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* ODEY,S LADY'S BOOK having been for
I Hso Tonga series of years, universally recogni-
zed as the exclusive and indisputable guide to the
fair sex, in matters Of taste, fashion, and litaIa
tlro-tho only work conducted by distinguished
female authors. who have won for themselves
nigil place among the guiding spirits of the
the only work which IN point of fact has b.
cl lsiycy devoted to the ladies-its favor with .s
fair patrons has notbsen less remarkable than It's
perfect adaptation their feelings and taetas ard
their requirements. In enterng upon II year,
the publisher, without diminishing ii the least that
sterling and useful literature which has SO long
suited from laying under contribution the native
good sense and elegant fancy of our American te-
male writer's. Will. as each successive number ap-
pears present IN the several departments of Liter
aUre, Fashion, and Pictorial Embellishments,
constant and ever varying succession of new and
striking features. Nor does he promise without
ample ability to perform. The best literary tai
enl the best efforts Of the distinguished artists
in the counsry-and, TO as we'll as adorn the
whole, gha most perfect arrangements for the re"
ception OF the American, London and Paris Fash
IONS, far in advance of any other publication in
this country. enable him - assure the patrons of
the LADY'6 BOOK that the forthcoming volume
will more than Justify its we'll earned title of the
Magazine Of Magazines for the ladies Of
countIv.


1t has pnssed into custom 10 assert that dress is
matter of triGIng importance, but 1his every lady
knows 10 be utterly false Taste in dress is iini-
vefslIly eltto bo the index of thousand desirable
qualities inwomaa, while doiciencyin this res
pcct always iniuros one in the estimation of stran-
gers, and even of her intimate froRds-the beauty
of Helen and the wit OF Aspasia, would hardly
commend 70 gens1al favor an acknowledged DowDY
in dress. Hence the Importance of an accredited
gnide to tha Iaabioas.


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.
I'ho ladies know perfectly we'll 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 N
York, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville,
Lexington, St. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah, and the other netrop-
oilian cities of the various States, the tasteful
Fashion Plates Of the Lady's Book dictate the laws
Of dress.


As a further assurance of thorough excellence in
this department. the publisher has secured the
vices of Miss LESLIE, who viii Illustrate the
Fashion Plates, il her usual feicitous and graph
ic STYLE, uniting thorough knowledge of the sub
ect, with clear, graceful and Ineligible man
ner of treating it. Her descriptions are worthy of
the productions of her own glowing pencil, which
drew the earliest Fashion Plates for the Lady's
Book.


The publishers correspondent in Paris is pos
sessed Of such ample means of obtaining the real
and present Paris Fashions and of transmitting
them il advance Of all competitors, thatthe ladies
may continue, as they have always done, to copy
from our plates what has received the sanction Of
ndispntable ton the last, thenewest, the best fash
ions, fresh from Paris.


The arrangements for p.oducing most brilliant
and attractive series Of Line and Mezzotint En-
cravings arc now complete. Pictures fresh from
the eascls Of cur first rate American Artists, are
now actually in the hands Of the ablest American
engravers the subjects embracing no! only the usu
al popular and domestic topics. but others which
are interviewer into thevef heart strings of Amer