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Brush and Pencil has had a circulation of 10,000, the sub- scribers being scattered through all the states. But Mr. Morton complains that the people of Chicago are not yet interested in art in general, that their art interest is confined to supporting the Art Institute. The magazine has not enjoyed a very pros- perous business career. From July to December, 1904, its publi- cation was temporarily discontinued, but thereafter resumed. To secure advertising, on May i, 1905, the main office of the periodical was removed to New York, although the Chicago post-office entry has been retained and the mechanical work con- tinued here. Mr. Morton says:

New York is the magazine center of the country. Any Chicago magazine that has made good its foothold has gone to New York. In New York in five days I secured $2,400 worth of cash advertising. In Chicago I could not get that much for Brush and Pencil in five weeks.

Great Pictures, a monthly filled with reproductions of paint- ings by world-masters, was brought out regularly during the year 1899. Its contents were confined to copies of the nude. Its file shows that it was plainly erotic, and that the periodical was designed for a perverted use of the art interests. It was published by "The White City Art Company," and was a medium for advertising the sale of single copies of the pictures repro- duced in its pages.

Nature and Art, a children's monthly of aesthetic interest derived from illustrations well executed in printed colors, was begun in 1897 ^ Birds in Natural Colors, and continued until 1901.

Child Garden of Story, Song and Play, a monthly magazine for children of the age for primers, was established in 1892 and is still published. It is a kindergarten magazine in which the attractiveness of stories, rhymes, and pictures is utilized to edu- cate little ones without the appearance of didactic effort, accord- ing to the principles of the "new education." It is published at the Pestalozzi-Froebel Press in Chicago, and has a circulation of 10,000.

A unique order of literary periodicals, toned to the temper of the artist, whatever his working medium, flourished in Chi-