LITERARY, DOW IsTIC, & FASHIoNA


BILE FANIuY MAGAZINE.
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TODEY'S I.ADY3S BOOK having been for
Z Tso long series of years, universally recogni-
zed as the exclusive and indsputable guide to the
fair sex, in matters of taste, fashion, and tera-
ture--tha only work conducted by distinguished
female authors, who have won for themselves a
high place among the guiding spirits OF the age
the only work which in point of fact has been eX-
cldsvely devoted to the ladies-its favor with IFS
fair patrons has not been less remarkable than It's
perfect adaptation to their feelings and tastes and
their requirements. In entering upon new year,
the publisher without diminishing i'll the least tia
sterling and useful literature, which has so long re-
suited from laying under contribution the native
good sense and elegant fancy of our American re-
! male writer's, will, as each successive number ap-
pears. present in the several departments of Liter
atlre. Fashion, and Pictorial Embellishments, a
constant and ever varying succession ofnew and
striking features. Nor does he promise without
ample ability to perform. Tbs best literary tai
ent; the best efforts of the distinguished artists
in the country-and, to crown as we'll as adora the
whole, the most perfect arrangements for the re-
ception of the American, London and Paris Fash
Ioas, far in advance of any other publication in
this country, enable him TO assure the patrons OF
the LADY'S BOOK that the forthcoming volume
will mora than justify its we'll canned tile of the
Magazine Of Magazines for the ladies of our
country.


1t has passed into custom 60 assert that dress is
matter CT trlnlng lmpOFIdnces UuI tlS every idd
knows to be utterly false. Taste III dress is uni
versally feltto be the index of thousand desirable
Qualities in woman, while deficiency in this res
pect always Injuries in the estimation of stTan-
gers, and even of her intimate friends-the beauty
of Helen and the wit of Aspasia, would hardly
commend TO general favor an acknowledged DowDY
in dress Hence the importance Of an accredited
guide to the Fashions-


This useful Office, already filed for fourteen


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Book, the publisher pledges himselft to discharge IN
rlsure, in style snrpassinga his former efforts.
The ladies' know perlacsy well that our Magazine
is the highest authority in Fashion.


No Iadyconsiders herself we'll dressed who con
travenes this authority, and, in our own CITY,
York. Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville,
Lexington, ST. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, Rich-
mond, Charleston, Savannah, and the other metrop-
oliian cities of the various States, the tasteful
Fashion Plates ofthe Lady's Book dictate the laws
ofdress.


