THIRTY PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICATIONS.

Strength of Body is known by a stiff hair, large bones, firm and robust limbs, short muscular neck, firm and erect, the head and breast high, the forehead short, hard, and peaked, with bristly hair, large feet, rather thick than broad, a harsh unequal voice, and choleric complexion.

Weakness of Body is distinguished by a small ill-proportioned head, narrow shoulders, soft skin, and melancholy complexion.

The signs of Long life are strong teeth, a sanguine temperament, middle stature, large, deep, and ruddy lines in the hand, large muscles, stooping shoulders, full chest, firm flesh, clear complexion, slow growth, wide ears, and large eyelids.

Short Life may be inferred from a thick tongue; the appearance of grinders before the age of puberty, thin, straggling and uneven teeth, confused lines in the hand, of a quick but small growth.

A Good Genius may be expected from a thin skin, middle stature, blue bright eyes, fair complexion, straight, pretty strong hair, an affable aspect, the eyebrows joined, moderation in mirth, an open, cheerful countenance, and the temples a little concave.

A Dunce may be known by a swollen neck, plump arms, sides, and loins, a round head, concave behind, a large fleshy forehead, pale eyes, a dull heavy look, small joints, snuffing nostrils, and a proneness to laughter, little hands, an ill-proportioned head, either too big or too little, blubber lips, short fingers, and thick legs.

Fortitude is promised from a wide mouth, a sonorous voice, grave, slow, and always equal, upright posture, large eyes, pretty open and steadfast, the hair high above the forehead, the head much compressed or flattened, the forehead square and high, the extremities large and robust, the neck firm though not fleshy, a large corpulent chest, and brown complexion.

Boldness is characterized by a prominent mouth, rugged appearance, rough forehead, arched eyebrows, large nostrils and teeth, short neck, great arms, ample chest, square shoulders and a forward countenance.

Prudence is generally distinguished by a head which is flat on the sides, a broad square forehead, a little concave in the middle, a soft voice, a large chest, a thin hair, light eyes, either blue, brown or black, large eyes, and an aquiline nose.

A good Memory is commonly attached to those persons who are smaller, yet better formed in the upper than the lower parts, not fat but fleshy, of a fair, delicate skin, with the poll of the head uncovered, crooked nose, teeth thick set, large ears with plenty of cartilage.

A bad Memory is observable in persons who are larger in their superior than inferior parts, fleshy, though dry and bald.—N. B. This is expressly contrary to the opinion of Aristotle, who says that the superior parts being larger than the inferior signify a good memory, and vice versa.

A good Imagination and thoughtful Disposition is distinguished by a large prominent forehead, a fixed and attentive look, slow respiration, and an inclination of the head.

A good Sight is enjoyed by those persons who have generally black, thick, straight eye-lashes, large bushy eyebrows, concave eyes, contracted as it were inwards.

Short-sighted People have a stern, earnest look, small, short eyebrows, large pupils and prominent eyes.

Sense of Hearing: those who possess the same in perfection, have ears well furnished with gristle, well channelled and hairy.

The Sense of Smelling is most perfect in those who have large noses, descending very near the mouth, neither too moist nor too dry.

A nice Faculty of Tasting is peculiar to such as have a spongy, porous, soft tongue, well moistened with saliva, yet not too moist.

Delicacy in the Touch belongs to those who have a soft skin, sensible nerves, and nervous sinews, moderately warm and dry.

Irascibility is accompanied by an erect posture, a clear skin, a solemn voice, open nostrils, moist temples, displaying superficial veins, thick neck, equal use of both hands, quick pace, blood-shot eyes, large, unequal, ill-ranged eyes, and choleric disposition.

Timorousness resides where we find a concave neck, pale color, weak-winking eyes, soft hair, smooth plump breast, shrill tremulous voice, small mouth, thin lips, broad thin hands, and small shambling feet.

Melancholy is denoted by a wrinkled countenance, dejected eyes, meeting eyebrows, slow pace, fixed look, and deliberate respiration.

An Amorous Disposition may be known by a fair, slender face, a redundancy of hair, rough temples, broad forehead, moist shining eyes, wide nostrils, narrow shoulders, hairy hands and arms, well-shaped legs.

Gayety attends a serene open forehead, rosy agreeable countenance, a sweet musical tone of voice, an agile body and soft flesh.

Envy appears with a wrinkled forehead, frowning, dejected, and squinting look, a pale, melancholy countenance, and a dry, rough skin.

Intrepidity often resides in a small body, with red curled hair, ruddy countenance, frowning eyebrows, arched and meeting, eyes blue and yellowish, large mouth, and red lines in the hand.

Gentleness and Complacency may be distinguished by a soft and moist palm, frequency of shutting the eyes, soft movement, slow speech, soft, straight and lightish-colored hair.

Bashfulness may be discovered by moist eyes, never wide open, eyebrows frequently lowered, blushing cheeks, moderate pace, slow and submissive speech, bent body, and glowing ears of a purple hue.

Temperance or Sobriety is accompanied with an equal respiration, a moderate-sized mouth, smooth temples, eyes of an ordinary size, either fair or azure, and a short, flat body.

Strength of Mind is signified by light, curled hair, a small body, shining eyes, but a little depressed, a grave intense voice, bushy beard, large broad back and shoulders.

Pride stands confessed with arched eyebrows, a large prominent mouth, a broad chest, slow pace, erected head, shrugging shoulders, and staring eyes.

Luxury dwells with a ruddy or pale complexion, downy temples, bald pate, little eyes, thick neck, corpulent body, large nose, thin eyebrows, and hands covered with a kind of down.

Loquacity may be expected from a bushy beard, broad fingers, pointed tongue, eyes of a ruddy hue, a large prominent upper lip, and a sharp pointed nose.

Perverseness may be dreaded, when we perceive a high forehead, firm, short, thick, immovable neck, quick speech, immoderate laughter, fiery eyes, and short fleshy hands and fingers.

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McBride’s New Dialogues. Especially designed for School and Literary Amateur Entertainments; containing entirely New and Original Dialogues, introducing Irish, Yankee, and other eccentric characters. By H. Elliott McBride.

Contents.

A Happy Woman.

The Somnambulist.

Those Thompsons.

Playing School.

Tom and Sally.

Assisting Hezekiah.

A Visit to the Oil Regions.

Breaking up the Exhibition.

Turning Around.

A Little Boy’s Debate.

The Silver Lining.

Restraining Jotham.

A Shoemaker’s Troubles.

An Uncomfortable Predicament.

The Opening Speech.

The Cucumber Hill Debating Club.

Married by the New Justice.

Bread on the Waters.

An Unsuccessful Advance.

When Women Have Their Rights.

Only Another Footprint.

Rosabella’s Lovers.

A Smart Boy.

A Heavy Shower.

Master of the Situation.

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Dick’s Book of Toasts, Speeches and Responses. Containing Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Social Occasions, and specimen Speeches with appropriate replies suitable for the following occasions:

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Auld Lang Syne.

Tam O’Shanter.

The Four Seasons.

Simplicity.

The Gathering of the Clans.

Napoleon at St. Helena.

The Calculation.

The Surprise Party.

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The Clock.

The Garden.

The Queen’s Audience.

The Phalanx.

The Idle Year.

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La Belle Lucie.

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Leoni’s Own.

