Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-05-15
GREAT LITERARY ENTERPRISE.
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 puh-
ishing books in a periodical form, so as to
be transportable by mail. Sanguine as
was his belief of the advantages to all clas-
SEES, ofihi< 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-
eested 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
interestand permanent value to the enter
prise. n
What has been done, however, is suffi I,
cient evidence of what may be again ex-
ecuted, and the subscriber believes that a
mere recaptuaton Of facts will be sutli-1
clent to produce conviction oil he advanta-
ges his mode ofpubication, 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 DOI.LARS!i
VOL. /.
Waldstcin, or the Swedes in Prague nov
ell by Madame Pitcher
Memoirs Of Count Layalleltc, written by
himself
Six Months in America. by Godfrey T..
Vigne.
Klosierheim, or the .AIasque novel, by
the English Opium Eater.
The Hill and the Valley, tale by Harriet
Martneau
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,
Batly.
Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers
by G. Macfurlane
The Italian Exile in England, by Count
Peccho.
Memoirs of the Duchess of St. Leu-Hor-
Journal of Nobleman at the Congress Of
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-
troit and Michillimackinac, by the au-
thorcf Ecarte.
Mrs. Lushington,s Journey from India to
England.
Rambles of Naturalist, by DIR. Goldman.
Lille OF DR.. John Leyden, by Sir Walter
Scott.
Waltham, a novel, being Vol 8 OF the Libra
ry of Romance.
| Memoirs af DR. Burney, by Madame D'Ar.
lay, author of Evelina. Cecilia, sc.
! The Black Velvet Bag, and Mademoiselle
| Therese, by Miss Milford.
Elliott's Letters from the North of Europe
Memoir of Silvio Pellico.
Madame Dard's Narrative oft Shipwrecl,
of the Medusa.
Life 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'IIaus>
SEE, Ex-minister of King Charles X.
The Story OF Captain u, by the author
of traits of Travel.
A Subaltern's Furough, descriptive Of A.
merlca, by Lieutenant Coke.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, &c.
OF the $40 pages which compose the cor
tents OF the twovolumes of the wear, exact
lily $50 have been reprinted after as b,
booksellers, leoving $50 which are exclu
sively in the Library" Though that por
lion was furnished to the booksellers muct
below the usual rate, and printed on small
sized type, still the price in book form wa:
2,00-equal to SEVENTEEN DOL.
LARS for theyear.
\ When the advantages of circulation b,
mail are considered, and also that, in club.
of five individuals, each gets the work fol
$500, which difference paws the postage
it must he admitted, on all hands, that it i.
The greatest reduction on the usual sellin,
Iprices of any article ever attempted, mucl
tess erecuted.* But the subscriber does no
found his claims to public patronage alon,
ion the cheapness of his periodical. Tn,
works published have been of highly lii
Ierary and very attractive character, as i
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
most rapid sale.
The time and attention of l;,ar,r,, 49,