The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-06-23
A Representative and Champion OF
American Art Taste,
Prospectus for IS15-Eighth Year.
The Aldine.
The Art Journal of America
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The AlGine.

The necessity oI popular medium fur tie
representation ui ttr pruue5 ions 81 our great AZ
ti>;s, n-S a ways been recognized anu many Al
teIuYJS have been made To meet . he ant. The
successive failures which Sc invariably follow al
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journal, dId not pluye the indifference OF The
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soon as proper appreciation Of the want aud
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fuI literature; and collection of pictures, the
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