“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 is given in this =Boat Builders Series=, and in each book a very interesting story is interwoven with the information. Every reader will be interested at once in Dory, the hero of ‘All Adrift,’ and one of the characters retained in the subsequent volumes of the series. His friends will not want to lose sight of him, and every boy who makes his acquaintance in ‘All Adrift’ will become his friend.” =Riverdale Story Books.= By OLIVER OPTIC. Twelve volumes. Illustrated. Illuminated covers. Price: cloth, per set, $3.60; per volume, 30 cents; paper, per set, $2.00. = 1. Little Merchant.= = 2. Young Voyagers.= = 3. Christmas Gift.= = 4. Dolly and I.= = 5. Uncle Ben.= = 6. Birthday Party.= = 7. Proud and Lazy.= = 8. Careless Kate.= = 9. Robinson Crusoe, Jr.= =10. The Picnic Party.= =11. The Gold Thimble.= =12. The Do-Somethings.= =Riverdale Story Books.= By OLIVER OPTIC. Six volumes. Illustrated. Fancy cloth and colors. Price per volume, 30 cents. =1. Little Merchant.= =2. Proud and Lazy.= =3. Young Voyagers.= =4. Careless Kate.= =5. Dolly and I.= =6. Robinson Crusoe, Jr.= =Flora Lee Library.= By OLIVER OPTIC. Six volumes. Illustrated. Fancy cloth and colors. Price per volume, 30 cents. =1. The Picnic Party.= =2. The Gold Thimble.= =3. The Do-Somethings.= =4. Christmas Gift.= =5. Uncle Ben.= =6. Birthday Party.= These are bright short stories for younger children who are unable to comprehend the =Starry Flag Series= or the =Army and Navy Series=. But they all display the author’s talent for pleasing and interesting the little folks. They are all fresh and original, preaching no sermons, but inculcating good lessons. =The Great Western Series.= By OLIVER OPTIC. In six volumes. Illustrated. Any volume sold separately. Price per volume, $1.25. =1. Going West=; or, The Perils of a Poor Boy. =2. Out West=; or, Roughing it on the Great Lakes. =3. Lake Breezes=; or, The Cruise of the Sylvania. =4. Going South=; or, Yachting on the Atlantic Coast. =5. Down South=; or, Yacht Adventures in Florida. =6. Up the River=; or, Yachting on the Mississippi. “This is the latest series of books issued by this popular writer, and dealt with life on the Great Lakes, for which a careful study was made by the author in a summer tour of the immense water sources of America. The story, which carries the same hero through the six books of the series, is always entertaining, novel scenes and varied incidents giving a constantly changing yet always attractive aspect to the narrative. OLIVER OPTIC has written nothing better.” =The Yacht Club Series.= By OLIVER OPTIC. In six volumes. Illustrated. Any volume sold separately. Price per volume, $1.25. =1. Little Bobtail=; or, The Wreck of the Penobscot.