Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1874 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A REPRESENTATIVE AND CHAMPION OF AMERICAN ART TASTE / Prospectus for 1875 — Eighth Year. THE. ALDUtfH, THE ART JOURNAL OF AMERICA, Issued Monthly. “ v Magnificent Conception Wonderfully carted at.” The necessity of a popular medium for the representation of the productions of great artists, has always beeu recognized, and many attempts have been made to meet the want. The successive failure which so in-variably-followed each attempt in this country to establish an art journal, did not prove the indifference of tho people of America to the elaims of high art. So soon as a proper appreciation of the waDt 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 ana commercial triumph —The Aldine. The Aldine, while issued with all the i egularity, has none of the temporary or timely interest characteristic of ordinary periodicals. It is an elegant miscellany of pure, light, and graceful literature ; and a collection"of pictures, the rarest specimens of artistic skill in black, and white.— Although each succeeding a umber affords a fresh pleasure to its friends, the real valua and beauty of The Ald'.ne will be most appreciated after it is bound up at the close of the year. While other publications may claim superior cheapness, as compared with rivals of a similar class, The Aidim is an unique and original conception—alone and unapproached—absolutely without competition in price or character. The possessor of a complete volumn 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. While The Aldine is a strictly American institution, it does not confine itself entirely to the reproduction of native art. Its mission is to cultivate a broad und appreciative aft taste, one thut Will discriminate only on grounds of intrinsic merit. Thus, while placing before the patrons of The Aldine, as a leading cbaiacteristic, the productions of the most noted American ardsts, attention will always be given to specimens from foreign masters, giving subscribers all the pleasure and instruction ob.ainable from Lome or foreign sources. The artistic illustration of American scenery, original with The Aldine, is an important feature, and its magnificent plates are of a size more appropriate to the satisfactory treatment of details than can be afforded by any inferior page. The judicious interspersion of landscape, marine, figttfe, and animal subjects, sustain ah unabated interest, impossible where the w.rk confines the artist too closely to a single style of subjeet. The literature of The Aldino is a light and graceful accompaniment, worthy of the artistic features, With only such technical disquisitions as do not interfere with the popular in erest of the work. PREMIUM FOR 18TO. Fvery subscriber for 1875 will receive a beautiful portrait, in oil eolors, of the same noble dog whose picture jin a former issue attracted so much attention, “Man’s UNSeLfish Fbiend” will be welsome in every home. Everybody loves Buch a dog, and the portrait executed so true to the life, that it seems,the veritable presence of the animal itself. The Rev. T. beWitt Talmage tells that his own Newfoundland dog (the finest in Broonklyn) barks at it! Although so natural, no one who sees this premium chromo will have the slightest fear of being bitten, Besides the eromo, every advance subscriber to The Aldine for 1875 is constituted a member, 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 ana engravings, are to be distributed among the members. To every series of 5,000 subscribers, It 0 different pieces valued at over $2,500 are distributed as soon as ths series is full, and the awards of each series as made, are to be published in the next succeeding issue of The Aldine. This feature only applies to subscribers who pay for one year io advance. Full particulars iu circular sent oh application enclosing a stamp, TERMS. One Sabsfiription, entitlesjyou to Tho Aldine one year, the Chromo and the Art Union, $6,60 per annum in Advance. (No charge for postage.) Specimen Copies of The Aldine, 60 Cents . The Aldine will herc&fter.te obtainable only by subscription. There Will be no reduced or club rates; cash for subscriptions must be sent to the publishers direct, or handed to the local canvasser, without responsibility to the publishers, except ia esses where the certificate is given, bearing the fac-simiio signature of James Sutton, President. Canvasser* Wanted. Any person wishing to act permanently as a local canvasser will receive foil and prompt information by applying to THE ALDINE COMPANY, 58 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK.