Ponola [sic] weekly register. (Ponola [sic], Miss.) 1843-1843, 1843-06-03

ODEY'S LADY'S BOOK having beer for
ESQ long series of years, universally recogni-
zed the exclusive and indisputabie guide to the
fair SEX in matters of snsta, fashion, and ltera-
tlre-ths only work conducted by distinguished
female authors, who have won for themselves
higt, place among the guiding spirits OF the age
the only work which in point Of fact has oeen eN-
cIlsveiv devoted to the ladies-its favor with its
fair patrons has not been less remarkable than It's
pereet adaptation - their feelings and tastes and
their requirements. In entering upon new year,
the publisher without diminishing III the least 'hat
ste.lng and useful literature, which has so long re-
suited from laviny under contribution tina native
gooaksnsa and elegant fancy of our American I e.
male writer's, will, as each successive namo2r APP
paars present in the several departments OF Liter
atura, Fashion, and Pictorial Establishment, a
constant and ever varying succession OIL new ana
striking features. Nos does he promise without
ample ability to perform. The cest literary tai
emit the best efforts Of the moss distinguished artists
in the country-aad, 20 crown as we'll as adorh the
whole the most perfect arrangements for the re-
caption of the American, London and Paris Fash
IONS, far in advance of any other publication IN
this country, enable him 20 assure the patrons OF
the IADY'S BOOK that the forthcoming volume
will more than justify its well canned title OF the
Magazine of Magazines for the ladies' OF our
country.
Ii has passed into custom 10 assert that dress IS
mater of ,rfing importance, but this every lady
knows 10 be utterly false. Taste il dress is uni
versalIy felt to be the index of thousand desirable
Qualities in woman, while deficiency in this res
Ract always Injuries iii the estmat ton OF stTan-
gers, and even of her intimate ffIends-fhe beauty
of Helen and the wi: of Aspasia. would hardly
commend to geneIa 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 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.
No LADY considers herself we'll dressed who con-
travenes this authority and, in own city, iii y.
York, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville,
Lexington, ST. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah, and the other metrop-
olitian cities of the various States, the tasteIul
Fashion Plates of the Lady's Book ditate the laws
ofdress
In future the figures will be;thrown into tasteful
rroups displaying the graces of dress TO the best
advantage and the back grounds of the plates VIII
present interesting views, designed by me hrst
ratio Artists
Asa 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
ioct yith a clear, graceful and ineligible man
ne, Of trea ting it. Her descriptions are worthy OF
the productions of her own glowing pencil, which
drew tho earliest Fashion Plates for the Lady's
Book.
The Publishers correspondent IN faris IS pos
s:ssed of such ample nleaas Of obtaining the real
and present Paris Fashions, and OF transmitting
them Ia advance of all competitors thattne LADIES'
may continue, as they have always done, to copy
from our plates what has received the SANCTION OF
ndisputable ton, The last the newest, the ossr iash
ions, fresh from Paris,
The arrangements for producing most briliian'
and attractive series of Line and Mezzotint Tn
Cravings are now complete. Pictures fresh from
The easels of our first rate American Artists, are
now actually in the hands of the ablest American
engravers, the subjects embracing not only the usn
al popular and domestic topics, but others which
are interviewer into the very heart strings OF Amer
lean nationality, treating they do of stirring IN
cIdents in the glorious and heroic age OF Amer
lea
With respect the general literary and moral
tonc of the Lady's Book, fer lS43, il will main
ain its usual consistent character of O domestic
aud fashionable family magazine. While such
contributors as Miss Leslie, Miss Sedgwick, Mrs
Nall, Mrs Embury, Mrs f F Ellet, Rlrs Sigour-
nep, Mrs v Il Howard, Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs A
N AMMAN, Mrs & Lee Hentz, Mrs Parsons, and
Mrs S ] Hale continue their contributions, tbs