NEW YEAR-NEW FEATURES-NEW TYPE.

THE HOME JOURNAL.

ON SATURDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY next, the FIRST NUMBER OF A NEW SERIES of the HOME JOURNAL will be presented to the public, printed on fine white paper, and a new and beautiful type, manufactured expressly for the purpose. This arrangement will afford all who desire to receive the work, an opportunity of commencing their subscriptions with the beginning of the year.

MR. WILLIS will continue his usual editorial labors, writing on the PASSING TOPICS OF INTEREST, as they occur. He will also give, from time to time, passages from his Travels in the Tropics, and in the South and West, with portions of which the readers of the Home Journal are already familiar. His entire time being devoted to the paper, the well-known VARIETY and INDUSTRY of his pen will be seen in its columns as before. But we have a new feature to offer from the pen of Mr. Willis, and one that we believe (at this period of taste for picturings of real life) will be preeminently attractive. He proposes to give a series of sketches descriptive of

COUNTRY-LIFE WITHIN CITY-REACH.

Our readers are acquainted with one successful effort in this class of writing. His "Letters from under a Bridge" described mere country life, as experienced in a remote retirement on the Susquehanna. For the last year or two he has been taking advantage of the new facilities given by improvements in railroads and steamboats-uniting the repose and beauty of rural life with the comforts and advantages of easy access to the city. He finds much in this which is new. It forms a combination of the desirable qualities of the true modes of life, which he thinks well worth describing and making familiar to the world. In addition to the above,

A NEW NOVEL,

translated from the German by a graceful and brilliant American author, entitled

WILD FLOWERS,

will adorn the columns of the forthcoming NEW SERIES.

THE TOWN, as heretofore, will be a leading topic: not its trifles, fashions, and amusements merely, though these are noted with care. The weekly chronicle of the Town, comprises notices, more or less minute, according to circumstances, of the important lectures, meetings, works of art, schemes of improvement and benevolence, new enterprises, discoveries and inventions, as well as the popular entertainments.

"INTERESTING TO LADIES,"

is the title of one department. Special pains are taken to select from the news and literature of the world those facts and ideas which are of peculiar importance to the Women of America. A fairer field for their industry, and wider scope for the exercise of their genius, are among the necessities of the time, to which we shall endeavor to attract public attention.

From new works of interest, or from valuable articles in the Reviews and Magazines, liberal extracts will be presented weekly.

THE FOREIGN PAPERS

will continue to be carefully examined, and every thing of home interest extracted, and arranged under the head of "Readings in Foreign Journals." American papers, for a similar purpose, will be diligently ransacked.

A large number of ABLE AND DISTINGUISHED PERSONS (among them our esteemed correspondent KENT) are accustomed to avail themselves of the columns of the Home Journal whenever they desire to communicate with the public. These contributions are a valuable feature of the paper.

As the Home Journal is designed to be par excellence a FAMILY PAPER, the editors keep in view the tastes of the young members of families, and endeavor to provide, in each number, something specially adapted to the liking of intelligent youth.

Upon party politics and sectarian dogmas the Home Journal is silent; but upon subjects which are not in dispute between parties or sects, it endeavors to advocate the side of humanity and justice; and to keep its readers in mind, that it is not all of life to get a living.

This copious, comprehensive, and elegantly printed FAMILY NEWSPAPER is now acknowledged to be the indispensable drawing-room gazette of the country. A home is hardly complete, we think we may safely venture to say, without the HOME JOURNAL, which is the CHRONICLE OF ALL THAT INTERESTS ALL CLASSES OF SOCIETY, and of the intelligence which most enlivens an American Home. NEW YORK IS THE GREAT CENTRE, and here, at the fountain-head of novelty, incident, literature, and foreign news, the Home Journal is printed and published. Its editors (GEO. P. MORRIS and N. P. WILLIS) devote their entire time, skill and experience, to the task of giving, each week, EVERY THING WORTH KNOWING.

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Wherefore in great sorrow faire Bessy did say,
Good father, and mother, let me goe away
To seeke out my fortune, whatever itt bee.
This suite then they granted to prettye Bessee.

Then Bessy, that was of bewtye soe bright,
All cladd in gray russett, and late in the night,
From father and mother alone parted shee;
Who sighed and sobbed for prettye Bessee.

Shee went till shee came to Stratford-le-Bow;

Then knew shee not whither, nor which way to goe:
With teares shee lamented her hard destinie,

So sadd and soe heavy was pretty Bessee.

Shee kept on her journey untill it was day,
And went unto Rumford along the hye way;
Where at the Queenes armes entertained was shee:
Soe faire and wel favoured was pretty Bessee.

Shee had not been there a month to an end,
But master and mistress and all was her friend:
And every brave gallant that once did her see,
Was straight-way enamourd of pretty Bessee.

Great gifts they did send her of silver and gold,
And in their songs daylye her love was extold;
Her beawtye was blazed in every degree:
Soe faire and soe comelye was pretty Bessee.

The young men of Rumford in her had their joy;
She showed herself curteous, and modestly coye;
And at her commandment still wold they bee;
Soe fayre and soe comlye was pretty Bessee.

Foure suitors att once unto her did goe;
They craved her favor, but still she sayd noe;
I wold not wish gentles to marry with mee.
Yett ever they honored prettye Bessee.

The first of them was a gallant young knight,
And he came unto her disguisde in the night,
The second a gentleman of good degree,

Who wooed and sued for prettye Bessee.

A merchant of London, whose wealth was not small,

He was the third suiter, and proper withall:

Her masters own sonne the fourth man must bee,
Who swore he would dye for pretty Bessee.

And, if thou wilt marry with mee, quoth the knight,

Ile make thee a ladye with joy and delight;

My hart's so inthralled by thy bewtie,
That soon I shall dye for prettye Bessee.

The gentleman sayd, Come, marry with mee,
As fine as a ladye my Bessye shal bee:
My life is distressed: O heare me, quoth hee;
And grant me thy love, my prettye Bessee.

Let me bee thy husband, the merchant cold say,
Thou shalt live in London both gallant and gay;
My shippes shall bring home rych jewells for thee,
And I will for ever love pretty Bessee.

Then Bessy shee sighed, and thus she did say,

My father and mother I meane to obey;

First gett there good will, and be faithfull to mee,
And you shall enjoy your prettye Bessee.

To every one this answer shee made,
Wherefore unto her they joyfullye sayd,
This thing to fulfill wee all doe agree;

But where dwells thy father, my prettye Bessee?

DEVEREUX S