La Nivernaise.

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The Sultan of Turkey.

The Fortress.

The Hemispheres.

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The Chester Game.

The Shah of Persia.

The Empress of India.

The Zodiac.

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The Besieged City.

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Napoleon’s Favorite.

The Fifteen Puzzle.

The Contra-Dance.

The Betrothal.

The Reinforcements.

The Reserve.

The Frog.

The Pyramid.

The Quadrille.

The Chatelaine.

The Order of Precedence.

The Congress.

Thirteen Down.

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Light and Shade.

St. Louis.

Rouge et Noir.

The Blondes and Brunettes.

The Royal Cotillion.

Nestor.

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Dame History’s Peep Show.

Shadow Pantomimes.

Popular Ballads illustrated by appropriate action.

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Punch and Judy.

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Martine’s Manual of Etiquette and Perfect Letter-Writer. For the use of both Ladies and Gentlemen. A great many books have been, printed on the subject of Etiquette and correct behavior in society; but none of them are sufficiently comprehensive and matter-of-fact to suit the class of people who may be called new-beginners in fashionable life. This book explains in a plain, common-sense way, precisely how to conduct yourself in every position in society. This book also contains over 300 sensible letters and notes suitable to every occasion. It has some excellent model letters of friendship and business, and its model Love-Letters are unequaled. If any lady or gentleman desires to know how to begin a love correspondence, this is just the book they want. This volume contains the same matter as “Martine’s Hand-Book of Etiquette” and “Martine’s Sensible Letter-Writer,” and, in fact, combines those two books bound together in one substantial volume of 373 pages. Cloth, gilt. $1.50

Frost’s Original Letter-Writer, and Laws and By-Laws of American Society, combined. Being a complete collection of Original Letters and Notes upon every imaginable subject of every-day life, and a condensed but thorough treatise on Etiquette and its Usages in America. By S. A. Frost. This book consists of Miss Frost’s two celebrated works on Etiquette and Letter Writing, bound together in one substantial volume. Anybody who wants a book that will tell them how to appear to advantage in society, or how to write a letter on almost any subject, should send for a copy of this valuable work. 16mo, 378 pages, extra cloth. $1.50

One Hundred and Thirty Comic Dialogues and Recitations. Being Barton’s Comic Recitations and Humorous Dialogues, and Spencer’s Comic Speeches and Dialogues, combined in one volume. This capital book contains an endless variety of Comic Speeches, Humorous Scenes, Amusing Burlesques and Diverting Dialogues. It embraces French, Dutch, Irish, Ethiopian and Yankee Stories, and from its fruitful pages may be selected enough fun to make any entertainment a success. Bound in cloth. $1.50

Frost’s School and Exhibition Dialogues. Comprising Frost’s Humorous Exhibition Dialogues, and Frost’s Dialogues for Young Folks, combined in one volume. By getting this excellent book, the difficulty in procuring a good dialogue for a school exhibition will be entirely overcome. It contains sixty-one good dialogues of every shade and variety, and from its well-stored pages may be selected enough original matter to insure the success of a score of entertainments. Bound in cloth. $1.50

Twenty-six Short and Amusing Plays for Private Theatricals. Being Howard’s Drawing-room Theatricals and Hudson’s Private Theatricals combined in one volume. This book, as the title implies, contains twenty-six of the best plays that can be selected for a private theatrical entertainment. It contains several amusing plays for one sex only, and is thus adapted for the army, navy, and male or female boarding-schools. It contains plain directions for getting up a good amateur performance. Bound in cloth. $1.50

Dr. Valentine’s Comic Lectures; or, Morsels of Mirth for the Melancholy. Comprising Comic Lectures on Heads, Faces, Noses, Mouths, Animal Magnetism, etc., with Specimens of Eloquence, Transactions of Learned Societies, Delineations of Eccentric Characters, Comic Songs, etc., etc. By Dr. W. Valentine. Illustrated with 12 portraits of Dr. Valentine in his most celebrated characters. Paper covers. 75 cts.

Broad Grins of the Laughing Philosopher. This book is full of the drollest and queerest incidents imaginable, interspersed with jokes, quaint sayings and funny pictures. It also contains twenty-nine laughable engravings 13 cts.

The American Boy’s Book of Sports and Games. A Repository of In and Out-Door Amusements for Boys and Youths. Containing 600 large 12mo pages. Illustrated with, nearly 700 engravings, designed by White, Herrick, Weir and Harvey, and engraved by N. Orr. This is unquestionably the most attractive and valuable book of its kind ever issued in this or any other country. It was three years in preparation, and embraces all the sports and games that tend to develop the physical constitution, improve the mind and heart, and relieve the tedium of leisure hours, both in the parlor and the field. The engravings are in the first style of the art, and embrace eight full-page ornamental titles, and four large colored chromos, illustrating the several departments of the work, beautifully printed on tinted paper. The book is issued in the best style, being printed on fine sized paper, and handsomely bound. Extra cloth, gilt side and back, extra gold, beveled boards. $2.00

Mrs. Crowen’s American Lady’s Cookery Book. Giving every variety of information for ordinary and holiday occasions, and containing over 1,200 Original Receipts for Preparing and Cooking Soups and Broths, Fish and Oysters, Clams, Mussels, Crabs and Terrapins, Meats of all kinds, Poultry and Game, Eggs and Cheese, Vegetables and Salads, Sauces of all kinds, fancy Desserts, Puddings and Custards, Pies and Tarts, Bread and Biscuit, Rolls and Cakes, Preserves and Jellies, Pickles and Catsups, Potted Meats, etc., etc.; with valuable hints on choosing and purchasing all kinds of provisions, on preparing ripe fruits for the table, Bills of Fare for the guidance of young housekeepers, the arrangement of the table for Dinner Parties, the Etiquette of the Dinner-table, Cookery for invalids, Carving made easy, etc., the whole being a complete system of American Cookery. By Mrs. T. J. Crowen. 480 pages, 12mo, cloth. $1.50

The Reason Why of General Science. A careful collection of some thousands of Reasons for things which, though generally known, are imperfectly understood. It is a complete Encyclopedia of Science; and persons who have never had the advantage of a liberal education may, by the aid of this volume, acquire knowledge which the study of years only would impart in the ordinary course. It explains everything in Science that can be thought of, and the whole is arranged with a full index. 346 pages, bound in cloth, gilt, and illustrated with numerous wood-cuts. $1.50

Biblical Reason Why. A Handsome Book for Biblical Students, and a Guide to Family Scripture Readings. This work gives 1,494 Reasons, founded upon the Bible, and assigned by the most eminent Divines and Christian Philosophers, for the great and all-absorbing events recorded in the History of the Bible, the Life of our Saviour and the Acts of his Apostles. It will enable Sunday-school teachers to explain most of the obscure and difficult passages that occur in the Scriptures. Cloth, gilt. $1.50

The Reason Why of Natural History. An illustrated book of popular information on all matters relating to Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles, etc. It gives the Reasons for hundreds of interesting facts in connection with Zoology, and affords an immense amount of instruction in the peculiar habits and instincts of the various orders of the Animal Kingdom. Bound in cloth, gilt. $1.50

The Three Volumes of the REASON WHY SERIES are uniform in size and style, and form a valuable addition to every Library.

