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USEFUL, ORNAMENTAL, AND INSTRUCTIVE.

THE BOOK OF THE
THE NATION,

AND THE
THE ALTS UNION OF AMERICA.
VOL. LVII.—SEPTEMBER, 1858.

EMBELLISHMENTS, &c.

THE BIRD TRAPPERS. One of Godey's peculiar engravings.

A FIVE FIGURE AUTHENTIC COLORED FASHION PLATE. Fashions that can be used. "MY SON, IF SINNERS ENTICE THEE, ETC."

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NOVELTIES FOR SEPTEMBER. Headdresses and Bonnets. Eight engravings.
CROCHET LACE.

EMBROIDERY FOR A FLANNEL SKIRT. Two engravings.

THE BARCELONA. From Brodie.

RABBIT PINCUSHION.

CROCHET TOILET MAT.

EMBROIDERY FOR AN INFANT'S CLOAK.

HANDKERCHIEF CORNERS.

EMBROIDERY FOR A CHILD'S SKIRT.

PATCHWORK.

MUSLIN EMBROIDERY.

SILK EMBROIDERY.

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(Different Notices will be published every Month.)

The Lady's Book is taken wherever refinement and taste prevail, and is also generally popular, for the care bestowed upon it by its publisher. We wish the Book renewed success in the future, for it richly merits it.-Journal, Pottsville. Well may it be called the excelsior magazine.-Mariettian, Marietta.

Godey's Lady's Book, the incomparable of the monthlies, is on our table-the neatest and most useful lady's magazine in Uncle Sam's dominions, if not in the world. It is the most attractive, entertaining, and useful lady's magazine in existence, and should be in the hands of every intelligent female in the land.-Tribune, Johnstown.

This is the best lady's magazine published.-Dem. Union, Hamilton.

The literature is of the most refined character.-Republican, Waynesburg.

The literary matter is of the highest and purest character, and so far from considering Godey's Lady's Book a luxury, our better half considers it a work of necessity and economy. -Watchman, Wilmington.

Godey is always ahead of his contemporaries in the line of fashion plates, patterns, etc., and of course is well adapted to the use of ladies.--Times, Rogersville.

This excellent lady's book is everything that the lovers of fashion and taste could desire, besides being filled with chaste and excellent reading for all-Standard, Trenton.

Godey's is decidedly the excelsior magazine of the world, being always crowded to its utmost with useful matter to the housekeeper. The receipts alone are worth double the subscription price.-Intelligencer, Wapello.

Godey's Lady's Book is upon our table, looking so neat and tasty that everything else looks as "shabby and old" as possible. Godey has always been a favorite with the ladies, and as long as he continues that road he will continue to have the most popular magazine in the United States.- Times, Cedar Rapids.

If twenty-eight years' experience will not fit a man to publish a good magazine, then perhaps there is reason to find some fault with Godey. But he is perfect in the science of catering to the wants and tastes of the ladies. He takes the palmas facile princeps of lady's book makers. Ind. Balance, Ballsville.

Its fashion plate is a perfect gem in its way, and cannot be matched in beanty of engraving and coloring, and number of figures. Godey's is the best lady's magazine we have met with, and he promises in future to surpass any of his former efforts.-Flag, Lexington.

As a lady's magazine it is unrivalled. Nowhere do we find such beautiful fashion plates, such elegant patterns for embroidery, such minute instructions in faucy work of all kinds as in Godey.-Spartan, Sparta.

The receipts in Godey for one year are worth twenty-five dollars to any housekeeper. The chapters on drawing are very useful both to the beginner and the proficient, as also are the lessons in needle-work.-Forest Rose, Weston.

This monthly, as we have again and again informed our readers, is invaluable to every lady in the land. It seems to us that no lady could possibly refuse to subscribe for it, if its usefulness was known.-Democrat, Goshen.

The Book has become one of the permanent institutions of the country, especially among the ladies. They vote unanimonsly to sustain it.- Volunteer, Shelbyville.

For literary taste and excellence it deservedly stands, as it always has, pre-eminent. We advise all ladies to take Godey, as it is expressly for their benefit that it is published.-Herald, Wilmington.

