Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-02-14
GODEY,s LADY,s BOOK
FOR 1912.


EDITED DY MRS. S. ]. HALE AND OTHERS.
! The long established arbifre of Taste and
/ Fashion, Bellies Lettres for the Ladies of
! e-arsF - america. -7-r,t1
HODEY'S LADY'S BOOK having been,
! N for SO long series of years, universally
recognized as the indisputable guide TO the lair
SEX in matters of taste, fashion and literature,
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 in point of fact has
been EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO THE
LADIES, its favor with its tair patrons has not
been less remarkable than its perfect adoption
| to their feelings and tastes and their require
ments. IN entering upon new year the pub
: Usher without diminishing in the least that
| STERLING AND USEFUL LITERATURE
which has long resulted from laying under
contribution the native good sense and elegant
an cy of our AMERICAN FEMALE WRI>
! TIERS, will as each successive number ap-
pears, present in the several Departments of
| LITERATURE, FASH ON, AND PICTO
| RIAL EMBELLISHMENTS, constant and
ever varying succession of New AND STRIKING
FEATURES. Nor does lac promise without ans
pie ability to perform. The best literary tai
ent, the best efforts the most distinguished
artists in the country--and to crown as well
as adorn the whole, the most perfect arrange
ments Tor the reception of the American, Lon
don and Paris FASHIONS, far in advance OF any
other publication in this country, enable him
to assure the patrons OF the Lady's Book thai
the forthcoming volume will more than justify
lis well earned title of the MAGAZINE OF MAGA-
ZINES, for the ladies of our country.
1t has Fpassed into custom to assert that
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This every lady knows to be false. Taste in
dress is universally felt to be the index of
Thousand desirable qualities IN woman, while
a deficiency in this respect always Injuries one
in the estimation of strangers. and even of her
intimate friends-h he beatty OF Helen and the
wit of Aspasia, would hardly commend to gen.
erai favor an acknowledged DowDY in dress
! Hence the importance of an accredited guide
| o the FASHIONS. This useful office, already
| filled for fourteen wears with universal accept
anbe by the Lady Book, the publisher pledges
/, himself TO discharge in future in style sur
passing all his former efforts. The Ladies
know perfectly well that our Magazines is
| the highest authority in FASHION, No lady
considers herself well dressed who cantravenes
this authority. and in our own city. in New
York, Boston. Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louis
vile, Lexington, St Louis. New Orleans,
Mobile, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, and
other Metropolitan CITIES of States. the taste
ful 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 10 the best advantage, and the
| backgrounds of tie plaies present interesting
views designed by first rate ARTIsTJ.
As turther;assurance of thorough excellence
in this department, the publisher has secured
the services Of MISS LESLIE. who will Illus
trate the Fashion Plates. in her usual feIicitous
and graphic style. uniting thorough knowl-
edge oft the subject, with clear, Ineligible
and graceful. manner of treating it. Her des-
criptions are worthy OF the productions OF her
own glowing pencil. which drew The earliest
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
ansmilting them in advance of all comporIt-
ors, that the ladies may continue, as they have
already done, 10 copy from our plates what has
received the sanction of the Indisputable TON,
The last, the newest. the best fashions, fresh
from Paris.
The arrangements for producing most
brilliant and attractive series of MeZZotint and
line Engravings are now compile. Pictures
fresh from the easals of our first rate Anne RI
can Artists are now actually in the hands OF
the ablest american Engravers, the subjects
embracing moi only the usual popular and do
/ nestle topics, but others which are intel.
woven into the very heartstrings of American
Nationality, treating as they do of stirring in
cidents in the Glorious and Heroic age Of
AMERICA.
With respect TO the general literary and NOR.
al tone OF the Lady's Book. for 1913. it will
maintain its usual consistent character of do
nestle and Fashionable Family MAGAZINE
| While such contributors as Miss Leslie. Miss
Sedgwick, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Embury, Mrs. E
F. Ellet. Mrs. Sigonrney, Mrs. Volney F.
Howard, Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs, A. B F. An.
nan, Mrs, G. Lee Hentz, Mrs. Parsons, and
Mrs. S. j. Hale continue their contributions.
the beautiful and the useful, all that charms
the fancy, end all that mends The heart, and
guides the best affections OF our nature, will
continue to adorn and dignity our pages. The
lovers of historical romance, and those who
regard our nations literature, will have their
peculiar tastes gratifed by the contributions
of DIR. Robert Nj. Bird, the author Of "The
Gladiator" Caavar, &c. The admirers OF
Southern Scenery and manners will recognize
! with pleasure among our correspondents the
name of w. Gilmore Simms the novelist, au-
thor Of "Guy Rivers, YemasSe," &c. Those
who are partial to graceful, easy. nonchalant,
gentleAlanly story telling, will always hail with
pleasure the monthly return of N. p. Willis,
the most piquani, lively and fertile of all Mag
azine writers. The admirers of the high ton
ed, moral and domestic novelette,, will recog-
nize with pleasure, among our contributors
the name of T. S. Arthur. author of "Six
nights with the Wastinglo mans, &c. Coniri-
buttons are already from the pens of Professor
Alexander Dallas Bache late Principal of the
Philadelphia High School. Prof. J. Sander.
son, author of ga year in Paris" Trof. John
Frost, Editor of s'THE YOUNG PEOPLES BOOK"
Our limits will not give us space enough 10
enumerate names OF title of our contributors.
Our list of Foreign contributors is enriched
with the distinguished names Of Joanna Bale,
Mary r. Milford, Mary Hewitt, Maria Edge
worth. Hon, Mrs. c. Norton, and Mrs. S. c.
Hall, recognized in Europe as the elite oil
British female authors.
The Publishers means of increasing the
beauty of the Lady's Book are accumulatng