Souillard’s Book of Practical Receipts. For the use of Families, Druggists, Perfumers, Confectioners, and Dealers in Soaps and Fancy Articles for the Toilet. By F. A. Souillard. Paper covers. 25 cts.

The Amateur Printer; or, Type-Setting at Home. A thorough and complete instructor for the amateur in all the details of the Printer’s Art, giving practical information in regard to type, ink, paper and all the implements requisite, with illustrated directions for using them in a proper manner. It teaches how to set type in the stick, transfer the matter to the galley and make it up in forms; also how to take proofs and correct them, showing all the signs used by practical proof-readers in correcting proofs; it illustrates the plan of the type-case, showing the relative positions of the compartments allotted to the type of each letter, etc., and the correct manner of replacing or distributing type in the case! The practical instructions given in this work are complete and so plainly described that any amateur can become a good printer by studying and applying the information it contains. Paper covers. Price 25 cts.

Talk of Uncle George to his Nephew About Draw Poker. Containing valuable suggestions in connection with this Great American Game; also instructions and directions to Clubs and Social Card Parties, whose members play only for recreation and pastime, with timely warnings to young players. Illustrated. In which Uncle George narrates to his nephew the experience he has gathered in the course of his travels West and East; showing him, in a chatty and familiar style, the devices, tricks, appliances, and advantages by which gentlemanly gamblers fleece the unsophisticated and unwary in the popular game of Draw Poker, and offering him plain and fatherly advice as to the best means for frustrating their efforts and avoiding their traps. Every one who takes a hand at “Draw” will be a gainer by perusing what Uncle George says about it, and become a wiser as well as a richer man. Quarto. Paper. Price 25 cts.

Proctor on Draw-Poker. A Critical Dissertation on “Poker Principles and Chance Laws.” By Prof. Richard A. Proctor. An interesting Treatise on the Laws and Usages which govern the Game of Draw-Poker, with Practical Remarks upon the Chances and Probabilities of the Game, and a Critical Analysis of the Theories and Statistics advanced by Blackbridge and other writers on the subject, and especially in regard to their doctrines relating to cumulative recurrences. Small quarto. 15 cts.

Lander’s Revised Work of Odd-Fellowship. Containing all the Lectures, complete, with Regulations for Opening, Conducting, and Closing a Lodge; together with Forms of Initiation, Charges of the Various Officers, etc., with the Complete work in the following Degrees; Initiation; First, or Pink Degree; Second, or Royal Blue Degree; Third, or Scarlet Degree. By Edwin F. Lander. This hand-book of the Revised Work of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellowship has been prepared in conformity with the amendments and alterations adopted by the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Canada in September, 1880. 16mo, paper cover. 25 cts.

The Jolly Joker; or, a Laugh all Round. An Immense Collection of the Funniest Jokes, Drollest Anecdotes and most Side-Splitting Oddities in existence, profusely illustrated from beginning to end, in the most mirth-provoking style. The illustrations alone are sufficient for a constant and long-sustained series of good, square laughs for all time. 12mo, 144 pages, illustrated cover. 25 cts.

Some Comicalities. A Whole Volume of Jolly Jokes, Quaint Anecdotes, Funny Stories, Brilliant Witticisms, and Crushing Conundrums, with as many droll illustrations to the page—and every page at that—as can be crowded into it. 144 pages. Illustrated cover. 25 cts.

Dick’s Dutch, French and Yankee Dialect Recitations. An unsurpassed Collection, of Droll Dutch Blunders, Frenchmen’s Funny Mistakes, and Ludicrous and Extravagant Yankee Yarns, each Recitation being in its own dialect.

DUTCH DIALECT.

Der Mule Shtood on der Steamboad Deck.

Go Vay, Becky Miller.

Der Drummer.

Mygel Snyder’s Barty.

Snyder’s Nose.

Dyin’ Vords of Isaac.

Fritz und I.

Betsey und I Hafe Bust Ub.

Schneider sees Leah.

Dot Funny Leetle Baby.

Schnitzeri’s Philosopede.

Der Dog und der Lobster.

Schlosser’s Ride.

Mine Katrine.

Maud Muller.

Ein Deutsches Lied.

Hans and Fritz.

Schneider’s Tomatoes.

Deitsche Advertisement.

Vas Bender Henshpecked.

Life, Liberty and Lager.

Der Goot Lookin’ Shnow.

Mr. Schmidt’s Mistake.

Home Again.

Dot Surprise Party.

Der Wreck of der Hezberus.

Isaac Rosenthal on the Chinese Question.

Hans Breitmann’s Party.

Shoo Flies.

A Dutchman’s Answer.

How Jake Schneider Went Blind.

I Vash so Glad I Vash Here.

The Dutchman and the Yankee.

How the Dutchman Killed the Woodchuck.

Der Nighd Pehind Grisdmas.

The Dutchman’s Snake.

Yoppy’s Yarder und Hees Drubbles.

Dhree Shkaders.

Katrina Likes Me Poody Vell.

Hans in a Fix.

Leedle Yawcob Strauss.

How a Dutchman was Done.

Dot Lambs vot Mary Haf Got.

The Yankee and the Dutchman’s Dog.

Zwei Lager.

Schneider’s Ride.

The Dutchman and the Small-pox.

Tiamondts on der Prain.

A Dutchman’s Testimony in a Steamboat Case.

Hans Breitmann and the Turners.

FRENCH DIALECT.

The Frenchman’s Dilemma; or, Number Five Collect Street.

The Frenchman’s Revenge.

Noozell and the Organ Grinder.

How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull.

Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise.

The Frenchman and the Landlord.

The Frenchman and the Sheep’s Trotters.

A Frenchman’s Account of the Fall.

I Vant to Fly.

The Generous Frenchman.

The Frenchman and the Flea Powder.

The Frenchman and the Rats.

Monsieur Tonson.

Vat You Please.

The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes.

The Frenchman’s Patent Screw.

The Frenchman’s Mistake.

Monsieur Mocquard Between Two Fires.

YANKEE DIALECT.

Mrs. Bean’s Courtship.

Hez and the Landlord.

Squire Billings’ Pickerel.

Deacon Thrush in Meeting.

The Yankee Fireside.

Peter Sorghum in Love.

Mrs. Smart Learns how to Skate.

Capt. Hurricane Jones on the Miracles.

The Dutchman and the Yankee.

The Yankee Landlord.

The Bewitched Clock.

The Yankee and the Dutchman’s Dog.

Aunt Hetty on Matrimony.

The Courtin’.

Ebenezer on a Bust.

Sut Lovingood’s Shirt.

This Collection contains all the best dialect pieces that are incidentally scattered through a large number of volumes of “Recitations and Readings,” besides new and excellent sketches never before published. 170 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Dick’s Irish Dialect Recitations. A carefully compiled Collection of Rare Irish Stories, Comic, Poetical and Prose Recitations, Humorous Letters and Funny Recitals, all told with the irresistible Humor of the Irish dialect. Containing

Biddy’s Troubles.

Birth of St. Patrick, The.

Bridget O’Hoolegoin’s Letter.

Connor.

Dermot O’Dowd.

Dick Macnamara’s Matrimonial Adventures.

Dying Confession of Paddy M’Cabe.

Father Molloy.

Father Phil Blake’s Collection.

Father Roach.

Fight of Hell-Kettle, The.

Handy Andy’s Little Mistakes.

