Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-05-22
GREAT LITERARY ENTERPRISE.
NEW YEAR OF WALDIE'S CIRCULA.
TING LIBRARY.

NEW YEAR OF WALDIE'S C1RCULA.
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 periodical form, so as to
be transportable by mail. Sanguine as
was his belief Of the advantages to all clas-
SEES of thi. experiment, its success has more
than equalled his expectations, and he will
enter upon second year with renewed en-
crgy 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 sufh
cient evidence Of what may be again ex-
ecuted, and the subscriber believes that
mere recapi,ulaton Of facts will be suffi-
cient 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 DOI.LARS!!
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.
Klosterheim, or the Masque a novel, by
the English Opium Eater.
The Hill and the Valley, tale by Harriet
4 Martineau. ...... ........ IS.
Travels in Peru, by Edmond Temple.
Lafayette and Louis Philippe, by b. Sar-
i 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
!, Journal of a Nobleman at the Congress o.
4 Vienna.
Letters from the Earl of Chatham to his
Nephew.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, Anecdotes, sc
&c.
VOL. II.
; Wacousta, or the Prophecy, a tale of De
troit and Michillimackinac, by the au
thoro Ecarte.
Mrs. Lushington,s Journey from India tc
England.
Rambles of Naturalist, by DR.. Goldman
Life of DR.. John Leyden, by Sir Walter
Scott.
Waltham, novel, being Vol ofthe Libra.
ry of Romance.
Memoirs af DR. Burney, by Madame D'Ar
lay, author of Evelina. Cecilia, sc.
The Black Velvet Bag, and Mademoisells
Therese, by Miss Milford.
Elliotts Letters from the North of Europe
Memoir Of Silvio Pellico.
Madame, Dard's Narrative of the Shipwreck
Of the Medusa.
Life q Adventuresofthe Chevalier Charles
Stuart, and History of the Rebellion in
Scotland in l745, l746. By Robert
Chambers.
Great Britain in 1888, by Baron D'Haus,
seq, Ex-minister of King Charles X.
The Story'of Captain K, by the autho,
Of traits Of Travel.
A Subaltern's Furlough, descriptive of A.
merica, by Lieutenant Coke.
4 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-
lion was furnished to the booksellers much
below the usual rate, and printed on small
sized type, still the price in book form was
$l2,OO-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,
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 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 ia
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