The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-03
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HARPER,S BAZAAR.

A REPOSITORY OF
FASHION, PLEASURE g INSTRUCTION.
HARPER'S BAZAR, the publicatio
IL of which has just been commenced
Harper Il 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 the Publishers have perfected at great
cost, with the most celebrated European
Fashion Journals-particularly with the well
known BGzdr of Berlin-Illustration of Fasn-
ions for each week of the year will appear in
Harpers Bazaar simultaneously with their
publication in Paris and Berlin: an advan-
tage which will belong exclusively to this
Journal.
In 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
as to the most tasteful and economical meth
DDS of fashioping these articles, become the
greatest value to American women. The Ba-
Ear will contain full an explicit Instructions,
with Illustrations, which will enable every
Lady Reader to cut and make her own and
her childrens entire wardrobe, VIII. 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 maxi
ing. Similar Illustrations and Descriptions
of Fancy Work will also be furnished. These
patterns will be executed in Paris and Ber-
hitherto produced in this country. FIRE.
qucnt and elegant Colored fashion Plates
will be presented with the paper.s Practical
Descriptions will also be given of the Fash
ions especially in vogue in New York-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. II
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. Nosubjectofhousehol interest will
| be excluded from its columns.
| In the first Number of the Bazaar will be
| commenced a Novel entitled "rhe Cord and
! the Creese or, The Brandum Mystery" by
| 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 it, in point
| OF interest of plot, variety of adventure, and
| graphic delineatiOn of character TO be fully
| equal to any of the novels of Willde Collins.
| Of the size of Harper's Weekly, printed on
| superfine calendered paper, and will be pub
| lished weekly, at ten cents per single Num-
| Der, or Four Dollars per Year.
| go Ladies in the Country will be supplied
| gratituously through the mails with the First
| Six Numbers of Harper's 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 the
| yearly price of Four Dollars.
| An Extra Copy will be supplied gratis for
every Club of Five Subscribers, at Four Dol
lars each, in one remittance; or, Six Copies
for Twenty Dollars.
| HARPER & BROTHERS.
| New York Nov. I5 1867.