How Dennis Took the Pledge.

How Pat Saved his Bacon.

Irish Astronomy.

Irish Coquetry.

Irish Drummer, The.

Irish Letter, An.

Irish Philosopher, The.

Irish Traveler, The.

Irishman’s Panorama, The.

Jimmy McBride’s Letter.

Jimmy Butler and the Owl.

King O’Toole and St. Kevin.

Kitty Malone.

Love in the Kitchen.

Micky Free and the Priest.

Miss Malony on the Chinese Question.

Mr. O’Hoolahan’s Mistake.

Paddy Blake’s Echo.

Paddy Fagan’s Pedigree.

Paddy McGrath and the Bear.

Paddy O’Rafther.

Paddy the Piper.

Paddy’s Dream.

Pat and the Fox.

Pat and the Gridiron.

Pat and his Musket.

Pat and the Oysters.

Pat’s Criticism.

Pat’s Letter.

Pat O’Flanigan’s Colt.

Patrick O’Rouke and the Frogs.

Paudeen O’Rafferty’s Say Voyage.

Peter Mulrooney and the Black Filly.

Phaidrig Crohoore.

Rory O’More’s Present to the Priest.

St. Kevin.

Teddy O’Toole’s Six Bulls.

Wake of Tim O’Hara, The.

Widow Cummiskey, The.

This Collection contains, in addition to new and original pieces, all the very best Recitations in the Irish dialect that can be gathered from a whole library of “Recitation” books. It is full of sparkling witticisms and it furnishes also a fund of entertaining matter for perusal in leisure moments. 170 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Beecher’s Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic. Designed for Public and Private Exhibitions. Contents:

Miss Maloney at the Dentist’s

Lost and Found

Mygel Snyder’s Barty

Magdalena

Jim Wolfe and the Cats

The Woolen Doll

The Charity Dinner

Go-Morrow; or, Lots Wife

The Wind and the Moon

Dyin’ Words of Isaac

Maude Muller in Dutch

Moses the Sassy

Yarn of the “Nancy Bell”

Paddy the Piper

Schneider sees “Leah”

Caldwell of Springfield

Artemus Ward’s Panorama

Tale of a Servant Girl

How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull

Tiamondts on der Prain

King Robert of Sicily

Gloverson the Mormon

De Pint wid Ole Pete

Pat and the Pig

The Widow Bedott’s Letter

The Cry of the Children

The Dutchman and the Small-pox

Sculpin

Rats [TN: possibly Bats]—Descriptive Recitation

A Reader Introduces Himself to an Audience

A Dutchman’s Dolly Varden

“Rock of Ages”

Feeding the Black Fillies

The Hornet

The Glove and the Lions

I Vant to Fly

That Dog of Jim Smiley’s

The Faithful Soul

“My New Pittayatees”

Mary Ann’s Wedding

An Inquiring Yankee

The Three Bells

Love in a Balloon

Mrs. Brown on the Streets

Shoo Flies

Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Bosan

Without the Children

Signor Billsmethi’s Dancing Academy

Der Goot Lookin Shnow

The Jumping Frog

The Lost Chord

The Tale of a Leg

That West-side Dog

How Dennis Took the Pledge

The Fisherman’s Summons

Badger’s Debut as Hamlet

Hezekiah Stole the Spoons

Paddy’s Dream

Victuals and Drink

How Jake Schneider Went Blind

Aurelia’s Young Man

Mrs. Brown on Modern Houses

Farm Yard Song

Murphy’s Pork Barrel

The Prayer Seeker

An Extraordinary Phenomenon

The Case of Young Bangs

A Mule Ride in Florida

Dhree Shkaders

Paper covers. Price 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Dick’s Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing the following Rich Collection of Negro Dialogues, Scenes, Farces, End-men’s Jokes, Gags, Rollicking Stories, Excruciating Conundrums, Questions and Answers for Bones, Tambo and Interlocutor, etc. Contents:

I’s Gwine to Jine de Masons

Jes’ Nail dat Mink to de Stable Do’—Oration

But the Villain still Pursued Her—A Thrilling Tale

Bones at a Free-and-Easy

Buncombe Speech

Shakespeare Improved

End Gag—Bones and Tambo

A Man of Nerve—Comic Sketch

End Gag—Bones and Tambo

Uncle Pete—Darkey Sketch

The Rival Darkeys

The Stage-Struck Darkey

Add Ryman’s Fourth of July Oration

Absent-Mindedness—Bones and Tambo

Don’t Call a Man a Liar

The Mysterious Larkey

Rev. Uncle Jim’s Sermon

The ’Possum-Run Debating Society

Tim Murphy’s Irish Stew

Brudder Bones in Love—Interlocutor and Bones

’Lixey; or, The Old Gum Game—Negro Scene

Brudder Bones’ Duel

Brudder Bones’ Sweetheart

Brudder Bones in Hard Luck

Two Left-Bones and Tambo

Speech on Boils

How Bones Cured a Smoky Chimney

Sermon on Keards, Hosses, Fiddlers, etc.

Huggin’ Lamp-Posts

Not Opposed to Matrimony

How Pat Sold a Dutchman

The Coopers—one Act Farce

Questions Easily Answered—Bones and Tambo

Examination in Natural History—Minstrel Dialogue

O’Quirk’s Sinecure

The Widower’s Speech

Bones at a Raffle

Uncle Pete’s Sermon

Bones at a Soiree—Interlocutor and Bones

Speech on Woman’s Rights

Bones’ Discovery

Mark Twain Introduces Himself—Characteristic Speech

Speech on Happiness

Burnt Corkers—Minstrel Dialogue

The Nervous Woman

The Five Senses—Minstrel Dialogue

The Dutchman’s Experience

Essay on the Wheelbarrow

Bones at a Pic-Nic

The Virginia Mummy—Negro Farce

Brudder Bones in Clover

Artemus Ward’s Advice to Husbands

Where the Lion Roareth, and the Wang-Doodle Mourneth

Romeo and Juliet in 1880

Artemus Ward’s Panorama

Brudder Bones as a Carpet-Bagger—Interlocutor and Bones

Major Jones’ Fourth of July Oration

Curiosities for a Museum—Minstrel Dialogue

Burlesque Oration on Matrimony

Brudder Bones on the Raging Canawl

The Snackin’-Turtle Man—Ethiopian Sketch

Bones’ Dream—Ethiopian Sketch

Come and Hug Me

Widow O’Brien’s Toast

Scenes at the Police Court—Musical Minstrel Dialogue

Brudder Bones as a Log-Roller

De Pint Wid Old Pete—Negro Dialect Recitation

A Touching Appeal—Dutch Dialect Recitation

Wounded in the Corners

Darkey Dialogue

End Gag—Interlocutor and Bones

178 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in board, cloth back 50 cts.

