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GiODEY>S LADY'S BOOK havl : been for
STso long series of years, univefsd 3frecogni-
zed as the exclusive and indisputable gGife to the
fair sex, in matters of taste fashion, and litera-
tGre-ths only work conducted by distinguished
female authors, who have won for themselves 4
nigh place among the guiding spirits of the age
the only work which in poat of fact has been eX-
cllsively devoted to the ades-its favor with its
fair patrons has rotbeen less remarkable than its
perfect adaptation 70 their feelings and tastes and
their requirements In entering upon new year,
the publisher, without dimin:shingin the least tha;
sterling and useful literature, which has long re-
suited from laying under Contribution the native
good sense and elegant fancy of our AmeTicaHIe e.
male writer's. will, rs each successive number ap-
pears, present i'll tho several departments of Liter
ature, Fashion, and Pictorial Embellishments, a
constant and ever varying succession of new and
Striking features. Nor does he promise wiEhou:
ample ability to perform. The best literary tai
emf, toe best efforts ofthe most distinguished artists
in the country-and, to crown as we'll adorn the
whole, the most perfect arrangements for the re-
ception of de American, London and Paris Fash
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 we'll canned title Of the
Magazine of Magazines for the ladies of our
country,





mater of trihng Importance, but this every lady
knows 10 be utterly false. Taste in dress is uni
versaly felt TO be the index of thousand desirable
qualities in woman, while deficiency in this res
pect always Injuries in the estimation of st-an-
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 filled for fourteen
wears, with universal acceptance, by the Lldy's
Book, the publisher pledges hmselfto discharge in
future, in style surprising all his former efforts
The ladies know perfectly well that our Magazine
is the highest authority in Fashion.


No lady considers herself well dressed who con-
t7avenes this authority, and, in own city, in n
York, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville,
Lexington, St Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, kicl-
mond, Charleston, Savannah, and the other metrop-
oli,an cities of the various States, the tasteful
Fashion Plates ofthe Lady's Book dictate the laws
Of dress.