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THE ALDINE.
PROSPECTUS FOR 1872.
FIFTH YEAR
A Representative and Champion Of Amert-
can Art.


THE -AIDIN H:
An Illustrated Monthly Journal claimed
be the handSomest Paper IN the
World.
give my love totho aftlst workmen of TIE
ALllNE who are STRIVING to make their profess
ioh worthy OF admiration for beauty, AZ 1t mas
| ways been for usefulness, '-H>nry Ward Beechei
| THE ALDLNE, while issued with all the reg.
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est characteristics OF ordinary periodicals. It's
an elegant miscellaney OF pure, light, and grace.
IuI literature, and collection of pictures the
rarcst specimens OF artistic skill, In black ar!
white; Although each succeeding number affords
fresh pleasure &c its friends the real value and
beauty Of THE ALDINE will be most apprscIated
after II has been bound at the close OF the year.
While other publications may claim superior
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The labor OF getting TIL ALDINE ready on the
press IS so great that reprnting Is out oithe ques
ton, with the execution of small number
specially reserved for binding, the edtionn OF
1871, - already exhausted, and IL is now scare
as well al valuable book,
NEW FEATURES FOR 1872
Art Department.
The enthusiastic support so readily accorded
TO tier enterprise, wherever It has been intro.
duced, has convinced the publishers Of THE
ALDlNE of the soundness OF their theory that
the American public wouI d reco 20 and heartily
supper. any sincere effort TO elevate the tone and
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not evidence that there ia no market tor anything
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publisher can choose his patrons, and his paperis
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the country. As a guarantee Of the excellence OF
tins department. the publishers would beg to n
nounce during the coming year, specimens from
the following eminent American Artists:
WV. HART, F.O c. BARLEY
WM. BEARD, NiCTOH NEHLIG,
GEoRGE SMILEY, WV. II. WILCOX,
AuG. WILL, JAMES III. BEARD,
JAMES SMILEY X. f.. PIGUET,
FRANK BEARD, PAuL DMoN,
These pictures are being reproduced without
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the country, and will bear the severest critical
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Literary Department.
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tlclpate snch misg,v,ngs, 1t Is only necerrary to
state, that the editorial management 81 THE
ALDiNE has been entrusted 10 Mr.. RICHARD
HENRY STODDARD. who has received assur-
ances of assistance from host of the most popu-
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The Volume for ls73
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