The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-09-04
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FOR 1s74-SEvENTH YEAR.
THE ALDIN f,
ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY JOURNAL
Universally admitted to be the Handsomest
Periodical i'll the World-A Repre-
sentative and Champion Of
American 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
of artistic skin, in black and white. Al
though each succeeding number affords
aRs to sS TSs tsS real rS be
most appreciated after it has been bound
up at the close of the year. While other
Is compared with rivals Of = similar Class,
The A1dine is a unique and original con-
iuteiy without conpetitioh IN price or cRsp
acter The Possessor of q complete volume
mot the Of pa
number of volumes, for ten times it's 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 centers of Europe it is an admitted fact
highest perfection ever attained. The conf
| MOI, prejudice in favor of ''steel plates'' is
discriminating taste which recognizes the
advantages of superior artistic quality with
n faeilfy for The ood
! and elaborate finish OF the most costly steel
plate, while they afford n better rendering
To fully realize the wonderful work which,
! The Aldine is doing for the cause OF art
Consider the cost to the people Of any osep
decent representations of tho productions
| of great painters.
American artists, The Aldine will repro
selected with a view to the highest artistic
success and greatest general interest: Thus
the a; subscriber to The "A, Aidine will, az
pleasures and refining influences Of true art.
| The quarterly tinted plates for 1874 will
The Christmas issue for 1874 viii contain
special designs appropriate to the season,
| fractions any Of its predecessors.
PREMIUM CHRON1Os FOR 1874.
Every subscriber to The Aldine, who
ceive, without additional charge, pair of
| beautiful oil chronos. The original pictures
were painted in oil for the publishers OF
The Aidine by Thomas Moran, whose grea,
Colorado picture was purchased by Congress
for $4,000. The subjects We're chosen to
is a view in the White Mountains, New
| Hampshire; the other gives the Cliffs of
n The
| themselves is pleasing contrast, and at
! fords good display Of the artistic scope
ed from thirty distinct plates and are are in
| size l2 10Y and appearance exact fac
Of ' a Worthy exa,aple Of America,s greatest
| landscape painter to the Subscribers of The
Aldine was a bold but peculiarly happy
| ed by the following testimonial, over the
signature of MIR. Moran himself:
! NEWARK, n. j., Sept. 20, 1873.
! Gent!emen-I am delighted with the
proofs in color of your chromos. They are
mechanical process of the original paint
| THOMAS MORAN.
can. They are by All original American
process, with mat crial OF American manu-
facture, from designs of American scenery
| by al American painter, and presented to
| subscribers OF the first successful American
| Art journal. Ii no better because of all
which no foreign production can inspire,
and neither are they any the worse il by
they s' cost the publshers but tribe, whiie
equal in every respect to other chrolnos
| that are sold singly for double the srbscrip-
ton price Of The Aidine. Persons of taste
will prize these pictures for themselves
not for the price they did or did not cost,
| and will appreciate the enterprise that rem
| ders their distribution possible.
If any subscriber should indicate pre-
| ference for figure subject, the publishers
| will send Thoughts of Home" a new and
beautiful chrome, l4x2O inches, represent
| ing little Italian exile whose speaking
| eyes betray the longings of his heart.
s. per annum, in advance, with Oil Chro-
mos free.
For mtg cents ertra, the chromos will be
| sent, mounted, vanished, and prepaid by
mail.
The Aldine will hereafter be obtainable
only by subscription. There will be no
duced or club rate; cash tor subscriptions
must be sent to the publishers direct,
handed to the local agent, without respon.
sibility to tho publishers, except in cases
where t he certificate is given, Bearing the
fac simile signature of James Sutton & Co.
AGENTS WANTED.
Any person, wishing to act permanently
| as local agent will receive full and prompt
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