Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-04-24
GREAT LITERARY ENTERPRISE.
NEW YEAR OF WALDiE'S CIRCULA
TING LIBRARY.
pRospEcTUs OF TWO NEW VOLUME


A year has now elapsed since the sub
scriber introduced the new method of pull
ishing books in periodical form, so as tc
be transporable by mail. Sanguine as
was his belief of the advantages to all clas-
SEES, of this experiment, lis success has more
than equaled his expectations, and he will
enter upon second year with renewed en-
ergy and assiduity. Experience has sng-
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
interestand permanent value to the enter
prise.
What has been done, however, is stuff |
Client evidence of what may be again ey-
ecuted, and the subscriber believes that a
mere recapitulaton Of facts will be suffi
cient to produce conviction oil he adyanta
ges OF his mode of publication, on the minds
of those who may rot 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 DOILARS!!
VOL. !.
Waldsten, or the SSwedes iii Prague, nov
el by Madame Pitcher
Memoirs Of Count Layallette, written by
himself.
Six Months in America, by Godfrey T..
Vignc.
I[losterheim, OR the Masqnc novel, by
the English Opium Eater.
The Hill and the Valley, u tale by Harriet
Martineau.
Travels in Peru, by Edmond Temple.
j Lafayette and Louis Philippe, by d. Sar-
rams.
I The Gentle Recruit, tale, by the author
i CT the Subatern.
Saratoga, by the same.
A Family Sour in South Holland, by Col,
Bauy.
Lives and Exploits of Banditli and Robbers
j by G.. Maciarlane.
The Italian Exile in England, by Count
Pecchio
Memoirs of the Duchess of st. Leu IIor-
: tense.
Journal of Noblcman at the Congress OF
); Vienna.
Letters from the Earl Of Chatham to his
: Nephew.
; Editorial Notices, Poetry, Anecdotes, sc
: dc.
Il VOL. II.
Wacousta, OR the Prophecy, tale of De
troit and Nichllimackinac by the au
thorof Ecarte.
5 Mrs. Lushington,s Journey from India tc
England
; Handles of Naturalist, by Dr. Goldman
] Lite OF DIR. John Leyden, by Sir Waltei
: Scott.
! "altham, novel, being Vol 8 Of the Libra
: ry Of Romance.
/, Memoirs at DR. Burney, by Madame DAT
> lay, author OF Evelina, Cecilia, &c.
, the Black Velvet Bag, and Mademoscllt
Therese, by Miss Milford.
t E!lIotts Letters from the North of Europe
: Memoir Of Silvio Pellico.
5 Madame Dard's Narrative of the Shipwrecl,
: Of the Medusa
Llie d Adventures of the Chevalier Charles
Stuart, and History Of the Rebellion in
} Scotland in l745, l74G. BY Rober,
Chambers.
Great Britain in 1888, by Baron D'IIaus>
t seq, Ex-minister Of King Charles X.
The story OF Captain u, by the autho,
of traits of Travel
, A Subaltern's Furlough, descriptive of A.
merica, by Lieutenant Coke
Editorial Notices, Poetry, &c.
t Ut the s40pages which compose the con
tents OF the two volumes of the year, exact.
iy 800 have been reprinted after as bv
!. booksellers, Lowing $50 which are cxclu
slvely in the Library" Though that Dor.
lion was furnished to the booksellers mucb
below the usual rate, and printed on small
! sized type, still the price in book form was
2,O0-equai to SEVENTEEN DOL.
Fl LARS for theyoar
When the advantages of circulation BY
mail are considered, and also that. in clubs
Iof five individuals, each gets the work for
$500, which difference pays the postage,
1t must be admitted, on all hands. that il is
the greatest reduction on the usual scllino
prices OF any article ever attempted. much
less eTecuted." But the subscriber does not
found his claims to public patronage alone
on the cheapness of his periodical. The
works published have been of highly lit
erary and very attractive character, as is
proved by second book editions having fol-
lowed those of the library" with rapidity
and every one (which, even at the adyan-
ced price charged In that form, has had a
most rapid sale.
The time and attention of literary gen