The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-02-07
miscellaneous advertisements.
HARPER,s BAZAR,
A UEpOoITORY an.

REPOSITORY OF
FASHION, PLEASURE Il INSTRUCTION.
HARPER'S BAZAR, the publicatiC
IL 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 the Publishers have perfected at great
cost, with the most celebrated European
Fashion Journals-particularly with the well
known Bdzdr of Decentralization of Fasn-
ions for each week of the year will appear in
IIarper's Bazaar simultaneously with their
publication in Paris and Berlin an advan-
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
as to the most tasteful and economical meth
! DDS of fashioning these articles, become of the
| reatest value to American women. The Ba-
| gar will contain full an explicit Instructions,
with Illustrations, which will enable every
| Lady Reader to cut and make her own and
| her children'S entire wardrobe, VIII large
| portion of her husbands. Each alternate
| Number will be accompanied with large
| Pattern Plates containg from Forty to Fifty
| fulsized Patterns, applicable to every article
| of wardrobe made i'll the family, with the
necessary Directions for cutting and max
! 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.
| auent and elegant Colored fashion Plates
| will be presented with the paper. Practical
Descriptions will also be given of the Fash
| ions especially i'll vogue in New lork-the
| centre of Fashion in America.
| Harpers's Bazaar, besides being the leading
Fashion Journal In this country, will alsC
aim to be present before its readers the very
best specimens of Household Literature. II
will contain original and selected Serial Sto
ries Poetry NoVclettes 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 Foreigl
Gossip NOSubject ofhouSeholu interest vii
be excluded from its columns.
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commenced Novel entitled "The Cord anC
the Creese or, The Brandum Mystery" b,
James De Mile, esq, Author of 1.-THE Dodg
= | Club" This Novel has been read in manu-
script by several of our most competent crit
les, who unanimously pronounce 1t, in poin
| of interest of plot, variety of adventure, ant
, | graphic delineatiOn of character to be null.
equal to any of the novels of Wilkie Collins
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. application TO the Publishers.
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5 the beginning to the end of the wear lS6
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: lars each, in one remittance; or, Six Copi
40 ''' HARPER & BROTHERS.
- Npu Work Nov IL 1877