Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-11-26
3 Fas7aI02s Dc Literature.
LADY's, BOOK for 1865.
TIE Cheapest Of Ladies Magazines, because it as
EDITED BY MRS s.. HALE AND L. A. Cooley.

EDITED BY MRS. S. j. HALE AND L. x. Cooley.
1t is hardly necessary for the proprietor of Go
DEY's LADYs Book to issue prospectus every
year, as but little can be done to improve the
Book and its long-continued prosperity Thirty
seven years. as the friend of woman, the arbiter
of fashion, the encourager and publisher of the
best literature of the day, the pattern from which
all others copy being unmistakable evidence that
it is appreciated all over the country.
LITERATURE. FASHIONS, AND ART
are equally treated, and the publisher is proud to
say that his is the Oldest magazine in this country
1t is published and edited by the same person
who commenced it, and issued the first number
on the first of July, 1880. i,E stss
READING MATTER. sew ss.s
In this there will be an improvement The
volume for 1868 will be set up with new-faced
type, and of size that will enable us to give an
additional quantity of reading matter amount
ing to about twelve pages in each number.
f. BEAUTIFUL STEEL PLATES.
Ofthesethe Lady s Book contains fosrtee,a each
year, superior 1--WE challenge comparison) to any
published in this country, either in book or peri
odica 3 Gt9 e
The Literature of the Lady's Book.
Ne other magazine can exhibit list of popu-
lar contributors equal to the following MARION
HARLAND, author of ''Alone" Hidden Path,''
Nemisis," esc., who contributes to no other
monthly publication, will furnish a newnovel for
through the year. Her stories are anxiously
sought after, and as they are copyrighted, can be
found nowhere but in Cooley.
Mrs Sarah j. Hale, Miss s: Annie Frost, Mrs.
Meta Victoria Victor, Miss Mary w. Janvrin,
Mrs e. T; Elicit Belle Rutledge, Miss Louisa
). Dorr, Mrs: G. A. Hopkinson, Mrs. G. w. Den
ison, Miss Julia Dunbar, and a host of others.
~ Our Fashion Plates. H3e
The original double fashion-plates will be con.
tinued. Please compare them with the other So
called fashions of our contemporaries. We give
more figures, better engraved and colored, and
truer fashions After our colored fashions are
n
| from our attentive European correspondent, we
give it ina wood engraving in the same number
This always brings our fashions down to the la
test date. Ir@a Ga
MODEL CorTAaEs.-T only magazine in this
country that gives these designs is the Lady's
Book. They are drawn expressly for the Book
by [. III. HOBBS, Architect y G1h l4f
| DRAWING LESSONS. In this we are also alone
no other magazine giving them .'] y s}sat5ll
ORIGINAL M UsfC.-1his department. is under
the superntendence of j. STARR HOLLOWAY.
ESD, and Godey's is the only magazine in which
music prepared expressly for it appears s0
Z We have also Chitdren's s, horticultural and
Health department, f'sssI si'-tifi-
G9tey's lsyatssdbte Receipts apon euery Subject
We were'the first to make this department an
object of interest to the public In it will be
information of value for the Boudoir, Nursery,
Kitchen, House and Laundry. Articles manu-
featured fiom receipts taken FROM the Lady >
Book have often received premiums at fancy fairs
TINTED ENGRAvINes.-Th is series of en-
cravings that no one has attempted but ourselves.
They give great satisfaction,
Ladies Fancy Work Department. The illus
trations n this Department consist of designs for
Evening, Walking, Morning, and Bride Dress
es, Head dresses, Hair-dressing, Caps, Bonnets
S 9 Mantilas, Riding Habits, undersleeves
KK{6bes:-peChambre, Slippers, Wreaths, Collars
Iattng Crochet, Fancy Articles, of all kinds
And everything new, as soon as it appears in Eu-
rope, is at once transferred to Cooley. Some of
these designs are printed in colors, in style n-
TERMS FOR 1868,
One copy, one year., So; two copies one year. 81
three copies. one year, so !; tour copies, one
year. 10; tive copies, one year. and an extra copy
to the person getting up the club, making six
copy to the person getting up the club, making
nine copies, 81 eleven copies, one year, and an
extra copy to the person getting up the club, ma
king twelve copies, $3.50, ''9ly
Godey,s Ladys Book ndArthur' Home Mag
azine VIII be sent one year on receipt of S4 :,
Gl5oodey's l4asiy's Book and the Children Hour
will be sent one year on receipt of So. So 10 I,
Cooley, Lady's Book, Arthur's Home Maya
zine, and Chlldi ems Hour will be sent one year
on receipt Of S..
The money must al be sent at one time for any
OF the clubs, and additions may be made to clubs
at club rates. The Iadys Book will be sent to
any Post-office where the subscriber may reside
and subscriptions may com mence with any month
IN the year. W. can always supply back num-
bers. Specimen numbers will be sent on receipt
of 25 cents EFa -.
How TO REMIT.--In RENTING by Mail, Post
office order or a draft payable to the order Of
H., Il. Godey is preferable to bank notes. as
should the Order or Draft be lost stolen it can
be renewed without loss to the sender fla draft
or post Office order cannot be procured, send
United States or National Bank notes.
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