The Weekly register., 1844-07-27
The Cheapest and best La
dy's Magazine!
The Ladies National Maga-
zine.
EDITED BY MRS. ANN S. STEVENS AND c. j..
PETER SON.

4--''S
PETER SON.
Permanent contributors Mrs. L. II !.
Sigourney, Mrs. F. S. Osgood, Mrs. A.
Al. f. Amman, Mrs. E. G. Embury, Mrs,
C. f. Orne, Miss Mary Dayenant, Mrs.
C.. Lee Hentz, Mrs. NJ. l.. Lawson, Mrs.
Alb. Welby, Mrs. l.. ]. Picrson, and
other females Of the first rack as authors.
This elegant and popular monthly pc
riodical was established in July, l843,
by the union Of the ''Worid OF Fashion"
aud L. Quarre's ''Artist," and has al
ready attained the reputation IN our
great cites OF the Text Book OF Fash
ION and Literature In the correctness
and beauty of its fashion plates; in the
novelty. splendox and coslIincss of It's
other embellishments; and in the chas-
tened tone and peculiarly refined lent
nine character OF It's literary department.
it is conceded that this magazine has nc
superior Fully equal 10 the best three
dollar magazines IN these respects, At Is
vet but little more than half their price
The astonishing success has induced the
publisher to begin the new year with
great and costly improvements. Accor-
DINGHY he has determined 10 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 Of 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 S4oopr4ze story, " Ma
nv Derwent," and acknowledged TO be
the most powerful writer OF her sex 10
America. Her story Of ANNA Taylor
in our volume for 1913, has had an as
tonishinr run, ard will be followed by
others more thrilling. Assisted by her
sister authors, she will be enabled tc
make this book surpass all othcrsln
ed for the ladies. Every thing olmter
est to the sex will find an early insef
ton in our pages. Among other dlstln
gushing characteristics OF this book vii
be "a series Of criticalrevlews, or
Portraits of our Female Poets,
accompanied by autographs of each in
yidual. These will be ofgreat value, a:
present. 70 facts all would wish TO know
The Home Department.--Io render
this Magazine as useful On the work, ia
bic as in the parlor, the publisher ha'
secured the services OF an eminent au
thor to furnish hly-beglnnlng witt
the January number--a Home Depart
ment. in which directions for knitting
the newest styles Of lace, working Der
lin and Persian work and needle work
and embroidery ofall kinds will be givet
together with recipes for compromising
cakes and sweetmeats Of every variety
and in general, whatever may be usefu
10 the housekeeper, whether daughter
wife or mother, 10 know. This depart
ment will form, at the end of the year
volume in itself, worth twice the sub
scriptlon price.
Our colored Fashions this worl
is intended for the boudoir as well as III,
domestic hearth, great pains have beei
taken to secure the earliest reports o
the Lsn1on and Paris Fashions. Accord
ingly this department has been entrnst
ed TO Madame Quarre, who receives from
Partisan correspondents designs in ad
vance, enabling US TO anticipate every ri
val, as has been done constantly during
the past volume. But while. the correc
Partisan Fashions are given, care i
taken, in the letter-press description, /,
point out how far these costumes ar,
suited to our climate, a necessary eau
ton observed by no other contemporary
In a word, this department is manage,
thoroughly, and not used as a mer,
catch-Tenny. Nor are the plates eve