The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-01-29

The necessity OF popular medium for the
representation of the productions OF our great
lists, has always been recognized, and many at
tempts have been made to meet the want. The
successive failures which SO invariably followed
each attempt in this country to establish an art
journal, did not pIove the indifference of the
people of Hmerica to the claims of high art. So
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