GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK
Philadelphia, November 1850

EDITORS' BOOK TABLE.

From JAMES MUNROE & Co., Boston:-

AMERICAN UNITARIAN BIOGRAPHY. Edited by William Ware. This work contains memoirs of thirteen individuals - men who have been "distinguished by their writings, character, and efforts in the cause of liberal Christianity." The first memoir is that of the Rev. Noah Worcester, a good man in every relation of life, and no doubt honest as well as earnest in his faith. The sketches are contributed by distinguished writers, and the book possesses great interest for those who belong to the Unitarian fold.

LUCY'S HALF-CROWN; or, the Art of Making People Happy Without Money. By Catharine M. A. Cowper. This is another of those interesting and instructive little works which, though more particularly prepared for the young, older people will find both profit and pleasure in perusing.

CONSOLATION; OR, COMFORT FOR THE AFFLICTED. Compiled from the MS. of an English lady, who suffered under a long and severe sickness and confinement. It is a work to study when the world is withdrawn; a treasure of wisdom as well as consolation; a sweet gift from the hand of one who is now an angel in heaven. This American edition is edited by Rev. P.H. Greenleaf.

STUDIES IN RELIGION. A book showing great research in the Scriptures, and earnest wish to benefit the soul of the reader. It is by the author of "Words in a Sunday School."

"ONLY,"

OLD JOLIFFE, and

THE SEQUEL TO OLD JOLIFFE. These three are by the author of "A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam." We need hardly say that these three little books are very interesting. The author has a bright sunbeam of love in her own heart; all who put themselves within its influence will be happier for the light. We commend them to our readers.

From D. APPLETON & Co., New York:-

THE DESERTED WIFE. By Emma D. Nevitt Southworth. We have read this new American novel with much pleasure; its merits should give it a warm place in the hearts of those who would encourage American genius. There are some blemishes, but the beauties so greatly predominate, and the aim of the author is so truly excellent, that we can commend it to those who will read romances as one of the best they can take up. But do not skip the "introduction."

From GEORGE S. APPLETON, corner of Chestnut and Seventh Street, Philadelphia:-

THE LONE DOVE. A Legend of Revolutionary Times. By a Lady. As a romance, or rather rhapsody, this volume can claim some rare attractions. It is strange, wild, wonderful, and fantastic; but the sentiments are pure, and many a beautiful picture of natural scenery is thrown out in the singular panorama of the olden times here shadowed forth. The book is well printed, as are the works usually published by Mr. Appleton.

From T. B. PETERSON, 98 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia:-

FRANK FAIRLEGH; or, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil. With numerous illustrations. By the author of "Louis Arundell; or, Railroad of Life." A very amusing work, which has been very properly designated a companion to Charles O'Malley.

THE IRON MASK; or, the Feats and Adventures of Raoul de Bragelonne. By Alexander Dumas. Being the final conclusion of his "Three Guardsmen," "Twenty Years After," and "Bragelonne, the Son of Athos."

HYACINTHE; OR, THE CONTRAST. By Mrs. Gray, author of "Lena Cameron," etc. etc. Hyacinthe comes to us in the brown dress of a cheap publication; but its pages present us with sounder morality and purer religious sentiments than are frequently found under enveloped covers and gilded leaves.

FIRST AND TRUE LOVE. By George Sand, author of "Consuelo." Complete in one volume.

From PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO., Boston, through T. B. PETERSON, Philadelphia:-

LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS. Edited by Thomas Carlyle. No. 8 Jesuitism.

PERFORATIONS IN THE LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS. By one of the "Eighteen Millions of Bores." Edited by Elizur Wright. No. 1.

SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORKS. First Part of King Henry the Sixth. With a beautiful engraving of Joan of Arc.

MARGARET PERCIVAL IN AMERICA. A Tale. Edited by a New England minister, A. B. Being a sequel to "Margaret Percival." A Tale. Edited by Rev. Wm. Sewell.

From LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, Philadelphia:-

LIFE AND LETTERS OF THOMAS CAMPBELL. Edited by William Beattie, M. D., one of his executors. In two volumes. The admirers of the poet, Thomas Campbell, whose "Pleasures of Hope" are as familiar as household words in the cities, villages, and cottages of this great continent, will be gratified with this announcement. Those who have only known the poet by his works have now an opportunity of examining the character and genius of the man, and of comparing the earliest development of his mind with the beauty and consistency of every line and couplet of which he was the author.