Tambo’s End-Men’s Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best Jokes and Repartees of the most celebrated “burnt cork” performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. This Book is full of Burnt-Cork Drolleries, Funny Stories, Colored Conundrums, Gags and Witty Repartee, all the newest side-splitting conversations between Tambo, Bones, and the Interlocutor, and will be found useful alike to the professional and amateur performer. Contents:

A Bird that can’t be Plucked

Annihilating Time

At Last

Bashful

Bet, The

Big Fortune, A

Blackberrying

Black Swan, The

Bones and his little Game

Bones and the Monkey Tricks

Bones as a Fortune Teller

Bones as a Legitimate Actor

Bones as a Pilot

Bones as a Prize Fighter

Bones as a “Stugent”

Bones as a Traveler

Bones as a Victim to the Pen

Bones as a Walkist

Bones assists at the Performance of a New Piece

Bones attends a Seance

Bones finds Himself Famous

Bones gets Dunned

Bones gets Stuck

Bones has a Small Game with the Parson

Bones’ Horse Race

Bones in an Affair of Honor

Bones in Love

Bones keeps a Boarding House

Bones on the War Path

Bones on George Washington

Bones on the Light Fantastic

Bones Opens a Spout Shop

Bones Plays O’Fella

Bones sees a Ghost

Bones Slopes with Sukey Sly

Bones tells a “Fly” Story

Brother will come home tonight

Bones as a Carpet Bagger

Bones as an Inkslinger

Bones in a New Character

Bones in Clover

Bones’ Love Scrape

“Cullud” Ball, The

Conundrums

Curious Boy

Dancing Mad

Dat’s What I’d Like to Know

Definitions

De Mudder of Inwention

Difference, The

Don’t Kiss every Puppy

“Far Away in Alabam’”

First White Man, The

Fishy Argument

Four-Eleven-Forty-Four

Four Meetings, The

From the Poiks

Girl at the Sewing Machine

Hard Times

Hard to take a Hint

Heavy Spell, A

Highfalutin’

Horrible!

How Bones became a Minstrel

How Tambo took his Bitters

How to do it

Impulsive Oration

Inquisitive

Jeallusest of her Sect

Legal Problem, A

Liberal Discount for Cash

Manager in a Fix, The

Mathematics

Merry Life, A

Momentous Question

Mosquitoes

Music

Notes

Ob Course

Our Shop Girls

Pomp and Ephy Green

Presidency on de Brain

Proposed Increase of Taxes

Railroad Catastrophe

Reality versus Romance

Rough on Tambo

Sassy Sam and Susie Long

School’s In

Shakespeare with a Vengeance

Simple Sum in Arithmetic

Sleighing in the Park

Sliding Down the Hill

Style

Sublime

Swearing by Proxy

Tambo’s Travelling Agent

That Dear Old Home

“The Pervisions, Josiar”

Thieves

Tonsorial

Toast, A

Uncle Eph’s Lament

Waiting to See Him Off

You Bet

And 40 popular songs and dances.

Everything new and rich. Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

McBride’s Comic Speeches and Recitations. Designed for Schools, Literary and Social Circles. By H. Elliott McBride, Author of “McBride’s Humorous Dialogues,” etc., etc. This is one of the very best series of original speeches, in Yankee, Darkey, Spread-Eagle and village styles, with a number of diverting addresses and recitations, and funny stories, forming an excellent volume of selections for supplying the humorous element of an exhibition. Contents:

A Burst of Indignation

Disco’se by a Colored Man

A Trumpet Sarmon

Sarmon on Skilletvillers

Nancy Matilda Jones

Hezekiah’s Proposal

About the Billikinses

Betsy and I are Out Once More

A Stump Speech

About Katharine

Deborah Doolittle’s Speech on Women’s Rights

A Salutatory

A Mournful Story

An Address to Schoolboys

Zachariah Popp’s Courtship and Marriage

A Sad Story

How to Make Hasty Pudding

My Matilda Jane

Courtship, Marriage, Separation and Reunion

Lecture by a Yankee

A Colored Man’s Disco’se on Different Subjects

A Girl’s Address to Boys

McSwinger’s Fate

Peter Peabody’s Stump Speech

Mr. Styx Rejoices on Account of a New Well Spring

Victuals and Drink

Speech by Billy Higgins on the Destruction of His Rambo Apple Tree

A Boy’s Address to Young Ladies

An Old Man’s Address to Young Wives

Salu-ta-tat-u-a-ry

Valedictory.

Paper covers, illuminated 30 cts. Board covers, illuminated 50 cts.

Burton’s Amateur Actor. A Complete Guide to Private Theatricals; giving plain directions for arranging, decorating and lighting the Stage and its appurtenances, with rules and suggestions for mounting, rehearsing and performing all kinds of Plays, Parlor Pantomimes and Shadow Pantomimes. Illustrated with numerous engravings, and including a selection of original Plays, with Prologues, Epilogues, etc. By C. E. Burton.

CONTENTS.

How to form an Amateur Company.

Duties of the Manager and Prompter.

Theatrical Music.

Rules for an Amateur Company.

How to Arrange a Stage.

How to Make a Curtain.

How to Light the Stage.

Colored and Calcium Light Effects.

How to Make and Paint the Scenes.

How to Imitate Moonlight, Sunrise, Thunder, Rain, Wind and various other effects.

How to make all kinds of “Properties.”

How to make up Dresses, Wigs, Beards, etc.

How to “make up” the Face to imitate Old Men and other characters.

General Directions for Acting.

Stage Business, Entrances and Exits.

Four Appropriate Prologues; Three Epilogues.

On the Selection of Plays.

A Family Fix. Comedy for Three Males and three Females.

The Philopena. Comedy for two Males and one Female.

Directions for Performing Parlor Pantomimes.

Love’s Obstacles; or, Jack’s Triumph. An Original Parlor Pantomime.

Complete Directions for Performing Shadow Pantomimes.

Detailed Instructions for producing all Shadow Illusions.

The Feejee Islanders at Home. An Original and unequaled Shadow Pantomime.

A list of Farces, Comedies, etc., specially adapted to Parlor Performances, with the Characters of Each Enumerated and Described.

16mo, illuminated paper covers. Price 30 cts. Bound in Boards 50 cts.

Howard’s Book of Drawing-Room Theatricals. A collection of short and amusing plays in one act and one scene, especially adapted for private performances; with practical directions for their preparation and management. Some of the plays are adapted for performers of one sex only.

Contents.

Males. Females.

Explanations of stage directions.

Hints to Amateurs.

The Student’s Frolic 3 2

A Household Fairy 1 1

A Kiss in the Dark 2 3

Mrs. Willis’ Will 5

Jack of all Trades 6

His First Brief 3 2

A Sudden Arrival 5

A Medical Man 2 1

A Terrible Secret 2 2

Poisoned 4

An Eligible Situation 2 6

“Wanted a Young Lady” 2 1

Paper Covers. Price 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Tambo’s End-Men’s Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best jokes and repartees of the most celebrated “burnt cork” performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. Also containing a rich collection of Ballads, humorous and pathetic. Darkey Dialogues, Sketches, Plantation Scenes, Eccentric Doings, Humorous Lectures, Laughable Interludes, Huge Africanisms, Burlesque Stump Speeches. Mirth-provoking Witticisms, Conundrums, Yarns, Plantation Songs and Dances, etc., etc. In short, a complete Hand-Book of Burnt Cork Drollery, which will be found alike useful to the professional and amateur. Everything new and rich. Paper covers. 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Tony Denier’s Parlor Tableaus, or Living Pictures. Containing about eighty popular subjects, with plain and explicit directions for arranging the stage, dressing-rooms, lights, full description of costumes, duties of stage manager, properties and scenery required, and all the necessary directions for getting them up. Among the contents there are nine tableaux for male and an equal number for female characters only. A great number of them introduce groups of boys, and many more groups of girls only; others again introducing both; and still more in which entire classes can take part. Everything is stated in a plain, simple manner, so that it will be easily understood; everything like style or unnecessary show has been avoided. For public or private entertainment, there is nothing which is so interesting as the tableau. Price 25 cts.

