Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-05-29
GREAT LITERARY ENTERPRISE.
NEW YEAR OF WALDIE'S CIRCULA-
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 transporlable by mail. Sanguine as
was his belief of the advantages to all clas-
SEES, of this experiment, its 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 suffi
cent evidence of what may be again ex
ecuted, and the subscriber believes that a
mere recaplulaton Of facts will be sufi-
Gent to produce conviction OF the advanta
ges OF his mode of publication, OH 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 DOILARSM
VOL. I.
Waldsten, 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.
Klosterheim, or the Masque 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-Hor-
tense.
Journal of Nobleman at the Congress of
Vienna.
Letters from the Earl of Chatham 10 his
Nephew. r-
Editorial Notices, Poetry, Anecdotes, &c.
&c.
VOL. II.
Wacousta, or the Prophecy, tale of De-
troit and Michilimackinac, by the au-
thor Of Ecarte.
Mrs. Lushington,s Journey from India to
England.
Rambles of Naturalist, by DR.. Goldman.
Life of DR.. John Leyden, by Sir Walter
Scott.
Wa'ham, novel, being Vol 3 Of the Libra
ry of Romance.
Memoirs af DR. Burney, by Madame OAR
lay, author of Evelina. Cecilia, &c.
The Black Velvet Bag, and Mademoisele
Therese, by Miss Milford.
.Elliott's Letters from the North of Europe.
Memoir Of Silvio Pellico.
Madame Dard's Narrative of the Shipwreck
of the Medusa.
Life u Adventures of the Chevalier Charles
Stuart, and History of the Rebellion in
Scotland in l745, l746. By Robert
Chambers.
Great Britain in 1888, by Baron D'Haus-
SEE, Ex-minster of King Charles X.
The Story of Captain Y, by the author
of traits of Travel
A Subaltern's Furough, descriptive of A.
merica, by Lieutenant Coke.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, &c.
Of the $40 pages which compose the con
tents of the two volumes of the year, exact
ly 500 have been reprinted after as bv
booksellers, Lowing $50 which are exclu-
svely 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
ST. 2,00-equal to SEVENTEEN DOL
LARS for theyear.
When the advantages of circulation bv
mail are considered, and also that, in clubs
of five individuals, each gets the work for
81 90, which difference paws 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 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 rapiditv,
and every one ofwhich, even at the advan-
ced price charged IN that form, has had
most rapid sale.
The time and attention of a literary Gen.