ope of the future. I still looked forward with glowing
anticipations to the time when our little family should be reunited
under the same roof.

* * * * *

I have told my story, and related all the catastrophes of a clerk. I
staid in the counting-room of Collingsby and Faxon a year and a half,
when the business was again closed by the death of the junior partner.
Mr. Richard decided to retire, as he might have done years before. The
new firm, to whom the business was sold, offered me a salary of twelve
hundred a year; but I declined it, and was again free from any
engagement.

My mother had not yet returned. At the last accounts she was living at
Nice, with her brother, whose wife was very feeble. I was eighteen, and
I determined to go to her. I could no longer endure the separation; and
with this resolve I bade farewell to DESK AND DEBIT.

* * * * *

OLIVER OPTIC'S

LAKE SHORE SERIES.

SIX VOLS., ILLUST. PER VOL., $1.25.

Through by Daylight;
Or, The Young Engineer of the Lake Shore Railroad.

Lightning Express;
Or, The Rival Academies.

On Time;
Or, The Young Captain of the Ucayga Steamer.

Switch Off;
Or, The War of the Students.

Brake Up;
Or, The Young Peacemakers.

Bear and Forbear;
Or, The Young Skipper of Lake Ucayga.

Oliver Optic owes his popularity to a pleasant style, and to a ready
sympathy with the dreams, hopes, aspirations, and fancies of the young
people for whom he writes. He writes like a wise, over-grown boy, and
his books have therefore a freshness and raciness rarely attained by
his fellow scribes.--_Christian Advocate_.

LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston.

* * * * *

OLIVER OPTIC'S

STARRY FLAG SERIES.

SIX VOLS., ILLUST. PER VOL., $1.25.

The Starry Flag;
Or, The Young Fisherman of Cape Ann.

Breaking Away;
Or, The Fortunes of a Student.

Seek and Find;
Or, The Adventures of a Smart Boy.

Freaks of Fortune;
Or, Half Round the World.

Make or Break;
Or, The Rich Man's Daughter.

Down the River;
Or, Buck Bradford and his Tyrants.

These books are exciting narratives, and full of stirring adventures,
but the youthful heroes of the stories are noble, self-sacrificing, and
courageous, and the stories contain nothing which will do injury to the
mind or heart of the youthful reader.--_Webster Times_.

LEE