From HARPER & BROTHERS, New York, through LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, Philadelphia:-

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEIGH HUNT. with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries. In two volumes. We deem that it would be an unnecessary effort in us to commend this work to our readers, most of whom are sufficiently acquainted with the character and attainment of the author to render this history of his life and literary associations an indispensable acquisition to their libraries.

PICTORIAL FIELD-BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION. No. 5. This work should be placed in the hands of the youth of our country, as well on account of its historical merits as the spirit of patriotism which breathes through its pages.

THE UNITED STATES LADIES' MUSICAL COMPANION. Edited and published by S. Ehrlich, Professor of Music. For August. Containing a choice collection of original and selected pieces from the most popular European and American composers.

HISTORY OF DARIUS THE GREAT. By Jacob Abbott. With engravings. This book is written in a chaste and familiar style, and will prove very interesting and instructive to young readers.

LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS. Edited by Thomas Carlyle. No. 8.

JULIA HOWARD. A Romance. By Mrs. Martin Bell. A good story, replete with Irish character and Irish incident.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR. The English Language in its Elements and Forms. With a History of its Origin and Developments. Designed for the use of colleges and schools. By William C. Fowler, late Professor of Rhetoric in Amherst College. A very valuable acquisition to the literature and language of our country, and one which will not fail to attract the attention of the scholar and linguist, as well as that of the student, at home and abroad.

From A. HART (late Carey & Hart), Philadelphia:-

ECHOES OF THE UNIVERSE: from the World of Matter and the World of Spirit. By the Rev. Henry Christmas, M. A., F. R. S., etc. A most valuable publication this for the perusal of the Christian believer who would be strengthened in his faith, and who feels anxious to sustain the intimate connection which exists, notwithstanding the efforts of the incredulous, between the developments of human science and the revelations of divine truth.

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF ANNE BOLEYN, QUEEN OF HENRY VIII. By Miss Benger, author of "Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton." From the third London edition. With a memoir of the author by Miss Aikin. However great may have been the errors of this unfortunate queen, it must be admitted that she paid a heavy penalty for her ambition; and, therefore, charity can sympathize with this well-intended effort to mitigate the severity of the sentence which history has passed upon her conduct.

PICTURES AND SKETCHES OF GREECE AND TURKEY. By Aubrey de Vere, Esq. A work of rare interest to the classical reader, to whom it affords an opportunity to travel over again the interesting scenes of his early studies, and to review, in company with a poet and a philosopher, the glories of the past and the indications of the future.

LIBRARY OF HUMOROUS AMERICAN WORKS. "The Nag's Head; or, a Season Among 'The Bankers.' A tale of sea-shore life." By Gregory Seaworthy. Not exactly a humorous work, in the usual acceptation of the word, but rather a tale in which the author has blended many sound reflections and sentiments with the adventures of a sailor.

From BAKER & SCRIBNER, New York, through A. HART, Philadelphia:-

THE LILY AND THE TOTEM; or, the Huguenots in Florida. A series of sketches, picturesque and historical, of the colonies of Coligni, in North America, 1562-1570. By the author of "The Yemassee," "Life of Marion," "Life of Bayard," etc. The readers of the Lady's Book will recognize in the author of this work our gifted contributor, W. Gilmore Simms, Esq. Although it belongs professedly to that class of works which are denominated the "romance of history," the author has taken pains to make the fictions simply tributary, and always subordinate to the fact.

REMINISCENCES OF CONGRESS. By Charles W. March. This book has a very fine engraving of Daniel Webster, of whose early life, education, and subsequent political career it is a rapid, but most interesting sketch.

LIFE, HERE AND THERE; or, Sketches of Society and Adventure at Far-Part Times and Places. By N. P. Willis, of his past experience and impressions, and a comparison of them with his present views and maturer judgment.

DOMESTIC HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By Mrs. E. F. Ellet, author of "The Women of the American Revolution." The readers of the Lady's Book have long since been made so familiar with the name, and with the chaste and elegant style of Mrs. Ellet's writings, that we need any nothing to them in commendation of the work before us. They can judge of her patriotic efforts as well as ourselves, and will doubtless obtain a copy of the present work as a fit companion for those which have so greatly distinguished Mrs. E. as an American author.

From GEORGE P. PUTNAM, New York, through A. HART, Philadelphia:-

THE BERKER; or, the Mountains of the Atlas. A Tale of Morocco. By William Starbuck, M.D., author of "Kaloolah," &c. We think the author has been successful in his efforts to tell an agreeable story, and to blend with it the illustration of Moorish manners, customs, history, &c.

