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.New Prospectus.
The Home Journal for IS4S.


On the First of January will be issued the first num-
Der of t-'.t
NEW VOLUME OF THE HOME JOURNAL.
1t will contain the commencement of an 30
ORIGINAL NOVEL,
of great and peculiar interest, from distinguished
American pen, entitled "Passages in the Life of a
Refugee Of The ReroIution or Cruise AN Old Sailor;
Logged from the Recollections of Landsman
founded upon actual occurrences in the vicinity Of
New York during the Revolutionary War. With
some events anterior to and during the War of
A clergyman from Tennessee called on US recent
ly, and informed of custom of his, which we
venture to recommend to readers, viz: to make
a subscription to the Home Journal New Years
Present to his Lady friends for, in this way he both
gave them continued pleasure and instruction. and
was himself, as the gver agreeaby brought to mind
every Saturday.
As to the character of the Home Journal, we
could quote hundred friendly notices to sustain our
assertion that it is wholly peculiar paper. One of
the Editors, from his long residence abroad, and his
intimate acquaintance with France and its bril-
liant literature, is enabled to give weekly from
French papers and correspondence, a sparkling
sketch of the amusing News and Gossip of Paris.
| MIR. Willis gives also, at the moment of pro-
minence in public interest, personal sketches of
public characters and takes occasion, with a
watchful eye upon the agitations Of this great me-
tropolis, to give graphic sketches of the stirring
scenes in New-York. We intend, hereafter, to give
more attention to one feature of our paper, and
make continuous what we have found occasionally
very attractive, viz: Chronicle of the News for
Ladies, selecting TRANSMITTING, describing, and seek
inc out information of not only the Fashions and
Fashionable Gossip, but of the many matters that
interest the most curious to Life and Litera
ture. While we shall present to our readers, Of
course, the Facts and Outlines of all News, we shall
leave the details of politics and heavier matters to
the daily newspapers; and in noticing public amuse
ments, we shall give only the novelty and sparkle
of Theatrical Doings. In our literary department,
we shall aim At Sketches and readable Criticism,
and in condensations of the fecund productions
of the vast newspaper world OF Eng land, we shall
aim to avoid the tiresome, and the ocas and trans
fer to our columns the pick of English information
and brancy, while we shall endeavor to select
with true sense of public morals, true Wit, and
genuine Humor. In short we may promise our
family patrons that in paper they shall find all
that is necessary to enable them instructivey to
| keep pace. with the world; and while they devote
the rest of the week to their cares and pleasures,
they shall, in the Home Journal find Saturdays
Review of the Worlds Progress.
| To remedy the evil much complained of, viz:
bad print and unsghty paper, the propretors OF the
Home Journal have determined, at any outlay of
care and cost. to produce an Ornamental Parlor
Newspaper. And unusual price is paid for the beau
full paper it is printed on, the type is entirely new,
and the printing is done upon the presses of an Of
fee unequalled in this country for enterprise and
tact. Considering the cost, it is the cheapest .9er-
can Periodical, and none will deny that it is much
the most elegant
| As we shall publish only limited edition, those
who wish to begin with the beginning of the year,
will oblige US by forwarding their subscriptions
without delay.
| TERMs-'rwo dollars year, or three copies for
five dollars, invariably in advance.
The HONE JOURNAL is sent by mail to all parts
of the United States, the British Provinces and to
Europe, done up in strong wrappers, with the Ut
most punctuality and dispatch.
| Subscriptions, orders, remttances, and all COM
munications, must be addressed (post paid) to the
Editors GEO. P. NORRIS,
n. P. WILLIS,
No. lO7 Fulton-street, New York.
F.; The future numbers Of DoMBEY AND Son will be-
sent to our subscribers in erta Sheets without extra
charge. dec 23