Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-03-28
THE HOME JOURNAL.-The Home


1t is read we believe, wherever run the gold
threads Of domestic happiness and true
moral refinement, which are woven SO thick
ly into the stronger and coarser web of our
country's industry and energetic prosperity
The Home Journal is the speaker to the
hearts Of this busy nation, in the hours
given to happiness and relaxation.
Our increased subscription enables US to
command both more material and more
assistance than we have heretofore used
upon the paper. We are now able to trans
Ter some of the merely laborious department
to other ha.ds. This enables us to carry
out very cherished design Of our own
one of which we have long seen the value,
but which we have deferred, simply aud
only from not having the time and labor to
Go justice to it. We now announce it,
however, and will endeavor in some mea-
sure to describe. it under the head Of
A NEW FEATURE.
Every one knows how tea-table Or even
ing circle is enlivened, by the coming in Of
an intelligent man, who knows all the new
ideas ahaat, and tells them briefly, happy,
aud Off hand, in the way of ordinary con-
versation.
Such person gives you the substance
of all the daily papers, III three or four
sentences-tells you the plan and moral OF
"a new book in dozen words-gives the
essence of a sermon, the core Of Il public
speech. the key to a public character, the
spirit Of an article III a review. the novelty
in fashion, the last turn in poiitics--ail
briefly, and all without detail or dummery
leaving it with you, as material for your
own discussion and gossip. We lnean TO
:ot down, for readers, in the fewest words
possible, every new idea that !al5 i'll Our
way. AS We read, as people drop i'll and
talk. as we look about i'll cur walks, we shall
be on the lookout for ideas and novelties
giving them in the hrefest shape under the
head Of MEMS. or GOSSIP.
Formerly we used to lay suci, memoranda
aside, to write about if we should find time
now, we shall give them to our readers,
to discuss for themselves, In this way, the
subscriber to the Home Journal will stand
a chance to get hold, in some way or other,
Of every new idea that is going.
The other popular features Of the paper
will be continued ;-Skctches q Bellies,
Portraits of public Characters, descri ptiuns
Of stirring events in New York, news Of
fashion aud manners, pha es Of gay and
literary society, any new fun or fOliy-in
short, II PICTURE OF THE WORLD AS IT PASSES.
We have scarce thought it necessary to
mention, however, what our readers well
understand, that we take care also to
chronicle and advance every interest of
benevolence and moral improvement, and
strive hard to make the Home Journal 10
less useful and improving than it is enter
tanning and original.
AS New Years Present from a Gen-
tle,nan to a Lady, the Home Journal is one,
Of which the remembrance is renewed every
week, and it is unsurpassed as gift in
good taste.
TERM For one copy, 50; for three
copies, So, or for one copy for three years,
:55-always in advance. Subscribe with
cut delay.
's'HE GREAT BRITISH QUARTERL1ES
= AND BLAChWOUD'S MAGAZINE.
important reduction in tie rates of post
age! LEONARD SCOTT & Co., No. 81.
Gold street, New York, continues to publish
the following British Periodicals, viz:
The London Quarterly review, (Conser-
vative,)
'he Edinburgh Review, (Whig,)
The North British Review, Free Church.
The Westminster Review, (I.beral, ana
Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, Glory
Those Reprints have now been in sue
cessiul operation i'll this country for twenty
years, and their circulation is constantly
Gu the increase, notwiths standing the com
petition they encounter from american pc
rioolcals Of a similar class, and from nu-
merous Eclectcs ahd Magazines made u
Of selections from foreign periotiicals.-
This fact shows clearly the high estimation
III which they alse held by the intelligent
reading public, and affords q guara.tee
that they are established on - firm basis,
and will he continued without Interruption.
Although these works are distinguished
by the political shades above indicated, yet
but a small portion OF their contents is dc
voted to political subjects. 1t is their
literary character which gives them their
chief value and in that they stand con-
fessedly far above all other journals of
their class. Hlackwood, still under the
mastery guidance Of Christopher North
maintains its ancient celebrity. and is at
this time, unusually attractive from the
serial works of Buiwer and other literary