Middletown transcript., 1875-01-09

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The necessity of popular medium for the
representation ofthe productions of our great
artists, has always been recognized and many
attempts have been made to meet the want.
The successive failures which so invariably
followed each attempt in this country to es-
4 tablish an art journal, did not prove the in
| difference Of the people of America to the
claims of high art So soon as a proper ap4
probation of the want and an ability to meet
| it were shown, the public at once rallied with
enthusiasm to its support, and the result was
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II is an elegant miscellany Of pure, light and
graceful literature; and collection of pic
lures, the rarest specimens of artistic skill, in
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