The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-01-15
THE LEADING PERIODICAL IN AMERICA
GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK,
FOR 1S49.
EDITED ~ SARAH J, HALE, GRACE GREENWOOD
AND l.. A. Cooley,
A Novelette, by MISS LESLIE, who contributes

Novelette, by MISS LESLIE, who contributes
to every No.
N. P. WILLIS Original Scriptura Poetry. >.
r. s. ARTHUR, who contributes to every No.,
illustrative of +" Arthurs Sketches Of American
Character. Designs by Croome.
We intend merely to give notice Of our intentions
for year. leaving TO Others long advertisements,
:" full Of sound and fury, signifying nothing
Agreeaby to the practice of last year, the publisher
will issue as good 4 number each month as he does
in January. This Is novel feature IN Magazine
publishing. During the whole Of last year he gave
more engrnvings and more reading matter than any
OF his contemporaries, and viii continue e. do 50
next year. Those who subscribe to GODEf'S
LADl'S BOOK, may do SO under the assurance
that they will receive moe for their money in the
Magazine alone than by subscribing 10 any other
work. To this Is added and included IN the same
50, the LADY'S DOLLAR NEWSPAPER, which
contains in one month nearly, If not quite, us much
reading matter as the other monihlies, making, for
50, the amount of reading OF two Magazines month.
THERE ARE IRREGULARITIES about Godeys Ladys
Book for the ladies' that no other Magazine posses
SEES There isa Mezzotint and fine Engraving in
each number-both by the best artists. In addition
to these, there are given monthly what no other
Magazine gves--a Coored Fashion Plate, with
full description This feature is peculiar to Cooley,
US no other work has them every month, and col
ored. Then there are Caps, Bonnets, Chemisettes,
Equestrianism for Ladies'. with engravngs. The
Ladies' Work Table, with designs for knitting, net
ting, CROCHET and all other kinds Of work Patterns
for Smoking Caps, Chair Covers, Window Curtains,
D'Oyleys, Purses, Bags, &C., &C. Health and
Beauty, with engrayngs. Model Cottages with
ground plans, and other engrayngs, always illuslra.
on tinted paper, which may be taken out and bound
colored Model Cottages and Colored Flower Pieces,
occasionally, These are all extra in Cooley, and 10
be found in no other Magazine. These were all
given last year, and VIII be continued In addition,
we shall have, in every No, one Of
"ARTnuRs SKETCHES or AMERICAN CHAR. .
ACTERISIICS,, s5a
most amusing series, now first given TO The Amer
lean public. These will be illustrated in every Mum
her by sketch from the pencil of Croome.
1.-THE CHANGES OF FASHION"
Illustrated by Fay Robinson, Esq. This series will
be very interesting 10 the Indies
"TIIE APPLICABILITY OF THE FINE ARTS TO
DOMESTIC USES
is another series of engravings now in PREPARATION
and will be published during the year.
COTTAGE FURNITURE;
Having given so many Model Cottages, we in
tend now TO commence the Publication OF Cottage
Fnmiture--a very necessary appendaPe 10 a cot
tage
RELIGION AND HISTORY,
OR Superior artists, Walters Tucker, peaar and
Welch, arc now engaged upon afi OF plates Illus
tratye Of these lWo subjects
OUR MUSIC
prepared expressly for ,s--mosr original anl beau
iifully printed has long demanded decided prefer
ence ovOr that Of any other Magazine. Il is ica.
tnre in The Book.
TIE LITERARY CHARACTER OF GoDEy'S LADl's
BOOK,
with such writers as Miss Leslie, Grace Greenwood,
w. G. Simms. Mrs. Eet 7. $. Arthur, Mrs. F..
Cakes Smith, Mrs. J. G. Neale Fl. T. Tuckerman,
II. W. Herbert, &c, the author Of the Widow Be
dot, Professor Frost Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes
and host Of others-must always take the lead
in literary merit.
TERMS:
For Three Dollars we will send the Lady's Book
containing more reading than any other monthly,
and the Lady's Dollar Newspaper, published twice
month, which contains much reading us any Of
the SO periodicals Of the day-making three publica
tons in one monitor, If the subscriber prefers the
following SPLENDID engravngs to the l.ady's Dollar
Newspaper although we would not advise it, as
engravings cannot be sent through the mail without
being crushed or creased) will send the bcauti
full plate containing the portraits Of Harriet Newell
Fanny Forester, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Ann H. Jud.
son, and Mrs +. b. Dwight, and the plates of Christ
Weeping over Jerusalem the Opening of the Sepu
chre, Deverance Of st. Peter, and The Robuke. IfI
preferred 10 the newspaper or plates we will send
Miss Leslie's Novel Of Amelia, and any three of
Mrs. Grey's or Mrs. Pickerng's popular novels.
For Five Dollars we will send two copies Of the
Ladys Book, and set Of the plates to each sub
scriber.
For Ten Dollars we will send five copies of the
Lady's Book, and copy to the person sending the
the Club and set Of plates to each.
For Twenty Dollars, eleven copies of the Book,
and set Of plates to each subscriber, and cosy OF
the 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 Is
cents any one No. Postage 10 be paid on oil orders
Address l.. a. Cooley,
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PREMIUM OFFER.
The post Office of pny town in the Union from
which we shall receive the greatest number of sub
scribers 10 Godey's Lady's Book, during the year
between the first of December, igi9 and the first
of December 1850, Uhe Magazine to be mailed 10
such post-oifce, or 10 subscribers through I'D shall
been titled 10 continuance Of the whole hummer OF
the subscriptions grofuiousiy for one year alter the
expiration Of the year for which their subscriptions
shall have been paid.
The Magazine win be continued on either, to the
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