Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1836-01-22
Fourth Year Of Waldies
Library.
BOOKS BY MAIL!!
PrOspectasof t,OO new TOIumeS for.
1886.

/ IL Sluce Inc proprietor Ol VaIuIe .
Select Circulating Library laid before
the public his original prospectus for
a valuable library, the great features
of which were cheapness, and the ia.
ciIity of rapid transportation by
mail. The most ample success has
atlended the enterprise, and the effects
upon the reading community, it is be-
lieved, have been wholesome.
The fourth year will commence on
the first Tuesday Of January 1886, at
which period it will be necessary TO
determine the additional amount Of
copies to be printed, subscriptions be-
ing taken only from January Of each
year. The entire success of the Ii.
brary is the best guarantee that can
be given of its continuance. 1t was
the first to supply books by mail at a
mere per Centage Of their former cost;
it has outlived more than thirty puer
ile attempts atimitaliOn; and has now
an extensive list of patrons who are
of the most solid and valuable class Of
citizens in every part of the Union, as
vel as in foreign countries.
The object Of Waldie's Library,
its use and its purpose, is enjoyment
liberal and intellectual, To all who
love mental banquet, without being
compelled to depend on places Of pub.
lie resort, this publication furnishes
most valuable desideratum, supplying
polite literature ofcharacter to enlarge
and improve the mind. The time
and attention of the editor, himself a
reader from inclination as well as du.
ty, are devoted 10 the procurement of
works of an elevated standard of intel
lect wich may be admitted into every
family without hesitation by the most
fastidious, and become a rallying
point for all its members, promoting
social bellies lettres reading and cor.
versation, the veriety thus collected
from the whole mass of published
works, mostly new, embraces Biogra
| ply, Novels, Voyages and Travels,
Sketches, Tales, and Select History,
personal memoirs Of extraordinary in.
dividuals, and curious adventure, &c.
&c, An amount equal 10 fify Lon.
don duodecimo volumes is thus annu-
ally furnished 10 weekly numbers, at
cost only equal TO one of the London
works. The plan thus embraces the
whole range OF popular literature, and
the work has now become so univer-
sally diffused in every part OF the UnI
on as to form no inconsiderable por.
ton of literature of the country, and
with which an acquaintance has be
come really necessary for those who
mix in society.
The Library as now conducted dis
semnates books to all parts of the
country in from five 10 six weeksafler
their issue in London. Five dollars
per annum expended in this way will
supply good reading for whole cir
Gle or family; for a cent and a hay
a day, postage included, a duodeclmo
book is sent every week, making in
The course of the year more than three
volumes of Rees's Cyclopedia. One
volume of the Library, containing
from fifteen TO twenty entire works,
can be bound at an expense little ex
ceedug that of binding either sepa'
rately, and constitutes concentrated
collection forming never failing re-
source of amusement and instruction,
and which must alwaysbe worth the
price that has been paid for it. The
most ample testimony has been spon
taneously afforded that This work has
contributed, to The pleasure Of thou
sands, who but for the resource it af-
forded, must have beenleft with minds
unocCupied, or thrown into unprofta
BILE and uncongenial society. This
immense supply of periodical reading
has thus been welcomed every where
as means Improvement, and sub
stitute for the small talk of idle listIess
ness so apt 10 employ a large portion
of the time of the many.
Waldie's Library is published eve.
ry Tuesday, accompanied by cover
of four quarto pages, entitled, The
Journal Of Bellies Lettres, containing
reviews Of new books, literary intel
ligence of all kinds, tales, lists Of new
books, SC, thus combining the advan-
lages of Library, and amusement Of
a magazine and newspaper; the whole
for $5 per annum, or clubs offive in.
dividuaIs obtain FIVE copies for SEQ, a
reduction which pays the postage