The Weekly register., 1844-06-08
The Cheapest and best La
dy's Magazine!
The Ladies' National NaSa-
zine.
EDITED BY MRS. ANN s. STEVENS AND c. j.
PETER SON.


PETER SON.
Permanent contributors Mrs. l.. IL.
Sioournev, Mrs. +. S. Osgood, Mrs. A.
M. F. Amman, Mrs. L. c. Embury, Mrs.
c. f. Orne, Miss Mary Davenant, Mrs
C. Lee Hentz, Mrs. NJ. l.. Lawson, Mrs.
ALB. Welby, Mrs. l.. J. Pierson, and
other females Of the first rank as authors
This elegant and popular monthly pc
riodical was established in July, l843,
bv the union Of the "World ofFashlon"
and f. Quarre's "Artist,n and has al
ready attained the reputation IN our
great cities Of the Text Book OF Fash
ion and Literature. In the correctness
and beauty Of lis fashion plates; in the
novelty. splendor and costllness OF lis
other embellishments; and in the chas-
tened tone and peculiarly refined ieml-
nine character Of its literary department,
it is conceded that this magazine has no
superior. Fully equal to the best three
dollar magazines in these respects, II IS
vet but little more than halfthelr price
The astonishing success has induced the
publisher to begin the new year with
great and costly improvements. Accor-
dinghy ne has determined TO employ a
corps O! female contributors whose uni
ted talents are such as have never been
before employed any magazine Tor the
sex. The work will not be the reflex
of any one mind. The names OF the
permanent contributors are guarantee
for the variety, talent and worth oil our
pages for 1914. Ours will be the only
Magazine sustained by the sex.
The editorial department will still re-
main with Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, author
of the celebrated $500 prize story, "Ma
nv Derwent," and acknowledged to bt
the most powerful writer of her sex II
America. Her story of" "Anna Taylor
in our volume for 1843, has had an as
tonishing run, and Will be followed by
others more thrilling. Assisted by heI
sister authors, she will De enabled t
make this book surpass all others intend
ed for the ladies. Every thing ofinter
est TO the sex will find an early inser
tion in our pages. Among other distin
gushing characteristics Of this book vii
be a series of criticalreyiews, or
Portraits Of our Female Poets,
accompanied by autographs Of each in
yidual. These will be Of great value, a
presenting facts all would wish to know
The Home Department.-To rende
this Magazine as useful on the work-ta
bic as in the parlor, the publisher ha
secured the services of an eminent au
thor to furnish onthly-beginning will
the January number--a Home Depart
ment, in which directions for knittin,
the newest styles Of lace, working Ber
lin and Persian work and needle work
and embroidery Of all kinds will be givel
together with recipes for compoundin,
cakes and sweetmeats of every variety
and in general, whatever may be uselu
to the housekeeper, whether daughter
wife or mother, to know. This depart
ment will form, at the end of the year
volume in itself, worth twice the sub
scription price.
Our colored Fashions.-As this worl
is intended for the boudor as well as tn
domestic hearth, great pains have bee
taken TO secure the earliest reports @
the Lsndon and Paris Fashions. Accord
ingly this department has been entrusi
ed 10 Madame Quarre, who receives fror
Partisan correspondents designs in ad
vance, enabling us to anticipate every ri
val, as has been done constantly durin,
the past volume. But while the correc
Partisan Fashions are given, care
taken, IN the letter-press descriptions, I
point out how far these costumes ar
suited 10 our climate, a necessary eau
tion observed by no other cotemporary
In word, this department is manages
thoroughly, and not used as mer
catch-penny. Nor are the plates eve