The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-11-29
IHARPENg,s. EsAZAEs.
A REpos1roRY OF

A REPOSITORY OF -
FASHION, PLEASURE &. INSTRUCTION,
HARPER'S B1ZAR, the publication
IA of which has just been commenced by
Harper x Brother, is an Illustrated Weekly
Journal, devoted to fashion and Household
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1t is the first Weekly of Fashion ever,
lIshed In the United States. BY ARRANGEMENTS
which tho Publishers have perfected at great
cost, with the most celebrated European
Fashion Journals-particularlyw with the wei
known BGza' OF Berlin-Il Illustration of Fasn-
ions for each week of the year will appear in
Darpers Bazaar simultaneously with their
publication in Paris and Berlin: an adyan-
tage which Will belong exclusively to this
Ina country where Three Hundred MiIz
lions ofDollars are annually expended for
dry-goods to be transformed into articles OF
dress, trustworthy and practical instructions
as TO the most tasteful and economical meth
DDS of fashoning these articles, become of the
greatest value 70 Ansericanwomen. The 1a-
gar will contain full an explicit Instruction.
with Illustrations, which will enable every
lady Reader to cut and make her own and
her children's entire wardrobe, with n largo
portion of her husbands. Each alternate
Number viii be accompanied with largo
Pattern Plates, containg from Forty TO Fifty
fullsiZod Patterns, applicable to every article
of wardrobe made i'll the family, with the
necessary Directions for cutting and maxi
ing. Similar Illustrations and Descript ong
of Fancy Work will also be furnished. Thes3
patterns will be executed in Paris and Rer-
lin, and Will surpass anythin. of the kind
hitherto produced in this country. Fro
quent and elegant Colored fashion Plates
Will lie presented with the paper. Practical
Descriptions viii also be given of the Fash
ions especially in vogue in New York-the
centre of Fashion in America.
Harperss Bazaar, besides being the leading
Fashion Jourrsd in this country, will also
aim to be present before its readers the very
best specimens of Household Literature. 1t
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Arts, Morals, Familiar Science, Education,
Amuseinents, Hygiene. Etiquette, House.
keeping, Gardening with Home and Foreign
Gossip. Nespbje ctofhouseholdi interest wifi
be excluded from its columns.
In the first Number of the Bazaar will o
commenced n Novel entitled "fhe Cord al d
the Creese; or, The Brandnm Mystery y
James De Mile, esq, Author of "The Dodge
Club" This Novel has been read in manu-
script by several Of our most competent crit.
les, who unanimously pronounce 1t, in point
of interest of plot, variety of adventurei and
graphic delineation of charaeterf to be fully
equal 10 any OF the novels OF WfllSfe ColliuB,
liarper's Bazaar will contain 10 folio pages
of the size of Harper'S Weekly, printed on
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lished weekly, at ten cents per single Num-
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pN- Ladies' in the Country will be supplied
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Six Numbers of Harpers Bazaar upon written
application TO the Publishers.
Postage, Five Cents for Three Months.
Single Subscribers will be supplied from
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which will complete the first Volume for the
yearly price of Four Dollars.
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HARPER & BROTHERS.
New York. Nov. 10, 1867