Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-01-21
AUTHORIZED AGENTS.
Literary, Domestic, and Fashionable Family
Magazine.
GoDEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR ls4s

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR 1s43.
EDITED BY MRS. 8. ]. HALE AND OTHERS.
The long established Arbiter of Taste, Fash.
ION, and the Bellies Lettres, for the
Ladies Of America.
rlODEY'S LADY'S BOOK having been, for
~ so long series OF years, universally re.
eognized as the exclusive and indisputable
guide to the fair sex, in matters of taste, fash.
ion, and li,erature--the only work conducted
by distinguished Female authors, who have
won for themselves high place among the
guiding spirits of the age-the only work
which 10 point of fact has been exclusively
devoted to the ladies', its favor with its fair
patrons has not been less rema rkable than It's
perfect adaptation to their feelings and tastes
and their requirements. In entering upon a
new year, the publisher, without diminishing
in the least that sterling aud uselsl literature
which has long resulted from laying under
contribution the native good sense and elegant
fancy of our American Female writer's, will,
as each successive number appears, present in
the several departments Of literature. fashion,
and pictorial embellishments, a constant and ey-
or varying succession Of new and striking fea
lures. Nor does he promise without ample
ability 10 perform. The best literary talent,
the best efforts OF the most distinguished Ar
lists in the country-and to crown as well as
10 adorn the whole, the moot perfect arrange
meuts for the reception Of the American, Lon
don and Paris Fashions, for the ladies Of our
country.
1t has passed into custom to assert that dress
10 matter Of trihing Importance, but this ev-
cry lady knows to be utterly false. Taste in
dress is universally felt TO be the index Of a.
thousand durable qualities in woman, while al
deficiency in this respect always Injuries one,
in the estimation Of strangers, and even Of her
immediate friends-ihe 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
10 the Fashions. ...r .
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with universal acceptance by the Lady's Book,
The publisher pledges himself to discharge in
future IN style SURPRISING all his former e.
forts. The ladies know perfectly we'll that our
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No lady considers herself well dressed who
conlravenes this authority, and In our own
city, in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Cincin>
natl, Louisville, Lexington, ST. Louis, New
Orleans; Mobile, Richmond, Charleston, Sa
vannah, and the other Metropolitan cities oil
the various States, the tasteful Fashion Plates
OF the Lady's Book dictate the laws Of dress.
In future the figures will be thrown into
tasteful groups, displaying the graces Of dress
TO The beet advantage, and The back grounds OF
the plates will present interesting views, de-
signed by frsl rate Artists.
As a further assurance OF thorough excel,
lence 10 This department, the publisher has Sc
cured the services of Miss Leslie, who will il
Illustrate the Fashion Plates, in her usual fell.
ci!ous and graphic style, uniting thorough
knowledge of the subject, with clear, intelli
grille and graceful manner of treating il. Her
descriptions are worthy OF the productions of
her own glowing pencil, which drew the ear
hest Fashion Plates for the Lady's Book.
The publishers correspondent in Paris is
possessed Of such ample means Of obtaining
the real and present Paris fashions, and Of
transmitting them in advance Of all competit-
ors. that the ladies' may continue, as they have
always done, to copy from our plates what has
received the sanction Of indisputabls ton, the
last, the newest, the best fashions, fresh from
Paris.
The arrangement for producing most bril-
liant and attn active series OF Mezzotint and
Line Engravings, are now complete. Pictures
fresh from the easels of our first rate Ameri-
can Artists are now actually in the hands Of
the ablest American engravers, the subjects
embracing not only the usual popular and do
mestic topics, but others which are interwo-
ven into the very hear,strings Of American
nationality, treating as they do Of stirring in
cdents in the glorious E. heroic age Of Anne RIGA,