* * * * * 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 feature of Magazines receives particular attention in "OUR BOYS AND GIRLS." The best writers of Dialogues have been secured, and Oliver Optic's Magazine will give 26 ORIGINAL DIALOGUES EACH YEAR! * * * * * A YEAR'S VOLUME. The volume for the year 1867 contained three Serial Stories by OLIVER OPTIC, 35 Poems, 39 Speeches for Declamation, 26 Original Dialogues, 68 Stories by other authors, 1212 Puzzles, 158 Illustrated Rebuses, &c. [Illustration: Advertisement for Oliver Optic's Magazine with a rebus] OLIVER OPTIC'S MAGAZINE. HEAD-WORK. CONTAINING GEOGRAPHICAL REBUSES, PUZZLES, SYNCOPATIONS, GEOGRAPH'L 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. [Illustration: Advertisement for Oliver Optic's Books] OLIVER OPTIC'S BOOKS. Each series in a neat box. Sold in sets or separately. =Young America Abroad.= A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands. 16mo. Illustrated by Stevens, Perkins, and others. Per vol., $1.50.