The Van Buren press., 1874-03-31
Not for Sale in Book or .News Stores

The Aldine, while issued with all the regulari-
ty has none of the temporary or timely interest
characteristic of ordinary periodicals. II is on
elegant miscellany of pure light and graceful lit.
erature and n collection of pictures, the rarest
specimens of artistic skill. in black and white.
Although each succeeding number affords fresh
pleasure to its frien ds the real value and beauty
Of The Aldne will be most appr, ciated 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-alonc
and approached--absoulely without competi-
tioa in price and character. The possessor OF
volume cannot duplicate the quantity OF hne pa
per and engravings in any other shape or number
Of volumes for ten times its cost aud then, there
are the chromos, besides!
ART DEPARTMENT, 1874.
The illustrations of The Aldne have won
world wide reputation, and in the art centres Of
Europe it is an admitted fact that its wood cuts
are examples OF the highest perfection ever 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 woodcuts OF he Al
dine possess all the delicacy aud elaborate finish
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 1t is only necessary to consider the cost
to the people Of any other decent representations
Of the reductions Of great painters
IN addition to designs hy the members of the
National Academy. and other noted American ar
lists, The Aldine will reproduce examples of the
best foreign masters. selected with a view to the
highest artistic success and greatest general inter
est Thus the subscriber to The Aldine will, at
trifng cost enjoy in his own homethe pleasures
and refining influences Of true art.
The quarterly tinted plates for 1874 will be hy
Thos Moran and j. ID. Woodward
The Christmas issue for 1874 will contain spe-
cia designs appropriate to the season, 10y our bost
artists and will surpass in attraction any of its
predecessors.
PREMIUM FOR 1874.
Every subscriber to The Aldne for the year
1874 will receive pair Of ehromos. The original
pictures were painted in oil for the publishers of
The Aldine, by Thomas Moran, whose great Col
orado picture was purchased by Congress for ten
thousand dollars. The subjects were chosen to
represent The East and The West" Oneis
view of Tie White Mountains, New Hampshire;
the other gives The Cliffs of Green River fyom'
ing Territory. TIE difference in the nature of the
scenes themselves is a pleasing contrast, and af-
fords good display of the artists scope ard col
distinct plates and are in size az X l6) and APP
pearance exact fac similes of the orr gnals.
These chromos are in every sense American.
They are l,y an original American process, with
materials of American manufacture, from designs
of American scenery by nm American painter and
presented to subscribers to the first successful
American Art Journal III no better because OF all
this, they will certainly possess an interest no for
eign production can inspire and neither are they
any the If by of peculiar facilities OF
prediction they cost the publishers only trihe,
while equal in every respect to other chromos that
are sold sngly for doubl, the subscription price of
The Aldine, 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
II any subscriber should indicate a preference
for figure subject. the publishers will send
" Thoughts of Home, " new and beautiful chro-
mo- IA 20 inches, representing little Italian ex-
lie whose speaking eyes betray the longing OF his
heart.
TERMS.
IS per annum, in advance, UiM OIL
ChromOS Free.
For SO cents extra, the chromos will be sent,
vanished, and PREPAID by mail.
The Adine WILL hereafter. be obtainable only
by subscription There will be no reduced or
club rate cash for subscription must be sent to
the publishers direct, or handed tie the local can.
vasser, ,withoutsresponsbility to the publishers.
except in where the certificate is given bear
ing the facsimile signature ofJames Sutton d Co.
SSERS WANTED.
Any person wishing to net permanently asa 10 |
cal canyasser will receive full aud prompt infor-
nation by applying to
JAMES SUTTON h CO., Publishers.
nov.'73 SO Maiden Lane, N. Y.