Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-01-17
GODEY's LADY,s BOOK
FOR Ie43.

NODEY'S LADY'S BOOK having been
" for so long a series of years, universally
recognized as the indisputable guide TO the tai
sex. in n a tiers of taste, fashion and literature
the only work conducted by distinguished
female authors, who have won for themselve.
(! a high place among the guiding spirits OF thu
age-lhe only work which in point OF fact hal
been EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO THE
LADIES, its favor with its tair patrons has no
been less remarkable than its perfect adoption
to their feelings and tastes and their require
meuts. IN entering upon a new year the pub
Usher without diminishing in the least tina
STERLING AND USEFUL LITERATURE
which has long resulted from laying undel
contribution the native good sense and elagan
IA nov of our AMERICAN FEMALE WRl'
TIERS, will as each successive number ap
pears, present in the several departments o
| LITERATURE, FASHION, AND PICTC
RIAL EMBELLISHMENTS, a constant and
ever varying succession of New AND STRIKING
FEATURES. Nor does he promise without am
pie ability to perform. The best literary tai
ent, the best efforts of 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 America, 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 epassed into custom to assert that
dress is matter Of trifing importance, but
this every lady knows to be false. Taste in
dress is universally felt to be the index of a
thousand desirable qualities In woman, while
deficiency in this respect always Injuries one
in the estimation of strangers. and even OF her
intimate friends-he beatty OF Helen and the
wit of Aspasia, would hardly commend to gen.
eral favor an acknowledged DowDY in Dress
Hence the importance OF an accredited guide
the FASHIONS. This useful Office. already
filled for fourteen years 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 Cries 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
ckgrounds of the plates present interesting
views designed by first rate ARTIsTJ,
As fur,heriassurance 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 felicitous
and graphic style. uniting thorough knowl-
edge of 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
he real and present Paris Fashions and of
them in advance of all compelit-
,rs, that the ladies may continue, as they have
llready done, TO copy from our plates what has
eceiyed the sanction of the Indisputable TON,
he last, the newest. the best fashions, fresh
rom Paris.
The arrangements for producing a most
rllliant and attractive series of Mezzotint and
inc Engravings are now compile. Pictures
resh from the easals of our first rate Anne ri.
an Artists are now actually in the hands of
ne ablest american Engravers, the subjects
not only the usual popular and do
nestle topics, but others which are intef. 1
yoven into the very heartstrings of American
nationality, treating as they do of stirring in.
ldents in the Glorious and Heroic age of
IMERIcA.
With respect 10 the general literary and NOR
tone of the Lady's Book, for lS43, it will
,aintain its usual consistent character of do
,estic and Fashionable Family Magazine {
While such contributors as Miss Leslie. Miss {
edgwick, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Embury, Mrs. f
. Ellet. Mrs. Sigonney, Mrs. Vclney E. !
toward, Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs, A. F. An.
an, Mrs, C. Lee Hentz, Mrs. Parsons, and
Irs. S. ]. Hale continue their contributions.
le beautiful and the useful all that charms
e fancy, end all that mends the heart, and
ndes the best affections of our nature, will
,ntinue to adorn and dignity our pages. The
vers of historical romance, and those who I
gard our nations literature, will have their I
ocular tastes grati6ed by the contributions
DR.. Robert M. Bird, the author of sThe
Calavar, &c. The admirers of
outhern Scenery and manners will recognize
it'll pleasure among our correspondents the
lme of w. Gilmore Smms. the novelist, au.
or of "Guy Rivers, Yemasse," &c. Those
no are partial to graceful, easy, norchalant,
story telling, will always hail with {
easure the monthly return of N. P. Willis, {
e most piquant, lively and fertile of all Mag +.
inc writers. The admirers of the high ton /,
|, moral and domestic novelette,, will recog.
re with pleasure, among our contributors {
e name Oft S. Arthur. author of ''Six {
gifts with the Westinghouse, &c. Contr- ,
tions are already from the pens of Professor .
lexander Dallas Bache late Principal of the
Philadelphia High School. Prot. J. Sander.
n, author of "a year in Paris" Frof. John
'ost, Editor of ''THE YOUNG PEOPLES BOOK"
Our limits will not give us space enough to ,
umerate names of title of our contributors. !,
lr list of Foreign contributors is enriched
It'll the distinguished names of Joanna Bale, I
airy R. Milford, Mary Hewitt, Maria Edge
'rth, Hon, Mrs. C. Norton, and Mrs. S. C. /
all, recognized in Europe as the elite of !
itish female authors.
The Publishers means of increasing the
auiy of the Lady's Book are accumuIatng 6
ar by year. To his already inestimable list
contributors, he is constantly receiving ac- r
ssions both at home and abroad. His ar.
ngements with respect to original paintings,
I'M such Artists as Rothermel. Frankenstein, {
lapman. Croome, Maclse, Huntington, are q
W complete and he numbers among the en-
AYERS whose services are constantly retain /,
, Tucke, Smith, Warner, Dick, Sadd, Ellis, :
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