Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1843-04-12
LADIES' COMPANION!
STANDARD NATIONAL MAGAZINE,
Published Monthly IN The City Of Ncao- York, By
WILLIAM w. SNOWDEN.
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rogatory the part of the proprietor TO offer o-
rect exposition of its merits and its claims. 4 ne
Ladies' Companion needs no laudatory puffs to
force it into a precarious existence it has, ior
number Of years, spoken for itself, and IN voice
which has found most satisfactory response IN
the literary taste of the age. Conforming, howeV-
er, TO custom, which seems TO demand a lew
words occasionally from the proprietor to his pat
roas and the public, we will simply and susclnctly
enumerate the chief titles which this standard ma
lional magazine has to the enormous patronage
which it has for so many years enjoyed, and to
that regular and uninterrupted advance IN the Ia
yor of the critical, the literary and the refined,
which has ever, III 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 competition; 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
odical 1t is lis preemnence in the literary depart
rnent, upon which is based the principal claims Of
the Ladies' Companion To its pages the propri
etor boldly refers for proof ofhe assertion that by
none OF ls numerous rivals and imitators, has the
Companion ever been equalled even approach
ed in its
Literary Character.
IF further proof were needed, the proprietor
would point with emotions of pleasure and pride,
10 the following list of distinguished names, en-
bracine the principal regular contributors, whose
able pens have exerted so much influence through
the pages of this magazine upon the literary taste
of the day.
PROMINENT CONTRIBUTORS.
Emma G Embuty, author of Pictures of Early
1ie," 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 Gould; Mrs E. r. Steele;
Mrs. A. NJ. +. Amman, late Miss Buchanan; Miss
A D. Woodbridge Mrs Emeline S Smith; F. w
Thomas, author of ''Clinton Bradshaw, etc., Car
oline Orne, OF Wollsboro' n H.; Miss Mary Ann
Browne, England, Mrs. M. St. Leon Loud, Penn
sylvania, Professor J. Ii. Ingraham; Louis Fitz-
gerald Tasistro; Nathaniel p Willis; Theodore S
Fay; Edgar A. Poe; George P Morris, author of
<'I)rier Cliff" and the "National Melodies, to-
gether with large number of prominent writers,
whose names we have not room here to insert.
This list, embracing some of the most profound
original and vigorous lntellects OF the male sex
and the most brilliant, graceful and witty of the
fair, cannot easily be paralelled by any other mag
aZine in the country. II affords the suIest guaran
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commensurate with its immense and increasing
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verslty of taste may expect TO be graifed, and ev
cry kind of elegant literature receive proper at
tention Poetry, tales, sketches, essays, embody
ing the brilliant conceptions, the graceful magin-
lngs, the original inventions, and the witty pro-
found thoughts of the able writers we have emu
meraied, have and will continue to administer,
each In proportion, TO the amusement and instruc-
ton of the readers ofthe Companion.
EDITORS TABLE.
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those occurrences which are deemed of sufficient
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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 tor sound and unprejudiced decisions.
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nd striking feature, the Ladies' Companion is vet
hnrivalied 1t is not merely in the beauty and
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SO l.. tae character of the subjects which are in
vara5ly selected with the greatest care and refec-
ton, and with reference their utility and artis
cal merit not to the facility and consequent cheap
hess with which they yield themselves to the BURN
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lshed. The reader therefore, for the low price al
which the ''Companon" is afforded, in addition to
ats admirable literary articles, obtains port folio
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THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT.
offers 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 distinguished musical
professor. have been given to the world in the
pages ofithis magazine. Continued attention will
he paid TO this department.
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