THE COMPANION. After Dinner Table-Talk. By Chelwood Evelyn. There is a great deal of amusement to be found in this volume, comprised in some three or four hundred selections of the witty sayings, repartees, and jokes of celebrated men.

THE LEATHER-STOCKING TALES. By J. Fenimore Cooper. Author's revised edition. Vol. 1. "The Deer Slayer." The appearance of this work will doubtless afford great pleasure to the numerous admirers of Mr. Cooper.

From LEA & BLANCHARD, Philadelphia:-

HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA: with Remarks on the Condition, Social, Political, and Economical. By John Paget, Esq. 2 vols. The author of this work spent about a year and a half in Hungary, in which time he was enabled to collect a vast amount of information relative to the character of its people and the nature of its institutions, which he has presented to the reader in a pleasing and attractive narrative. Recent stirring events in Hungary, and the unfortunate termination of the efforts of her people to establish their liberty, will render the work pecularly interesting at this time.

From LORENZO STRATTON, Cincinnati:-

THE TRAITOR; or, the Fate of Ambition. By Emerson Bennett. Part 2.

From STRINGER & TOWNSEND, New York:-

MR. DUTTON'S LEGATEE. A Very True Woman. By Mrs. Stone, author of "The Young Milliner," etc.

THE INTERNATIONAL: a Miscellany of Literature, Science, and Art. A monthly publication, the leading object of which will be to present the public with rapid reprints of foreign popular literature.

From GETZ & BECK, Philadelphia:-

THE GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS AMERICANS: Nos. 7 and 8. These numbers contain the portraits of Audubon and of Prescott, with sketches of their lives, and evince a determination on the part of the publishers of rendering the work in every respect worthy the patronage of the American public.

From A. S. BARNES & CO., New York, through G. S. APPLETON, Philadelphia:-

NEW MUSIC.

WE have received a series of pieces under the general title of "Cottage Duetts," the productions of Mr. Julius E. Muller, of Baltimore, a composer who is rapidly winning his way to eminence in his profession. The numbers before us are "Love Not," "Kossuth March," "Jeannette and Jeannot," "Come, Soldiers, Come," "Yes, Let Me Like a Soldier Fall," "Salut a la France," "Oh, Summer Night!" and the "Jenny Lind Polka." They are published separately by Mr. G. Willig, and may be had at any of our music stores. Our friends will find them simple and easy, but admirably arranged. We have also a copy of Mr. Muller's "Variations of Jeanette and Jeannot," an elaborate and finished performance, that does him infinite credit.

ARTHUR'S HOME GAZETTE. - This new paper is winning "golden opinions" in all directions. It sems to be "just the thing" - a family newspaper par excellence. A distinguishing merit pertaining to "Arthur's Home Gazette" is its freedom from everything low, vulgar, or corrupting. Thus far, we have not seen a line in the highly interesting numbers that have been issued that we would hesitate to read aloud in a company of refined and pure-minded women or innocent children. And this can be said as well of the advertising as of the reading columns. To this feature in the "Home Gazette," we call the especial attention of those who are desirous of introducing into their families a weekly paper that shall ever bear with it a pure and elevating influence. Such as influence we know the "Gazette" will bear wherever it finds it way. It will come to all as a true friend. Not only does Mr. Arthur keep his columns free from advertisements of vicious books, but free also from the too often disgusting, and in many cases deceptive, advertisements of patent medicine venders. He will not be a party to poisoning the mind or injuring the health of any one.

Thus far, Mr. Arthur has demonstrated, most triumphantly, that a paper may be made to approach the highest point of interest, and yet be kept perfectly free from vulgarity, profanity, and indecency. Tameness cannot be urged as an objection to the "Home Gazette," which bids fair soon to have the largest circulation of any paper in the country.

WHAT Barnum deserves credit for - and we have not found, among all the newspaper notices of his enterprise, one single word that touches the right chord - is this: he has given to us talent in its prime. He has not waited until it was in its wane and could no longer command an audience in Europe; but here we have the pure, the charitable, and talented Jenny Lind in her early prime. We say nothing of the benefit arising to our various charitable associations through her most magnificent beneficence.

OUR NOVEMBER NUMBER. - "The Evening Star" - beautiful is it not? - poetical to a degree. "The Creed" is the first of our tablean plates, and of them we have a large number, all on Scriptural subjects. We may safely challenge the world to produce two more beautiful plates. We also give a pretty and new style of embellishment - wood engravings in tint. This last plate has to go through the press three times.

