Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1874 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A REPRESENTATIVE AND CHAMPION OF AMERICAN ART TASTE! Prospectus for 1879Eighth Year. tiii*; at,Tiny'Ey THE ART JOURNAL OF , AMERICA, Issued Monthly. “4 MaguMcentConception Xff onOertally carle* omt.” The necessity of a popular medium for the representation of the productions of groat artists, has always been recognized, end many attempts have been made to meet the want. The sutcessive failure Which so invariably followed each attempt in this country to sstablish an art journal, di 1 not provs the indifference of the people of America to the claims of high art. So soon as a 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 * gr- at artistic and commercial triumph—The Aldiue. The AlAae, while issued with all the egularity, has none of the tempoi ary or time y interest characteristic of ordinary periodicals. It is an elegant miscellany of pure, light, and graceful literature; and a collection of pictures, the rarest specim ns of artistic skill in black, and white.— Although each succeeding number afforJs a fresh pleasure to its fr.ends, the real value and beauty of The Aid ne will'be most appreci ted after it is bound up at the close of the year. While other publications m.y cla ni superior cheapness, as compa ed with rivals of a similar ufcass, Ihe A 1 din j is an unique and original conception—alone and unapproaohed—absolutely without competition in price or character. The possessor of a complete voluinu can not duplicate the quantity of fine paper and engravings in any other shape or number of volumes for ten times its cost; and there is the chromo, besides! The national feature of The Aldine must be taken in no narrow sense. True art is cosmopolitan. Whi‘.s The Aldine is a str ctly American institution, it does not coniine itself entirely to the reproduction of native art. Its mission is to cultivate a bread and appreciative art taste, one that will discriminate only on grounds of intrinsic merit. Thus, while placing before the patrons of The Aldine, as a leading chaiacteristio, th- productions of the most noted American ar ista, attentiou will always be given to specimens from foreign m-w.era, giving subacrib rs all the pleasure and instruction ob.oiaable from home or foreign sources. The artistie illustration of American scenery, original with The Aldine, is an important feature, and its magnificent plates are of a sue more appropriate to the satisfactory treatment of details than can be afforded by any inferior page. The judicious interupersion of landscape, marine, figure, a*.d animal subjects, sustain an unabated interest, impossible where the wjrk confines the artist too closely to a single style of subject. The literature of The Aldine is a light and gra eful accompaniment, worthy of the artistic features, with only such techntcal disquisitions as do not interfere with the popular in erest of the work.

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