Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-09-09
THE COSMOPOLITAN

ART g. LITERARY ASSOCIATION.
THIS new Association is designcd to encour-
l. age and popularise the Fine Arts, and di,-
seminate pure and wholes me Literature thro'.
out the country. For this purpose a Gallery of
Arts is to be permanently founded, which will
each year contain choice and valuable collec-
ton Of Painting, &C.,
FOR FREE ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION.
The As ociation will publish and issue to its
members the best Literature of the day, consis-
ting of the most popular Monthly Magazines,
Pictorial Library Works, SC.
The officers of the Association for 1854 have
the pleasure Of announcing that the subscrip-
tion books for the current year are now epen,
and that the first annual distribution of Works
of Art contained in the above Gallery will take
place in January next; on which occasion there
will be distributed among the members of the
Association, free of charge, several hundred su-
perb Works of Art, among which there will be
the original and world-rcnowned statue of Hiram
Powers THE GREEK SLAVE,
purchased at an expense of over S5,t 90! Al
so, large and very choice selection of magniii-
cent OIL PAINTINGS, consisting of the best
productions of celebrated American and Foreign
Artists, among which are the works of Read,
kensett, Clough, Griswold, Frankenstein, and
other eminent American Artists, which, with
the constant additions made through the agent
now in Europe, will render this by far the most
complete Gallery of Art in the United States.
The LITERATURE published for dissemina-
tion among the members of the Association, Tor
1854, will consist of the following popular
monthly Magazines, viz: The knickerbOcker,
New York Monthly, Harpel's, Putnam's, Gra-
hams and Godey's Lady Book, together with
the following Quarterly Reviews, reprinted in
New York. viz Westminster, London Quarter
ly, North British and Edinburgh Review. All of
which are three dollar magazines. This Associa
tom open to all. Any person on thepayment OF
s3 becomes member, and receives for on year
ei her of The above magazines or Reviews, for
one year, and also FREE TICKET in the an
nual distribution of Paintings. Stdtuary, &c.
All persons who take five memberships are en-
titled to any five of the Magazines one year
and SIN tickets to the distribution.
The wide spread fame of the above periodicals
render it needless to say anything in their
praise, as it is universally conceded that as lit
crary organs they are far in advance of any 9TH
er in the world. The publishers price of each
of which are invariably 50 year, but by be-
coming a member of this Association it secures
to all the two-fold benefit of three dollars worth
of sterling literature and ticket in the distri-
button of the most magnificent collection of
choice works of art in the country even supe-
rior to that of the old American Art Union
The nagazines will be promptly forwarded to
members By mail, each month, fiom New York
and Philadelphia.
The net proceeds derived by this Association
from the sale of memberships will be devoted
expressly to the purchase Of Works of Art for
the ensuing year.
The Gallery of the As ocia ion will he located
at SanduskJ City, Ohio, where superb Granite
Buildings are bcirG erected Tor it, and will soon
be open to visitors.
Eastern and Western Offices for subscriptions
will be located in New York and Sandusky
Pers MS renting fu .ds for membership should
state the month with which they wish their
magazines 10 commence, and also their Pot Of
flee address in full, on the receipt of which,
certificate of membership, together with the
magazine desired, will be forwarded to aay art
of the country.
The increasing interest felt in the advance
ment of the Fine Arts, warrants the belief that
this Association will, with the powerful aid o.
Literature, becomes at once
UNlVE SALLY FOpT LAR,
as it not only cullvaes and encourages the Fine
Arts but disseminates lirg i ertuie through
out The land thereby adapting itself to the present
wants and tastes of the American people, ena-
bling both rich and poor to make their homes
pleasant and attractive, by the aid If Sculpture,
Paintings, and the best reading matter which
the wide range of American aad Foreign Liter.
atu,e affords.
The Managers have determined that all which
energy and industry can do, combine with iu.
cious and liberal expenditure, shall be done,
in order to extend the usefulness of the Asso-
c alton, and to augment its power in advancing
the true interests of Art in the United States.
The new Gallery Rooms in Sandusky are be-
ing rapidly completed, in which the whole COL
lee ton now forming in N, York will be exhibited
New volumes Of the magazines Commence S ii.
July, presenting an excellent opportunity for be
coming member. Each mr mber is entititd 20
two volumes year, and can commence will
any number or month Of he magazine from all
uary last. Books ar, now open to receive
names. Office of The Associations in the Knick
erbocker Office, No 84s Broadway, N. Y, and
at No. Waler- S., Sandusky Address at Ell h.
er Office. CL DERBY,
Actuary c A 81 A
M. P. WRIGHT, Hon. Sec, Plymouth, Ohio.