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A third serial of decided importance, is a series of articles entitled

Not only by his books and lectures, but also by frequent contributions on art-subjects to the daily press and art-periodicals, Mr. Caffin is well known as one of America’s leading art-critics. But nothing he has yet written can excel, in interest and value to the general reader, his series of admirable papers in which he adopts the plan of contrasting, in each article, the work of some great artist with that of another equally great master—showing a single picture painted by each, and pointing out the likenesses and the differences between the two pictures and the methods of the two painters. Young folk can learn more about art and artists through this careful and detailed way of looking “here upon this picture, and on this”—than by whole volumes of generalizing. A set of beautiful copies of the pictures selected by Mr. Caffin from the world’s masterpieces, has been prepared especially for, and will appear with the articles in the magazine. Each month, the pictures contrasted will be printed on opposite pages. American girls and boys (and their parents as well) should not fail to read every one of these novel and important papers.