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New Series for 1856.
HOME JOURNAL.
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EDITED BY MORRIS AND WILLIS.

We have the pleasure to return our most CRATE.
full thanks to the readers of the Home Journal, for
the greatly enlarged audience with which we have
been honored in 1856, and to offer our respects,
and the promise of our continued best services, for
the year before us. With the privileged hearing
that we have now secured, at the fresiies of our
whole vast country, it is only natural that we
should feel additional responsibility, while, at the
same time we grid up our energies Tor new varie.
ties of industry and enterprise.
The paper for the coming year is to be printed
on ne,o type, and it's pre-eminence Of clearnesS and
~legibH'ty, so valuable to the eye and so neadful for
IL family paper, is to be still more marked.
Our contents for 1857. we need scarcely say,
will be MS varied as the Life with which we keep
pace. Time and the ever. changing World are the
great baskets out Of which We pick Wisdom and
Amusement az we go-the exhaustless variety OF
event and novelty assuring to us and to our read.
ers, exhaustless themes and subjects of interest.
The Editors will still continue to devote their
time and abilities exclusively to the Home Jour
nal.
N. P. Willis proposes, in addition to his usual
picturings of home life and rural family sym pa.
thies and interests, outdoors and-in, to give more
of the Letters TO MralidS, which his experience
has enabled him to write, and which have been So
widely quoted; and, also, n series of Portraits Of
Liring Characters.
George p. Morris, besides his usual constant la.
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will make 1t the wool On which TO broider first the
new Sketches, Songs, Ballads, etc., suggested by
the history and event Of the passing time.
I. b. Aldrich has in preparation a Prose Poem,
to be entitled The Rose Of Gten-Lod9e; and this
will be published in numbers, from week 10 week.
Besides the labOrs of the Editors, the Home
Journal will contain =
The communication of q brilliant list Of orig.
inal contributors:
The core and history of new publications
The floating stories, brief romanees, sparkling
wit, fun and anecdute of the day:
Poetry, pathos and romance:
The gossip and news of PIrisian journals
Personal sketches Of the conspicuous charac.
tiers of the time:
Tho stirring scenes of daily life:
The chronicle of news for the Ladies;
The Fashions:
The valuable information, as to statistics, dis.
coyeries and great events:
Criticisms of current Literature:
And all that can lie gathered, to interest the
reader, from the Worlds constant overflow Of &C.
ton and intellect.
We need not remind our readers, perhaps, that
We have correspondents, wholly unsurpassed, in
the society of New York, and that, through these
gifted and refined mediums" we keep appraised
Of all that occuys, now. charming or instructive,
in the brilliant circles of city life.
For the health, the moral improvement and the
religious culture of families. we wat1hfully gath
er every new suggestion, and carefully chronicle
all signs of Progress and Utility.
By unceasing vigilance and industry. and by
skill acquired in long and successful practice, we
hope still to keep the lone Journal undisputed as
abe best family Newspaper in The porld.
TERMR.-For one copy, SO; for three copies, SIS
or one copy for hree years S5-always in ad.
vance. Address
MORRIS & WILLIS,
Editors and PropristorS, LOT Fultonst., New
York,