Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-07-03

yet published, although Il is nearly ready FL
the market. 1t entirely surpasscs All II.
previous efforts. 1t is Corregios Mac.
DALESA," and can hardly fail, we think, t.
Like every raodern discovery, chrono-
lithography has its partisans aud dctractors
those who elsim for il perhaps impossible
eapa abilities, AID those who regard il as a
mere handicrah, which no sI.ill can ever Gle
ya'e into the dignity Of an art. We Do ~;
care 10 enter iHto tLeie disputes. Whether
an art or handicrafi, chrome TYPOGRAPHY
certainly re produces charming little pictures
vastly superior 70 any colored plates that
we have had before and it IL. at least.
clearly entitled te be regarded az q mems u
educating tho popular tate, and thereby
r..l.iIa the national IDEAL of art.
A correspondent, looking at chromos from
this point OF view, thus indicates Iii mag lie
somewhat enthusiastically their possible
influence on the cIltare Of The people -
:. What the discover oil the art Of prints
ing did for the mental growth Of the pso-
PIE, Tie art Of chromo-llthography seems
destined to accomplish for their aesthetic
culture. Before types we're FIRST made,
scholars and the wea!lhier classes had am
pie opportunities for study, for even when
Bibles were chained in churches. and cop
les Of the Scriptures then aptiy so-styledl
were worth herd Of cattle, there w,r.
large libraries accessible 70 the ari.iocracy
Of rank and mind Bat they were guard. d
against the masses by tie double doors 81
privilege and ignorance. A hool. possessed
no attractions for the man who coG.1 rot
read the alphabet, an3, Jecquse they were
so rare and hard to get at he had no incite
ment 10 master tbeir mysteries. Maze
cheap and common, the meanesi peasant,
in the course Of few generations, found -.
la &C for his gsiets in the pages of the greatest
authors Of biz times and OF all time. Mem
tai culture became possible For whole nations.
and democracy, with its iilitnitable blessings,
gradually grew up uLder tie little shadow O.
the first printers proof"
g U ntii within quite recent period. art has
been feudal ia its associations. Galleries
Of priceless paintings, indeed there have al
ways been in certain favored cities and coun.
tries but to the people, as a whole, they
have been equally inaccessible and and un :
appreciated, because no previous training
had taught the community hoc to prize them.
II was like Harvard College without The dis.
trio, school, planet without satellites, aud
too far removed from the word Of the neople
for its lightto shine in the cottage and in the
homo Of the masses.
snow, chrono-lilhographv. although still
in its infancy, promises to diif'ase NOT love
of art merely among the people At large. but
to disseminate the choicest masterpieces q
artitself. II is art replbicanized and na,u-
rallied in America. Its attempts hilheF,o
have been comparatively unarnoitious b, I
it was not Homer and Plato that we're fr-t
honored by the priuiing.press 1t was
dreary cntechisms Of dreary creeds. So it
will be wih this new art. As the popular
taste improves, the subjects will be worthier
Of an art which seeks TO give back 10 man.
kind what has hithorto been confined 10 tic
few.