Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-04-03
GREAT LITERARY ENTERPRISE.
NEW YEAR OF WALDIE'S CIRCUJA.
TING LIBRARY,
PROSPECTUS OF TWO NEW VOLUMES.


TING LIBRARY.
PROSPECTUS OF TWO NEW VOLUMES.
A year has now elapsed since the sub
scriber introduced the new method of pub
ishing books in a periodical form, so as to-
be transportable by mail. Sapguine as
was his belief of the advantages to all clas-
ses, of this experiment, its success has more
than equalled his expectations, and he will
Ienterup a 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 sufi
Gent evidence Of what may be again ex
ecuted, and the subscriber believes that a
mere recapitulaton of facts will be sufi-
Gent to produce conviction of The advanta-
ges of his mode of 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 DOLLARS!!
VOL. |.
| Waldstein, or the Swedes in Prague, nov
ell by Madame Pitcher.
Memoirs of Count Layallette, written by
himself
Six Months in America, by Godfrey T.
Vigne.
Klosterheim, 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 c. 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
II Vienna.
Letters from the Earl of Chatham TO his
, Nephew.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, Anecdotes, &c
: &c.
VOL. III,
Wacousta, or the Prophecy, a tale of De
troit and Michilimackinac, by the au
thor of Ecarte.
Mrs. Lushington,s Journey from India te
England
Rambles Of Naturalist, by DR.. Goldman
Life Of DIR. John Leyden, by Sir Waite,
Scott.
Waltham, a novel, being Vol 3 of the Libra
ry of Romance.
Memoirs af DR. Burney, by Madame D'Ar
lay, author of Evelna. Cecilia, &c.
The Black Velvet Bag, and Mademoselle
Therese, by Miss Milford.
E!liott's Letters from the North of Europe
Memoir Of Silvio Peiico.
Madame. Dard's Narrative of the Shipwrech
of the Medusa.
Life & Adventures of the Chevalier Charles
Stuart, and History of the Rebellion in
Scotland in IDS, l746. By Rober,
Chambers.
Great Britain in 1888, by Baron D'Haus-
SEE, Ex-minister Of King Charles X.
The Story of Captain Z, by the author
of traits of Travel.
A Subaltern's Furlough, descriptive of A.
i, merlca, 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 $50 have been reprinted after US by
booksellers, Lowing $50 which are exclu-
: sively in the Library" Though that por-
S 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 Doll
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 il 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-
flowed those of the 81 ibrary0 with ranidity