The Van Buren press., 1874-11-17
Prospectus for l874-Seventh Year.
THE AlDINE,
An Illustrated Monthly Journal, uRicersuilp admitted
to be the HaHdsomest Periodicai ia the
World. A Representatives and
Champion Of american
Taste.
THE ALDlNE
Not TOR Sale in Book or .News Stores

| The Adine. while issued with all the reguari-
! ty, has of the temporary or timely interest
characteristic Of ordinary periodicals. 1t 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 friends, the real value and beauty
of The Aldne will be most appreciated 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
| Aldne is a unique and original conception-alone
and pproached-absolutely without competi-
tioa in price and character The rossessor of a
volume cannot duplicate the quantity of fine pa
per and ehgrayings in any other shape or number
Of volumes for ten times its cost and then, there
are the chromos, besides!
ART DEPARTMENT, 1874.
The Illustrations of The Aldine 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 attain.
ed. The common pre- judice in favor Of g steel
plates, is rapidly yielding to a more educated
and discriminating taste which recognizes the aG-
vantages of superior artistic quality with greater
facility of production. The wood-cuts of The Al
dine possess all the delicacy and 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
| Aldne is doing for the cause of art culture in
America, it 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 viii 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
a trihing cost, enjoy in his own home the pleasures
and refining influences of true art.
The quarterly tinted plates for 1874 will be Ivy
Thos Moran and J. D. Woodward.
The Christmas issue for lS74 will contain spe-
cial designs appropriate to the season. 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 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. =" One is
view of Tie White Mountains, New Hampshire
the other gives The Cliffs of Green River Gyom-
ing Territory TIE difference in the nature of the
scenes themselves is pleasing contrast, and af-
fnrds good play Of the artists scope and col
oriug The chfomos are each worked from thirty
distinct plates and are in size (l2 l6l and ap-
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 by an American painter and
presented to subscribers to the fret successful
| American Art journal. If no better because of all
this they will certainly possess an interest no fps
eign production can inspire and neither arr thty
any the worse if by reason Of peculiar facilities of
producto 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 Aldne Persons of taste will prize these pic
lures for themselvesnot for the price they did or
did not cost and win Appreciate the enterprise that
lenders their distribution possible.
Ifauy subscriber should indicate preference
for n fgrre subject, the publishers will send
Thoughts o. Home, new and beautiful chro-
mo IA X 20 inches representing little Italian ex-
lie whose speaking eyes betray the longing of his
heart.
TERMS.
IS per annum, in adyante, ~tM OH
Chromos Free.
For 80 cents extra, the chromos will be sent
mounted, vanished and PREPAID by mail.
The Aldne will hereafter be obtanable only