The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-03-29


A Novelette, by MISS LESLIE, who contributes
to every No.
N. p. WILLIS Original Scrptural Poetry.
#. s. ARTHUR, who contributes to every No,
illustrative Of .Arlhms 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, signiiying nothing"
Agreeably the practice of last year. the publisher
will issue as good a number each month ms he does
In January. This la novel feature In Magazine
publishing. During the whole Of last year he gave
more cngiavines and more reading matter than any
Of his contemporaries and viii continue to do so
next year. Those who subscribe 10 GODEf'S
LADYS BOOK, iuay do so under the assurance
that they viii receive mole for their money in tho
Magazine alone than by subscribing TO any other
work. To this is added and included in the same
So, the IADY,S DOLLAR NEWSPAPER, which
contains in one month nearly, II not qnte, az much
reading matter IA The ether monlhlies making, for
49, the amount of reading Of two Magazines month.
THERE ARE IRREGULARITIES about Godey's Ladys
Book for the ladies' that no other Magazine posses
seq There is Mezxotlni and hne Engraving In
each number both by the best artists. In addition
to these, there ARE given monthly what no other
Magazine gives--a Colored Fashion Plate, with
full description This feature Is peculiar 10 Cooley,
as no other work has them every month, and col
ored Then there are Caps Bonnes, Chemiaettes,
Equestrihnism for Ladies, with engravings. The
Ladies' Work Table, with designs for knitting, net
ting, crotchet, and all other kinds of work Patterns
for Smoking Caps Chair Covers, Window Curtains,
D'Oyleys, Purses Bags &C., &C.. Health and
Beauty, with engrayings Model Cottages, with
ground plans, and other engrnyngs always ilusita-
live OF something useful Music, beautifully printed
on tinted paper, which may be taken out and bound.
Coored Model Cottages, and Colored Flower Pieces,
occasonally These are all extra in Cooley, and 10
be found in no other Magazine. Theae were all
given last year. and will be continued In addition,
we shall have, in every No, one of H
"ARTHUR's SKETCHES OF AMERICAN CHAR
ACTERlSrICS,'
A most amusing SERIES now fret given to the Amer
lean public. These will be illustrated in every num-
Der by sketch from ihe pencil OF Croome.
"TIE CHANGES OF FASHION"
Illustrated by Fay Robinson, Esq This series win
be very interesting TO the ladies.
HE APPLICABILITY OF TIE FINE ARTS TO
DOMESTIC USES
another series Of engrayings now in preparation,
aid viii be published during the year.
COTTAGE FURNITURE.
Having given so many Model Cottages, we in
tend now 10 commence the Publication of Collage
Fulnbture--a very necessary appendnge 10 cot
tage
RELIGION AND HISTORY,
Our Superior artists, Walters Tucker, Pease and
Welch are now engaged upon set of plates illus
trutive of these two subjects.
otIH MUSIC,
prepared expressly for usmost original, and beau
lifully printed has long demanded decided prefer
cnce ovor that Of my other magazine. Il is fea-
tnre in The Book.
THE LITERARY CHARACTER OF GoDEY's LADy's
s BOOK,
with such writers Miss Leslie, Grace Greenwood,
W. G.. Simms, Mrs. Ellci, II. $. Arthur, Mrs +.
Oukes Smith, Mrs. J. c. Neale, II. Il. Tuckermnn,
II. w. Herbert &C., the author of the Widow Be
dott, Professor Frost, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes
and host of others-musl always take the lead
in literary merit