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DECORATIVE ARTS. 



Reed's establishment ; there are few who could not reap advantage from his 

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Our next will conduct the reader to Staten Island and the Xorth River. 



DECORATIVE ARTS. 



To those who know the power of art to educate and refine the taste, the social 

 life and character of a people, it has always been a cause of regret that the appre- 

 ciation and enjoyment of it should have been long confined to the few wlujse 

 wealth was equal to the purchase of its costly decorations. \Vc believe that art 



is capable of accomplishing all that is claimed for it by its most enthusiastic friends, 

 when our life, in all its pursuits, is brought into daily contact with its producti 

 its works are no longer a monopoly, but an cvery-day possession, w 



