The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18

| The necessity of a popular medium for the
representatlonoft the productions of our great ar
lists, has always been recognized, and many at
| tempts have been made to meet :he want. The
successive failures which so invariably followed
each attempt IN this country to establish an art
| journal, did not prove the Indifference of the
| people OF Hmeriea to the claims of high art. So
soon as proper appreciation Of the want and
an ability to meet it were shown the public at
once rallied with enthusiasm TO its support, and
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uearity has none OF the temporary or tiD.e{y in
terest characteristic of ordinary periodicals 1t
is an elegant miscellany of pure, light and grace
tul literature; and collection of pictures the
rarest specimens of artistic skill, in black and
white Although each succeeding number af-
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appreciated after it has been bound up at the
close of the year. While other publications NAV
walls of a similar class, THE ALDIN is a UNIQUE
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Iechpical disquisitions as do not interfere with
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