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"ODEY'S LADY'S BOOK having been for
SEso long series of years, universally recogni-
zed asthe exclusive and indisputable guide to the
fair sex, in matters of taste, fashion, and liera-
tdre-tho only work conducted by distinguished
female authors, who have won for themselves a
nigh place among the guiding spirits of the age
the only work which in point of fact has been eX-
cllsivey devoted to the Iadies-its favor with its
fair patrons has not been less remarkable than its
perfect adaptation to their feelings and tastes and
their requirements. In enterirg upon new year,
the publisher, without diminishing III the least tha
sterling and useful literature, which has so long re-
suited from laying under contribution the natlve
good sense and elegant fancy of our American e.
male writers, will, as each successive number ap-
pears, present in the several departments of Liter
ature, Fashion, and Pictorial Embellishments, a
constant and ever varying succession ofnew and
striking features. Nor does he promise without
ample ability to perform. The best literary tai
en-, the best efforts the most distinguished artists
in the country-and, TO crown as we'll as adorn the
whole; the most perfect arrangements for the re-
cepton of the 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 It's well earned title of the
Magazine of Magazines for the ladies of our
country.


1t has passed into custom TO assert that dress is


matter of trifling importance, but this every lady
knows TO be utterly false. Taste in 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 stran-
gers, aud even of her intimate friends-the beauty
of Helen and the wit of Aspasia, would hardly
commend to general favoran 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 himselfto discharge in
future, in style surprising all his former efforts
The ladies know perfectly we'll that our Magazine
is the highest authority in Fashion.


No lady considers herself well dressed who con-
travenes this authority, and, in our own city, in N
York, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville,
Lexington, St. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, Rich
mond, Charleston, Sayannah, and the other metrop-
oitian cities of the various States, the tastefu
Fashion Plates of the Lady's Book di,tate the laws
ofdfess.