15 OCTOBER 1887, Page 23

The Hour-Glass, Vol. I. (A. G. Dawson.)—We have to notice

the first volume of this magazine, containing the numbers from January to September. To see the eight numbers, together costing two shillings in all, makes us sure that we were quite right in saying some time ago that "It is a marvellous threepenny-worth." The present writer was Once told by an eminent publisher that a magazine could not possibly pay under half-a-crown. Bat we learn a good many things as time goes on ; and among them what can be done in the literary way for a very little money. We heartily wish the Hour- Glass prosperity.