Our fashion plates still command the admiration of our subscribers, as they know they can be relied on. They are the modes that are adopted in the northern cities. Fitzgerald, in his City Item, says: "We have ever been impressed with one grand distinguishing feature of this periodical - the Americanizing of European fashions, an arduous, but most successful undertaking."

With our supply of beautiful engravings, most of which are now ready, we shall be enabled to give two or more in each future number of the "Book," and we ask a comparison, either in our literary matter or engravings, with any other work published in this country or elsewhere. "The Creed," in tableaux, with the portrait of Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, and a splendid line engraving, will be three of the embellishments in the December number.

BY the arrival of the steamers Atlantic and Asia, we have been put in possession of the balance of our plates, the advertisement of which appears in this number. We shall now be enabled to make every number superior even to those for September, October, and this month. We have already stated our reasons for sending Mr. Tucker to London. It was that he might get that assistance he was unable to procure here, to carry out our great design - to make the illustrations of the Lady's Book superior to those of any annual ever issued; and that he might also, in the engraving of our Scriptural plates, when not using original designs prepared expressly for us, have the advantage of the original subjects of the old masters, thereby insuring correct copies and beautiful pictures.

The London correspondent of the New York Spirit of the Times says: "Tucker, the artist, is engaged upon some truly splendid illustrations for Godey's Lady's Book. I have seen engravers' proofs."

THE plates advertised by us are engravings on steel. It would be well always to make the inquiry, before subscribing to any magazine, when a list of plates is advertised - are they on steel or merely on wood? for there is certainly a very great difference between the two both in appearance and expense.

FIVE original designs in this number by eminent artists.

IT will be seen that our old friend, Patrick Murphy, whose sad adventures in political life were related in our November and December numbers, 1849, has again had the folly to turn politician. We shall see in the next number of the Book what will be the result.

WE print of the November number 70,000 copies, to give every one an opportunity to possess the truly beautiful plate of "The Lord's Prayer."

HAVING abolished the odious premium system, we shall now be enabled to attend to every order within three days after its receipt. The delay has heretofore been caused by the sending off of the premium paltes.

THE December number of the Book will be one of unusual size, and will contain the completion of Simms' admirable story of Kate Walton.

IT is a remarkable fact that we are still reprinting the early numbers of this year. It seems that the demand will never cease. All parties engaged in the artistic department seem to be heartily tired of the work.

'LEATHER WORK." - Something new for the ladies to try their skill upon. We have several novelties for their particular use. They will do us the justice to say that everything new in this department has first been given to them in the pages of their own "Book."

BY the suggestion of a valued lady correspondent, we will shortly commence a series of tales illustrative of home duties, showing that they are not incompatible with the more graceful accomplishments.

THE editor of the Louisiana Sentinel says: "The Lady's Book can be seen at our reading room; but, as it cannot be moved therefrom, and as ladies are not by custom permitted to enter there, the best thing that husbands can do is to subscribe for them." Sensible advice.

THE editor of the Ohio Intelligencer thinks that the picture of the "Family Party," in the September number, might have been improved by "the addition of a right good-looking husband to the group." We will show him up with his pets in a future number. The following, from the Illinois Herald, pleases us most:-

"We like the Book, and always did. We admire it for its inimitable beauty, the parity of its literature, the taste displayed in its general arrangement, and, above all, for the patriotic Americanism that pervades it throughout."

CORRECTION. - The following extract from a letter dated Spartanberg C.H., South Carolina, corrects a slight error in the name of the engraving in our July number - an original design from a scene described in Mrs. Ellet's "Women of the American Revolution." Mrs. Ellet informs as that her authority for calling the place "Green Spring" was "Mills' Statistics of South Carolina."

"My husband desires me to say to you how much he was gratified by the spirited representation of a scene in his native district in your July number; but regrets that Mrs. Ellet was misinformed as to the name, as it is a place very dear to the people of the district. The true name was, and is to this day, CEDAR SPRING, so named from a noble cedar which overhung its sparkling fountain. The place is only four miles from here, and was much resorted to by the villagers for its delightful water. It is at present the seat of our State Mute School, and is much visited on that account; for all of which reasons it is desirbable the name should be correct."

