The Portland daily press., 1874-11-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
A Representative and Champion Of
American Art Taste.
Prospectus for 1S75--Eighth Year.
THE ALDINE.
TIE ART JOURNAL ofAMERICA,
Issued Monthly.
Magnificent Conception, wonderfully
carried out.
Prospectus for 1S75--Eighth Year.

The necessity of popular medium for the repre-
sentaon of the productions of our great artists has
been made to meet the want. The successive fail
ures which SO invariably followed each attempt in
this country to establish an art journal, did not
prove the indifference of the people of America to
the claims of high art. So soon proper apprecia
tion OF the want and ability to meet were shown,
the public at once rallied with enthusiasm to its sup
mereial triumph-T1HE ALDINE
THE ALDfNE, while issued with all the regular
characteristic of ordinary periodicals 1t is an ele
giant miscellany of pure, light, and graceful htera-
ture; and collection Of pictures the rarest spec-
each succeeding number affords fresh pleasure to
its friends the real value and beauty of THE A.
DINE will be appreciated after it is bound up at
the close Of the year. While other publications may
similar class, TIE 1IpTNE IS unique and orig
inal conception-alone and unapproached absolutely
without competition in price or character. The pcs
SCISSOR of a complete volume cannot duplicate the
shape or number of volumes for ten lines its cost;
and then, there is the chrome, besides!
The national feature of THE ALEINE must be
taken in no narrow sense. True art is cosmopolitan
While THE ALDINE is strictly American nsti-
tuton it does not c0nfne itself entirely to the repro
duction OF native art Its mission is to cultivate
broad and appreciative art taste that will dis
crminate only on grounds of intrinsic merit. Thus,
while placing before the patrons Of THE ALDLNE,
as leading Characteristic, the productions of the
most noted American artists attention will always
be given to specimens from foreign masters, giving
subscribers all the pleasure and instruction obtana
BILE from home or foreign sources
The artistic illustration of American scenery orig
inal with THE ALDLNE, is an important feature,
and its magnificent plates are of size more appro-
PIRATE to- the satisfactory treatment Of details than
can be afforded by any inferior page. The judicous
interspersion Of landscape, marine, figure, and ami
NAL subjects sustains undated interest impossi
Bile where the scope of the work confines the artist
too closely to single style of subject. The literature
Of TIE 1LDLNEis light and graceful aceompan-
iment, worthy of the artistic features, with only
technical diSQuisitiOnS interfere with
the popular interest of the work.
PREMIUM FOR 1878.
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portrait, in oil colors of the noble dog whose
picture in a former issue attracted SO much atten-
"Man,s Unselfsh Friend,
will be welcome in every home. Everybody loves
such dog, and the portrait is executed so true to
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The union owns the originals of all THE ALDINE
pictures which, with other paintings and engravings
are to be distributed among the members. To every
series of 5000 subscribers 100 different pieces valued
at 500 distributed the series is
FULL and the awards of each series made. are to be
published in the next succeeding issue Of THE AZ
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