PETERSON'S LADIES'
" 0taon0L Ma g0@ine.

EDITED BY Mrs. ANN S. STEPHENS.
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The Ladie.' National Magazine, is now 50
we'll established and favoraby known, that
by general consent of the newspaper press, it is
placed at the


HEAD OF TIE LADIES' BOOKS.


Its literarp contets, like those ofthe three dol
lar Magazines, are all original, and from the
most celebrated American writers of both sexes.
The contributions to this periodical are con-
slant rroof of the taste, and ability of our be-
loved cOlntTywomen. no other magazine is so
exclusively a mirror of their minds, or is so gen
orally supported by them. The contents are of
every variety, and while usually of the lighter
kind, do not preclude tho insertion of papers Of
mora value. Fitted alike to the boudoir and
the fi1eede, the . Ladies National," presents
monthly an agreeable variety OF domestic sketch
es, tales Questionable life, romances of hetory,
poems, critical notices of living authors, new re-
ceipts for the house-keeper, directions for f2 l.
goable embroidery, descriptions Of the fashions,
GOSSIP ST our eastern metropolis, musical intell-
fence, &c, &c, cOmpTisi &, in shorl, all that
lady would wish to know objects OF interest
ranspiring during the month.


These contents, instead Of being, like those OF
the other ttco doitar magazines, make up chiefly
by selections from old newspapers and other Sec
ond hand sources, are written expressly for US
so taat onT


CONTENTS. ARE ALL ORIGINAL


As guarantee of the style in which the litera-
~ department is conducted, the publisher has
placed the editorial charge lhe magazine in the
hands of Mrs Ann $. 81 ,)hena, acknowledged
by all critics to be, the best nGgGSine 1C1tter 1n
the roTid. Those who have read her thrilling
stories of tAlice Copley," "Malina Gray"
Cam Taylor,'' and = Clara" need no proof of
her exalted genius She will be assisted by the
strongest corps of contributors ever yet arrayed in
e, 1,yl ylioct
At the head of this list is Mrs. Lydia II. Sig
ourney, who will, hereafter, be regular dontTib
uior, both in poetry and prose. She will be as
isted by


Mrs f. F. Elicit, Mrs A. NJ. F. AMMAN,
| Mrs T. :. Osgood, Mrs l.. J. Peicson,
Mrs NJ It, Leon Loud Mrs. Ann s. Stephens,
Mrs. p, w. b. Carothers, Mrs Amelia Wclby,
''F. Z. F.'' Author OF .'Marrage Inconvenience
Miss NJ. l.. Lawson, Mrs. Caroline Olne,
Miss .Nary Dayonant, Miss Ellen Ashton, &co.


During the ensuing year, a nev, feature will be
introduced, in the publication of a series of
TALES OF AMERICAN HIST DRY,
illustrative oftha manners and stirring incidents
! of diffaront periods in our couutry's history
The FIST Of these, story of the raAolGtion, fro
the pen of .'Ihe .4uttor Of cruising IN tie Last
| War; will appear in J January, and be followed
/ up by articles ofeQual interest. from H. w. Hel-
bert and Others OF our best writer's. The critical
portraits of female poets VIII sill be continued,
and stories of a domestic character, from the well
! known pens Of Mrs, Amman, +. Z. F., and Ellen
| Ashson, VIII continually appear.


GREAT PRsEE PICTUGns.-ln order that the
pictorial department may stand first i'll the coun-
try. the publisher intends publishing, in January
and February. two superb premium pictures. faI
superior to any yet itsued in the magazines
| The frs:


A ME,ZZOTINT BY SARTIN.
win appear in January, and has sconiessedly new
| er been equailed by that inimitable artist. Tn,
second. to appear in February, is the first of Sc
ries of great historical pictnTes, which-to main
tain the national character Of his work-the pub
fisher has protected. These ate intended TO il
lustrate great event in American annals. especial
ly those in which women figured. The first is
MEZZOTINT OF WASHINGTON AT IS
Engraved from picture never before made pub
lie. This feGt4Fe CtU make tic look iJllcgUGlieG
and those who wish 10 secure the whole sere:
m Ist send their monoy early We here state
what is undeniable- that during 1871, we pub
lished MEZzoTINTs OFTENER THAN ANY RIVAL
and shall cOnlinue to do fOf 1915. Those
who subscribe 70 the = Natiooa,' will get these
unequalled eogravings or-ener than in anv Other
book. For NoTem6e-, December, January and
| February. we already have issued, or intend tc
issue, an unbroken series OF these plates. UhC
else has done, or can 10 the Tca;e2


