Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-05-01
GREAT LITERARY ENTERPRISE
NEW YEAR OF WALDIE'S CIRCULA.
TING LIBRARY,
PROSPECTUS OF TWO NEW VOLUMES.

NEW IEAR OF VALUES ClkCUIA-
TING LIBRARY.
PROSPECTUS OF TWO NEW VOLUMES.
A year has now elapsed since the sub
scriber introduced the new method of pull
ishing books in periodical form, so as to-
be transportable by mail. Sanguine as
was his belief of the advantages TO all clas-4
SEES, of this experiment, lis success has more,
than equalled his expectations, and he will
enter upon second year with renewed en-
ergy and assiduity. Experience has sug-
gested improvements which have been al
ready adopted; and others, as they offer,
will be introduced in the course of the en-
suing volumes, tending TO give additional
interest and permanent value to the enter
prise.
What has been done, however, is sufli
cient evidence of what may he again ex~
ecuted, and the subscriber believes that a
mere recapitulaton Of facts will be suffi-
cient to produce conviction OF The advanta-
ges Of his mode publication, on the minds
of those who may not yet have taken the
subject in consideration. The following
works have actually been published in the
course of the first year for the small sum
of FIVE DOI.LARS!!
.as, VOL. /.
IWaldstcin, or the Swedes in Prague, a nov
el by Madame Pitcher ,s.s
Memoirs of Count Lavallette, written by
himself $50, s.ast3f
six Months in America, by Godfrey T
Vigne. as. M
Klostericim, or the Masque novel, by
the English Opium Eater.
The Hill and the Valley, a tale by Harrie,
Martineau.
Travels in Peru, by Edmond Temple.
Lafayette and Louis Philippe, by B. Sar.
rams. 3ea b
The Gentlc Recruit, a tale, by the author
of the Subaltern.
Saratoga, by the same.
| A Family Sour in South Holland, by Col
Batty.
| Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robber.
by G. Macfarlane. ~.
The Italian Exile in England, by Coun
Pecchio.
Memoirs of the Duchess of St. Leu Hor
! j
Journal of Nobleman at the Congress o
Vienna.
Letters from the Earl of Chatham to hi
! Nephew.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, Anecdotes, &c
! DC. "
VOL. Ii.
IWacousta, or the Prophecy, a tale of De
troit and Michillimackinac, by the au
thorof Ecarte.
Mrs. Lushington,s Journey from India t.
England.
Rambles of Naturalist, by DR.. Goldman
Life Of DR.. John Leyden, by Sir Waite
Scott.
IWaltham, novel, being Vol 8 of the Libra
ny of Romance. a..z ..s........
Memoirs af Dr. Burney, by Madame D,Ar
lay,.author of Evelina. Cecilia, &c.
4 The Black Velvet Bag, and AIademoiselI
1 Therese, by Miss Milford. $50
Elliott's Letters from the North of Europe
Memoir of Silvio PelIico.
Madame. Dard's Narrative of the Shipwrecl
Of the Medusa.
Life d. Adventuresofihe Chevalier Charles
Stuart, and History Of the Rebellion II
Scotland in i745, l746. By Rober
! Chambers. -.
IGrea, Britain in 1888, by Baron D'Haus
SEE, Ex-minister of King Charles x.
The Storyof Captain K, by the autho
of traits Of Travel. -.
A Subaltern's Furlough, descriptive of A
] merica, by Lieutenant Coke.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, &c.
Ut the $40 pages which compose the cor
tents Of the two volumes Of the year, exact
ly $50 have been reprinted after US b,
booksellers, Lowing $50 which are exclu
sively in the Library" Though that por
ton was furnished to the booksellers mucl
below the usual rate, and printed on small
sized type, still The price in book form wa.
$l2,OO-equal to SEVENTEEN DOL,
LARS for theyear.
When the advantages of circulation b,
mail are considered, and also that, in clubs
of five individuals, each gets the work fol
$500, which difference pays the postage
1t must be admitted, on all hands, that it is
the greatest reduction on the usual selling
prices of any article ever attempted, much
less crecuted.* But the subscriber does moi
found his claims to public patronage alone
on the cheapness Of his periodical. The
works published have been of highly lit
Ierary and very attractive character, as is
proved by second book edifiona ha v,nor e.,