The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-02
THE LEADING PERIODICAL IN AMERICA
GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK,
EDITED BY SARAH j. HALE. GRACE GREENWOOD
AND l.. A. Cooley

Novelette, by MISS LESLIE, who contributes
TO every No.
N. r. WILLIS Original scriptnral Poetry.
T. S. ARTHUR, who contributes 10 every No.,
illustrative of Arthurs' Sketches Of American
Character. Designs by Croome.
We intend merely TO give notice Of our intentions
for next year. leaving 10 Others long advertisements
full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
Agreeably to the practice Of last year, the publisher
will Issue good number each month as he does
in January. This Is a novel feature In Magazine
publishing During the whole of last year he gave
more engravings and more reading matter than any
OF his contemporaries and VIII continue e 90 e
I.ADY'S BOOK, may do go under the assurance
that they will receive more for their money In the
Magazine alone, than by subscribing to any other
So the LaDY's DOLLAR oi4f RI NEWSPAPER which h
contains In one month nearly If not quite, as much
reading matter as hesother monthlies making, for
So the amount of reading Of two Magazines month.
THERE ARE pEcuLIARiTIEs about Godey's Ladys
Book for the ladies' that no other Magazine posses
acs. There is a Mezzotnt and fine Engraving In
each number-both by the best artists. In addition
70 these there are given monthly what no other
Magazine giyes-a Colored Fashion Plate, with
full description. This feature is peculiar to Cooley,
as no other work has them every month, and col
ored. Then there are Caps, Bonnets, Chemisettes,
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
ground plans and other engayings, always iusiru,
live Of something useful Music, beautifully printed
on tinted paper, which may BIO taken out and hound.
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 win be continued. In addition,
we shall have, In every No., one Of
"ARTHuR's SKETCHES OF AMERICAN CHAR.
ACTERlSTICS,"
most amusing SERIES now first given TO the Amer
lean public These win be Illustrated in every num-
Der by sketch from the pencil Of Croome.
1.-THE CHANGES OF FASHION"
Illustrated by Fay Robinson, Esq. This series will
be very interesting TO the ladies'.
1.-THE APPLICABILITY OF THE FINE ARTS TO
DOMESTIC USES"
is another series of engravlngs 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
Furnhure-a very necessary appendage to cot
tage.
RELIGION AND HISTORY,
Our Superior artists Walters, Tucker, Feaae, and
WEIGH, are now engaged upon Get OF plates illus
tratlye of these two subjects.
OUR MUSIC,
prepared expressly for us--most original and beau
tifully printed, has long demanded decided prefer
ence ovor that Of any other Magazine. II is fea-
lure In The Book,
THE LITERARY CHARACTER sddE or eoDEYs LADY's
with such writers as Miss Leslie, Grace Greenwood
W, q. simms, Mrs. Elle, r. s. Arthur, Mrs. f.
Cakes Smith, Mrs. J. G.. Nealc, III. T. Tuckerman
II. w. Herbert, &C., the author Of the Widow Be-
doit Professor Frost, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes
and a 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
the 81 periodicals Of the day-making three publcn-
tons in one month-0r II the subscriber prefers the
following SPLENDID engrayings to The Lady Dollar
Newspaper, although we would not advise y as
engravings cannot be sent through the mail without
being crushed or creased,) we viii send the beautl
full plate containing tho portraits Of Harriet Newell
Fanny Forester Mrs Stewart. Mrs. Ann II. judi
son, and Mrs. f. b. Dwight and the plates Of Christ
Weeping over Jerusalem, the Opening Of The sepul-
chre Deliverance OF ST. Peter, and The Rebuke. Ii
preferred TO the newspaper or plates, we will send
Miss Lesie's Novel Of Ameln, and my three of
Mrs. Grey's or Mrs. Pickerings popular novels.
For Five Dollars we will send two copies Of the |,
scriber.
For Ten Dollars we will send five copies Of the
Lady,s Book, and copy 70 the person sending the
the Club and q set of plates 10 each. !
For Twenty Dollars, eleven copies OF the Book, |
and set Of plates to each subscriber and co,y 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 25
cents any one No. Postage to be paid ON all orders
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which we shall receive the greatest number of sub
scribers 10 Godeys Ladys Book, during the year
between the first Of December lgi9, and tho first
Of December, 1850, tthe Magazine to be mailed 70
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been titled 10 continuance Of the whole number OF
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expiration OF the year for which their subscriptions
shall have been paid
The Magazine will be continued on either, to the
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o whom the package or packages may be directed,
" to BOTH If there should be both In the same town,
IS the case may be. Address
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with any newspaper giving the above few In.
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Our agents. are informed that those sending In
heir orders first will be fret supplied In case the
dition threatens 10 run out.
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