The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-03-19
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GREAT LITERARY ENTERPRISE
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THE WEEKLY VOLUME;
A SELECT CIRCULAR LIBRARY FOR TOWN ANI
4 COUNTRY.
On tbe first Wednesday of January, 1916
comme&es, at Philadelphia, the second
year of SMITHS WEEKLY VOLUME a
Select circulating Library, for town and
I country, pn the plan of Waldie's, at greatly
reduced price, Of a larger size, and new type.
Conducted by the original, and, for the
first seven years, the sole editor of Waldie's
i Library.
4 The Publisher has the pleasure of announ-
cling that the success of this periodical is
uch as 10 insure its continuance upon a
eimanent 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
bbleve, in the good opinions of many; we
hppe to be confirmed in this pleasant position,
and to acquire new friends and well-wishers.
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 vision, and wit, and humour
true poetry aud story; knowledge has
been mingled with lighter matter, and we
trust made agreeable. We may the less
hesitate TO ascribes TO the various works
these eminsnt. .quaiti since they are most
ly not productionsgo of our own, but from the
pens Of authors ofadmitted talent, many Of
whom are we'll 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
mens 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 noueiy 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
specton, by the regular eam-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.
TERMS.
"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 ,oeekly, with great care, so as TO
carry with perfect safety TO the most distant
post-ofice.
:" : ~ 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 guide TO their re-
spective merits, and in fact embraces what
might properly be called the literary market.
This mode of introducing the Journal matter
is rendered necessary to pass the entire two
periodicals through the post-office at the
price of a 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
Reefs Cyclopeda. Each volume is accom-
panied by title page and index.
The weekly numbers are put up in a pa
in Quarterly Parts, for those who
prefer that form; they 60 by mail in that
shape.
The price is -Four Dollars, for ffty-two
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But, to facilitate the circulation and in
crease its public utility, the publisher offers
he following extraordinary inducements TO
individuals to procure their friends and
leighbors TO unite iu clubs and remitances,
viz.
|. A club of three individual subscribers,
uniting their payments or remittance, shall
receive three copies of the work for year
for Ten Dollars, or $3 33 each
H. A club of ,fre individual subscribers,
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Ill. A club of ten individuals shall receive
len copies for Tuenty-Foe Dollars, or 50
80 each.
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warded unless the order in accompanied with
he remittance, which may be made in notes
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