The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-12-17
PUBLICATIONS.
Prospectus for 1sr4-seventh Year.
tn AL DIN Z
An illustrated monthly journal, universally I'D
mitted to be the handsomest periodical
in the world. A representative
and champion of Ameri'
can Taste.


Not for Sale In Book or News Stores.
THE ALDINE, while issued with all the
regularity, has none of the temporary or timely
interest characteristic of ordinary periodicals.
1t is an elegant miscellany Of pure, light and
graceful literature and collection of pictures,
the rarest specimens of artistic skill In black and
white. Although each succeeding number
affords fresh pleasure to its friends, the real
value and beauty of THE ALDINE will be
most appreciated after il has been bound up at
the close of the year. While other publications
may claim superior cheapness, as compared
with rivals of similar class, THE ALDINE is
a unique and original conception-alone and
overwhelmingly without competition
I'm price or character. The possessor of COM
plete volume cannot duplicate the quantity of
fine paper and epgravings in any other shape or
number ofvolumes for ten times its cost; and
then, there are the chromos, besides
ART DEPARTMENT. 1874.
The Illustrations of THE ALDINE have won
a worldwide reputation, and in the art centres
of Europe it is an admitted fact that its wood
cuts are examples of the highest perfection ever
attained. The common prejudice in favor OF
''steel plates,'' is rapidly yielding to a more
educated and discriminating taste which recog-
nizes the advantages of superior artistic quality
with greater faculty of nroduction. The wood.
cuts of THE AI.DINE possess nj, the delicacy
and elaborate finish of the most costly steel
plate, while they afford better rendering of the
artists original
10 fnllv reaIize the wonderful work which
THE AI.DINE is doing for the cause of art cul.
ture in America. it is only necessary to consider
the coat TO the peopIe of any other decent re-
nresantations of the productions of great pain.
tar, .r.
Tn addition IN desiops nv the members of the
National Academy. and other noted American
artists. THE ALDINE will reproduce examples
Of the best foreign masters, selected with a yiew
to the highest artistic success and greatest gen.
era, interest. Thus the subscriber to THE
ATDINE all, at a trifling cost, enjoy in his
own home the pleasures and reflaing influences
of true art.
= rh. ouortarlv ti,ted pIates for 1874 will he
r.. Ts,s nToro, ond n woodword
m. Ch.as,mas ;s.pa for 1874 will, contain
snocia, designs annropriate 10 the season. bv our
best artists. and will surpass in attractions any
of its nredecessors.
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PREMIUM FOR 1874.
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~. III, .osi.,a III. IS -ab.a,,so. rho
;o;uaI ,ra,o ,,ainted Il; o,, f,r tha nnb.
,ishsrs og TpE aI,DINE. Inv Thomas Moran.
whose great Colorado picture was purcho sed bv
Congress for ten thousand dollars. The subjects
were chosen to represent 1.-THE East, and "The
westn One Is n view in The White Mountains.
New Hampshlre the other gives The Cliffs of
araen River wyoming Territory. The differ
once in the n,ture of The SCENES themselves is a
nIoaaipo contrast and affords a good disn,av
Of the artists scope and coloriur. The chromos
are each worked from thirty distinct plates. and
are in size f,a X Is, and appearanes exact fac.
SMILES of the originals. The presentation of a
worthy example of Americas greatest landscape
panter to the subscribers of THE AI.DINE was
a bold but peculiarly happy idea, and its success
flu, realization is attested by the following testi
monial, over the signature of Mr.. Moran himself.
NEWARK, N J., September Goth, 1878