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 described 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 realised, if it deserve realisation.

"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.