The Ouachita telegraph., 1875-01-29
PUBLICATIONS.

PROSPECTUS
FOR 1s74-sEvENTH YEAR,
TIL E a LDINE,
ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY JOURNAL.
Universally admitted to be the Handsomest
Periodical i'll the World-A Repre-
sentative and Champion of
American Taste.
The AIdine, while issued with all the
regularity, has mono Of the temporary or
periodicals. It is an elegant miscellany Of
pure, light, and graceful literature; and a
ef in baek she anS
though each succeeding number affords a
fresh pleasure to it's friends, The real value
most appreciated after it has been bound
up at the close of the year. While other
as compared with rivals Of a similar Class
The AIdine is unique and original con,
lutely without composition in price or Char
acter The Possessor OF a complete volume
can can not not duplicate the Quantity Of fine pa
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 a worldwide reputation, and in the
art centers of Europe it. is an admitted fact
that at M its wood cuts are examples of the
mon prejudice in favor Of ''steel plates" is
| rapidly yielding to a more educated and
advantages Of superior artistic quality with
superior facility tor production. The wood
| and elaborate finish OF the most costly steel
plate, while 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, it is only necessary to
| consider the cost to the people of any other
decent representations OF the productions
| OF great painters. =
III addition to designs by the members of
the National Academy, and other noted
American artists, The Aldine will repro
tluce examples of the best foreign masters,
selected with a view to the highest artistic
success and greatest general interest. Thus
the. subscriber to The Aldine will, at a
pleasures and refining influences Of truc art.
The quarterly tinted plates for 1874 will
The Christmas issue for 1874 will contain
by our best artists, and viii 81 surpass pas siS in at
fractions any Of its predecessors.
PREMIUM CHROMos FOR 1874.
Every subscriber to The Aldine, who
pays in advance for the year 1874, will re-
ccive, without additional charge, a pair of
| beautiful oil chromos. Tho original pictures
were painted i'll oil for the publishers of
The Aidine by Thomas Moran whose great
Colorado picture was purchased by Congress
represent ':.rhe East',snd ..The west:'' One
| Hampshire the other gives the Cliffs of
Green River, Wyoming Territory. The
themselves is pleasing CONTRAST and at
! iords good display of the artists scope
rom r sinot patcs eaea ae york
SMILES Of the originals. The presentation
landscape painter to the Subscribers of The
! AidiEc was bold but peculiarly happy
| ed by the following testimonial, over the
signature of Mr. Moran himself:
NEWARK, N. j., Sept. 90 1873.
gentlemen am delighted with tho
| proofs in color OF your cllrUmos. They :tro
wonderfully successful representations by
| mechanical process OF the original paint
| THoMAs MORAN.
| These cl:rofnos are in every scusc Ameri-
! can. They arc by ori.,in American
process, with mai crial of American manu-
f:acture, from designs of American scenery
~Ebscrilcrs of the first successful american
| Art Journal. If no better because of all
bbhey S fSen S a"
| and neither are they any the worse ii by
| reason OF peculiar facilities of production
| they cost the publishers trifie, while
| equal in every respect to other chroii1os
that are sold singly ior double the subscrip-
| ton price Of The Atdine. Persons OF tasio
] will prize these pictures for themselves
not for the price they did or did not cost,
and will appreciate the enterprise that rem
| dcrs their distribution possible.
| If any subscriber should indicate pro-
ference for "a: figure subject. the publishers
| will send ''Thoughts OF IIoine,'' Il new and
! beautiful chrome, 14N20 inches, represent
| ing Il little Italian exile whose speaking,
| eyes betray the l1ngings Of his heart.
| TERMS.
So per annum, in advance, with Oil Chro-
| mos free.
For ffty cents ertr0. the chromos will be
| sent, mounted, vanished, and prepaid by
| mail. =.
| The Aldine will hereafter be obtanablo
| only by su Inscription. There will be
| duccd or club rates cash for subscriptions
! must be sent to the publishers direct,
handed to the local agent, without respon-
! sibility to the publishers, except in cases
| where the certificate is given, bearing tho
| fac-simile signature of James Sutton 4 Co.
AGENTS WANTED.
| Any person, wishing to act permanently
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