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NODEY'S IADY'S BOOK having been for
ESQ long a series of years, universally recoSni-
zed as the exclusive and indsputable GUIDE TO she
fair SEX in matters of taste, fashion, and ltera-
t1re-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 po;ntof fact has been eX-
cldsiveiy devoted to the ladiesits favor with its
fair patrons has not been less remarkable than lis
perfect adaptation TO theirfeeings and tastes and
their requirements. In entering upon new year,
the publisher, without diminishing in the least that
sterling and useful iterature which has so long re-
suited from laying under contribution the native
good sense and elegant fancy of our American e.
male writers. viii, as each successive nuinoef aP-
pears, present in the several departments OF Liter
ature, Fashion, aud Pictorial Embellishments,
constant and ever varying succession OF new and
striking features. Nor does be promise without
ample ability to perform. The best literary tai
eni the best efforts of the most distinguished artists
in the country-and, TO crown as we'll as adorn the
whole, the most perfect arrangements Tor me re-
ception ofthe American, London and Pans L asl-
ions, far in advance of any other publication IN
this country, enable him to assure the patrons Oh
the LADY'S BOOK that the forthcoming volume
will more than justifysits well canned title OF the
Magazine of Magazines for the ladies of our
country.


1t has passed into custom to assert that dress is
matter of triAing importance, but this every lady
knows 10 be utterly false. Taste in dress rs uni
versally feltto be the index of thousand desirable
qualities iii woman, while deficiency in this res
pect always Injuries one in the estimation of stran-
gers, and even of her.ntimate friends-the beauty
of Helen and the wit of Aspasia, would hardly
commend to general favoran acknowledged DownY
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 himselft to 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 we'll dressed who con
travenes this authority, and, in our own city, IN
York, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville
Lexington, St. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, Rich
mond. Charleston, Savannah, and the other metrop
oli,ian cities of the various States, the tastofu
Fashion Plates ofshc Eady's Book dictate the law
ofdress.