The Weekly register., 1843-09-02

FOR THE LADIES Or AMEALCAs
NODEY'S LADY'S BOOK having been fof
z Tso long series of years, universally recogni-
zed as the exclusive and indsputabie guide to the
fair eex in matters of taste, fashion, and litera-
tare-ths only work conducted by distinguished
female authors, who have won for themselvesa
hsh place among the guiding spirits of the age
the oniy work which in point of fact has been ex-
cldsvely devoted to the ladies-its favor with its
fair patrons has not been lees remarkable than its
perfect adaptatoRto their feelings and tastes and
their requirements. In entering upon \ new year,
the publisher, without diminishing if the least that
sterling and useful literature which has long re-
suited from laying under contribution the native
good sense and elegant fancy of our Amercanfe-
male writers, will, as each successive number ap-
pears present in the several departments OF Liter
ature, Fashion, and Pictorial Embellshment, e
Constant and ever varying succession of new and
striking features. Nor does he promise without
ample ability toperform. The best literary tai
en the best efforts of the most distinguished artists
in the country-and, to crown aswell as 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
| tae LADY'S BOOK that the forthcoming volume
will more than justify its well Gained title of the
Magazine of Magazines for the ladies of our
country.
1t has passed into custom TO assert that dress is
matter of trfing importance. but this every lady
knows to be- utterly false. Taste in dress is uni
versally felt to he the index of thousand desirable
qualities in woman, while deficiency in this res
pec always injures 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.
fIiis ,IsAf&t affIra- a1raadv flad for fourteen
years, with onlversal acceptance, by the Lady's
Book, the publisher pledges himself to dischargs in
future, in style surprising all his former efforts.
The ladies know perfectly we'll that our Magazine
is the highest authority in Fashion.
| No lady considers herself well dressed who con-
tFavenes this authority, and, in our own city, in N
York, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville,
! Lexington, ST. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah, and the other metrop-
olitan cities of the various States, the tasteful
Fashion Plates of tine Ladys Book dictate the laws
ofdresss 2
| As further assurance of thorough excellence in
this department, the Publisher has secured the ser
vices of MissI ESLIE, who will illustrate the
! Fashion Plates in her usual felicitous and graph
| ie style, uniting thorough knowledge of the sub
ject, with clear, graceful and Ineligible man
ner of treatingit Her descriptions are worthy of
the productions of her own glowing pencil, (which
/ drew the earliest Fashion Plates for the Aady's
| Book
The pnblisher's correspondent in Paris is pos
sessed 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 the sanction of
indisplable ton, TIE last, the newest, the best fash
| ions, fresh from Paris.
The arrangements for Producing most brilliant
and attractive series of Line and Mezzotint En-
cravings are now complete. Pictures fresh from
the easels of our first rats American Artists, are
now actuallyin the hands of the ablest American
engravers, the subjects embracing not only the usu-
al popular and domestic topics, but others which
are interviewer into the very heart strings of Amer
can nationality, treating they do of stirring in
1 cidenis Ia the glorioas and heroic age of Amer
/ ca
With respect the general literary and moiai
| tone of the Lady's Book, for lS43, it will main
tain lbs usual consistent character of domestic
arsti7 fashionable family magazine. While such
| cont1i5utors Miss Leslie, Miss Sedgwick, Mrs
Hall, hrsEmbury, Mrs E T Ellet, Mrs Sigour
| ney. Mrs Howard, Mrs Seba Smith, Mrs
| NJ AMMAN, Mrs G Lee Hentz, Mrs Parsons, an,
| Mrs s Hale continue their contributions, the
beautiful and the nsefl, all that charms the fancy
| and all that mends the heart and guides the bes'
affections of our nature, will continue to adorn and
dignity our pages.
| The lovers of historical romance, aud those who
regard our nations glory as the prime objects of
our nations literature, will have their peculiar
tastes gratffed by the contributions of DIR Robert M
| Bird, the author of the Gladiator, SCalvar' &c.
| The admirers of Southern scenery aud manners
will recognise with pleasure among correspond
ents, the name of w Gilmore Simms, the novelist,
author of sGuy Rivers , " emasses,' &c.
Those who are partial to graceful, easy, noncha-
halant, gentemanly story telling, will always
hail with pleasure the monthly return of N P VIII
lis, the most piquant, lively and fertile of all mag
/ aZine Writer'S
i The admirers Of the high toned, moral and do
lnestc Nouvellette, will recognise with pleasure,
among our contributors, the name of II Arthur,
author of 'Six*Nights with the Washingtonians,'
&C. Contributions are also ready from the pens of
Professor Alexander Dallas Bache, late Principal
of the Philadelphia High School, Professor ] ohm
Sarderson, author of|a Year in Paris Professor
| JOHN Frost, editor of the Young Peoples Book.
/ Our limits will not giYe us space enough to en-
umerate the names Of 1.-THE of our contributors.
Our list of fersign contributors is enriched with
| flie names of !, s
Joanna Baille, Mary Russell Milford,
Mary Howiit, Maria Edgeworth,
Hon. Mrs C. Norton, .Mrs. S. G. Hall, ~
ecognissd in Europe ashe elite of British female
authors. 80
/ The publishers means of increasing the beauty
and value of the Lady's Book are accommodating
| wear by year To his already inestimable list Of
ntribntors, be is constantly receiving accessons
/ booth at home and abroad.
His arrangements with respect to ORIerSAL.
| PAINrINGs. from such Artists as
RotherInel, FTankenstein, Croome.
| Chapman, .Naclise, Huntington.
are now complete, and he numbers among the en-
gravers whose services ..re constantly retained,
| Tucker, Smith, Warmer,
Classen, Gimbredge, Jones.
lis wnoie System of arrangements with respeci