Volume I (1850)

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THE HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE.
WE take this opportunity of announcing a 
design, closely associated with our Household 
Words, which we have now matured, 
and which we hope will be acceptable to our 
readers.
We purpose publishing, at the end of each 
month as a supplementary number to the 
monthly part of Household Words, a 
 comprehensive Abstract or History of all the 
occurrences of that month, native and foreign, 
under the title of THE HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE 
OF CURRENT EVENTS.
The size and price of each of these numbers 
will be the same as the size and price of 
the present number of Household Words. 
Twelve numbers will necessarily be published 
in the course of the year—one for each month 
—and on the completion of the Annual 
Volume, a copious Index will appear, and a 
title-page for the volume; which will then be 
called THE HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE of such a 
year. It will form a complete Chronicle of 
all that year's events, carefully compiled, 
thoroughly digested, and systematically 
arranged for easy reference; presenting a vast 
mass of information that must be interesting 
to all, at a price that will render it accessible 
to the humblest purchasers of books, and at 
which only our existing machinery in 
connexion with this Work would enable us to 
produce it.
The first number of THE HOUSEHOLD 
NARRATIVE will appear as a supplement to the 
first monthly part of Household Words, 
published at the end of the present month of 
APRIL. As the Volume for 1850 would be 
incomplete (in consequence of our not having 
commenced this publication at the beginning 
of a year) without a backward reference to 
the three months of JANUARY, FEBRUARY, 
and MARCH, a similar number of THE 
HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE for each of those 
months will be published before the year 
is out.
It is scarcely necessary to explain that it is 
not proposed to render the purchase of THE 
HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE compulsory on the 
purchasers of Household Words; and that 
the supplementary number, though always 
published at the same time as our monthly 
part, will therefore be detached from it, and 
published separately.
Nor is it necessary for us, we believe, to 
expatiate on our leading reasons for adding 
this new undertaking to our present enterprise. 
The intimate connexion between the 
facts and realities of the time, and the means 
by which we aim, in Household Words, to 
soften what is hard in them, to exalt what is 
held in little consideration, and to show the 
latent hope there is in what may seem 
unpromising, needs not to be pointed out. All 
that we sought to express in our Preliminary 
Word, in reference to this work, applies, we 
think, to its proposed companion. As another 
humble means of enabling those who accept 
us for their friend, to bear the world's rough- 
cast events to the anvil of courageous duty, 
and there beat them into shape, we enter 
on the project, and confide in its success.
THE TROUBLED WATER QUESTION.
MY excellent and eloquent friend, Lyttleton, 
of Pump Court, Temple, barrister-at-law, 
disturbed me on a damp morning at the end of 
last month, to bespeak my company to a meeting 
 at which he intended to hold forth. ' It 
is,' he said, 'the Great Water Supply 
Congress, which assembles to-morrow.'
' Do you know anything of the subject? '
' A vast deal both practically and theoretically. 
Practically, I pay for my little box in 
the Regent's Park, twice the price for water 
our friend Fielding is charged, and both 
supplies are derived from the same Company. 
Yet his is a mansion, mine is a cottage; his 
rent more than doubles mine in amount, and 
his family trebles mine in number. So much 
for the consistency and exactions of an 
 irresponsible monopoly. Practically, again, there 
are occasions when my cisterns are without 
water. So much for deficient supply.'
' Is your water bad?'
' Not absolutely unwholesome; but I have 
drunk better.'
' Now then, Theoretically.'
' Theoretically, I learn from piles of blue 
books—a regular blue mountain of 
parliamentary inquiry instituted in the years 1810, 
1821, 1827, 1828, 1834, 1840, and 1845—from 
a cloud of prospectuses issued by embryo

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DJO Christmas Selection / 'Household Notes' A Musical Miscellany.