The Van Buren press., 1874-09-01
Prospectus for l874-Seventh Year.
THE ALDlN E,
An Illustrated Monthly Journal. unirersaig admitted
to be the Handsomest Periodical in the
World. A Representatives and
Champion Of American
Taste.
Not for Sale in Book or .Ners Stores

The Aldine. while issued with all the regulari
ty. has none of the temporary or timely interest
characteristic Of ordinary periodicals.. u is an
elegant miscellany of pure. light and graceful lit
erature and collection of pictures, the rarest
specimens of artistic skill in black and white
Although each succeeding number affords fresh
pleasure to its frler ds the real value and beauty
Of The Adine will be most apprt 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 a similar class, The
Aldine is a unique and original conception -alone
and approached-absoluiely without competi.
| toa in price and character. The possessor Of q
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 Aldne have won
world wide reputation. and in the art centres o
| 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 wood-cuts of The Al
dine possess all the delicacy aud elaborate finish
of the most costly steel plate. whlr 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 a view to the
highest artistic and greatest general inter
est Thus the subscriber to The Aldine will, at
fling 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. D. Woodward
| The Christmas issue for 1874 will contain spe-
cia designs appropriate to the seasun, by 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 a 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 Congr' ss 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, Yyom-
ing Territory TIE difference in the nature Of the
scenes themselves is pleasing contrast and af
fords n good display of the artists scope ard col
orng The chromos each worked from thirty
distinct plates. and ARE in size ~ l6) and np-
pearance exact fac SMILES Of the originals.
These chromos are in every sense American.
They are by original American process, with
materials Of American manufacture. from designs
Of American scenery by IN American painter and
presented to Subscribers to the first successful
| 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 reason of peculiar facilities Of
production they cost the publishers only trife,
while equal in every respect to other chronos that
are sold sngly for doubl, the subscription price of
The Aldne 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.
II any subscriber should Indicate preference
fora figure subject. the publishers will send
"Thoughts of Home " a new and beautiful chro-
mo, ID 20 inches, representing little Italian ex
lie whose speaking eyes betray the longing OF his
heart.
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