The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-09-08

KOS. ROBINSON, LIBRARIAN, after upEmus Oh
81 twenty-five years experience, has been nuuced 70
establish system at his extensive CTculathg u
braIy, which he hopes will meet with general appfopd-
ton and encouragement.-1he most prominent lea-
lures
/. The great reduction in the price of Reading, and
the large supply of Books TO Families and Socieues;
9 The announcement to form Book Societies wheTc
is impossible to procure supply of Books except ny
purchase. -,
8 Two or more families residing in the same neigh
borhood are allowed to Join in one subscription.
A. Catalogues and boxes for country supplies are fur
nished without charge. III,
s. Book Societies can be formed ana suppheG WIN
any number of Books according TO the NUMBER OF
members.
In order to give some idea Of the importance 10 the
public Of the new system of accommodation, the pro-
pIiet0r begs 10 state that his Library at present co
sists of nearly fifteen thousand volumes IN HISTORIES
Sacred. Protane and NatuTa Voyages, travels bosId
ply Moral and Political Philosophy; the Popular! SCI
ences; Divinity, Belles-Letters; Novels, Taes, no
manees: the Drama, &c. That the new Books ana new
Magazines and Reviews, published annually ard regu
larry added, consist of from TO 400 vounes-lo all OF
which subscribers have immediate accessible
Library also contains selection in French Of the best
authors, and some of the best Italian authors.
The terms below given full and satisfactory that
parties at remote distance from Baltimore can at once
commence subscribing without the delay and trouble
attending correspondence. The first supply OF BOOKS
the Librarian will take upon himself to form, upon re-
eeiving lntimatlOn of tile kind OF works desired ana
forward itat once, with the catalogue from which fu-
ture supplies can be selected.
TERMS OF SUPPLYING SINGLE FAMILY.
The general subscription is TEN DOLLARS the
year. which entities the subscriber to sixteen volumes
nj a time--one fourth in new Books; hTee-ourlhs
Books chosen from the CatalOgue.-A Magazine Oh
Review may be included in the supply
Two Ormore families in the same neIghborhood are
allowed TO join in the above Subscription, by paying in
addition Two Dollars for each extra family The con-
fons and regulations thesame as those for socei-
ties particularZed below.
TERMS FOR BOOK SOCIETIES.
Societies composed of SIX members, paying Fifteen
Dollars the year entitled TO Twenty Volumes IN
their possession at time.
Societies composed of twelve members, paying TWEEN
ty-four Dollars tie year entitled to Tweny-sX No-
tunes in their pos .ssion at a time.
Societies composed OF eighteen members, paying
Thirty Dollars the VEAL are entitled 70 Thny-siX NO-
Iumes in their possession at a time.
{Gy- Societies. however large, are supplied at the
same ratio
One fourth of the collection can be new publications
and three fourls Books selected from the Catalogue
which exchanged together or in part provided
parts of sets retanedl at Whatever intervals
time the Society think proper.
Magazines and Reviews can be included in the sup
| plv in number as follows: 1hree for eighteen mem
| bers-two for twelve members-one for SIX members
CONDITIONS AND REGULATIONS.
l. The names of the members forming the Society
TO be sent 10 the Library with the address also
one member i'll whose name all orders for supplies are
TO be given and the books forwarded TO and from the
Library, on behalf OF the Society.
2 The subscription 10 be paid in advance at the time
of subscribing, be scat By post. accompanied with
list of tbs Books required and directions how 10 for
ward them.
g. The expense of carriage and from the Library
hostage &c. is be betrayed by the Society-but the
/ use of boxes and Catalogues are free of expense.
a. If the Society should retain books beyond the tint
subscribed for, the subscription must be paid till the
| are returned.
s. Members are not allowed, on any account, to len
Books to any person that is not a member iy3O