We think our old friend Godey deserves the thanks of all the female portion of creation, for he alone knows how to cater to their wants and desires.-Argus, Blandinsville.

It is full of beauties-a mirror which reflects the elegancies of modern literature, and the perfection which is acquired in the art of book-making,-Gazette, Thorold, C. W.

We would still recommend it as the best exclusively lady's magazine in the country -Nonpareil, Springfield.

This magazine is world-renowned as a lady's book.—Chief, White Cloud.

This magazine is becoming a valuable practical instructor for females; it is essentially the Lady's Book of America.Pilot, Montreal.

For the ladies it is the best publication extant.-Bulletin, Cannon Falls.

Godey stands at the head in the way of ladies' books. — Tribune, Greenville.

Its literature, if any difference, surpasses the loveliness in appearance of the book.-Giraffe, Raleigh.

It is by far the best work of the kind now published.--Nat. American, La Grange.

The fashion plates are of unusual beauty. In this particálar Godey has always excelled. The invaluable receipts contained in each number make it a household book,-Citizen, |

Vincennes.

We would recommend Godey to all persons desiring a book particularly suited to the ladies.-Standard, Trenton.

It is decidedly the most attractive book for the ladies that is published.-Clarion, Cleveland.

This excellent pictorial magazine is the oracle of the fashions and the ladies, and has the largest circulation of any in the country. It is a museum of the arts, almost every article being illustrated with the finest of steel and fashion plates. The literary matter is choice and excellent.-Express, New York. Godey is the Lady's Book, and all should subscribe for it.Citizen, Pulaski.

The embellishments are perfect, and the reading matter of the highest order of merit.-Courier, Ottumwa.

We cordially recommend this magazine to the ladies as the best one published.-Reporter, Cuthbert.

Godey stands unrivalled as a caterer to the tastes of the ladies in the way of literature and the fashions.-Ind. Balance, Batesville.

Each number has enough of patterns in it to keep a woman busy a year if she worked all.-Item, Huntsville.

The choice reading matter places the Lady's Book ahead of all other publications of the kind.-Chief, Neosho.

It ranks No. 1 of the periodicals in the world.-Democrat," Carrollton.

This is the best lady's magazine now published, by far.→→ Herald, Westville.

Its engravings are such as cannot be surpassed, or perhaps equalled in any other magazine in America.-Jeffersonian, Franklin.

It is the handsomest of all the magazines.-Tribune, Koko

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This popular magazine excels in patterns and illustrations exclusively for the ladies.-Locomotive, Indianapolis.

We must acknowledge it to be the bust magazine for matron and maid.-Herald and Era, Indianapolis.

Godey is now in its twenty-eighth year, and is the first and best lady's magazine in America.-Advocate, Toulon.

It is of no use to say that it ranks at the head of the magazines of this country.-Observer, Keithsburg.

Godey keeps in advance of all competition, and promises still to improve-which he will do, for, "where there's a will there's a way."-Clipper, Rienzi.

It is the best centre-table magazine; a book worth preserving; a book always interesting, whether it be for last year, the present month, or the month to come.-Gazette and Comet, Baton Rouge,

Those who do not receive Godey should subscribe without delay, as, in our humble opinion, it is worth many times more than the subscription price.-Am. Union, City of Louisiana.

To all who wish to procure a superior magazine we can safely recommend the Lady's Book.-Advocate, York."

Its engravings, fashion plates, matter, and all that constitutes a magazine, is far in advance of all others.-Democrat, Clarion.

Godey is the magazine for the ladies.-Intelligencer, Doylestown.

In our estimation the Lady's Book stands in the first rank of our periodical literature.-Banner Freund, Sumneytown. This is decidedly the best lady's magazine published, and the success of Godey as a caterer for the fair sex is indeed wonderful. It is really a most desirable magazine for young ladies.-Gazette, Berwick.

This is the chief of ladies' magazines, and like old wine it improves by age. The reading matter of this work is interesting, and of a decidedly wholesome moral tendency.-Free Press, Easton.

It is, in every respect, a magazine expressly designed to please the ladies, and in its pages will always be found the useful, ornamental, and instructive. - Republican Banner, Bridgeport.

