THE PHILADELPHIA HOME WEEKLY, A FIRST CLASS FAMILY NEWSPAPER. $2.00 a year, or two copies for $3.00; eight copies for $10.00. The eboicest writers of THE ATLANTIC, HARPER'S, GODEY'S, PETERSON'S, ARTHUR'S, YOUNG FOLKS', LADIES' REPOSITORY, and other LEADING MAGAZINE will write for the HOME WEEKLY. The best efforts of the best authors of America will appear in the Philadelphia Home WEEKLY. J. FOSTER KIRK, the eminent Historian, Author of "Charles the Bold," will contribute a series of original and popular articles entitled STUDIES AND RAMBLES. SIX ORIGINAL AND BRILLIANT NOVELETTES By Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, Marion Harland, Harriet E. Prescott, the Authoress of "Rutledge," Caroline Cheseboro', and Mary J. Holmes will be published complete in the PHILADELPHIA HOME WEEKLY. MRS. SARAH J. HALE'S Department-The Home Circle-will embrace a weekly column on the Customs and Etiquette of good society, and Home as the centre of happiness. GRACE GREENWOOD will furnish a characteristic contribution every week, including many good things for YOUNG FOLKS. JENNIE JUNE will have one of her vivacious and racy articles in every number, in her own happy style, on Fashions and Domestic matters. DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND HOUSEWIFE'S DEPARTMENT, a carefully prepared weekly selection, by the authoress of the National Cook Book. OUR ORIGINAL AND SPRIGHTLY PARIS LETTER will give each week a familiar and pleasing account of the Fashions and Gossip of European Capitals. A SPLENDID AND UNEQUALLED ARRAY OF TALENT has been secured, embracing our most eminent and popular Authors. The following have pledged themselves, and will positively write for the Home Weekly during 1866; THE $1,500 PRIZE STORIES will be published complete in the PHILADELPHIA HOME WEEKLY. The stories elicited by these liberal offers can scarcely fail to possess a rare combination of talent, freshness, novelty, and thrilling interest. Sterling Editorials in every number on current events, Literature, Morals, Science, Philosophy, and Art. Also, a Summary of Foreign and Domestic News, exhibiting as it were a photographic view of the world The Agricultural and Horticultural Department has been assigned to able and practical writers. Poetry, Wit, and Humor, original and selected. THE PHILADELPHIA HOME WEEKLY will be a first-class family Journal for the times. Nothing but an enormous circulation would justify the publisher in affording so valuable a paper at the low price of $2.00 A YEAR, OR TWO COPIES FOR $3.00; EIGHT COPIES FOR $10.00. Postmasters and others who get up clubs can afterwards add single copies at $1 25 per year. Canada subscribers must send twenty cents additional to pay the American postage. The postage on the PHILADELPHIA HOME WEEKLY is twenty cents a year, or five cents a quarter, payable at the office where the paper is delivered. No subscription received for a less period than one year." Specimen copies sent free of postage on receipt of a three cent postage stamp. Send for a specimen. The new series of the PHILADELPHIA HOME WEEKLY commences December 27th, and all subscriptions received between this and the 1st of January will begin with that number, as it will contain the commence ment of MARION HARLAND'S new and brilliant novelette, entitled "THE BEAUTY OF THE FAMILY," and the beginning of the $1000 PRIZE STORY. All communications must be addressed to NOVEMBER 1st, 1865. GEORGE W. CHILDS, Publisher, S. W. Cor. Third and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia. The PHILADELPHIA HOME WEEKLY is for sale by all Periodical and News Dealers throughout the United States and Canadas. PRICE FOUR CENTS PER COPY. THE NEW ENGLANDER. EDITED BY PROFESSORS GEORGE P. FISHER AND TIMOTHY DWIGHT, AND WILLIAM L. KINGSLEY, ESQ. APRIL, 1866. NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI. NEW HAVEN: PRINTED BY THOMAS J. STAFFORD. TO THE READERS OF THE NEW ENGLANDER. WITH this number there will commence a new arrangement in the conduct of the New Englander. It will be hereafter under the editorial care and management of Professor GEORGE P. FISHER, Professor TIMOTHY DWIGHT, and WILLIAM L. KINGSLEY, Esq. These gentlemen are permitted to count upon the efficient coöperation of President WOOLSEY, Dr. BACON, Professor PORTER, and the other writers, to whose exertions the New Englander has mainly owed its power and usefulness. Twenty-three years ago the founders of the New Englander set forth in their "Prolegomena" the ends they had in view in establishing this Journal, and the spirit in which they proposed to conduct it. They were to inculcate and defend the ideas of religion and of human rights which are vital to the Christianity of New England, and, at the same time, to foster the interests of a sound literature by the publication of essays and criticisms. They were not to publish an exclusively Theological Review, but they included in their plan the discussion of political and social questions, and shut out no subject of public interest on which educated Congregationalists might desire to speak. They disclaimed allegiance , to any party in religion or politics, and signified the independent spirit in which they proposed to act, by adopting for their motto the Horatian line, "Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri." While they would allow some diversity of opinion to appear on their pages, they informed the public that the influence of the New Englander would be found "setting in one direction." It would "be found on the side of order, of freedom, of progress, of simple and spiritual Christianity, and of the Bible as the infallible, sufficient, and only authority in religion." It may be said without presumption, that the expectation which was raised by the original announcement of the New Englander has not been disappointed. In the long struggle with the Slave Power in this country, which has just terminated in a signal victory, this Journal has perseveringly contended, through good report and evil report, on the side of liberty, and in opposition to the machinations and open assaults of those who strove to make slavery a national institution. The New Englander has firmly maintained the good cause when no inconsiderable portion of the Northern clergy either directly favored schemes of dangerous compromise, or halted between two opinions. The literary discussions which have appeared on its pages have often been of a high order of merit, and the influence of the New Englander in this respect has been in the right direction. The particular features, claims, and obligations of the Congregational denomina tion have not been neglected; and it is believed that nowhere can a better description and defense of our polity and distinguishing principles be found, than on the pages of this Journal. At the same time, the New Englander has endeavored to keep clear of the spirit of sect. It has entered into the great controversy of our common Christianity with Rationalism, not by publishing invectives and empty warnings against error, but by candid, searching discussions, by an exposure of the fallacious reasoning of unbelievers, and by representing the doctrines of the Gospel in such a light as to remove prejudice and misconception. The plan of the New Englander will remain unchanged. But it is hoped that a larger outlay of editorial labor will enable it more effectually to realize its aims. The expiration of nearly a quarter of a century since its origin, and especially the great turning-point at which we have arrived in our national history, appear to afford a fit occasion for our Journal to gather up its energies for a fresh start. The new era of national life on which we are entering will call for the wise and earnest consideration of many questions pertaining to politics and social reform. There is, besides, ample room in this country for a higher sort of political discussion, which is rarely met with. The proper function of the State, the relation of religion and the church to government, the true theory of political rights-under which the right of suffrage is one subordinate topic-are some of the subjects which belong to political philosophy, but respecting which there is a lamentable want of thorough discussion. The proper sphere of legislation in repressing vices like intemperance, and the character of our laws on the subject of divorce, with the duties consequently imposed upon ministers, are among the themes to which more careful inquiry must be directed. |