The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-03-13
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HARPER,S RAZAR.

REPOSITORY OF
FASHION, PLEASURE q INSTRUCTION.
HARPER'S BAZAR, the publicatie
Ii of which has just been commenced
Harper & Brother, is an Illustrated Week
Journal, devoted to fashion and Househo
Literature.
1t is the first Weekly of Fashion ever pub
lished in the United States. By arranementS
which tho Publishers have perfected at great
cost, with the most celebrated European
Fashion neutrality-suspicious. with the well
known Bazaar of Berlin-Illustration of FASH
ions for each week of the year will appear in
Harperis Bazaar simultaneously with their
publication in Paris and Berlin: an adyan-
tage which will belong exclusively to this
Journal.
In a country where Three Hundred Mil
lions of Dollars are annually expended for
dry-goods, to be transformed into articles OF
dress, trustworthy and practical instructions
rs to the most tasteful and economical meth
DDS of fashioning these articles, become OF the
greatest value to American women. Inc ba-
Ear will contain full aneXplicit lnstructlons,
with Illustrations, which will enable every
Lady Reader to cut and make her own and
her children's entire wardrobe, WITH large
portion of her husbands Each alternate
Number will be accompanied with large
Pattern Plates, containg from Forty to Fifty
fullsized Patterns applicable to every article
of wardrobe made in the family, with the
necessary Directions for cutting and max
ing. Similar Illustrations and Descriptions
of Fancy Work will alsobe furnished. These
patterns will beeXecuted in Paris and Ber-
lin, and will surpasss anything OF the kind
hitherto produced in this country. FIRE.
quent and elegant Colored fashion Plates
will be presented with the paper. Practical
Descriptions will also be given of the Fash
ions especially in vogue in New 1ork-the
centre of Fashion in America.
Harpers's Bazaar, besides being the leading
Fashion Journal in this country, will also
aim to be present before its readers the very
best specimens of Household Literature. IT
will contain original and selected Serial Sto-
ries, Poetry, Novelties, Articles on the Top
les of the Day Excluding Politics. on Books,
Arts, Morals, Familiar Science, Education,
Amusements, Hygiene, Etiquette, House,
keeping, Gardening, with Home and Foreign
Gossip. Nosubject ofhousehold interest will
be excluded from its columns.
In the first Number of the Bazaar will be
commenced Novel entitled "rhe Cord and
the Creese or, The Brandum Mystery" by
James De Mile, ESQ.,, Author of "fhe 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 ofadventure, and
graphic delineation of characterf to be fully
equal to any of the novels of WillSie Collins.
Harper's Bazaar will contain l6 folio pages
Of the size of Harper's Weekly, printed on
superfine calendered paper, and win be pub
lished weekly, at ten cents per single Num-
Der, or Four Dollars per Year.
aN- Ladiesin the Country will be supplied
Continuously through the mails with the First
Six Numbers of Harpers Bazaar upon written
application TO the Publishers.
Postage, Five Cents for Three Months.
| Single Subscribers will be supplied from
| the beginning to the end of the year 1868
which will complete the first Volume for thu
| yearly price of Four Dollars.
| An Extra Copy will be supplied gratis fol
| every Club of Five Subscribers, at Four Dol
lars each, III one remittance; or, Six Copies
for Twenty Dollars.
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