The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-03-05
A Representative and Champion of
american Art Tastel
Prospectus for 1S75-Eighth Year.

The necessity of a popular medium for the
representation of the productions of our great ar
lists, has always been recognized, and many at
tempts have been made to meet .he want. The
successive failures which so invariably followed
each attempt in this country to establish an art
journal, did not Prove the indifference of the
people of Hmerica to the claims of high art So
soon as proper appreciation 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 a great artistic and commercial
triumph-THE ALDLNE:
THE ALDINE, while issued with all the reg
uearity, has none OF the temporary or timely in
terest characteristic of ordinary periodicals. 1t
is elegant miscellany of pure, light and grace
full literature; and collection of pictures, the
rarest specimens of artistic skill, in black and
white. Although each succeeding number af-
fords fresh pleasure TO its friends, the real val
ue and beauty of THE ALDINE will be most
appreciated after it has been bound up at the
close of the year. While other publications may
claim superior cheapness, as compared with ri
walls of similar class, HEALD1NEi is unique
and original cOnception-alone and unapproach-
ed-absolutely without competition in price or
character. The possessor of a complete volume
cannot duplicate the quantity of fine paper and
engravings in any other shape or number of vol
umes for ten times its cnSt and then, there are The
chronos beSideSy
The national feature of THE ALDLNE must
be taken in no narrow sense. True art is cos
mopolitan. While THE ALDINE is a strictly
American institution, it does not confne itself
entirely to the reproduction of native art taste,
one that will discriminate only on grounds of
intrinsic merit. Thus, while placing before the
patrons OF THE ALDINE, as q leading charac-
ieristic, the productions of the most noted Amer
lean al fists, attention will always be given to
specimens from foreign masters, giving subscri-
hers all the pleasure and instruction Obtainable
from home or foreign sources.
The artistic illustration of American scenery,
original with THE ALDLNE is an important
feature, and its magnificent plates are of size
more appropriate to the satisfactory treatment
of details than can be afforded by any inferior
page. The judicious interposition of landscape,
marine, figure. and animal subjects, sustain an
unabated iaterest, impossible where the scope
of the work confines the artist too closely to a
sidgle style of .ubject. The literature of THE
ALDLNE is light and graceful accompaniment,
worthy of the artistic features, with only such
technical disquisitions as do not interfere with
the popular interest of the work
Premium for 1875.
Every subscriber for 1875, will receive beauti-
full portrait, in oil colors of the same noble dog
whose picture in a former issue attracted SO
much attention
"Mar's Unsel1fsh Friend"
will be welcome in every home. Everybody
loves such dog, and tn portrait is executed SO
euce of the animal itself
Besides the chrome, every advance subscriber
to THE ALDINE for 1875 is constituted menu
Der, and entitled to all the privileges OF
The Aldine Art Union.
The Union owns the originals of all the Aldine
pictures, which, with other paintings and en-
cravings, are to be distributed among the mem
bers. To every series of 5000 subscribers, 100
tributed the series is full, and the
awards of each series as made, to be publish
ed in the next succeeding issue of THE Al,
DINE. This feature only applies to subscribers
who pay for one year in ddpance. Full particu-
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stamp.
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only by subscription. There will he no reduced
club rates; cash for subscriptions must be sent
to the publishers direct or handed to the local
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except in cases where the certificate is given
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