THE BEST AND CHEAPEST IN THE WORLD FOR LADIES.
This popular Magazine, already the cheapest and best Monthly of its kind in the World, will be greatly improved for 1857. It will contain 900 pages of double-column reading matter; from twenty to thirty Steel Plates; and Five Hundred Wood Engravings: which is proportionately more than any periodical, of any price, ever yet gave.
ITS THRILLING ORIGINAL STORIES
Are pronounced by the newspaper press, the best published anywhere. The editors are Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, author of "The Old Homestead," "Fashion and Famine," and Charles J. Peterson, author of "Mabel," "Kate Aylesford," "The Valley Farm," etc. They are assisted by a corps of original contributors, such as no lady's Magazine ever had. Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, author of "The Lost Heiress," "Retribution," etc., etc., is engaged to write a nouvelletté for 1857. Alice Cary, Virginia F. Townsend. Caroline E. Fairfield, Hetty Holyoke, E. W. Dewees, Ella Rodman, Carry Stanley, Clara Moreton, Ellen Ashton, etc., etc., will also contribute regularly. New talent is continually being added, regardless of expense, so as to keep "Peterson's Magazine" unapproachable in merit. Morality and virtue are always inculcated.
Its Colored Fashion Plates in Advance.
☞ It is the only Magazine whose Fashion Plates can be relied on. ☜
Each number contains a Fashion Plate, engraved on Steel, colored à la mode, and of unrivalled beauty. The Paris, London, Philadelphia, and New York Fashions are described, at length, each month. Every number also contains a dozen or more New Styles, engraved on Wood. Also, a Pattern, from which a Dress, Mantilla, or Child's Costume, can be cut without the aid of a mantua-maker, so that each number, in this way, will save a year's subscription.
Its superb MEZZOTINTS, and other STEEL ENGRAVINGS.
Its Illustrations excel those of any other Magazine, each number containing a superb Steel Engraving, either mezzotint or line, besides the Fashion Plate; and, in addition, numerous other Engravings, Wood Cuts, Patterns, etc., etc. The Engravings, at the end of the year, alone are worth the subscription price.
PATTERNS FOR CROTCHET, NEEDLEWORK, ETC.