The Weekly register. (Ponola [sic] Panola, Miss.) 1843-1844, 1843-10-28


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NODEY'S LADY'S BOOK having been for
SGso long series Of years, universally recogui-
zed as the exclusive and indisputable guide TO the
Ials sex, IN matters of taste, fashion, and litera
/ tare-tha only work conducted by distinguished
! female authors, who h-ve won for themselves
| nigh place among the guiding spirits Of the age
the only work which in point Of fact has been ex-
clIsively devoted TO the ladies-its favor with its
!air patrons has not bsen less remarkable than lis
perfect adaptation their feelings and tastes and
! their requirements. In entering upoa 4 new year,
the publisher, without diminishing in the least that
sterling and useful literature, which has cong re-
suited from laying under contribution the native
/ good sense and elegant fancy OF our American Fee
male wTItelss viii, as each Successive number ap-
pears present in the several departments of Liter
ature, Fashion, and Pictorial Embellishments,
constant and ever varying succession Of new and
striking features. N-7 does he promise without
ample ability to perform. The best literary tall
ent, the best efforts Of the Distinguished artists
IN the coIntry-and, 20 crown as well as adorn the
/ whole, the most perfect arrangements for the
/ ception OF the american, London and Paris Fash
/ tols, far in advance of any other publication in
/ this country. enable him to assure the patrons of
/ thr LADY'S BOOK that TIE forthcoming volume
will more than justify its wen earned tile OF the
] Magazine Of Magazines foy tle ladies Of our
country.
IL has passed into custom 70 assert that dress is
ma ter of trfng nnP0Ftancs, but this every lady
knows to be utterly false. Taste ii dress is uni
ally felt to be tha index of thousand desirable
qualities i'll woman, while deficiency in this res
pect always Injuries in the estimation of stran-
gers, and even ofher Intimate frienda-the beauty
of Helen and the wi; of Aspasia. would hardly
commend to general fagoran acknowledged DowDY
in dress. Hence the importance of az accredited
guide to the Fashions.
This usafdl Office, already filled for fourteen
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Book, ihs poblisber pledges himsofto discharge in
future, in style surprising all his former efforts.
Ihs ladies know perfectly we'll that our Magazine
IS the highest authority ia Fashion
No lady consdars herself well dressed who con
travenes this authority, and, in own city, in y.
| Y DIRK, Boston, Baltimore. Cincinnati, Louisville,
/ Lexington, St. Loa.s, New Orleans, Mobile, Rich
mohd, Charleston, Savannah, and the otlermetrop-
olitan cities OF the various States, the tasteful
Fashion Plates Of tle Lady's Book d tate The laws
ofdress.
As further assurance of thorough excellence in
this department, the publisher has secured the
vices of Miss LESLIE, who win illustrate the
Fashion Plates, in her usual felictous and graph
I ic style, uniting thorough knowledge of the sub
ject, with a clear. graceful and Ineligible man
ner of traatngit. Her descriptions worthy of
the productions of her own glowing pencil, which
/ drew the earliest Fashion Plates for the Lady5
/ Book.
The publishers correspondent; in Paris is pos.
| sessed OF such ample means of Obtaining the real
/ and pTeseat Paris Fashions, and of transmitting
them il advance Of all competitors that the ladies
may continue, as they have always done, TO COPY
| from plates what has received the sanction OF
indisp1lable ton the last. the newest the best fash
| ions, fresh from Paris.
The arrangements for r.eduong most brilliant
f, and attractive series CT Line and Mezzotint En-
/ cravings are now complete. Pictures fresh from
the easeis of our FIST rate American Artists, ara
now actually in th3 hands OF tug abIest american
e1gravers, the.snbiect5 embracing only the usu
al popular and domestic topics, bot Others which
nteEwovsn into tds 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 c the general. itarary and moral
tQno of she Lady's Book, for 1913, il will main
! tain its usual consistent character OF domestic
and fashionable family magazine. While such
contributors as Miss Leslie, Miss Sedgwick, Mrs
| Hall, Mrs Embury, Mrs T EIlet, Mrs Sigour-
ney, Mrs V e Howard, Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs a
! N Amman, Mrs Lee Hontz, Mrs Parsons, and
| Mrs 5 ] Hale continue their contributions, the
beautiful and the 15efl oil that charms the fancy
and all that mends the heart and guides the best
affections of CURVATURE, viii continue to adorn and
! dignity our pages.
Ghe lovers of historical romance, ard those who
regard our naton's glory tho prime objects OF
our nations literature, viii have their peculiar
tastes graltll3Q the oil kODfrt NJ
| Bird, the author of the Gladiator, sCalvar' &c
/ The admirers of Southern scenery aud manners
will recognise with pleasure among ougcorrespond-
/ ents. the name of w Gilmore Simms, the novelist
author of Guy Riyers,''Y emassas,' &c.
Those who are partial 70 graceful, easy, noncl,5-
haans, ganhemanly story telling, will always
hail with pleasure the monthly return Of n VIII
lis the mos. pquant. lively and fertile OF all mag
azine writer's
The admirers of the high toned, moral and do
mastic Nouvelatte, will recognise with pleasure,
among our contributors, the name of Il 5 Arthur,
author of six Nights with the Washingtonians,'
&c. Contributions are also ready from the pers Of
! Professor Alexander Dallas Bache, late Principal
/ of the Philadelphia High School. Professor john
Saaderson, author of "a Year in Paris,' Professo.
/ John Frost, editor of sthe Young Peoples Book
Oar limits viii not give us space enough TO ons
umerate the names of tithe of our contributors.
Our list of foreign contributors is enriched with
I tbs names of
Joanna Ballia, Mary Russell Milford.
Mary Hewitt, Maria Edgswol1h,
Hon Mrs c. Norton, Mrs. s. G. Hell,
recognised in Europe the elite of British female
! authors.
The publishers means Of increasing the beauty
nd value of the Lady's Book are accuHulating
aear by year. To his already inestimable list of
yntribasofs, he is constantly receiving accagsioas
booth at home and abroad.
His arrangements with respect to ORIG1y.
PAISTNGs. from s1ch Artists as
I Rothernel. FTankenstsin, Crooma,
Chapman, .Taclse, Huntingdon
ara now ecmpiste, and he numbers among the en-
+ gravers whose services are constantly retained,
TrckeF, Smith, Warner
Classen, Gimbredge, 5onos.
Ills whole systsm Of arrangements with ras,ar,
to Fashion Plates is ..ow leveloped and perfected
Inc Lady's Book viii therefore continue to main