Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-06-12
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
criber introduced the new method of pull h
shing books in periodical form, so as to |
Re transporlable by mail. Sapguine as III
vas his belief of the advantages to all clas i
es, of this experiment, its success has more .
han equalled his expectations, and he will
enter upon a second year with renewed en-
,rgy and assiduity. Experience has sug-
sested improvements which have been al
-eady adopted; and others, as they offer.
will be introduced 10 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 sufli |
cient evidence of what may be again ex
and the subscriber believes that
mere recapitulaton of facts will be suffi-
clent to produce conviction Of he advanta
ges Of his mode publication, on the minds
of those who may not yet have taken theI
works have actually been published in the
course of the first year for the small sum
of FIVE DOILARS!!
VOL. |.
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
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
i by G. Macfarlane.
The Italian Exile in England, by Coun
Pecchio.
Memoirs of the Duchess of St. Leu-Ho
tense.
Journal of Nobleman at the Congress o
i Vienna.
Letters from the Earl of Chatham 10 hi.
/ Nephew.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, Anecdotes, &c
i &c.
Wacousta, or the Prophecy, a tale of De
trolt and Michillimackinac, by the au
thorcf Ecarte.
Mrs. Lushingtcn,s Journey from India t,
\ England.
! e.dmbles of Naturalist, by DR.. Goldman
Lille OF DR.. John Leyden, by Sir Waite
i Scott.
! Waltham, a novel, being Vol Of the Libra
ny of Romance.
Memoirs at DIR Burney, by Madame D'Ar
j lay, author of Evelina. Cecilia, &c.
The Black Velvet Bag, and Mademoisellt
! Therese, by Miss Milford.
EllIott's Letters from the North of Europe
Memoir Of Silvio Pellico.
Madame Dard's Narrative of the ShipwrecI
of the Medusa.
Lie d Adventuresofth the Chevalier Charles
Stuart, and History of the Rebellion in
Scotland in l745, 1916. By Robert
! Chambers.
Great Britain in 1888, by Baron D'EIaus-
seq, Ex-minister of King Charles X.
The Story of Captain z, by the author
of traits of Travel.
Subaltern's Furough, descriptive of A.
merIca, by Lieutenant Coke.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, &c.
vi the $40 pages which compose the con
tents OF the two volumes of the wear. exact
lly $50 have been reprinted after as bv
booksellers, Lowing $50 which are exclu.
slvely IN the Library" Though that por-
ton was furnished to the booksellers much
below the usual rate, and printed on small
sized type, still The price in book form was
2,00-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
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 not
lound 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 ofwhich, even at the advan-
red price charged In that form, has had
most rapid sale.
Tho t;,,,o 81 .... !.