The Weekly register., 1844-05-18
PANoLA MI ssIssIPPI SATURDAY. MAY1s1s4A


AS further assurance of thorough excellence in
this department, the pubisher has secured the SER
vices of Miss LESLIE, who will illos,rate the
Fashion Plates id her usual felieitous and graph
ic style, uniting thorough knowledge of the Sub
ject, with clear, graceful and intef1igIble man.
ner of treating it. Her descriptions are worthy of
the productions of her own glowing pencil, which
drew the earliest Fashion Plates for the Ladys
Book.
The publishers correspondent in Paris is pos
sessed ofsuch ample means of obtaining the real
and present Paris Fashions, and of transmitting
them in advance of all competitors, .hasthe ladies'
may continue, as they have always done, to copy
from our plates what has received the sanction Of
indispntableto the last, thenewest, the best fash
ions, fresh from Paris
The arrangements for Producing mostbrilliant
and attractive series of Line and Mezzotint En-
cravings are now complete. Pictures fresh from
the easels of our first rate American Artists are
now actually in the hands of the ablest American
engravers, the subjects embracing not only the usn
al popular and domestic topics, but Others which
are interviewer into the very heart strings Of Amer
lean nationality, treatingas theyd of stirring in
-cdents in the glorious and heroic age of Amer
lea
With respect the generall iterary and moral
tone of the EAdy's Book, for l843, it will main
tain its usual consistent character of domestic
and fashionable family magazine. While such
contributors as Miss Leslie, Miss Sedgwck. Mrs
Hall, Mrs Embury, Mrs E F Ellet, Mrs Sigour-
new Mrs V L Howard. Mrs Seba Smith. Mrs A
NJ AMMAN, Mrs Lee Hentz, Mrs Parsons, and
Mrs S Hale continue their contributions, the
beautiful and the nsefu, 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 cf historical romance, and those who
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our nations literature, will have their peculiar
tastes gratfed by the cont1b 1butions Of DR. Robert NJ
Bird, the author eff the Gladiator, tCalvar' &C.
The admirers Of Southern scenery and manners
will recognise with pleasure, among gourcorrespond-
ents, the name of w Gilmore Simms, the novelist
author of 'Guy Riyers;' Yemasses,' &c.
Those who are partial TO graceful, easy, noncha-
halant, gentemanly story telling, will always
hail with pleasure the monthly return of N P Will
lis, the most pYuant, lively and fertile of all rag
azine writers
The admirers of the high toned, moral and do
mestic Nouvellette, wilTrecognise with pleasure.
among our Contributors. the name Oft S Arthur,
author of SIX Nights with the WashingtoniaGs,
&c. Conhihhtions are also ready from the pens of
Professor AJexander Dallas Bache late Principal
Of the Philadelphia High Schooh Professor John
Sanderson, author offs Y ear in Paris Professor
John Frost, eafSor of 'the sung Peoples Book.
OGr limits Will not gIYe rs space enough to3
umefata the names ofa tithe Of our contributors.
Our list Of foreign contributors is enrichedsi
the names Of
Joanna Ballie, MaryRussel Milford,
Mary Hewitt, Maria Edgep~ til,
Hon Mrs C. Norton, Mrs. S. c. Hall,
recognised in Europe asthe elite Of BIRTHS, fna ls
authors.
The publishers means of increasing the beau: y
s,~l ~--l-s -f silc Lqtryts Beck ara arciimnla+i
ear by year. To his already nestlmaDIe II I
yntribnturs, he is constantly receiving acces
booth at home and abroad.
His arrangements with respect tc ORsGsNA
PAINTINGS. from such Artists as
Rothermel, FIankeHsten, Croome,
Chapman, ..maclise, Huntingdon
are now complete, and he numbers among the Ell
gravers whose services are constantly retained,
Tucker, Smith, Warner,
Dick, Sadd, Ellis,
Ciassen, GimbTedge, Jones'
Ills whole system of arrangements with respac,
to Fashion Plates is developed and perfected
The Lady's Book will therefore continue to MAIN
tain that proud pre-eminence in merit and i'll pop
ularitv which fourteen years of unintermitted at
tenton 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, 1yearin advance, So
do do 2yrs both in advance
Two copies, one year, >