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ODEY'S IIADY'S BOOK having been for
"so long series Of years, universally recogni-
Zed as the exclusive and indisputable guide to the
fair sex, in matters of taste, fashion, and ltera-
ture-ths only work conducted by distinguished
feRGie 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-
cllsively devoted to the ladies-its favor with It's
fair patrons has not been less remarkable than its
perfect adaptation to their feelings and tastes and
their requirements. In entering upon new year,
the publisher, without diminishing in the least thai
sterling and useful literature, which has solong re-
suited. from laying under contribution the native
good sense and elegant fancy of our American Fe-
male writer's. will, as each successive adf4ber ap-
pears, present i'll the several departments of Liter
ature, Fashion, and Pictorial Embeli ishment, a
constant and ever varying succession OF new and
striking features. Nor does he promise without
ample ability to perform. The best literary tai
ent, the best efforts efthe most distinguished artists
in the country-a6d, to crown as well as adorn the
whole, the most perfect arrangements for the re-
ception. of the American, LoAdoR and Paris + ash
IONS, 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 more than Justify its well earned title of the
Magazine Of Magazines for the ladies of our
country.


1t has passed into custom TO assert that dress is


mater of triaing importance. but this every lady
knows 10 be utterly false. Taste in dress is uni
versay felt to be the index of thousand desirable
qualities in woman, while adeflcency IN this res
pect always Injuries in the estimation Of stran-
gers, land 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 filled for fourteen
years.. with universal acceptance, by the Lldy's
Book, the publisher pledges himself TO discharge in
future, in style surprising all his former efforts.
The ladies know perfectly we'll thato Magazine
is the highest authority in Fashion.


No ladyconsders herself well dressed who con-
travenes this authority, and, in own city, in
York, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati. Louisville,
Lexington, ST. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, Rich
mond, Charlestoa, Savannah, and the other metfop-
olitan cities OF the various States, the tasteful
Fashion Plates oftao Lady's Book di,tate the laws
of dress.