ose oversaturated with
transatlantic traditions we recommend 'Little Prudy."

Sold by all booksellers and newsdealers, and sent by mail, post-paid,
on receipt of price.

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LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston.

The only Original Illustrated Juvenile Magazine published Once a Week.

OLIVER OPTIC'S MAGAZINE,

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS,

EVERY WEEK. EDITED BY OLIVER OPTIC,

Who writes for no other Juvenile Publication, and who contributes

Four Serial Stories Every Year,

The cost of which, in book form, would be $5.00,--double the subscription
price of the Magazine. Every number contains part of a new Story by
Oliver Optic, illustrated by designs from the best artists, headed by
Thomas Nast, the great American Artist. Then follow

Poems and Stories

By other well-known authors, who know how to write for Young Folks.

The Orator,

A department exclusively in charge of Oliver Optic, gives every other
week a selection for Declamation, marked for delivery according to the
most approved rules of elocution; 26 MARKED DECLAMATIONS EACH YEAR.

Original Dialogues.

Some of the best writers find a place under this head every other week,
giving the subscriber 26 ORIGINAL DIALOGUES EVERY YEAR.

Head Work,

Containing Geographical Rebuses, Puzzles, Syncopations, Geographical
Questions, Proverbial Anagrams, Enigmas, Charades, and Numerical
Puzzles, contributed by the subscribers, and rendered unusually
attractive by original features NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OTHER MAGAZINE.

In addition to the above-mentioned departments, there are regular
contributions on Natural History, History, the Sciences, Facts and
Figures, from some of the most learned men in the country.

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.

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

_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.

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