Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-05-08
GREAT LITERARY ENTERPRISE.
NEW YEAR OF WALDIE'S CIRCULA-
TING LIBRARY.
PROSPECTUS OF TWO NEW VOLUMES.


PROSPECTUS OF TWO NEW VOLUMES.
A year has now elapsed since the sub
scriber introduced the new method of pub
ishing books in q periodical form, so as to
be transportable 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 u pon 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 suffi
cient evidence Of what may be again ex-
ecuted, and the subscriber believes that a
mere recapi,ulaton Of facts will be suffi.
cent to produce conviction OF The advanta-
ges OF his mode capitalization, 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 DOLLARS!!
VOL. /.
Waldstein, or the Swedes in Prague, nov
ell by Madame Pitcher.
Memoirs of Count Lavallette, written BY
himself.
Six Months in America, by Godfrey T.
Vigne.
Klosterbeim, or the Masque a novel, by
the English Opium Eater.
The Hill and the Valley, tale by Harriet
Martineau.
Travels in Peru, by Edmond Temple.
Lafayette and Louis Philippe, by B. Sar-
rams.
The Gentle Recruit, 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 Robbers
by G. Macfarlane.
The Italian Exile in England, by Count
Pecchio.
Memoirs of the Duchess of ST. Leu or-
tense.
Journal of Nobleman at the Congress oil
Vienna.
Letters from the Earl of Chatham to his
Nephew.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, Anecdotes, &c
&c.
VOL. II,
Wacousta, or the Prophecy, tale of De-
trolt and Michilimackinac, by the au-
thorof Ecarte.
Mrs. Lushington,s Journey from India to
England.
Rambles of Naturalist, by DR.. Goldman
Lille OF DIR. John Leyden, by Sir Walter
Scott.
Waltham, novel, being Vol 8 Of the Libra.
ny of Romance.
Memoirs af DR. Burney, by Madame D'Ar.
lay, author of Evelina. Cecilia, &c.
The Black Velvet Bag, and Mademoiselle
Therese, by Miss Milford.
Elliott's Letters from the North of Europe
Memoir Of Silvio Pelico.
Madame. Dard's Narrative of the Shipwreck
of the Medusa.
Lile u Adventures Of the Chevalier Charles
Stuart, and History of the Rebellion in
Scotland in l745, l746. By Rober,
Chambers.
Great Britain in 1888, by Baron D'Haus-
seq, Ex+minister of King Charles X.
The Storyof Captain 4, by the author
of traits of Travel.
A Subaitern's Furlough, descriptive of A.
merlca, by Lieutenant Coke.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, &c.
OF thes40 pages which compose the con
tents of the twovolumes of the year, exact.
ly $50 have been reprinted AFTER us by
booksellers, leoving $50 which are exclu
sively in The Library" Though that por.
ton was furnished to the booksellers much
below the usual rate, and printed on small
sized type, still the price in book form was
$l2,00-equal to SEVENTEEN DOL.
LARS for theyear.
When The advantages of circulation by
mail are considered, and also that, in clubs
|of five individuals, each gets the work for
$500, which difference pays the postage
it must be admitted, on all hands, that it is
the greatest reduction on the usual selling
prices of any article ever attempted, much
less erecuted.* But the subscriber does no,
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', " ith ran;d;,,