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Optic, Oliver
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Railroad stories
The only Original American Juvenile Magazine published once a Week.
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 by THOMAS
NAST, and other talented artists.
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 cts.
Three copies, 6.50
Five copies, 10.00
Ten copies (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 volumes, $3.50.
Any boy or girl who will write to the Publishers shall receive a
specimen copy by mail free.
LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers,
149 Washington Street, Boston.
LEE & SHEPARD’S JUVENILE PUBLICATIONS.
SOPHIE MAY’S BOOKS.
LITTLE PRUDY STORIES.
_Six volumes. Illustrated. In Sets or separate. Per volume, 75 cents._
LITTLE PRUDY.
LITTLE PRUDY’S Sister Susy.
LITTLE PRUDY’S Captain Horace.
LITTLE PRUDY’S Cousin Grace.
LITTLE PRUDY’S Story Book.
LITTLE PRUDY’S Dotty Dimple.
DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES.
By the author of “Little Prudy Stories.”
_Six volumes. Illustrated. In Sets or separate. Per volume, 75 cents._
DOTTY DIMPLE at her Grandmother’s.
DOTTY DIMPLE at Home.
DOTTY DIMPLE out West.
DOTTY DIMPLE at Play.
DOTTY DIMPLE at School.
DOTTY DIMPLE’S Flyaway.
Read the high commendation of the _North American Review_, which places
Sophie May’s Books at the
Head of Juvenile Literature.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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