The Weekly register., 1844-03-02

IurIneT assurance OF excellence II
this department, the publsRsr has secured the ser.
vices of Miss LESLIE, who will illustrate the
Fashion Plates, il her usual feictous and graph
c style, uniting thorough knowledge of the sub
| ject, with clear. graceful and inteligble man
ner of treating il. Her descriptions are worthy Of
| tie productions Of her own glowing pencil, which
drew the earliest Fashion Plates for the Lady's
Book.
The publishers correspondents in Paris is pos
| sessetl of such ample means of obtaining the real
and present Paris Fashions, and of transmitting
them ia advance of all competitors, thatthe ladies
may continue, as they have always done. to copy
from our piatas what has received the sanction Of
indisputabe ton, The last tbs newest the best fash
ions, fresh from Paris.
The arrangements for Producing most brillian,
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 abest American
engravers, the subjects embracing not only the usu
al popular and domestic topics, but others which
interviewer into the very heart strings of Amer
lean nationality, treating they do of stirring in
cidents i'll the glorious and heroic age of Amer
lea
With respect the gane7all iterary and moral
tone of the Lady's Book, for 1913, it will main
tain its usual consistent character of domestic
and fashionable family magazine While such
contributors Miss Leslie, Miss Sedgwick. Mrs
Hall, Mrs Embury, Mrs E F Ellet, Mrs Sigour-
ney, Mrs V T. Howard, Mrs Seba Smith,, Mrs A
NJ f AMMAN. Mrs G Lee Hentz, Mrs Parsons. and
Mrs j Hale continue their contributions, the
beautiful and the nsefu, all that charms the fancy
and all that mends the heart and guides the best
affections of our nature; will continue 20 adorn and
dignity our pages.
The lovers Of historical romance, and those who
regard our nations glory as the prime objects of
our nations literature, will have their peculiar
tastes gratIhed by the cont buttons of DR. Robert
Bird, the author of the Gladiator, sCalvar' &C.
The admirers of Southern scenery and manners
viii recognise with pleasure, among our correspond
ents, the name of w Gilmore Simms, the novelist,
author of Guy Rivers 'Yemasses,' &c.
Those who are partial to graceful, easy, noncha-
halant, gentlemanly story telling, will always
hail with pleasure the monthly return of n p Will
lis, the piquant, lively and fertile of all mag
azine writer's
The admirers of the high toned, moral and do
mestic Nouvellette, will recognise with pleasure,
among our contributors, the name of t Arthur,
author of tSx 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 John
Sanderson, author of'a Year in Paris Professor
J ohm Frost, editor of 'the Young Peoples Book.
Oar limits will not give space enough to-
umerate the names of tithe of our contributors.
Our list of foreign contributors is enriched vi
the names of
Joanna Baltic, Mary Russell Milford,
Mary Hewitt, Maria Edgept th,
Hon. .urs c. Norton, Mrs. s. c. Hall,
recognised in Europe as :ao elite of Brits fcma /.
authors.
The publisher means of increasing the beau =
and value of tha Lady's Book are accumulate
ear by year. To his already inestimable Ii
yntribators, he is constantly receiving accas
booth at home and abroad.
His arrangements with respect TO ORIGIxa
PAINTINGS. from such Artists as
Roshernel, Frankenstein, Croome,
Chapman, .Naclise, Huntingdon,
are now complete, and he numbers among the en-
gravers whose services are constantly retained,
Tucker, Smith, Warner,
Dick, Sadd, Ellis,
Ciassen, Gimbredge, Jones'
His whole system of arrangements with fesper
10 Fashion Plates is developed and perfected
/ The Lady's Book will therefore continue to main.
/ tain tia, proud pre-eminonce in merit and in pop
! ularitv. which fourteen years of unintermitted at
tenlicn on the part of the publisher has earnsd-i
will still remain, as heretofore, the FAvoRITE OF
TIE FAIR.
TERMS.
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