SWEET AND TWENTY.
From the Painting by G. L. Seymour.
OUR EXCUSE . . .
FOR THE ISSUE OF A SIXPENNY MAGAZINE AT THREEPENCE.
. . . SOME REASONS WHY.
THE beginning of a new Magazine, once an event, is now so much a commonplace that the ancient excuse of the "long felt want" no longer serves.
In the days of the Nabobs, the gentle shaking of the Pagoda tree sufficed to bring great stores of wealth, but these be the times of the fallen rupee. Your modern Anglo-Indian toils out his existence for a bare pittance. And it is so in the making of Magazines. One hundred and fifty years ago the mere issue of the "Gentleman's" stirred to their depths the Coffee Houses and the Clubs, not only here in the Old Country, but in our North American Colonies as well.