The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-02-19

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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 art
journal, did not pIove the indifference of the
people OF Hmerica to the claims of high art. So
soon as proper appreciation of the want and
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full literature; and collection of pictures, the
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appreciated after it has been bound up at the
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