It is decidedly and deservedly one of the best and most interesting publications of the age. It ought to be a regular monthly visitor in every family in the land, and every one would find themselves benefited for more than the price of subscription Journal, Fayetteville.

This is decidedly the best magazine of the kind in the country.-Journal, Beaufort.

For usefulness and interest, Godey's Lady's Book is without equal.-Pioneer, Upper Sandusky.

Godey promises an improvement, but how it is to be made we cannot see, without perfection can be bettered.-Pioneer, Elizabeth City.

This excellent publication is the only lady's book in Ame rica.-Jeffersonian, Cambridge.

It is the best magazine published.-New Era, McMinnville. It is filled to overflowing with the best literature of the day. -Reporter, Henderson.

This beautiful illustrated monthly is for many purposes the best in Amerio —La Force Union, Thibodeaux.

The Lady's Book is notoriously the best lady's magazine in the cou try.-Wig, Mt. Sterling.

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GODEY'S BIJOU NEEDLE-CASE.

We have often heard of complaints made by ladies living in the country that they cannot procure GOOD NEEDLES. Ever alive to what may be a convenience to our customers, we have made arrangements with the celebrated house of John English & Co., of England, through their agents, E. C. Pratt & Brothers, of Philadelphia, to furnish their

PATENT DIAMOND DRILLED EYED NEEDLES. Price 25 cents, and a stamp to pay return postage.

Address

L. A. GODEY,

No. 328 (late 113) Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

GODEY'S PUBLICATIONS.

GODEY'S PATTERN BOOK OF EMBROIDERIES, for Handkerchiefs, Linen Apparel, Flannel, Silk, Lace, &c., including patterns for embroidering every article of a lady's wardrobe. Price 25 cents.

EVERY LADY HER OWN SHOEMAKER With six large Diagrams. Each Diagram containing several Drawings of various kinds of Shoes. Price 50 cents. ALONE. A Novel. By Marion Harland. Price $1 25. THE HIDDEN PATH. A Novel. By Marion Harland. FRESH FRUITS ALL THE YEAR AT SUMMER PRICES, and How you may get Them. Full Directions to put up Fresh Fruits in Air-Tight Cans (Arthur, Burnham, & Co.'s), especially designed for Housekeepers. Price 12 cents, or four postage stamps.

Price $1 25.

THIRTY OF THE MOST APPROVED RECEIPTS FOR SUMMER BEVERAGES. Price 12 cents, or four postage stamps.

GALLERY OF SPLENDID ENGRAVINGS. From pictures by the first painters. Each number contains at least twenty-five engravings from steel plates. Four numbers now published. Price for each number 50 cents.

THE BOOK OF THE TOILET-Containing a great number of Receipts particularly interesting to the ladies. Price 25 cents.

HOW TO MAKE A DRESS; or, A Help to those who wish to help themselves. By the Editress of the Fashion Department of Godey's Lady's Book. Price 25 cents. CONTENTS.-Introduction. Shopping for the materials. Cutting out. The waist or body. Sleeves, how to make them. Skirts, how to make them. Trimming the dress. Cloaks, how to make them. And a chapter devoted to "Mourning.'

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THE NURSERY BASKET; a Handbook of Practical Directions for Young MothersIncluding the preparation of a young infant's wardrobe, the choice and making up, the child's bath, out-of-door dress, worsted knitting, flannel embroidery, the clothes of older children, etc. etc. Price 50 cents.

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MRS HALE'S HOUSEHOLD RECEIPT-BOOK Price $1 25.
These two works are absolutely necessary for every housekeeper.

MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS' CROCHET-BOOK Price 75 cents.

MUSIC furnished to order. See List of Music published monthly in Lady's Book.

Address

L. A. GODEY,

No. 323 (late 113) Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK.

GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK, of Literature, Engravings, and Fashion. One hundred pages of reading every month, with every new Fashion as it appears, colored and others. Ladies' work of all kinds; and contributions from all the celebrated authors in the States.

TERMS, CASH IN ADVANCE.-One copy one year, $3. Two copies one year, $5. Three copies one year $6. Five copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club, making six copies, $10. Eight copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club, making nine copies, 815. Eleven copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club, making

$20 Godor's Lady's Book and Anthun's Home Magazine both one year for $3.50.

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