The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-07-25
Prospectus for 1874 EyENTH YEAR
THE ALDINE.
An Illustrated Monthly journal, universally
admitted 20 I've the handsomest period.
zeal in the World. A representative
and champion Of American taste.
NOT For SAFE IN book OF. TEws STORE

The Aldiue, while issued with oil the reg
ularity, has none of the temporary or time
ly interest characteristic of ordinary peri
odicals. II Is an elegant miscellany OF pure
light and graceful literature and q collec-
ton OF pictures, the rarest specimen of ar.
tistic skill, in black and white. Although
each succeeding number affords flesh
pleasure to its friends, the real value ana
beauty OF ihc Aldine will be most appreci-
ated after 1t has been bound up at the close
OF the year. While other publications may
claim superior eheapness, as compared with
rivals of a similar class, the Eldine is an un-
ique and original eptlon-alone and un
proached-absolutely without concept
III price or character.
ART DEPARTMENT.. 1874.
The illustrations OF the Aldine have w
= worldwide reputation, and In the art Gen.
tres OF Europe 1t is an admitted fact that
its wood cuts are examples CT the highest
perfection ever attJ med. The common
prejudice in fayorD' steel plates" is rap
idly yielding 10 u 49, seduoated and dis
eliminating taste which recognizes the adj
Vantages the advantages OF superior artistic
quality with greater facility OF production.
The quarterly tinted plates for 1874 will be
~ rhos: Moran and J. ID. woodward.
The Christmas issue tor 1874 will contain
~psaial da.ipns appropriate TO the season,
| by our best artists, and will surpass in ut
I fractions any of its predecessors.
PREMIUMS FoRIs74.
Every subscriber TO the Aldine tor IL
| year 1874 will receive u pair OF chromo6
| The original pictures were painted in oil 10
| the publishers OF the Aldine. by 1home
Moran, whose great dorado pictures AMI
purchased BY congress for ten thouand
dollars. The subjects were chosen TO rep
resent ten thousand dollars. The subjsety
were chosen to represent "The East" ana
''The West" one Is a view in the White
Mountains, New hampshire the other
gives the Cliffs OF Green river, Wyoming
territory. The chrOmos are each worked
from thirty distinct plates, and are in size
lt2xl6) and appearance exact fac-simies of
the originals.
Messrs. James sutton x Lo.
GENTLEMES-I am delighted with the
| Pre- offs in color of your chromos. They are
| wonderfully successful representations by
mechanical process of the original painting.
Very respectfully, THos. MORAN.
| These chrOmos are in every sense Ameri-
| can. Thoy are by IN primal American pro-
cess, with material OF American manufac-
ture, from designs OF American scenery by
an American painter, and presented to sub
scrbers TO the first successful American
| Art Journal 1t no better because OF AL
| this. they will certainly possess an interest
no foreign production can inspire, and nei-
| ther are they any the worse II by reason OF
peculiar facilities Of production they coS
1
every respect to other ehromOs that are SOLD
singly tor doubls the subscription price OF
the Aldine.
! IL any subscriber should indicate n pre-
ference for figure subject, the Publishers
| VIII send "Thoughts OF Home" n new An
| beautiful chrome, I4X2J inches, representing
little Italian exile whose speaking eyes
betrsy the longiDgs OF his heart.
! 50 per snuum, In advance, with Oil Chro-
mos free.
For $50 CENTS EXTRA, the cnronos.
mounted ysrnished. and prepaid b. mail
| The AldIne Will, hereafter, be obtainabis
| only by subscription. There will no be re-
| lIced or club rate cash for subscriptions
must he sent 10 the publishers direct, or
| handed TO the local eanya~scr, without re-
sponsibiity to tho publishers, except ia
cases where the certificate is given, bearing
the facimile signature OF james sutton X Go.
CANVASSERS WANTED.
ANY person wishing TO act permanently
~ local eanyasser will receive tull and
lrsmpt information by applying to
JAMES SUTTON " Co., Publishers.
81 Maiden LANE Nav York