Contributions to All The Year Round

Name: Contributions to All The Year Round
Author: Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor] Dickens

by Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor] Dickens

Pages: about 81
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 89 min at 250 wpm

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“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.
“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
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.

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Contributions to All The Year Round

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