The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-02
THE LEADING PERIODICAL IN AMERICA
GODEY,S LADY'S BOOK,
FOR ls49.
EDITED By SARAH J. HALE, GRACE GREENWOOD
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for next year, leaving to Others long advertisements
Z" full Of sound and fury, signifying nothing
Ageeably to the practice Of last year, the publisher
will issue as good n 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 epgrayings and more reading matter than my
OF his contemporaries, and will continue 10 do 80
next year, Those who subscribe g GoDEf7S
LADY'S BOOK may do 30 under the assurance
that they will receive mole for their money In the
Magazine alone, than by subscribing 10 any other
work. To this Is added and included IN the same
SO, the LADY'S DOLLAR NEWSPAPER, which
contains In one month nearly, If not quite as much
reading matter rs the other monthlies, making, for
49, the amount of reading Of two Magazines month
THERE ARE PEcULiARITiEs about Godeys I.ady's
Book for the ladies' that other Magazine posses
ses There Is a Mezzotint and fine 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 O
full description. This feature Is peculiar 10 Cooley
as no other work has them every month, and col
ored Then there are Gaps, Bonnets, Chenlisettes
Equestriansm 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 engravings. Model Cottages, with
ground plans, and other engrayngs always illnstra
tive q something useful Music beautifully printed
Colored Model Cottages, and Colored Flower Pieces,
occasionally These are oil extra in Cooley, and to
be found in no other Magazine. These were all
given last year, md will be continued. In addition
we shall have, in every No., one Of
aARTHUR,s SKETCHES OF AMERICAN CHAR.
AcTERiS1TCS,,
most amusing SERIES now first given to the Amer
lean public. These will be illustrated in every num-
Der by sketch from the pencil Of Croomc.
.rIIE CHANGES OF FASIIION.p
Illustrated by Fay Robinson Esq This series will
be very interesting to the ladies.
The APPLICABILITY OF THE FINE ARTS TO
DOMESTIC USES"
another series Of engravings now In preparation,
aLd will be published during the year.
COTTAGE FURNITURE.
Having given so many Model Cottages, we in
tend now to commence the Publication Of Cottage
Furniturc-a very necessary appendage TO cot
tnge.
RELIGION AND HISTORY,
Our Superior artists, Walters Tucker, Pease, and
WEIGH, are now engaged upon set OF plates illus.
trative of these two subjects.
oun MUSIC,
prepared expressly for us--most original, and beau
tifully printed has long demanded decided prefer
ence ovor that of any other Magazine. II fea-
ture in The Book
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THE LITERARY CHARACTER OF GoDEy's LADy's
with such writers as Miss Leslie, Grace Greenwood,
W. G. Simms, Mrs. Ellet, Il. 8. Arthur, Mrs. +.
Oukes Smith, Mrs J. 9. Neale, II. T. Tnckerman,
II. w. Herbert, &c, the author of the Widow Be-
dott Professor Frost, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes
and host Of others--must always take the lead
In literary merit.
TERMS.
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containing more reading than any other monthly,
a month, which contains as much reading rs any Of
the SO periodicals Of the dny-making three pubica
lions In one monthor, " the subscriber prefers the
following SPLENDID engravings TO the Lady's Dollar
Newspaper, although we would not advise u, as
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being crushed crcased) we will send the beauti-
full plate containing the portraits Of Harriet Newell
Fanny Forester, Mrs. Stewart Mrs. Ann q jud-
son. and Mrs. +. b. Dwight, and the plates of Christ
Weeping over Jerusalem, the Opening Of the Sepul.
chre, Delivcrance Of St Peter, and The Rebuke. If
preferred to the newspaper or plates we will send
Miss Leslie's Novel 81 Amelia and any three Of
For Five Dollars we will send two copies Of the
Lady's Book, and set Of the plates to zach sub
For Ten Dollars we viii send FIVE copies Of the
5d Book and e ne sending the
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