Tony Denier’s Secret of Performing Shadow Pantomimes. Showing how to get them up and how to act in them; with full and concise instructions and numerous illustrations. Also full and complete descriptions of properties and costumes.

CONTENTS.

Introduction; Shadow Bluff, or, Who’s Who? Tooth Drawing Extraordinary; Amputation like Winking; The Haunted House; We Won’t Go Home till Morning; Jocko, or the Mischievous Monkey; The Madcap Barber; Cribbage, or, The Devil among the Cards; The Lover’s Stratagem; The Game of Base Ball; Regular Hash, or, The Boarding-House Conspiracy; The Mechanical Statue; The African Serenaders; The Model Prize Fight; The Magic Cask, or, The Industrious and Idle Apprentice; The Tragical Duel, or, The Comical Rivals; Old Dame Trot and her Comical Cat. Price 25 cts.

Brudder Bones’ Book of Stump Speeches and Burlesque Orations. Also containing Humorous Lectures, Dialogues, Plantation Scenes, Negro Farces and Burlesques, Laughable Interludes and Comic Recitations, interspersed with Dutch, Irish, French and Yankee Stories. Compiled and edited by John F. Scott.

This book contains some of the best hits of the leading negro delineators of the present time, as well as mirth-provoking jokes and repartees of the most celebrated End-Men of the day, and specially designed for the introduction of fun in an evening’s entertainment. Price 30 cts. Bound in boards 50 cts.

Burton’s Amateur Actor. A complete guide to Private Theatricals; giving plain directions for arranging, decorating and lighting the Stage; with rules and suggestions for mounting, rehearsing and performing all kinds of Plays, Parlor Pantomimes and Shadow Pantomimes. Illustrated with numerous engravings, and including a selection of original Plays, with Prologues, Epilogues, etc. 16mo, illuminated paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

READINGS AND RECITATIONS.

Kavanaugh’s New Speeches and Dialogues for Young Children. This is an entirely new series of Recitations and short Dialogues, by Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh. Containing easy pieces in plain language, readily understood by little children, and expressly adapted for School Exhibitions and Christmas and other juvenile celebrations. Paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Kavanaugh’s Exhibition Reciter, for Very Little Children. A collection of entirely Original Recitations, Dialogues, Short Speeches and Speaking Tableaux, adapted for very little boys and girls; including also a variety of pieces, humorous, serious and dramatic, suitable for children from Three to Ten Years Old. Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in board covers 50 cts.

Kavanaugh’s Juvenile Speaker. For Very Little Boys and and Girls. Containing short and easily-learned Speeches and Dialogues, expressly adapted for School Celebrations, May-Day Festivals and other Children’s Entertainments. Embracing one hundred and twenty-three effective pieces. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh. Illuminated paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Dick’s Series of Recitations and Readings, Nos. 1 to 15. Comprising a carefully compiled selection of Humorous, Pathetic, Eloquent, Patriotic and Sentimental Pieces in Poetry and Prose, exclusively designed for Recitation or Reading. Edited by Wm. B. Dick. Each number of the Series contains about 180 pages. Illuminated paper cover, each 30 cts. Bound in full cloth 50 cts.

Beecher’s Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic, including Prose and Poetical Selections in Dutch, Yankee, Irish, Negro and other Dialects. 180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Howard’s Recitations. Comic, Serious and Pathetic. Being a collection of fresh Recitations in Prose and Poetry, suitable for Exhibitions and Evening Parties. 180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Spencer’s Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations. A collection of Comic Speeches, Humorous Prose and Poetical Recitations, Laughable Dramatic Scenes and Eccentric Dialect Stories. 192 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Wilson’s Book of Recitations and Dialogues. Containing a choice selection of Poetical and Prose Recitations. Designed as an Assistant to Teachers and Students in preparing Exhibitions. 188 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Barton’s Comic Recitations and Humorous Dialogues. A variety of Comic Recitations in Prose and Poetry, Eccentric Orations and Laughable Interludes. 180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Martine’s Droll Dialogues and Laughable Recitations. A collection of Humorous Dialogues, Comic Recitations, Brilliant Burlesques and Spirited Stump Speeches. 188 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

⁂ CATALOGUES SENT FREE.

DIALOGUE BOOKS.

Graham’s School Dialogues for Young People. Being a new and original collection of Dialogues intended for Anniversaries and Exhibitions, carefully prepared and well calculated to develop dramatic talent. 176 pages, illuminated paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

McBride’s New Dialogues. Especially designed for School and Literary Amateur Entertainments; containing twenty-four entirely New and Original Dialogues, introducing Irish, Yankee, and other eccentric characters. By H. Elliott McBride. 178 pages, illuminated paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards 50 cts.

McBride’s Temperance Dialogues. Designed for the use of Schools, Temperance Societies, Bands of Hope, Divisions, Lodges and Literary Circles. Introducing Yankee, Dutch, Irish, Negro and other dialect characters. By H. Elliott McBride. 183 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

McBride’s Humorous Dialogues. A collection of New Dialogues, full of humor and witty repartee; some of them introducing Irish, Dutch, Yankee and other dialect characters. 192 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

McBride’s Comic Dialogues. A collection of twenty-three Original Humorous Dialogues, especially designed for the display of Amateur dramatic talent, and introducing a variety of sentimental, sprightly, comic and genuine Yankee characters, and other ingeniously developed eccentricities. By H. Elliott McBride. 180 pages, illuminated paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

McBride’s All Kinds of Dialogues. A collection of twenty-five Original, Humorous and Domestic Dialogues, introducing Yankee, Irish, Dutch and other characters. Excellently adapted for Amateur Performances. 180 pages, illuminated paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Holmes’ Very Little Dialogues for Very Little Folks. Containing forty-seven New and Original Dialogues, with short and easy parts, almost entirely in words of one syllable, suited to the capacity and comprehension of very young children. Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Frost’s Dialogues for Young Folks. A collection of thirty-six Original, Moral and Humorous Dialogues. Adapted for boys and girls between the ages of ten and fourteen years. Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Frost’s New Book of Dialogues. Containing twenty-nine entirely New and Original Humorous Dialogues for boys and girls between the ages of twelve and fifteen years. 180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Frost’s Humorous and Exhibition Dialogues. This is a collection of twenty-five Sprightly Original Dialogues in Prose and Verse, intended to be spoken at School Exhibitions. 178 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards 50 cts.

AMATEUR THEATRICALS.

All the plays in the following excellent books are especially designed for Amateur performance. The majority of them are in one act and one scene, and may be represented in any moderate-sized parlor, without much preparation of costume or scenery.

Kavanagh’s Humorous Dramas for School Exhibitions and Private Theatricals. This collection of Dramas are all original, and were written expressly for School and Parlor performance. Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards 50 cts.

Barmby’s Musical Plays for Young People. Suitable for Private Theatricals. These Plays are in Burlesque style and entirely in Rhyme; they are irresistably Comical in expression, and elegant in construction. Each Play includes the Vocal Score and Piano Accompaniment to all Songs, Duets and Choruses introduced, making it complete in itself, both in text and music. 201 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards 50 cts.

