The Weekly register., 1844-04-27
The Cheapest and best La
dy's Magazine!
The Ladies' National Nsaga-
zine.
EDITED BY MRS. ANN 5. STEVENS. AND c.
PETER SON.

PETERSON.
Permanent contributors Mrs. l.. III.
Sigourney, Mrs f. S. Osgood, Mrs. A.
NJ z. Amman, Mrs Il. 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, i6i3,
bv the union Of the ''World of Fashion"
and f. Quarre's Artist 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 coslliness of its
other Embellishments; and in the chas-
tened tone and peculiarly refined iemI-
nine character Of It's 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 halftheir price
The astonishing success has induced the
publisher TO begin the new year with
great and costly improvements. Accor-
dinoly he has determined TO employ a
corDs or female contributors whose uni
ted talents are such as have never been
before employed any magazine for 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 viii be the only
MAGAZINE sustained blythe 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 il
America. Her story Of 'Anna Taylor
in our volume lor 1843, has had an as
tonishing run, and will be followed BY
others more thrilling. Assisted by he
sister authors, she will be enabled t
make this book surpass al others intend
ed for the ladies'. Every thing ofinter
est to the sex will find an early inser
ton in our pages. Among other distin
gushing characteristics of this book vii
be n series Of fcrticarevicws, or
Portraits of our Female Poets,
accompanied by autographs Of each il
viduai. These will be ofgreat value, q
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 al
thor TO furnish monthIy-beginning wit
the January number--a Home Depar
ment, in which directions for knitln
the newest styles Of lace, working Be-
lin and Persian work and needle worl
and embroidery ofall kinds will be give
together with recipes for compoundn
cakes and sweetmeats Of every variet,
and in general, whatever may be usell
TO the housekeeper, whether daughte
wife or mother, to know This depar
ment will form, at the end of the yea
volume in itself, worth twice The SUI
scription price.
Our colored Fashions.-As 8 this wor
is intended for the boudoir as well as Il
domestic hearth, great pains have bee
taken to secure the earliest reports
the Lsnion and Paps Fashions. Accor
ingly this department has been entrus
cd TO Madame Quarre, who receives fro
Parisian> correspondents designs in a
vance, enabling US to anticipate every
val, as has been done constantly duriI
lhe past volume. But while the CORE
Partisan Fashions are given, care
taken, in the letter-press description,
point out how far these costumes a
suited 10 our climate. necessary ca
ton observed by no other cotemporar
In word, this department is manag
thoroughly, and not used as me