The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-01-08
THE LEADING PERIODICAL. IN AMERiCl
GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK,

!
4 .GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK,
FOR IsI9.
EDITED ny SARAH ]. HALE, GRACE GREENWOOD,
AND L. A. Cooley,
A Novelette, by MISS LESLIE, who contributes
10 every No.
N. ?. WILLIS Original Scriptural Poetry.
4. 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 next year. leaving TO others long advertisements,
full Of sound and fury, slgnifying nothing"
Agreeaby to the practice Of last year the publisher
in January This 10 q 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 do 80
LADF'S BOOK, may do 30 under the assurance
that they viii receive more 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 one month nearly, Ii not quite, much
reading matter az the other monthlies, making for
49, the amount Of reading of two Magazines month.
THERE ARE IRREGULARITIES about siodey's Lady'e
Book for the ladies' that other Magazine possess
SEES. There Is Mezzotint and fine Engraving In
each number-both by the best artists In addition
70 these, there are given monthly what no other
hs sasc Is neear Ods
os no other work has them every month"; and col
ored Then there are Caps, Bonnets, Chemseites,
Equestrianiem for Ladies', with engrayings. The
ting, crotchet and all other kinda 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 engravings, always illusra.
i've Of something useful Music beautifully printed
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 70
be found In no other Magazine These were all
given last year, and wilbe continued In addition.
we shall have, in every No, one of
"ARTHuRs SKETCHES OF AMERICAN CHAR,
ACTEHi5TICS,'
most amusing aeries, now first given to the Amer
lean public. These win be illustrated In every num-
Der BY sketch from the pencil of Croome
"TIiE CHANGES OF FASHION,
Illustrated by Fay Robinson, Esq This series will
be very interesting TO the ladea
1.-THE APPLICABILITY OF THE FINE ARTS TO
DOMESTIC USES Il
ls another series Of eneravings now in preparation
and will be published during the year.
COTTAGE FURNITURE,
Having given so many Model Cottages, we In.
Fulnitnre--a very necessary appendaee 10 cot
tape
RELIGION AND HISTORY,
Our Superior artists, Walters Thicker pea3e, and
Weleh are now engaged upona set of plates illus:
trai!ve Of these Two subjects
OUR MUSIC,
prepared expressly for us-most original, and beau-
iirully printed has long demanded decided prefer
ence oyor that of any other Magazine. 1t il ariea-
ture in The Book.
TIE LITERARY CHARACTER OF GoDEy's LADf,s
BOOK
with snch writer's as Miss Leslie, Grace Greenwood
W. G.. Simms, Mrs. Eet, Y. $. Arthur, Mrs. h..
oakes Smith, Mrs. J. q. Neale, IT. T. Tnckerman
dott, Professor Frost Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes
and host of others-must always lake the lead
In literary merit.
For Three Dollars we will send the Ladys Book,
containing more reading than any other monthly,
and the I.ady's Dollar Newspaper published twice
n month"; which contains as much reading as any Of
the So periodicals of the daymaking three pnblica-
lions In one monitor, II The subscriber prefers The
following SPLENDID ongravings TO the Lndy's Dollar
Newspaper although we would not advise y, as
enaravings cannot be sent through the mall without
being crushed creased) we will send the beauti-
ful plate containing the portraits q Harriet Newell
son, und Mrs T.. b. Dwight, and the pntes of Christ
Weeping over Jerusalem, the Opening Of The Sepul.
chre, Deiyerance Of St Peter, and The Rebuke. II
preferred to the newspaper or plates we VIII send
Miss Leslie's Novel Of Amelia, and any three Of
Mira Grey's or Mrs. Pickerings popular novels.
For Five Dollars we win send two copies of The
I.ady's Book, and get of the plates to each sub
scriber. @aW
For Ten Dollars we will send five copies of the
Iady's Book, and copy to the person sending the
he nd A xet
For Twenty Dollars, eleven copies Of the Book,
and set Of plates each subscriber and cosy Of
the Book 10 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 70 be paid on al orders
llS Chestnut 81, Philadelphia
PREMIUM OFFER
The post.office of any town in the Union from
which we shall receive the greatest number of sub
ncrlbers 10 Codey's l.ady's Book during the year
between the first OF December lgf9 and the first
OF December, 1850, Qhe Magazine TO be mailed 10
such post-ofiice, or TO subscribers through IT'D aha
been titled 10 continuance Of tie whole number OF
the subscriptions grahdousy for one year alter The
expiration Of the year for which their subscriptions
shnl have been paid.
The Magazine will be continued on either, to the
subscribers themselves. or 70 the agents through
whom may receive the orders for quantities ana
10 whom the package or packages may be directed
or 10 both there should be both IN the same Town.
as the case may be. Address
-. A. Cooley, ll3 Chestnut 81.
With any newspaper giving the above few in
-eriions we will exchange.
Our ngents are informed that those sending in
their orders first win be first supplied IN case the
edition threatens 10 run out.
PLAYING CARDS.