During the first lab day, I managed to look at two of the nine little magazines that were offered. After paging through a Little Review magazine, I looked at a copy of The Dial from April 1928. The first things I focused on were the cover, the table of contents, and the inside front cover. After finding that the back cover held interesting information in Little Review, I wondered if The Dial was similar.
The back inside cover was full of advertisements for books. I marveled at the prices back then, especially because $1 in 1928 is equivalent to around $18 (adjusted for inflation) today! These books would have been very expensive back then and only the wealthy would have been able to buy them. And only those with some form of education would be able to read and understand them.
I found it interesting that the books advertised were varied in genre: comedy, illustrated non-fiction, true-crime murder mystery, psychological non-fiction, fiction, and a religious text. By including all these different genres, The Dial does its best to advertise to many audiences and different tastes.