"Taken by the Enemy" has just come from the press, an announcement that cannot but appeal to every healthy boy from ten to fifteen years of age in the country. "No writer of the present day." says the Boston _Commonwealth_, "whose aim has been to hit the boyish heart, has been as successful as Oliver Optic. There is a period in the life of every youth, just about the time that he is collecting postage-stamps, and before his legs are long enough for a bicycle, when he has the Oliver Optic fever. He catches it by reading a few stray pages somewhere, and then there is nothing for it but to let the matter take its course. Relief comes only when the last page of the last book is read; and then there are relapses whenever a new book appears until one is safely on through the teens. The boys will be delighted to know, therefore, that 'Taken by the Enemy' is but the first of six books to come out in rapid succession, all based on the thrilling incidents of the late war."--_Literary News._ _OLIVER OPTIC'S BOOKS._ THE BOAT-BUILDER SERIES Completed in Six Volumes. Illustrated. Per Vol., $1.25. 1. ALL ADRIFT; Or, The Goldwing Club. 2. SNUG HARBOR; Or, The Champlain Mechanics. 3. SQUARE AND COMPASS; Or, Building the House. 4. STEM TO STERN; Or, Building the Boat. 5. ALL TAUT; Or, Rigging the Boat. 6. READY ABOUT; Or, Sailing the Boat. The series includes in six successive volumes the whole art of boat-building, boat-rigging, boat-managing, and practical hints to make the ownership of a boat pay. A great deal of useful information will be given in this Boat-Building series, and in each book a very interesting story is sure to be interwoven with the information. Every reader will be interested at once in "Dory," the hero of "All Adrift," and one of the characters to be retained in the future volumes of the series, at least there are already several of his recently made friends who do not want to lose sight of him, and this will be the case of pretty much every boy who makes his acquaintance in "All Adrift." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Errata Noted by Transcriber: En Reconnaissance de la Bonte de son Pere, _text reads "Pere" (with acute accent for grave)_ and to be above any such villainy _text reads "villany"_ "He is on board--of the Bellevite," the third lieutenant _text reads "lientenant"_ End of Project Gutenberg's Within The Enemy's Lines, by Oliver Optic