sobbed and wept as she folded away the dainty
little garments that had so recently been
prepared with so much pride and pleasure, never to
be worn. The old woman was thinking of
another baby whom she had tended, and nursed,
and worshipped, thirty long years before; and
her faithful heart was breaking.

Mrs. Carter dried her eyes and crossed the
passage to her nursery. The fire was burning
cheerily, and the three youngest children, fresh
and rosy from their evening bath, were gathered
around it in their little white dresses, waiting
till mamma should come to hear their prayers.
A thrill of mingled thankfulness and pain shot
through the mother's heart at the sweet home
picture. The children wondered why she kissed
them so fervently as they clustered round her
knee, and why she gathered the little hands so
closely into her own as she heard their innocent
voices, unconscious of sin and sorrow, lisp out
the petition, whose force they so little understood:
"Lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil. Amen."

The NEW SERIES will be commenced on Saturday
the 5th of December, with an original novel entitled,
                      WRECKED IN PORT.
                      BY EDMUND YATES.
           And occasional Papers, entitled:
         NEW UNCOMMERCIAL SAMPLES,
                BY CHARLES DICKENS.
           Early in December will be ready
                 THE COMPLETE SET
                                  OF
                 TWENTY VOLUMES,
  With GENERAL INDEX to the entire work from its
  commencement in April, 1859. Each volume, with
  its own Index, can also be bought separately as
  heretofore.

       On DECEMBER 3rd will be published,
       THE EXTRA CHRISTMAS NUMBERS
                               OF
             ALL THE YEAR ROUND,
      Conducted by CHARLES DICKENS,
Handsomely bound in One Volume, price Five Shillings.
     Single Numbers may be had, price Fourpence.

London: 26, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.; and
      CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, Piccadilly, W.

        FAREWELL SERIES OF READINGS.
           BY MR. CHARLES DICKENS.

MESSRS. CHAPPELL AND Co. have the honour
to announce that MR. DICKENS will read as follows:
Tuesday, December 1, St. James's Hall, London;
Monday, December 7, Thursday, December 10,
Friday, December 11, Monday, December 14, and
Saturday Morning, December 19, Edinburgh; Wednesday,
December 9, Tuesday, December 15, Wednesday,
December 16, and Thursday, December 17,
Glasgow.

All communications to be addressed to MESSRS.
CHAPPELL AND Co., 50, New Bond-street, London, W.

       NEW SERIES OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND.

THE Twentieth Volume of ALL THE YEAR ROUND being
now completed I shall commence, next week,
an entirely NEW SERIES of ALL THE YEAR, ROUND.
The change is not only due to the convenience of the public
(with which a set of such books, extending beyond twenty
large volumes, would be quite incompatible),
but is also resolved upon for the purpose of
effecting some desirable improvements
in respect of type, paper, and size of page, which
could not otherwise be made. To the Literature of the New Series
it would not become me to refer, beyond glancing
at the pages of this Journal, and of its predecessor,
through a score of years; inasmuch as
my regular fellow-labourers and I will be at our old posts,
in company with those younger comrades
whom I have had the pleasure of enrolling from
time to time, and whose number it is always
one of my pleasantest editorial duties to enlarge.

As it is better that every kind of work, honestly
undertaken and discharged, should speak
for itself than be spoken for, I will only remark
further on one intended omission in the New Series.
The Extra Christmas Number has now been
so extensively, and regularly, and often imitated,
that it is in very great danger of becoming tiresome.
I have therefore resolved (though I cannot add, willingly)
to abolish it, at the highest tide of its success.
                                                             CHARLES DICKENS.

END OF THE TWENTIETH VOLUME.