladies-its favor with its
fair patrons has not been less remarkable than It's
perfert adaptation to their feelings and tastes and
their requirements. In entering upon new year,
the publisher without diminishing III the least that
sterling and useful literature, which has so long re-
suited from laying under contribution the native
good sense and elegant fancy of our American Fe-
male writer's. will, as each successive ndmber ap-
pears present in the several departments OF Liter
quire Fashion and Pictorial Establishment,
constant and ever varying succession OF new and
striking features. Nor does he promise without
annie ability to perform. The best literary tai
ent the best efforts of the most distinguished artists
in the countrv-and, TO crown as well as adorn the
whole, the most perfect arrangements for the re-
cepton of the American. bondon and Paris Fash
ions, far in advance of any other publication IN
this country. enable him TO assure the patrons OF
the LADY'S BOOK that the forthcoming volume
will more than justify its we'll earned title of the
Magazine of Magazines for the ladies of our
country.
1t has passed into custom 10 assert that dress is
a mater of triing Importance but this every lady
knows 10 be utterly false. Taste in dress is uni
vcrsally felt to he the index of thousand desirable
qualities in woman, while deficiency in this
pect ALWAYS Injuries in the estimation of stran-
gers. and even of her intimate friends-the beauty
of Helen and the wit of Aspasia, would hardly
commend to general favor an acknowledged DowDY
in dress. Hence the importance of an accredited
guide to the Fashions,
This useful Office, already filled for fourteen
years, with universal acceptance, by the Lldy's
Book, the publisher pledges himself to discharge in
future in style surpassinga all his former efforts
The ladies' know perfectly well that our Magazine
is the highest authority in Fashion.
No lady considers herself we'll dressed who con-
travenes this authority, and in own city, i'll n.
York, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville,
Lexington, St. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah, and the other metrop-
o!ltian cities of the various States, the tasteful
Fashion Plates of the Ladys Book dictate the laws
ofdress
In future the figures will be;thrown into tasteful
groups displaying the graces of dress to the best
advantage, and the back grounds of the plates will
present Interesting views, designed by the first
rate Artists.
As q 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 intelhgl6le man
ner of trea ting IT, f1er descriptions are WoItg Vi
the productions of her own glowing pencil, which
drew the earliest 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 ia advance of all competitors, thatthe ladies
may continue, as they have always done, to copy
from our plates what has received the sanction OF
ndisputable ton the last, thenewest, the best fash
ions, fresh from Paris.
The arrangements for Producing most brilliant
and attractive series of Line and Mezzotnt En-
cravings are now complete. Pictures fresh from
the sasels of our first rate American Artists, are
now actually inthe hands of the abest American
engravers the e0bects embracing not only the usu-
al popular and domestic topics, but others which
are interviewer into the very heart strings of Amer
lcan nationality, treating they do of stirring IN
cidents in the glorious and heroic age OF Amer
lea.
With respect to the general literary and moral
tone Of the Lady's Book, for 1913, it will main
tain its usual consistent character of domestic
aud fashionable family magazine. While such
Contributors as Miss Leslie, Miss SedgwicS, Mrs
Hall, Mrs Embury, Mrs Ellet, Mrs Sigour-
neb, Mrs f Howard, Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs A
VI + AMMAN, Mrs Lee Hentz, Mrs Parsons, and
Mrs $ Hale continue their contributions, the