The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-02-19
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THE WEEKLY VOLUME;
SELECT CIRCULAR LIBRARY FOR TOWN AND
COUNTRY.
On the first Wednesday of January, 1916
commences, at Philadelphia, the second
year of SMITHS WEEKLY VOLUME a
Select Circulating Library, for town and
country, on the plan of Waldie's, at a greatly
reduced price, of larger size, and new type.
Conducted by the original, and, for the
first seven years, the sole editor of Waldie's
Library
The publisher has the pleasure of announ-
eng that the success of this periodical is
such as to Insure its continuance upon
permanent footing. A probation Of one
year, during which more than one hundred
thousand Of our Weekly Volumes have
spread over the land, has established us, we
believe, in the good opinions of many; we
hope to be confirmed in this pleasant position,
and to acquire new friends and well-wshers.
we may venture 10 assert, that there have
been included in our past pages many books
and essays of first-rate merit; there have
been displayed wisdom, and wit, and humour
true poetry and story; knowledge has
been mingled with lighter matter, and we
trust made agreeable. We may the less
hesitate TO ascribe 10 the various works
these eminent qualities, since they are most
y not productions of our own, but from the
pens Of authors of admitted talent, many of
whom are well known, and some of them en-
Toying high and undoubted celebrity.
Our plan embraces the publication Of the
ne@eSt and best books in the various depart
ments of Travels, Voyages, Tales, Sketches,
Biography and Memoirs, in short the whole
range OF polite literature, and including trans
lations made expressly for the work The
editor does not, however, sacrifice at the
shrine of mere norelty in any of these depart
ments. When new book does not offer of
the required character, he will, as before,
extend his research among the numerous
works which he has already within his reach,
besides the many which are afforded by his
regular importations from Europe From
the arrangements now completed, all books
OF merit or popularity come under his in
spectlon, by the regular steam ships, and his
situation as Librarian TO the Philadelphia
City Library, still the largest in America,
with his collateral connexions, give him ac-
cess to, and knowledge of, The best and
most extensive public and private collections
on this continent
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"The Weekly Volume, or Select Circula-
ting Library" is printed on double super
royal, sheet, twenty-seven inches by forty,
sixteen pages quarto, three columns on each,
and mailed aOeehly, with great care, so as to
carry with perfect safety to the most distant
pogt-ofiice.
w" The Journals Of the Bellies Letters
by thus increasing the size of the paper, we
occupy, without decreasing the quantity of
book-matter, the two first pages as Journal
OF Bellies Letters, formerly printed as cover
This leaf, while it becomes an introduction
TO the work that follows, contains also origi-
nal literary matter and news, criticisms,
lists Of new books, with a guide to their re-
spectve merits, and in fact embraces what
might properly be called the literary market
This mode ofintroducing the Journal matter
is rendered necessary TO pass the entire two
periodicals through the post-office at the
price of single newspaper postage
The whole is printed and finished with |
the same care and accuracy as book work.
The ffty-two numbers form two volumes
truly worth of preservation, of four hundred
and sirteen pages each, equal in quantity to
twelve hundred pages, or three volumes of
Ree's Cyclopedia. Each volume is accom-
panied by title page and index.
The weekly numbers are put up in a pa
per-cover, in Quarterly Parts, for those who
prefer that form; they go by mail in that
shape.
The price is Four Dollars, for fity-two
numbers of sixteen quarto pages each. "
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crease its public utility, the publisher offers
the following extracrdinary inducements to
individuals to procure their friends and
neighbors to unite iu clubs and remittances,
VIZ.
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uniting their payments or remittance, shall
feceive three copies of the worlSfor year
for Ten Dollars, Or $3 33 each.
IL. A club Of fre individual subscribers,
shall receive five copies of the work for IF
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Ill. A club of ten individuals shall receive
ten copies for TtUenty-NUe Dollars, or So
SO each.
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