The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1868-10-08
ChrOmO-Lithography.
From the B,inaio Courier.
BosroN, Adg. 10, 1858.

BOSroN, Aug. 10, 1858.
81 DEAR SIR:- A friend has sen
to me your issueaof July 29th
in which there appears a letter
from a New York correspon
DENT (signed "G,') scontain
ing very unjust andsevere com
ments on the 'Chromo- Mania ;
as the writer is pleased to term
the rapidly increasing love oI
art among the people, VIII ch
chromo,lit ,lithography, whether
in Germany, France, Italy, Eng,
land, or America, has done
more than any one agency Or
than all other agencies steel
engraving and the illustrated
papers alone excepted-to de-
velope and disseminate.
He has apparently made my
publications, or rather the pop.
ularity ofrmy publications, the
text of his unfriendly criticism,
forgetting, or ignorant of the
fact, that, although l have the
largest chromo publishing
house in the country, have
not a monopoly of the business
but that there are imported, by
every steamer from the CONT
nent and England, thousands of
chromos of every style and
quality, and amongst them, l
regret to say, the refuse of
the Berlin market which are
palmed off on our people as ad.
mirable and artistic specimens
of the beautiful art which had
the honor to introduce into the
United States. .
l do not make this charge
against your correspondent
without proof he himself fur
nishes the evidence against
himself in the paragraphs that
| quote:
Somebody says that Prang
IS endeavoring 10 educate men
to a devotion to the best that
there is in art, by showing them
the worst"
ave do not sec how a bad
picture Of a kitten playing with
ball is superior to the orlgi-
nal kitten ard ball which frol-
les in almost eyerybody's kitch.
en-" -... ...tI .'
upset peach.baskets, how
ever skillGully pictured, teach
NJ great lesson either of truth
or beauty, and one turned over
in ones dining room5 would
fail to attract admiration, and
yet they are sold so cheaply by
Mr.. Prang, the great duplicator
of unimportant processes and
things, that they disfgure many
q pretty eating room in New
York"
If art has nothing higher in
it than industry and merchan.
disc, then has Mr.. Prang bene-
fitted US materially but we
can't lay aside our views of the
greater and holier missions of
genius, and be satisfied to see
the world smile and grow glad
over such libeis upon nature"
J. The number of persons who
have studied the principles and
history Of art, and who keep
themselves familiar with its
current record, ia so small that
tits not surprising that this
paragraph should have ap-
peared in so respectable pa
per even as the Buffalo Daily
Courier. Haa ss}
To show equally the gross alb
surdity and injustice of it, let
ME translate it into the current
history of American journal,
ism: I
"Somebody says that MesSrs.
Joseph Warren & Co, are en-
deavoring to educate men to a
devotion to the best that there
is in politics, by showing them
the worst.
ave don't see wherein the
printed radicalism of the Chi.
cago Tribune is superior to out,
spoken radicalism as emitted
by Mr.. Thad. Stevens in the ma
tional congress-" a.
r'The Knoxville Wing, howev.
er unquestionable may be its
loyalty, teaches no great les.
son of either democracy or cal
vinism and yet it is sold so
cheaply by MeSsrs. Joseph
Warren & Co., the great pub
fishers of Newspapers and
things, that the Tribune and
the Wing disligure many a
pretty reading room in New
York k."I "Iirsrr - .l
Now, / had no more to do
l u,,th ,,e,,;n ~ tho EiEfan n broY,,n n