The Van Buren press., 1874-06-09
Not .for Sale in Book or .News Stores.

| The Aldine, while issued with all the regulari
ty. has none of the temporary or timely interes
characteristic of ordinary periodicals.. 1t is al
elegant miscellany Of pure light and graceful lit
erature and a collection of pictures, the rares
specimens of artistic skill. in black and white
Although each succeeding number affords fresh
pleasure to its frieu ds the real value and beauty
of The Aldne will Toe most appr, clated after 1t ha:
been bound up at the close OF the year Whii'
other publications may claim superior cheapness
as compared with rivals of a similar class, The
Aldine is unique and original conception-aon'
and proached-absolutely without competi
tioa in price and character. The possessor of 1
volume cannot duplicate the quantity OF fine pa
per and engravings in any other shape or number
of volumes for ten times its cost and then, ther,
are the chromos, besides
ART DEPARTMENT, 1874.
The illustrations of The Aldine have won
world wide reputation, and in the art centres o
Europe it is an admitted fact that its wood cut:
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 al
vantages of superior artistic quality with greater
facility of production. The wood.cu Of The AL
dine possess all the delicacy aud elaborate finish
of the most costly steel plate, while they afford a
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 productions of great painters.
In addition to designs by the members of the
National Academy. and other noted American ar
lists The Aldine will reproduce examples of the
best foreign masters selected with view to the
highest artistic success and greatest general inter
est. Thus the subscriber to The Aldine will, at
triflng cost enjoy in his own home the pleasures
and refining influences of true art.
The quarterly tinted plates fcr 1874 will be Ivy
Thos Moran and j. ID. Woodward
The Christmas issue for 1874 will contain spe.
cial 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 Aldine for the year
1874 will receive pair of chromos. 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
a view of Tie White Mountains, New Hampshire /;
the other gives The Cliffs of Green River, lyom-
ing Territory. The difference in the nature of the
scenes themselves is a pleasing contrast, and af-
iords good display of the artists scope ard col
oring. The chromos are each worked from thirty
distinct plates. and are in size (l2 l6) and APP
pearance exact fac SMILES Of the originals.
These chromos are in every sense American.
They are by an original American process, with
materials of American manufacture, from designs
of American scenery 10y an American painter and
presented to subscribers to the first successtul
American Art Journal. If no better because of all
this they will certainly possess an interest no for
egn production can inspire and neither are they
any the worse if by Of peculiar facilities of
production they cost the publishers only trife,
while equal in every respect to other chromos that
are sold singly for doubl, the subscription price of
The Aldine Persons of taste will prize these pic
lures for themselves-not for the price they did or
did not cost and will Appreciate the enterprise that
renders their distribution possible.
If any subscriber should indicate preference
for figure subject, the publishers will send
Thoughts of Home, " new and beautiful chro-
mo, If % inches, representing little Italian ex-
lie whose speaking eyes betray the longing of his
heart.