The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-03-26
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4 COUNTRY.
On the first Wednesday of January, 1916
commences, at Philadelphia, the secont
year of SMITHS WEEKLY VOLUME {
Select Circulating Library, for town ant
country, on the plan of Waldie's, at greatly
reduced price, of larger size, and new type
Conducted by the original, and, for the
frs, seven years, the sole editor of Waldie's
Library.
The publisher has the pleasure of announ
cling that the success of this periodical is
uch as 10 insure its continuance upon q
ornament 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 wellwishers
We may venture TO assert, that there have
been included in our past pages many books
and essays of frst-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 to the various works
these eminent qualities, since they are most
ly not productions of our own, but from the
pens ofauthors of admitted talent, many oi
whom are well known, and some of them en-.
ioying high and undoubted celebrity.
Our plan embraces the publication of the
neDest 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
spection, by the regulat steamships, and his
situation as Librarian TO the Philadel phia
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with his collateral connexions, give him ac-
cess to, and knowledge of, the best and
most extensive public and private collections
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