The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-10

THE LEADING PERIODICAL IN AMERICA
GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK,
FOR Is4o.
EDITED by SARAH J. HALE. GRACE GREENWOOD,
AND J.. A. Cooley
Novelette, by MISS LESLIE, who contributes
to every No.
N. p. WILLIS Original scriptural Poetry.
f r. s. ARTHUR, who contributes 70 every No.,
illustrative of (" Arthurs Sketches Of American
Character. Designs by Croome. w
We intend merely to give notice Of our intentions
for next year, leaving to others long advertisements,
"fnll Of sound and fury, sgnifying nothlng''
Agreeably to tho practice Of last year. the publisher
will issue us good number each month as he does
In january. This is n novel feature In Magazine
publishing. During the whole Of last year he gave
more engravngs and more reading muiter than any
Of his contemporaries, and will continue 10 do 80
next year. Those who subscribe 10 GODEY'S
LADY'S BOOK, may do so under the assurance
that they will receive mole for their money In the
Magazine alone, than by subscribing TO any other
work. To this Is added and included IN the same
SO, the LADY'S DOLLAR NEWSPAPER, which
contains in month nearly, If not quite, as much
rending mntter az the other monthles masking, ior
49, the amount ofreading of two Magazinesu month.
THERE ARE IRREGULARITIES about Godey's Lady =
Book for the ladies' that no other Magazine posses
ses There is Mezxotint and fine Engraving In
each number-both by the best artists. In addition
Magazine giyes--a Colored Fashion Plate, with a
full description. This feature Ii peculiar 10 Cooley,
as no other work hns them every month, and col
ored Then there are Caps, Bonnets, Chemiseites,
Eques,ranism for Ladies', with engrnyings The
Lndies' Work Table, with designs for knitting, net
ting crotchei and all other kinds Of work. Patterns
for Smoking Caps, Chair Covers, Window Curtains,
DOyleye, Purses, Bags, &C. &c. Health and
Beauty with engravings Model Cottages, with
ground plans and other engravings always ilustra.
tive of something useful Music, beautifully printed
on tinted paper, which may be taken mt and bound
Colored Model Cottages, and Colored Flower Pieces
occasionally. These are all extra in Cooley, and to
| be found in no other Magazine. These were all
given last year and will be continued. In addition,
we shall have, in every No, one Of
aARTHuR's SKETCHES OF AMERICAN CHAR
NJ, ACTERlSTICS,v
most amusing series, now first given TO tho Amer
lean public These win be illustrated in every
Der BY a sketch from The pencil of Croome.
1.-THE CHANGES OF FASHION
Illustrated by Fay Robinson, Esq. This series will
be very interesting 10 the ladies'.
7BE APPLICABILITY OF THE FINE ARTS TO
DOMESTIC USES
smother series of engravings now in preparation,
and will be published during the year.
COTTAGE FURNITURE
Having given 40 many Model Cottages, we In
tend now to commence the Publication OF Cottage
FurnMure-a very necessary appendage TO cot
tage. 1f4t s25r
RELIGION AND HISTORY,
Onr Superior artists, Walters, Tucker, Pease, md
WEIGH, are now engaged upon u set Of plates illus
trutivc Of these two subjects.
OUR MUSIC,
prepared expressly for us-most Original, and beau
fuy printed, has long demanded decided prefer
ence oyor that Of any other Magazine. II is Q iea-
iure in The Book.
THE LITERARY CHARACTER OF GoDEr's LADY's
BOOK,
with such writer's as Miss Leslie, Grace Greenwood
Oakcs Smith, Mrs. j. c. Nenle, II. T. Tackcrnian,
III. W. Herbert, &C., The author Of the Widow Be-
dot, Professor Frost, Bryant Longfelow, Holmes
and q host Of others-must always take the lend
Ia literary merit.
TERMS.
For Three Dollars we win send the Lady's Book,
containing more reading than any other monthly,
and the I.ady's Dollar Newspaper, published twice
MONTH which confirms as much reading as any Of
the SO periodicals Of the daymaking three pnbilca.
following SPLENDID ensrnvings to the Ladys Dollar
Newspaper, although we would not advise. i, us
engravlngs cannot be sent through the mail without
FIJI plate containing tho portraits Of Harriet Newell,
Fanny Forester, Mrs Stewart Mrs. Ann II. judi
son, and Mrs. +. u. Dwight, and the plates Of Christ
Weeping over Jerusalem, tho Opening OF the Sepul-
chre. Deyerance Of ST Peter, and The Rebukc. II
preferred to the newspaper or plates we VIII send
Miss Leslie's Novel of Amelia, and my three OF
Mrs. Grey's or Mrs. chickering's popular novels.
For Five Dollars we will send two copies Of the
Ladys Book, and set OF the plates TO each sub
For Ten Dollars we win send five copies Of the
Indy's Book, and a copy to the person sending the
tic Club, and set OF plates TO each.
Fur Twenty Dollars, eleven copies Of the Book,
lie Book to the person sending the Club.
For One Dollar we will send the Lady's Book
five months, or FIVE copies one month, and for %
cents any ono No. Postage 70 be PAID gp az orders
ll3 Ches'nf ST., Philadelphia.
PREMIUM OFFER.
Tho post-ofTice of any town in the Union from
which we shall receive the greatest number Of sub.
scribers 10 Godey's ady's Book. during the year
between the fret Of December, g49, and the first
Of December, 1850 uhe Magazine TO be mailed 70
such office or to subscribers through ~ shall
been titled TO continuance Of the whole number Of
the snbscripiions for one year aos ,ns
The Magazine win be continued on either, 10 the
subscribers themselves, or TO the agents through
whom we may receive me orders ior ~
or to BOTH II there should be both In the same town,
as the cssc may be. Address
" - L. A. Cooley. ia Chestnut 81.
with any newspaper giving the above few in
sertions We will exchange tse s
Our agents arc informed that thoss sending In
their orders first will be fret supplied In cnse the
edition threatens 10 run out. "
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