ANNOUNCEMENT IN "HOUSEHOLD WORDS"
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.