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ODEY'S LADY'S BOOK having been for
4 EsO long a series of years, universally recogn-
zed as the exclusive and indisputable guide to the
fair sex, in matters of taste, fashion, and liteTa
ture-t9o only work conducted by distinguished
female authors, who have won for themselves
nigh place among the guiding spirits of the age
the only work which in point of fact has been ex-
clIsiyey devoted to the ladies--its favor with its
fair patrons has not been less remarkable than ts
perfect adaptation to their feelings and tastes and
their requirements. In entering upon new year,
the publisher, without diminishing i'll the least that
sterling and useful literature, which has so long re-
suited from laying under contribution the native
good sense and elegant fancy of our American Fe-
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 bes' literary tall
en the best efforts the most distinguished artists
in the coUntry-and. to crown as well as adOrn the
whole, the 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 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
country.


1t has passed into custom TO assert that dress is
matter of trihing Importance, but this every lady
knows TO 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 stran-
gers, and even of her intimate frends-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 Lady's
Book, the publisher pledges himself to discharge in
future, in style surprising his former efforts.
The Ia lies know perfectly we'll that our Magazine
is the highest authority ii = Aeshion.


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, Savannah, and the othermetrop-
olitan cities of the various States, the ia stefu
Fashion Plates of the Lady's Book dictate the laws
ofdress