The Little Review, July 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 5)Various
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The Little Review, July 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 5)
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DEDICATED
TO THAT HISTORIC MOMENT
WHEN
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
THE GREAT AMERICAN CHANTECLIER
SHALL AWAKE
TO FIND
THE SUN HIGH IN HEAVEN
AND THAT
HE
HAD CROWED NOT
A CHANGE OF PRICE
With the August issue, the sixth month of our very flourishing life, we
have decided to make one important change in _The Little Review_. We are
reducing the subscription price to $1.50 a year, and that of single
copies to 15 cents. There will be no change in size or appearance. Those
whose subscriptions have already been paid on the former basis will be
continued for another half year.
Our reason for doing so is this: We have discovered that a great many of
the people whom we wish to reach cannot afford to pay $2.50 a year for a
magazine. It happens that we are very emphatic about wanting these
people in our audience, and we believe they are as sincerely interested
in _The Little Review_ as we are stimulated by having them among our
readers. Therefore we are going to become more accessible.
With characteristic lack of modesty we wish also to make another
announcement. Our success so far has exceeded even our own hopes--and it
may be remembered that they were rather high. As for our practical
friends who warned us against starting a literary magazine, even their
dark prophecies of debt and a speedy demise have had to dissolve before
our statements that we have paid our bills with what _The Little Review_
has earned in its six months of existence, that we are free of debt,
that we even have money in the bank, and a subscription list that acts
like a live thing!
But we want more! We want everyone who might like _The Little Review_ to
hear about it. Therefore:
We want interested readers to be interested to the point of bringing in
others. We want intelligent spokesmen in every city in the country to
tell people about the magazine and to get their subscriptions. Anyone
sending in three yearly subscriptions will be given a year's
subscription free. Or he may make a commission of 33 1-3 per cent on
every subscription he gets. College girls ought to find the field a very
workable one during their summer vacations. Every ten subscriptions will
mean $5.00 to the energetic young woman who pursues her friends with
accounts of _The Little Review's_ value and charm.
We are trying to make a magazine that is unacademic, enthusiastic,
appreciative and critical in the real sense; that seeks and emphasizes
the beauty which is truth and insists upon a larger naturalness and a
nobler seriousness in art and in life. We know there is room for such a
magazine and we ask you to help us in advertising it.
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