The Van Buren press., 1873-12-02
Not TOR Sale in Book sr .Nsws Stores.

The Aldine, while issued with all the regulari.
ty has none of the temporary or timely interest
characteristic OF ordinary periodicals.. Ii is an
elegant miscellany OF pure, light and graceful lit
erature 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 it has
been bound up at the close Of the year While
other publications may claim superior cheapnes,
as compared with rivals of a similar class, The
Aldine is a unique and original conception-alone
and pproached-absolutely without competi
tioa in price and character. The posssssor Of u
volume cannot duplicate the quantity Of fine pa
per and engravngs in any other shape or number
Of volumes for ten times its cost and then, there
are the chromos, besides
ART DEPARTMENT, 1874.
The illustrations of The Aldine have won
world de reputation and in the art centres Of
Europe it is an admitted fact that its wood cuts
are examples Of the highest perfection attain,
ed. The common prejudice in favor Of steel
plates. is rapidly yielding TO more educated
and discriminating taste which recognizes the ad-
vantages of superior artistic quality with greater
facility of production. The wood-outs Of The Al
Of the most costly steel plate, while they afford
better rendering of the artists original.
To fully realize the wonderful work which The
Aldine is doing for the cause of art culture in
America, it is only necessary to consider the cost
to the people Of any other decent representations
Of the productions of great painters.
In addition to designs by the mcp,be of the
National Academy, and other noted American ar.
fists, The Aldine viii reproduce examples Of the
best foreign ma ters. selected with view to the
highest artistic success and greatest general inter
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trifing cost enjoy in his own home the pleasures
and refining influences Of true art.
The quarterly tinted plates for 1874 will be hy
Thos Moran and J. d. Woodward
The Christmas issue for 1874 will contain spe-
cial designs appropriate to the season. 10y our bost
artists and will surpsss in attraction any of its
predecessors.
PREMIUM FOR 1874
Every subscriber to The Aldins for the year
1874 will receive a pair Of chromos. The original
pictures were painted in oil for the publishers of
The Aldine, by Thomas Moran, whose great Col
orado picture was purchased by Congr SIS for ten
thousand dollars The subjects were chosen to
represent " The East and " The West" Oneis
q view of Tie White Mountains, New Hampshire:
the other gives The Cliff. Of Green River Yyom.
ing Territory, TIE difference in the nature Of the
scenes themselves is pleasing contrast, and af
orng. The chromos are each worked from thirty
distinct plates. and are in size (l2 l6) aud ap
psarance exact fac SMILES of the originals,
These chromos are in every sense American.
They are by an original American process, with
materials of American manufacture, from dssigns
of American scenery by an American painter and
presented to subscribers to the first successful
American Art Journal. If no better because of all
this. they will certainly possess an interest no for
eign production can inspire, and neither are they
any the worse if by reason Of peculiar facilities of
prod notion they cost the publishers only n tritle
while equal in every respect to other chromos that
are sold singy for doub, the subscription price of
The Adine. Persons of taste will prize these pic.
lures for themselves for the price they did or
did not cost, and will appreciate the enterprise that
renders their distribution possible.
IL any subscriber should indicate a preference
for a figure subject. the publishers will send
b" Thoughts of Home. a new and beautiful chro-
mo- ID % inches, representing little Italian ex-
lie whose speaking eyes betray the longing of his
heart.
TERMS,