This Number is embellished with the following Copper-Plates: 1 FRONTISPIECE.-WISDOM presenting Flowers to TASTE, from which she 2 An engraved TITLE PAGE. 3 For the MORAL ZOOLOGIST-1 THE GOLDFINCH-2 THE CHAFFIN CH. 5 A new and elegant PATTERN for a DRESS Veil. 6 MUSIC.-0 tell me how to Woo thee! a Scottish Ballad. Composed by LONDON: Printed for G. and J. ROBINSON, No. 25, Paternoster-Row; Where Favours from Correspondents continue to be received. ******** ******** TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE author of the Elville Family Secrets is respectfully informed, that the insertion of her communication was only delayed that her Novel might be begun in the first number for the year. We shall be greatly obliged by an early and regular transmission of the continuations. We shall, likewise, be much obliged to the author of Robert M'Kenzie, by a further continuation as soon as possible. We are sorry there should have been a mistake with respect to the insertion of J. M. L.'s piece: he will find it in the Supplement. We are at all times extremely obliged to him for his contributions. We shall be glad to hear again from our correspondent J. K******, CONSTANTIA is respectfully informed, that enigmatical lists of names, which can furnish little amusement, and exhibit no ingenuity, are no longer admitted into the Lady's Magazine. To enigmas, charades, and rebuses, that possess merit, we have certainly no objection. I. T.'s Essay-L. B.'s Song-and Silence, an Elegy-are under con sideration. ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. THE commencement of a new volume of our miscellany, imposes on us the agreeable task of again expressing our grateful acknowledgments for the undiminished favour and support which we still continue to enjoy from our numerous readers and fair correspondents. Our attention and exertions to contribute to their entertainment and instruction, have been unremitted; and that they have been favourably received, we have the most flattering reasons to be assured. To the undeviating constancy with which the plan of the LADY'S MAGAZINE has been adhered to, from its first establishment, we attribute the favourable reception with which it has been honoured, by the public in general, and our fair patronesses in particular. It has ever been our object, to present to our readers an assemblage of such original articles and extracts as may contribute to innocent amusement and the promotion of useful knowledge; either furnished by the valuable communications of our numerous and ingenious correspondents, or selected from such publications of the times as possess the greatest merit. In conformity to this plan, it is purposed, in the present and following volumes, to give some select NoB 2 4 vels, which, though they have already been published, are no longer to be procured; the remaining copies of the impression having, unfortunately, been destroyed by fire. A series of plates will at the same time be given, illustrative of the principal incidents of the narrative. It need not be added, that these novels will be regularly continued, without interruption, till they are completed. At the same time, as our readers may perceive, we are in possession of several valuable original communications, of the novel class, from ingenious correspondents, which we trust they will continue and complete : we have, indeed, no doubt that we may securely rely on their punctuality in this particular. We now enter on the THIRTY-FIFTH VOLUME of the LADY'S MAGAZINE, fully confiding, that the arrangements we have made, and the assiduity we shall unremittingly exert, will continue to procure us the same approbation, and candid and liberal encouragement, with which we have been honoured for so long a series of years. |