The Weekly register., 1843-10-14

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tnre-the only work conducted by distinguished
| female authers,s who have won for themselves
high place among the guiding spirits of the age
1 the only work which in point of feet has been ex-
cldsiyely devoted to the lades-its favor with its
fair patrons has not been less remarkable than its
perfect adaptation their feelings and tastes and
their requirements. In entering upon newyear,
the publisher, without diminishing i'll the least that
sterling and useful literature, which has so long
/ snted from laying under contribution the native
good sense and elegant fancy of Our American Fe-
! male writers, will, as each successive number APP
pears present in the several departments of Liter
ature, Fashion, and Pictorial Embellishments, a
constant and varying succession of new and
! striking features. Nor does he promise without
ample ability to perform. The best literary tal-
ent, the best efforts Of the distinguished artists
| in the counny-and. to well adorn the
| whole, the most perfect arrangements for the re-
! ception Of the American, London 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 well canned title of the
Magazine of Magazines for the ladies of our
/ ccuptry. = ~~-.,-> :. 90,
1t has passed into custom 10 assert that dress is
matter of trifing importance, but this every lady
knows 10 be utterly false. Taste in dress is uni
versally felt to be the index of thousand desirable
qualities in woman, while deficiency in this res
pect always Injuries in the estimation ofstran-
gers. even oil her ultimate fTenuS-the beauty
| of Helen and the wit of Aspasia, would hardly
comniend to general favor an acknowledged DowDY
| in dress. Hence the importance of an accredited
| guide 70 the Fashions.
/ This useful Office, already filed for fourteen
| years, with universal acceptance, by the Lady's
Book, the publisher pledges hmselfto dischargein
FUTURE in style surprising all MS former efforts.
| The ladies know perfectly well that our Magazine
/ is the highest authority in Fashion.
No lady considers herself well dressed who con-
trsvenes this authority, and, in city, i'll N.
/ York; Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville,
| Lexington, ST. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah, and the other metrop-
olitisa cities of the various States, the tasteful
Fashion Plates of the Lady's Book dictate the laws
ofdress.
As a further assurance of thorough excellence in
this department, the publisher has secured the SER
vices OF Miss LESLIE, who will illustrate the
Fashiol. Plates in her usual felictous and graph
ic style, uniting Thorough knowledge of the sub
iect, with clear, graceful and Ineligible man
ner of trea ting it, Her descriptions worthy of
the productions of her glowing pencil, which
| drew the earliest Fashion Plates for the Ladys
| Book. ~ .s--'-
| The lmtaisfer,s correspondent in Paris is pos
sesset 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 .he sanction of
indsputabe ton, the las, the newest, the best fash
ions, fresh from PaTis.
, The arrangements for Producing most brilliant
! ana attractive series of Line and Mezzotint En-
cravings are now complete. Pictures fresh from
lheeasels of our. first rate American Artists, are
now actually in the hands of the abest American
engravers the subjects embracing only the usu
al popular and domestic topics, bot others which
iaAtsrgove the very heaEtsiriags Of Amer
lean nationality, treating they do of stirring In
cidanss ia fhs S'~-s- 49, - ----- = : -
WIN resSect. O the senerali literary and moral
i tone cfsthe Lady's Book, for 1913, il will main
| tain its usual consistent character of domestic
aud fashionable family magazine. While s1ch
| conTibutors as Miss Leslie, Miss Sedgwick, Mrs
| Hall, Mrs EmbuTy, Mrs E Ellet, MrsSigour-
ney, Mrs E Howard, Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs A
| NJ f Amman, Mrs & Lee Hentz, Mrs Parsons, and
| Mrs s ] Hale continue their contributions, the
beautiful and the useful all that charms the fancy
| and all that mends the heart and guides the best
affections of nature, will continue to adorn and
dignity our pages. :
The lovers of historical romance, and those who
| regard nations glory as the prime objects of
our natioIi's literature, will have THAR peculiar
tastes grathed by the contributions of DR. Robert Nj
| Bird, the author of The Gladiator, 'Calvar' &c.
The admirers of Southern scenery and manners
will recognise wfthpleasure, among our correspond
1 ents, the name of w iEnore Simms, the novelist,
author of sGuy Rivers,' ~ emasses,' &c.
| Those who are partial to graceful, easy, noncha-
balant, gentemanly story telling, will always
hail with pleasure the monthly return OF N Will
lis, the most piquant lively and fertile of all mag
azine writers., 4.
The admirers Of the high toned, moral and do
mestc Nouvellette. will recognise with pleasure,
| among our contributors, the name Of L ) Arthur,
: author of six Nights with the Washingtonians,'
&c. Contributions also ready from the pens of
Professor Alexander Dallas Bache, late Principal
of the Phiadelphia High School, Professor ohm
Sao5srso0- author of 81 Year in Paris, Professor
John Frost, editor of 'the Young Peoples Book.
Our limits will not give us space enough
umerate the names of a 1.-THE of our contributors.
Our list of foreign contributors is enriched with
the names of
Joanna Baltic, $, Mary Russell Milford,
| Mary Hewitt, Maria Edgeworth,
| Hon. MRS c. Merton, Mrs. s. G. Hall,
recognised in Europe the elite of British female
authors. =. - s t-~ !,
The publishers means of increasing the beauty
aud value of the Lady's Book accumulapng
ear by year. To his already inestimable list of
yntributors, he is constantly receiving accessions
booth at home and abroad.
His arrangements with respect to ORIGINA
PAINTINGS. from such Artists as ,
RSthermel, FIaakenetein, Gtoome,,
Chapman, --Maeises al : Huntingdon,
are now complete, and he Numbers among the en-
gravers whose services constantly retained,
Tucker, Smith, Warner,
!, Dick, Sadd, Ellis,
j Classen, Gimbredge, Jones.
4 His whole system of arrangements with respeca
10 Fashion Plates is developed and perfected
The Lady's Book will therefore continue to MAIN
tain that proud pre-emicence in merit and in pop
ularity: which fourteen years of unintemitted at
tention on the part of the publisher has earned-it
will still remain, as heretofore, the FAvoRITE OF
THE FAIR.
TERMS.
Godey's Lady's Book, lyear in advance, So