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Great Inducements for 1855!

This Two Dollar Magazine is as good as the Three Dollar ones.

NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE UP YOUR CLUBS!

PETERSON'S MAGAZINE!

The Cheapest, Best and most Elegant Monthly in the World.

EDITED BY MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS, AND CHARLES J. PETERSON.

PETERSON'S LADIES' NATIONAL MAGAZINE

Will be greatly enlarged and improved for 1855. It will contain 900 pages of double
column original reading matter; from twenty-five to thirty superb Steel Plates; and
over three hundred Wood Engravings.

ITS LITERARY CHARACTER UNRIVALLED.

No other Periodical publishes such Thrilling Tales or such Capital Stories of Real Life.
Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, the celebrated author of “Fashion and Famine,” is one of the editors;
and every volume contains one of her unrivalled novels, written expressly for the
Magazine. She is assisted by all the best female authors of America. All the stories
published will be original, which cannot be said of any cotemporary. Morality and
virtue are always inculcated. The newspaper press and the ladies unite to pronounce it
the most readable of the Magazines.

Its Colored Fashion Plates in Advance.

☞ It is the only Magazine whose Fashion Plates can be relied on. ☞

These Plates are from patterns received in advance, from Paris, all colored, a la mode,
and of unrivalled beauty. A comparison between this Magazine and others, in this respect,
is challenged. The “Gossip about the Fashions,” published in each number is
fuller, better and later than can be had elsewhere at any price. In the Eastern cities
this work is the text book of fashion.

Its Magnificent Original Embellishments

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, &c., &c. The Engravings, at the end
of the year. alone are worth the subscription price.

BEST LADIES MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD.

In addition, each number contains every thing that a lady desires in such a Parlor Companion.
Its departments for Acting Charades, Parlor Games, Fire-side Amusements, New
Receipts, Crotchet Work, Embroidery, Netting. Horticulture, and Female Equestrianism,
are always well filled, profusely illustrated, and rich with the latest novelties. The publisher
offers it to the sex as the best Lady's Magazine in the World.

TERMS,—ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.

         

One copy for one year,	$2 00
Three copies for one year,	5 00
Five copies for one year,	$7 50
Eight copies for one year,	10 00
Sixteen copies for one year,	$20 00

PREMIUMS FOR GETTING UP CLUBS.

A copy of our “Gift Book of Art,” for 1855, containing Fifty magnificent Steel Engravings,
will be given to every person getting up a Club. For a Club of Sixteen, an extra copy
of the Magazine will be given in addition.

Address, post paid,

A Specimen sent when desired.

CHARLES J. PETERSON,
No. 102 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.

☞ All Postmasters constituted Aeents.

☞ Persons remitting will please get the Postmaster to register their letters, in which
case the remittance may be at our risk. When the sum is large, a draft should be procured,
the cost of which may be deducted from the amount.

☞ Editors who will copy this Prospectus, or make a digest of it, shall receive the Magazine
for 1855.