Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . clubbing rates will continue iu you intend to do anything in that wayyou must do it now. The Inducements in ti„ npectoney ?>/ a renewal by ffu sub-scribers next year at th. one dollar !i>>*- who begin to mnfTHEJor/RNAi. usuallycontinue to read >. and upon that assumption we put the prici down below th, actual profit There never was a better chance for therising generation of penmen to secure thisinvaluable work, Ames Compendium ofPractical and Ornamental Penmanship,than is presented by this offer. We saythe rising generation


Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . clubbing rates will continue iu you intend to do anything in that wayyou must do it now. The Inducements in ti„ npectoney ?>/ a renewal by ffu sub-scribers next year at th. one dollar !i>>*- who begin to mnfTHEJor/RNAi. usuallycontinue to read >. and upon that assumption we put the prici down below th, actual profit There never was a better chance for therising generation of penmen to secure thisinvaluable work, Ames Compendium ofPractical and Ornamental Penmanship,than is presented by this offer. We saythe rising generation, because all thewise heads of the fraternity have long a^oprovided themselves with the work whichby the concensus of expert opinion is in-comparably the best in its line extant. Noartist pretends to do without it; no studentor admirer of the beautiful and the practi-cal io pen-work can afford to. Warmlyrecommended by the profession as a com-plete library of precept and example for theprofessional, the amateur, aspirant and All this is said in no spirit of disparage-ment to The Journals two or three brightcontemporariesin the field of penmanship, allof which are deserving of prosperity. They,however, do not represent so large an in-vestment of money in their production, andare necessarily more crcumscribcd in theextent and character of their work. The index to The Journals volume justclosed shows 384 principal articles, takingno account of nearly 2,000 uuheadtd arti-cles published in the way of notes. Yet inthe work of editing, the search for each sep-arate note requires, on an average, at leastas much time as a writer of fair facilitywould bestow upon a half-column article ona given subject. Prof. Kelley, for compiling his monthly ilems on educa-tion, humor, etc., is obliged to read carefullyfrom one hundred to two hundred differentpublications a month—in itself a work ofseveral days. Neither does the index to The Journalconvey an idea of a large num


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