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Announcement in _Household Words_ of the Approaching 475
Publication of _All The Year Round_ (May 28, 1859)
The Poor Man and his Beer (April 30, 1859) 477
Five New Points of Criminal Law (September 24, 1859) 485
Leigh Hunt: A Remonstrance (December 24, 1859) 485
The Tattlesnivel Bleater (December 31, 1859) 487
The Young Man from the Country (March 1, 1862) 497
An Enlightened Clergyman (March 8, 1862) 502
Rather a Strong Dose (March 21, 1863) 504
The Martyr Medium (April 4, 1863) 510
The Late Mr. Stanfield (June 1, 1867) 516
A Slight Question of Fact (February 13, 1869) 518
Landor’s Life (July 24, 1869) 519
Address which Appeared Shortly previous to the Completion 526
of the Twentieth Volume (1868) intimating a New Series of
_All The Year Round_
ANNOUNCEMENT IN “HOUSEHOLD WORDS” OF THE APPROACHING PUBLICATION OF “ALL
THE YEAR ROUND”
AFTER the appearance of the present concluding Number of _Household
Words_, this publication will merge into the new weekly publication, _All
the Year Round_, and the title, _Household Words_, will form a part of
the title-page of _All the Year Round_.
The Prospectus of the latter Journal describes it in these words:
“ADDRESS
“Nine years of _Household Words_, are the best practical assurance that
can be offered to the public, of the spirit and objects of _All the Year
Round_.
“In transferring myself, and my strongest energies, from the publication
that is about to be discontinued, to the publication that is about to be
begun, I have the happiness of taking with me the staff of writers with
whom I have laboured, and all the literary and business co-operation that
can make my work a pleasure. In some important respects, I am now free
greatly to advance on past arrangements. Those, I leave to testify for
themselves in due course.
“That fusion of the graces of the imagination with the realities of life,
which is vital to the welfare of any community, and for which I have
striven from week to week as honestly as I could during the last nine
years, will continue to be striven for “all the year round”. The old
weekly cares and duties become things of the Past, merely to be assumed,
with an increased love for them and brighter hopes springing out of them,
in the Present and the Future.
“I look, and plan, for a very much wider circle of readers, and yet again
for a steadily expanding circle of readers, in the projects I hope to
carry through “all the year round”. And I feel confident that this
expectation will be realized, if it deserve realization.
“The task of my new journal is set, and it will steadily try to work the
task out. Its pages shall show to what good purpose their motto is
remembered in them, and with how much of fidelity and earnestness they
tell
“the story of our lives from year to year.
“CHARLES DICKENS.”
Since this was issued, the Journal itself has come into existence, and
has spoken for itself five weeks. Its fifth Number is published to-day,
and its circulation, moderately stated, trebles that now relinquished in
_Household Words_.
In referring our readers, henceforth, to _All the Year Round_, we can but
assure them afresh, of our unwearying and faithful service, in what is at
once the work and the chief pleasure of our life. Through all that we
are doing, and through all that we design to do, our aim is to do our
best in sincerity of purpose, and true devotion of spirit.
We do not for a moment suppose that we may lean on the character of these
pages, and rest contented at the point where they stop. We see in that
point but a starting-place for our new journey; and on that journey, with
new prospects opening out before us everywhere, we joyfully proceed,
entreating our readers—without any of the pain of leave-taking incidental
to most journeys—to bear us company All the year round.
_Saturday_, _May_ 28, 1859.