Parlor Theatricals; or, Winter Evenings’ Entertainment. Containing Acting Proverbs, Dramatic Charades, Drawing-Room Pantomimes, a Musical Burlesque and an amusing Farce, with instructions for Amateurs. Illustrated with engravings. Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Howard’s Book of Drawing-Room Theatricals. A collection of twelve short and amusing plays. Some of the plays are adapted for performers of one sex only. 186 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Hudson’s Private Theatricals. A collection of fourteen humorous plays. Four of these plays are adapted for performance by males only, and three are for females. 180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Nugent’s Burlesque and Musical Acting Charades. Containing ten Charades, all in different styles, two of which are easy and effective Comic Parlor Operas, with Music and Piano-forte Accompaniments. 176 Pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Frost’s Dramatic Proverbs and Charades. Containing eleven Proverbs and fifteen Charades, some of which are for Dramatic Performance, and others arranged for Tableaux Vivants. 176 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Frost’s Parlor Acting Charades. These twelve excellent and original Charades are arranged as short parlor Comedies and Farces, full of brilliant repartee and amusing situations. 182 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Illuminated boards 50 cts.

Frost’s Book of Tableaux and Shadow Pantomimes. A collection of Tableaux Vivants and Shadow Pantomimes, with stage instructions for Costuming, Grouping, etc. 180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Frost’s Amateur Theatricals. A collection of eight original plays; all short, amusing and new. 180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Dick’s Original Album Verses and Acrostics. Containing Original Verses.

For Autograph Albums;

To Accompany Bouquets;

For Birthday Anniversaries;

For Wooden, Tin, Crystal, Silver and Golden Weddings;

For Album Dedications;

To Accompany Philopena Forfeits;

For Congratulation;

For Valentines in General, and all Trades and Professions.

It contains also Two Hundred and Eighteen Original Acrostic Verses, the initial letters of each verse forming a different Lady’s Christian name, the meaning and derivation of the name being appended to each. The primary object of this book is to furnish entirely fresh and unhackneyed matter for all who may be called upon to fill and adorn a page in a Lady’s Album; but it contains also new and appropriate verses to suit Birthday, Wedding, and all other Anniversaries and Occasions to which verses of Compliment or Congratulation are applicable. Paper covers. Price. 50 cts. Bound in full cloth “ 75 cts.

The Debater, Chairman’s Assistant, and Rules of Order. A manual for Instruction and Reference in all matters pertaining to the Management of Public Meetings according to Parliamentary usages. It comprises:

How to Form and Conduct all kinds of Associations and Clubs;

How to Organize and Arrange Public Meetings, Celebrations, Dinners, Picnics and Conventions;

Forms for Constitutions of Lyceums or Institutes, Literary and other Societies;

The Powers and Duties of Officers, with Forms for Treasurers’, Secretaries’, and other Official Reports;

The Formation and Duties of Committees;

Rules of Order, and Order of Business, with Mode of Procedure in all Cases;

How to draft Resolutions and other Written Business;

A Model Debate, introducing the greatest possible variety of points of order, with correct Decisions by the Chairman;

The Rules of Order, in Tabular Form, for instant reference in all Cases of Doubt that may arise, enabling a Chairman to decide on all points at a glance.

The Work is divided into different Sections, for the purpose of Consecutive Instruction as well as Ready Reference, and includes all Decisions and Rulings up to the present day. Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Dick’s Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing End-Men’s Jokes,

Negro Interludes and Farces;

Fresh Dialogues for Interlocutor and Banjo;

New Stump Speeches;

Humorous Lectures;

Dialect Sketches and Eccentricities;

Dialogues and Repartee for Interlocutor and Bones;

Quaint Burlesque Sermons;

Jokes, Quips and Gags.

It includes a number of Amusing Scenes and Negro Acts, and is full of the side-splitting vagaries of the best Minstrel Troupes in existence, besides a number of Original Recitations and Sketches in the Negro Dialect. 178 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Dick’s Dutch, French and Yankee Dialect Recitations. An unsurpassed Collection of Droll Dutch Blunders, Frenchmen’s Funny Mistakes, and Ludicrous and Extravagant Yankee Yarns, each Recitation being in its own peculiar dialect. To those who make Dialect Recitations a speciality, this Collection will be of particular service, as it contains all the best pieces that are incidently scattered through a large number of volumes of “Recitations and Readings,” besides several new and excellent sketches never before published. 170 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Dick’s Irish Dialect Recitations. A carefully compiled Collection of Rare Irish Stories, Comic, Poetical and Prose Recitations, Humorous Letters and Funny Recitals, all told with the irresistible Humor of the Irish Dialect. This Collection contains, in addition to new and original pieces, all the very best Recitations in the Irish Dialect that can be gathered from a whole library of “Recitation” books.

It is full of the sparkling witticisms and queer conceits of the wittiest nation on earth, and apart from its special object, it furnishes a fund of the most entertaining matter for perusal in leisure moments. 170 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Worcester’s Letter-Writer and Book of Business Forms for Ladies and Gentlemen. Containing Accurate Directions for Conducting Epistolary Correspondence, with 270 Specimen Letters, adapted to every Age and Situation in Life, and to Business Pursuits in General; with an Appendix comprising Forms for Wills, Petitions, Bills, Receipts, Drafts, Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Executors’ and Administrators’ Accounts, etc., etc. The Orthography of the entire work is based on Worcester’s method, which is coming more and more into general use.

This work is divided into two parts, the portion applicable to Ladies being kept distinct from the rest of the book, in order to provide better facilities for ready reference. 216 pages. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Dick’s Hand-Book of Cribbage. Containing full directions for playing all the Varieties of the Game, and the Laws which govern them. This work is ENTIRELY NEW, and gives the correct method of playing the Six-Card, Five-Card, Two-Handed, Three-Handed, and Four-Handed Varieties of the Game, with instructive examples, showing clearly all the combinations of Hand, Crib, and Play, with a thorough investigation of long sequences in play, and the value of Hands. The Laws of the game have been carefully revised in accordance with the recognized usages of the present time, and constitute a reliable authority on all points of the Game. 18 mo. Cloth, Flexible 50 cts.

Dick’s Art of Gymnastics. Containing practical and progressive exercises applicable to all the principal apparatus of a well-appointed Gymnasium. Profusely illustrated. This work conveys plain and thorough instruction in the exercises and evolutions taught by the leading Professors of Gymnastics; so that proficiency may be attained, even without the aid of a Teacher. It also offers to Teachers a ready-arranged systematic course for their guidance. Artistically bound in cloth, 4to $1 00

Dick’s Dialogues and Monologues. Containing entirely original Dialogues, Monologues, Farces, etc., etc., expressly designed for parlor performance, full of humor and telling “situations,” and requiring the least possible preparation of Costumes and Scenery to make them thoroughly effective. 180 pages. 16 mo., paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Dr. Valentine’s Comic Lectures; or, Morsels of Mirth for the Melancholy. A certain cure for the “blues” and all other serious complaints. Containing Comic Lectures on Heads, Faces, Noses and Mouths; Comic Lectures on Animal Magnetism; Humorous Specimens of Stump Eloquence; Burlesque Specimens of Eloquence; Transactions of Learned Societies; Comical Delineation of Eccentric Characters; Amusing Colloquies and Monologues; Laughable Duologues and Characteristic Drolleries. Illustrated with twelve portraits of Dr. Valentine in his most celebrated characters. 192 pages. Paper cover. Price 30 cts.

