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.