Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-11-21
A Neao, Cheap, & Popular Periodical
ENTITLED THE
SELECT CIRCULATING LIBRARY
Containing equal to FIFTY p7oLuMHs, for FIVE
DOLL.dRS!!
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that the publisher should describe his plan. and
the objects he hopes to accomplish.
There is growing up in the United States nu.
merous population, with literary tastes, who are
scattered over large space, and who, distant
from the localities whence books and literary iN
formation emanate, fcethemseves al a great loss
for that mental fooo which education has fitted
them to ENJOY. Books are cheap in our princi~
pal cities, but in the interior they cannot be pro-
cured as soon as published, nor without consider.
able expense. To supply this desderatum is
the design OF the present undertaking, the chief
object Of aohich emphatically is, to make good
reading cheaper, and to put tin a form that ,ciH
bring 1t to erery mans door.
. Books cannot be sent by mail, while the Use.
lect Circulating Library" may be received at the
most distant post office in the Union in from ff-
teen to twenty five days after it is published at
the trifling expense of two and half cents or in
other words, before book could be bound in
Philadelphia, our subscribers in Ohio and Web
mont may be perusing it in their parlours
Ioelucidate the advantages Of the ssSelect Cir
cuatng Library" such as we propose, it is onlv
necessary to compare it with some other publica-
tlons. Take the Waverly novels for example,
the Chronicles Of the Canongate occupy two vol
dmes, which are sold at SLAB to S. so. The
whole would be readily contained in three num-
"oAS -
ven cents, postage included! So that more than
three times thequantity of literary matter can be
supplied for the same money by adopting the news.
paper form. But we consider transmission by
mail, and the early receipt of new book, asa
most distinguishing feature of the publications.
Distant subscribers will be placed on footina
with those near at hand, and will be supplied al
their o,on homes with equal to about Fifty Volumes
of the common London size for FIVE dollars
This may not take fifty two weeks to accomplish:
tor, though not longer than one week will eapse
between the issuing of each number, yet, when
there is press of very interesting matter. or
when two or more numbers are required to con-
tain whole work, the proprietor will feel himself
at liberty to publish al shorter intervals--ffty
two numbers being the equivalent for five dollars.
Arrangements have been made to receive from
London an early copy of every new book printed
Ell her IN that mart of talent, in Edinburg, to.
gether with the periodical literature of Great
brltaln. From the former we shall select the
best Norels, Memoirs, Tales, Trapels, Sketches.
Biography, &c. and publish them with as much
rapidity and accuracy extensive printing of.
flee will admit. From the latter, such literary in.
|teiligence will occasionally be culed, as will
prove interesting and entertaining to the lover Of
knowledge, and science, literature, and novelty.
Good standard novels, and other works, now ont
lot print may also occasionally be reproduced III
our columns.
The publisher confidently assures the heads of
families, that they need have no dread of introdu
cling the "Select Circulating Library" into their
domestic circle, as the gentleman who has under.
taken the Editorial duties, to literary tastes and
habits adds due sense of the responsibility he
assumes in catering for an extended and moral
community, and of the consequences, detrimental
or otherwise, that will follow the dissemination Of
obnoxious or wholesome mental alment His,
situation and engagements afford him peculiar ad,
vantages and facilities for the selection of books
These, with the additional channels created BY
agencies at London, Liverpool, and Edinburgh,
warrant the proprietor in guaranteeing faithful
exec ution of the literary department.
1t would be supererogatory to diate on the gea.
eral advantages and convenences which such
publication presents 10 peoplecf literary pursuits
wherever located, but more particularly to those
who reside in retired sitlations-they are so oh.
vious that the first glance cannot fail to fash con-
viction of its eligibility.
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