PROCEEDINGS OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA RELATIVE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SCHOOL OF DESIGN FOR WOMEN. - This is a new movement in relation to female industry and the cultivation of female talent. Mrs. Peter, wife of William Peter, Esq., the British Consul, resident at Philadelphia, is well and widely known for her exertions in the cause of her own sex; this school was projected by her, and has, by her indefatigable efforts, been sustained for about two years. The aim is to instruct young girls, who have to support themselves, in the arts of drawing, design, and wood-engraving, in the belief that they will be able to succeed in these branches of home industry, not only for their own benefit, but also for the benefit of American manufacturers, by securing an opportunity of obtaining new designs of "forms and patterns for articles of use and ornament, such as paper-hangings, carpets, calico-printing," &c. All that is now wanted to carry this benevolent and useful plan into effect, to establish this "School of Design," is funds. We hope these will be obtained. Surely no one can read the interesting letter of Mrs. Peter without wishing her success. Will not those who have the means assist?

A GOVERNESS. - A young lady who can teach French (acquired during a residence in Paris), German, Italian, and music, is anxious to engage as governess in any part of the United States. She can furnish undoubted testimonials of her ability, and the best of references. Application can be made to the publisher of the Lady's Book.

VARIOUS USEFUL RECEIPTS, &c., OF OUR

OWN GATHERING.

AN EXCELLENT PUDDING. - Five ounce of fresh beef suet, ten ounces of bread crumbs, six ounces of moist sugar, the rind of one and juice of two lemons; to be boiled half an hour, and pressed down tightly in a mould.

TO REMOVE STAINS FROM SILKS, LINENS, AND WOOLEN STUFFS. - Mix a wineglassful of rectified spirits of turpentine with half a teaspoonful of essential oil of lemons, and keep it in a well-stopped bottle. Apply a little upon the stain with a bit of woolen or silk. The colors of the fabric will sustain no injury from the application.

TO MEND CHINA. - A piece of flint glass, beaten very fine and rubbed down to quite a powder, and mixed with the white of an egg, joins china without riveting so fast that it cannot be broken in the same place. The grinding can be effected in a mortar, if a painter's stone cannot be had.

FOR SPRAINS, BRUISES, BITES OF INSETS, AND CHILBLAINS, IF NOT BROKEN. - A raw egg well beaten, half a pint of vinegar, an ounce of spirits of turpentine, a quarter of an ounce of spirits of wine, and a quarter of an ounce of camphor. These ingredients to be mixed together, first dissolving the camphor in the spirits of wine. The put the mixture in a bottle and shake for ten minutes, after which it is to be corked down tightly to exclude the air. In half an hour, it is fit for use.

TO CLEANSE AND IMPROVE THE HAIR. - Half an ounce of ammonia to a pint of boiling water; let it stand till cold; put it into a bottle and cork it, to keep it from evaporating. Rub it on the head in a piece of flannel, when it will lather like soap; rub dry afterwards with a towel.

TO CLEANSE THE HAIR. - It is recommended to use a little soda in the water instead of soap. Rosemary steeped in water cleanses the hair nicely; or an egg, well beaten and mixed in warm water, has the same effect.

TO REMOVE FRECKLES. - Freckles may be removed, we are told, but do not vouch for it, by the frequent application of spirits diluted, or alkaline solutions, the latter of just sufficient strength to prick the tongue.

PERFUME FOR POCKET-HANDKERCHIEFS. - Half a pint of rectified spirits of wine, a quarter of an ounce of oil of lavender, five drops of essence of ambergris, well mixed together.

ORANGE FLOWERS. - We derive the custom of wearing orange flowers at a wedding from France. It is there a matter of much pride and importance, inasmuch as it is not only a token of the purity of the bride herself, but also bears witness to the integrity and morality of her relatives.

A PIECE OF GOOD ADVICE. - Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike out merely to show you have one.

DESCRIPTION OF ENGRAVED FASHIONS.

Fig. 1. - MORNING DRESS. A closely-fitting morning-dress of plain cashmere, sleeves short at the wrist to display the full puff of muslin around the hand. A row of gimp embroidery from the hem of the skirt to the throat. Small collar of embroidered muslin, and cap of lace and ribbon.

Fig. 2. - WALKING-DRESS for sociable calls, of plain stone-colored merino; a short cloak of ture satin, trimmed with fringe; drawn casing bonnet of dark-green silk.

Fig. 3. - CHILD'S DRESS. Plain light green merino dress, the skirt not very short, but full. Close-fitting sacque or coat of dark silk; a muff of ermine. Drawn bonnet of rose-colored silk. Dark gaiters, and stockings clasped above the knee.

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