The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-17
THE LEADING PERIODICAL. IN AMERICA
GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK,
FOR 1919.
EDITED ny SARAH J. HALE GRACE GREENWOOD
m AND L.. A. sGODEY.


AND L. A. Cooley.
A Novelette, by MISS LESLIE, who contributes
10 every No.
N P. WILLIS Original scrpturu Poetry.
IT. S. ARTHUR, who contributes 10 every No,
illustrative of =" Arthufs 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"
Agrecaby 10 the practice of last year. the publisher
will issue as-good number each month as he does
in January. This is n novel feature in Magazine
publishing. During the whole Of last year he gave
more engravings and more reading matter man any
of his contemporaries, and will continue TO do 50
next year. Those who subscribe TO GoDEi >
LADI'S BOOK, may do so under The assurance
that they will receive moie for their money IN me
Magazine alone, than by subscribing TO any other
work 10 this is added and included in the sane
| So the LADY'S DOLLAR NEWSPAPER, which
contains in one month nearly, II not quite, as ihuch
reading matter us the other onlhiies, making ivf
3d. the amount of reading OF two Magazinesa month
THEnE ARE IRREGULARITIES about Godeys Ladys
Book for the ladies' that no other Magazine posses
SEES There Is n McZZotint and fine Engraving IN
each number--both by the best artists In addition
to these, there are given monthly what no oiher
Magazine gives--a Colored Fashion Plate, with n
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,
Equestriansm for Ladies', with ongravings. The
Ladies' Work Table, with designs for knitting, net
ting, CrUtCnet, anu all Otncr klus WDTk.
for Smoking Caps Chair Covers Window Curtains
| D'Oyeys, Purses Bags, Nc, &C.. Health and
Beauty, with engravings Model Cottages, with
ground plans, and other engavings, always illnsra
live of something useful. Music, beautifully printed
| on tinted paper, which may be taken out and bound
CoIored Model Cottages, and Colored Flower Pieces,
occasionally. These are all extra in Cooley and 10
| be found in no other Magazine. These We're all
given last year, and Willie continued. In addition,
we shall have In every NO, one OF
"ARTuuRS SKETCHES OF AMERICAN CHAR.
| ACTERiSTlCS,'
most amusing series, now frat given to tho Amer
| lean public. These will 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 ladies'.
"TIE APPLICABILITY OF TIE FINE ARTS TO
/ DOMESTIC USES"
is another series of engravines 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
Furnaure--a very necessary nppendage to cot
| tage.
RELIGION AND HISTORY,
| Our Superior artists, Walters Tucker, Pease and
WEIGH, are now engaged upon set of plates illus
| trative OF these two subects.
MI OUR MUSIC
prepared expressly for us-most original, and beau
iifully printed, has long demanded decided prefer
cnce ovor that of any other Magazine. II Is fea-
ture in The Book.
THE LITERARY CHARACTER OF GoDEy'sL ADy's
with such writers as Miss Leslie Grace Greenwood,
4 w. G. Simms, Mrs Ellet r. s. Arthur, Mrs. +.
Cakes Smith, Mrs J. G. Neae, II. T. Tuckermnn,
H. W. Herbert &C. the author of the Widow Be
l Drn Eraef Rrvnnt IDnnIe0w Holmes
and host of oihers-mrst always take The lead
4 in literary merit.
TERMS:
For Three Dollars we will send the I.adys Book,
1 containing more reading than any other monthly,
and the I.ndy's Dollar Newspaper, published twice
| n month which contains much reading as any of
1 the So periodicals of the dny-naking three pubca-
tions in one monitor, If the subscriber prefers the
following SPLENDID engravings TO the Ladys Dollar
| Newspaper although we would not advise IT as
eneravinas cannot be sent through the mail without
being crushed creasedD we viii send tho beanti-
FIJI plate containing the portraits 81 Harriet Newell,
\ Fanny Forester, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Ann II. Jnd-
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 Robuke. II
preferred 10 the newspaper or plates, we will send
Miss Lesie's Novel of Amelia and any three Of
Mrs. Greys or Mrs. pickerng's popular novels.
For Five Dollars viii send two copies of the
Lady's Book, and n set of the plates TO each sub
scrber.
/; For Ten Dollars we will send five copies Of the
I.ady'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 platos TO each subscriber and cosy OF
! /, ne 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 all orders,
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| scribors 10 Godey's Lady's Book, during the year
| between the first % December lgd9, and the first
! of December, 1850, Uhe Magazine TO be- mailed to
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been titled 10 u continuance Of the whole nunber Of
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expiration of the year for which their subscriptions
| shall have been paid. ia
The Magazine will be continued on either, TO ,le
subscribers themselves, or 10 the agents ,nfougn
whom we NAV re, ,evc the orders tor qnanii,es ana
To whom the pack pge or packages may oe dltee.ea
10th in 10 Qun