Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-06-26
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 intpduced the new method of pull
ishing books in periodical form, so as to
be transpoaable by mail. Sanguine as
was his beli,t of the advantages TO all clas-
SEES, of,hi- experiment., its success has more
than equallel his expectations, and he will
enter upon asecond year with renewed en-
ergy and as,iduity. Experience has sug-
yested 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 andpermanent value to the enter
prise.
What has been done, however, is suffi
cient evidence of what may he again ex
ecuted, and the subscriber believes that
mere recapitulaton Of facts will be sutfi
cient to produce conviction of he advanta
ges OF his mode 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. /.
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.
lKlosterbeim, 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, a 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 CouDI
Pecchio.
Memoirs Of the Duchess of St. Leu-Hor-
| tense.
1 Journal of a Nobleman at the Congress oil
4 Vienna
Letters from the Earl of Chatham 10 his
Nephew.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, Anecdotes, &c
i &c.
II VOL. II.
Wacousta, or the Prophecy, a tale of De
troit and Michilimackinac, by the au
thorof Ecarte.
Ms. Lushington,s Journey from India tt
\ England.
i Rambles of Naturalist, by DR.. Goldman
! Lie of DR.. John Leyden, by Sir Walter
i. Scott.
/, Watham, novel, being Vol Of the Libra
j ~ OF Romance.
Memoirs af DR. Burney, by Madame OAR
: lay, author of Evelina. Cecilia, &c.
The Black Velvet Bag, and Mademoisell,
Therese, by Miss Milford.
Elliut's Letters from the North of Europe
Memoir Of Silvio PeIlico.
Madame Dard's Narrative of the ShipwrecI
Of the Medusa.
Life d. Adveniuresof the Chevalier Charlie.
Stuart, and History of the Rebellion il
y Scothnd in l745, l746. By Rober
: Chambers.
Great Britain in 1888, by Baron D'Haus.
Il SEE, Ex-minister of King Charles X.
The Story of Captain &, by the author
of traits of Travel.
A Subaltein's Furlough, descriptive of A
merica, by Lieutenant Coke.
! Editorial Notices, Poetry, &c.
1 OF the $40 pages which compose the cor
tents OF the wovolumes Of the year, exact
lily $50 have been reprinted after us b,
: booksellers, Lowing $50 which are exclu
sively in the Library" Though that por
lion was furnished tothe booksellers much
below the usual rate, and printed on small
sized type, still the price in book form was
Sl2 ,O0-equal to SEVENTEEN DOL
LARS for iheyear.
When the advantages of circulation bv
mail are considered, and also that, in clubs
|of five individuals, each gets the work for
$500, which difference pays The postage,
it must he admitted, on all hands, that il is
the greatest reduction on the usual selling
prices of any article ever attempted, mitch
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 ofthe "Library" with rapidity
and every one of which, even at the advan-
ced price charged IN that form, has had a