JANUARY. M. Burt

HOLIDAY NUMBER

The very best Lady's Magazine published in the world.-Pioneer, New Berlin, N. Y.

For 1866.

LITERATURE, FINE ARTS, AND FASHIONS!
Edited by MRS. S. J. HALE and L. A. GODEY.

The publisher of Godey's Lady's Book, thankful to that public which has enabled him to publish a magazine for the last thirty-six years of a larger circulation than any in America, has continued his arrangement with the most popular authoress in this country

MARION

HARLAND, ""Moss Side,

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Nemesis," and "Miriam,"

Authoress of "Alone," "Hidden Fath,'

who will furnish a novel for the Lady's Book for 1866. This alone will place the Lady's Book, in a literary point of view, far ahead of any other magazine. Marion Harland writes for no other magazine. Our other favorite writers will all continue to furnish articles throughout the year.

Seventy-second and Seventy-third Volumes of

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK FOR 1866,

WILL CONTAIN MORE

Music, Colored and Uncolored Fashion-Plates, Steel and Wood Engravings, and Literary articles by the most celebrated authors, than any other magazine in America.

THE OLDEST, THE BEST, AND THE CHEAPEST MAGAZINE.
Usoful, Ornamental, and Instructive.
THE ONLY LADY'S BOOK IN AMERICA.

The immense increase in the circulation of Godey-having quintupled itself in the last six years-is a convincing proof of the superiority of the work, if the work itself was not sufficient evidence. And when it is considered that NOT A BRIBE in the shape of a premium has ever been offered, it shows that Godey's Lady's Book stands first in the hearts of American ladies, who subscribe for the sake of the Book and not the premium.

of the Lady's Book is by the first writers in America, and has always been remarkable for its high literary and moral character. Clergy meu recominend the Book, and it can be read aloud in the family circle. The matter is far superior to that of any other magazine, having a healthy and instructive tone. Can any other work name such writers as

MARION HARLAND, MRS. METTA VICTORIA VICTOR, MISS MARY W. JANVRIN,
MISS VIRGINIA F. TOWNSEND, MRS. S. J. HALE, MISS ANNIE frost,
MRS. E. F. ELLET, BELLE RUTLEDGE, REV. H. H. WELD,
T. S. ARTHUR, and hosts of others?

SEVEN SPECIALITIES

THAT NO OTHER MAGAZINE HAS, AND ONLY TO BE FOUND IN GODEY.

""Model Cottages, with diagrams," "Drawing Lessons," "Children's Department," "Original Health ticultural Department," and "Double Extension Fashion-plates."

GODEY'S GREAT SPECIALITY,

Unequalled and unapproached. Competition dead in this department. Our imitators have abandoned

the attempt.

OUR SPLENDID STEEL ENGRAVINGS.

The unanimous voice of the press has pronounced Godey's engravings to be the best ever published in any magazine of the world, and equal to those published in the Annuals of Great Britain. You may look in vain for fourteen such steel engravings as have been published in the seventieth and seventy-first volumes of this Book, and those for 1866 will surpass them. The designed exeention of these plates have elicited general remark, not only in this country but in England. It is a singular fact tha na ofher,agazina good to the expense of original designs for their steel engravings.

GODEY'S IMMENSE DOUBLE SHEET FASHION-PLATES,

CONTAINING

From five to seven full-length Colored Fashions on each Plate.
FAR AHEAD OF ANY FASHIONS IN EUROPE OR A^TERICA.

The Publication of these Plates Lost

$10,000 More

than Fashion-plates of the old style, and nothing but our wonderfully large circulation
magazines cannot afford it. We never spare money when the public can be benefited.
These fishions may be relied on. Dresses may be made after them, and the wearer will
would be the case if she visited the large cities dressed after the style of the plates given
magazines.

to give them. Other herself to ridicule, as our so called fashion

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