Plate."

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We think our present issue will convince our subscribers that we intend
to give them not only the ornamental, but the useful. In this number may
be found everything calculated to interest a lady, from the superb
fashion plate to the building of cottages, and cottage furniture. An
eminent publisher of this city observed to us, "You have been of great
advantage to our country in one respect, for the publication of your
model cottages has greatly tended to beautify our suburbs and those of
other large towns."

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OUR MODEL COTTAGES.--Nothing could have given us more pleasure than to
find that this original feature of the "Lady's Book" has been duly
appreciated by our numerous readers and correspondents. From every
section of our country, we have received the most flattering
testimonials, as well in relation to the beauty of our designs, as to
their great utility in establishing a taste for the erection of
convenient and comfortable homes in the rural districts, or even in the
forests that abound in our favored land. We are truly gratified to see
the change that has come over the spirit of our designers and builders
in our own vicinity, on the shores of the Delaware, since we began to
publish _our_ designs, and to suggest plans as well of convenience as of
elegant embellishment. This, then, is one of the original features of
the "Book," of which we think we may be justly proud; but our readers
will readily confess that it is only _one_ of the numerous original
features which have rendered the "Book" the _precedent_ in literature,
in the arts, and in the cultivation of the useful sciences.

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WE commend the following sentiment, from the "Michigan Sentinel," to all
true Americans:--

"The duty of every American is to support his own country's interest, in
every respect, _first_. Our American Magazines have called out and
supported an array of talent, in a particular line, of which we are
proud, and which we are bound by patriotism to reward."

Here is another from the "Kentucky News Letter:"--

"'Godey' is on our table. Beautiful! Do you wish to see it? Well, once
for all--we will not lend it. Its price is three dollars a year. The
copy sent us is reserved for binding, and we cannot afford to have it
defaced by lending."

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We knew that the Jan