Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-06-19
GREAT LITERARY ENTERPRISE.
NEW YEAR OF WALDIE'S CIRCULA.
TING LIBRARY.
pRospEcrus on TWO NEW voLuMEs.

NEW YEAR OF WALDlE'S ClRCULA-
TING LIBRARY.
PROSPECTUS OF TWO NEW VOLUMES.
A year has now elapsed since the SUBJ
'criber introduced the new method of pub
shing books in periodical form, so as to
be transporiable by mail. Sanguine as
was his belief of the advantages to all cas-
ses, 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 suf1i |
cient evidence Of what may be again ex.
ecuted, and the subscriber believes that
mere recapitulaton Of facts will be suffi-
cient to produce conviction of the 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 DOI.LARS!!
VOL. /. r
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
Martneau.
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 Bandtt and Robbers
by G. Macfarane.
The Italian Exile in England, by Counl
| Pecchio.
Memoirs Of the Duchess of St. Leu-Hor.
tense.
Journal of a Nobleman at the Congress Of
Vienna.
Letters from the Earl of Chatham to his
| Nephew.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, Anecdotes, &c
DC.
VOL. II.
Wacousta, or the Prophecy, tale of De.
troit and illimackinac, by the au-
thorof Ecarte.
Mrs. Lushington,s Journey from India to
England.
Rambles of a Naturalist, by DR.. Goldman
Life OF DR.. John Leyden, by Sir Walter
Scott.
Waltham, novel, being Vol 3 OF the Libra
ry of Romance.
Memoirs af DR. Burney, by Madame OAR.
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 Silyio Pellico.
Madame Dard's Narrative of the Sbipwreck
Of the Medusa.
Life u Adventuresof the Chevaler Charles
Stuart, and History of the Rebellion in
Scotland in l745, l746. By Rober,
Chambers.
Great Britain in 1888, by Baron D'Haus-
SEE, Ex-minister of King Charles X.
The Story of Captain K, by the author
Of traits Of Travel.
A Subaltern's FurIough, descriptive of A.
merica, by Lieutenant Coke.
Editorial Notices, Poetry, &c.
OF the $40 pages which compose the con
tents of the two volumes of the year, exact
| y $50 have been reprinted after as bv
booksellers, leoving $50 which are exclu-
|sively in the Library" Though that por-
lion was furnished to the booksellers much
below the usual rate, and printed on small
sized type, still the price in book form was
l$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
$4,OO, which difference pays the postage,
it 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
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 Of the Library" with rapidity