the Art of Amusing.

BEING A COLLECTION OF GRACEFUL ARTS, MERRY GAMES, ODD TRICKS, CURIOUS PUZZLES, AND NEW CHARADES. TOGETHER WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR PRIVATE THEATRICALS, TABLEAUX, AND ALL SORTS OF PARLOR AND FAMILY AMUSEMENTS.

A VOLUME INTENDED TO AMUSE EVERYBODY AND ENABLE ALL TO AMUSE EVERYBODY ELSE; THUS BRINGING ABOUT AS NEAR AN APPROXIMATION TO THE MILLENNIUM AS CAN BE CONVENIENTLY ATTAINED IN THE COMPASS OF ONE SMALL VOLUME.

By FRANK BELLEW.

WITH NEARLY 150 ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR.

NEW YORK: Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway. London: S. Low, Son & Co. MDCCCLXVI.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by

GEO. W. CARLETON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

To J. C. W.

To you, my little kinsman, I dedicate these pages, Tho' not so wise, perhaps, as some you've read by graver sages; They're not without a purpose, and I trust a kind and true one, Older than eighteen hundred years, still good as any new one. If they could cheer some winter nights, and make some days seem brighter, I'd feel I'd paid a groat or so, Of that great debt of love I owe, To one at rest who, long ago, dealt kindly by the writer.

F. B.