EDITED BY OLIVER OPTIC,

Who writes for no other juvenile publication--who contributes each year

FOUR SERIAL STORIES!

The cost of which in book form would be $5.00--_double the subscription
price of the Magazine_!

Each number (published every Saturday) handsomely illustrated.

* * * * *

Among the regular contributors, besides OLIVER OPTIC, are

=SOPHIE MAY=, author of "Little Prudy and Dotty Dimple Stories."
=ROSA ABBOTT=, author of "Jack of all Trades," &c.
=MAY MANNERING=, author of "The Helping-Hand Series," &c.
=WIRT SIKES=, author of "On the Prairies," &c.
=OLIVE LOGAN=, author of "Near Views of Royalty," &c.
=REV. ELIJAH KELLOGG=, author of "Good Old Times," &c.

* * * * *

Each number contains 16 pages of Original Stories, Poetry, Articles of
History, Biography, Natural History, Dialogues, Recitations, Facts and
Figures, Puzzles, Rebuses, &c.

OLIVER OPTIC'S MAGAZINE contains more reading matter than any other
juvenile publication, and is the _Cheapest and the Best_ Periodical of
the kind in the United States.

TERMS, IN ADVANCE.--Single Subscriptions, One Year, $2.50; One Volume,
Six Months, $1.25; Single copies, 6 cents. Three copies, $6.50; Five
copies, $10.00; Ten copies (with an extra copy _free_), $20.00.

Canvassers and local agents wanted in every State and Town, and liberal
arrangements will be made with those who apply to the Publishers.

A handsome cloth cover, with a beautiful gilt design, will be furnished
for binding the numbers for the year for 50 cts. All the numbers for
1867 will be supplied for $2.25. Bound vols., $3.50.

Any boy or girl who will write to the Publishers, shall receive a
specimen copy by mail free.

* * * * *

_LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston._

[Illustration: Advertisement for Oliver Optic's Magazine]

OLIVER OPTIC'S MAGAZINE.

* * * * *

THE ORATOR.

In this department, of particular interest to schools, Exercises in
Declamation are selected, and marked for delivery, illustrated by
engraved figures. This is an original feature, not to be found in any
other Magazine, giving the subscriber

26 ILLUSTRATED EXERCISES IN ELOCUTION EACH YEAR!

* * * * *

DIALOGUES.

This usually neglected fea