Mrs. Partington’s Carpet-Bag of Fun. Containing the Queer Sayings of Mrs. Partington, and the Funny Doings of her remarkable Son Isaac. Also the most amusing collection extant of Playful Puns, Phunny Poems, Pleasing Prose, Popular Parodies, and Political Pasquinades, Rhymes Without Reason and Reason Without Rhymes, Anecdotes, Conundrums, Anagrams, and, in fact, all other kinds of Grams. Illustrated with 100 most amusing engravings, prepared expressly for this work from designs by the most eminent Comic Artists. Ornamented paper cover 30 cts.

The Comical Doings of a Funny Man. Being the Scrapes and Adventures of a Practical Joker. Illustrated with Laughable Engravings. Octavo. Price 10 cts.

Chips from Uncle Sam’s Jack-Knife. Illustrated with over 100 Comical Engravings, and comprising a collection of over 500 Laughable Stories, Funny Adventures, Comic Poetry, Queer Conundrums, Terrific Puns and Sentimental Sentences. Large octavo 25 cts.

Fox’s Ethiopian Comicalities. Containing Strange Sayings, Eccentric Doings, Burlesque Speeches, Laughable Drolleries and Funny Stories, as recited by the celebrated Ethiopian Comedian. 10 cts.

Ned Turner’s Circus Joke Book. A collection of the best Jokes, Bon Mots, Repartees, Gems of Wit and Funny Sayings and Doings of the celebrated Equestrian Clown and Ethiopian Comedian, Ned Turner. 10 cts.

Ned Turner’s Black Jokes. A collection of Funny Stories, Jokes and Conundrums, interspersed with Witty Sayings and Humorous Dialogues, as given by Ned Turner, the celebrated Ethiopian Delineator 10 cts.

Ned Turner’s Clown Joke Book. Containing the best Jokes and Gems of Wit, composed and delivered by the favorite Equestrian Clown, Ned Turner. Selected and arranged by G. E. G. 10 cts.

Charley White’s Joke Book. Containing a full exposé of all the most Laughable Jokes, Witticisms, etc., as told by the celebrated Ethiopian Comedian, Charles White. 10 cts.

Black Wit and Darky Conversations. By Charles White. Containing a large collection of laughable Anecdotes, Jokes, Stories, Witticisms and Darky Conversations. 10 cts.

Yale College Scrapes; or, How the Boys Go it at New Haven. This is a book of 114 pages, containing accounts of all the famous “Scrapes” and “Sprees” of which Students of Old Yale have been guilty for the last quarter of a century. 25 cts.

How to Conduct a Debate. A Series of Complete Debates, Outlines of Debates and Questions for Discussion. In the complete debates, the questions for discussion are defined, the debate formally opened, an array of brilliant arguments adduced on either side, and the debate closed according to parliamentary usages. The second part consists of questions for debate, with heads of arguments, for and against, given in a condensed form, for the speakers to enlarge upon to suit their own fancy. In addition to these are a large collection of debatable questions. The authorities to be referred to for information being given at the close of every debate throughout the work. By F. Rowton. 232 pages. Paper covers 50 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 75 cts.

The Amateur Trapper and Trap-Maker’s Guide. A complete and carefully prepared treatise on the art of Trapping, Snaring and Netting. This comprehensive work is embellished with fifty engraved illustrations; and these, together with the clear explanations which accompany them, will enable anybody of moderate comprehension to make and set any of the traps described. It also gives the baits usually employed by the most successful Hunters and Trappers, and exposes their secret methods of attracting and catching animals, birds, etc., with scarcely a possibility of failure. Large 16mo., paper covers 50 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 75 cts.

How to Write a Composition. The use of this excellent hand-book will save the student the many hours of labor too often wasted in trying to write a plain composition. It affords a perfect skeleton of one hundred and seventeen different subjects, with their headings or divisions clearly defined, and each heading filled in with the ideas which the subject suggests; so that all the writer has to do, in order to produce a good composition, is to enlarge on them to suit his taste and inclination. 178 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Duncan’s Masonic Ritual and Monitor; or, Guide to the Three Symbolic Degrees of the Ancient York Rite, Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason. And to the Degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and the Royal Arch. By Malcom C. Duncan. Explained and Interpreted by copious Notes and numerous Engravings. This is a valuable book for the Fraternity, containing, as it does, the Modern “Work” of the order. No Mason should be without it. Bound in cloth $2 50 Leather tucks (pocket-book style), with gilt edges 3 00

The Laws of Athletics. How to Preserve and Improve Health, Strength, and Beauty; and to Correct Personal Defects caused by Want of Physical Exercise. How to Train for Walking, Running, Rowing, etc., with the Systems of the Champion Athletes of the World. Including the Latest Laws of all Athletic Games and How to Play Them. By William Wood, Professor of Gymnastics. Paper cover 25 cts. Flexible cloth cover 50 cts.

The Bartender’s Guide; or, How to Mix all Kinds of Fancy Drinks. Containing clear and reliable directions for mixing all the beverages used in the United States. Embracing Punches, Juleps, Cobblers, Cocktails, etc., etc., in endless variety. By Jerry Thomas. Illuminated paper covers 50 cts. Bound in full cloth 75 cts.

Spayth’s Draughts or Checkers for Beginners. This treatise was written by Henry Spayth, the celebrated player, and is by far the most complete and instructive elementary work on Draughts ever published. Cloth, gilt side 75 cts.

Dick’s Society Letter Writer for Ladies. Containing MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED entirely Original Letters and Notes, with appropriate answers, on all subjects and occasions incident to life in Good Society; including specific instructions in all the details of a well-written letter, and General Hints for Conducting Polite Correspondence. Edited by Wm. B. Dick.

The Contents embrace the following Subjects:

Hints on Letter Writing

Letters of Introduction

Answers to Letters of Introduction

Letters and Notes of Invitation

Forms of Cards

Notes of Postponement

Letters and Notes Accepting and Declining Invitations

Letters of Apology

Letters of Announcement

Notes and Letters Accompanying Gifts

Notes and Letters of Acknowledgment

Notes and Letters Soliciting Favors

Notes and Letters Offering Favors

Notes and Letters Granting or Declining Favors

Notes Soliciting Donations

Notes and Letters Granting or Refusing Donations

Letters of Congratulation

Letters of Condolence

Answers to Letters of Condolence

Household Letters and Notes

Forms of Household Orders

Answers to Household Letters

Business Letters and Notes

Shopping by Mail

Forms of Orders

Miscellaneous Business Letters

Family Letters

Miscellaneous Notes and Letters

These new and Original Letters have been written expressly for this work in an easy and elegant style, furnishing excellent models which fulfill all the social, formal and business conditions that occur in the Correspondence of Ladies who move in refined society. There are many otherwise highly accomplished ladies who experience considerable difficulty in inditing a good letter, and frequently find themselves embarrassed from a want of facility in method of expression and proper form; to them this work is especially adapted, and will afford them valuable aid in rendering the task of correspondence easy and light. 12mo., Cloth, