Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-04-17
GREAT LITERARY ENTERPRISE.
NEW YEAR OF WAIDlE'S CIRCULA.
TING LIBRARY.
PROSPECTUS OF TWO NEW VOLUMES.

q 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 transportable 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 sufIi
cient evidence of what may be again ex-
ecuted, and the subscriber believes that a
mere recapitulaton Of facts will be suffi-
Gent to produce conviction OF he advanta
ges OF his mode capitalization, 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. |.
Waldsteln, Or the Swedes in Prague, a nov
ell by Madame Pitcher,
Memoirs Of Count Lavaleite, written by
himself.
Six Months in America, by Godfrey T.
Vigne.
Alosterbeim, or the Masquc novel, by
the English Opium Eater.
The liili and the Valley, tale by Harriet
Marilneau.
travels in Peru, by Edmond Temple.
Lafayette and Louis Philippe, BY B. Sar-
rams.
The Gentle Recruit, tale, by the author
of the Subaltcrn.
Saratoga, by the same.
A Family Sour in South Holland, by Col,
Bauy.
Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers
by G. Macfariane.
The Italian Exile in England, by Count
pecchio.
Memo RS of The Duchess of St. Leu-Hor-
tense
journal of Nobleman at the Congress OF
Vienna.
Letters from the Earl of Chatham TO his
Nephew.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, Anecdotes, sc
&c.
VOL. Ii.
Wacousta, or the Prophecy, tale of De-
troit and Michillimackinac, by the au-
thor,f Ecarte.
Mrs. Lushlngton,s Journey from India to
England.
i;ambes of a Naturalist, by DR.. Goldman
Life of DIR. John Leyden, by Sir Walter
Scott.
Waitham, a novel, being Vol Of the Libra
ry of Romance.
Memoirs af DIR Burney, by Madame OAR
lay, author of Evelna. Cecilia, &c.
i he Black Velvet Bag, and Mademoiselle
Therese, by Miss Milford.
kilintt's ia,tars from, tho North Of Europe
Memoir OF SiIvio Pellico.
Madame Dard's Narrative of the Shipwreck
oi the Metlusa.
Life d Adventures The Chevalier Charles
Stuart, and History of the Rebellion in
Scotland IN l145, l746. By Robert
Chambers.
Great Britain in 1888, by Baron D'Haus-
SEE, Lx-inlnlster Of hing Charles X.
The Story of Captain &, by the author
Of traits of Travel.
a ouba'ern's Furioush, descriptive of A.
merica,' by Lieutenant Coke.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, &c.
= OF the $40 pages which compose the con
tents Of the two volumes oil The year, exact
y 800 have been reprinted after as by
booksellers, Lowing go which are exclu-
sively In the Library" Though that por-
ion was furnished to the booksellers much
below the usual rate, and printed on small
sized type, still the price in book form was
s 2,0O-equal to SEVENTEEN DOL
AIS 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,
il must he 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 Teen of highly lit
erary and very attractive character, as is
proved by second book editions having fol-
lowed those of the Library" with rapidity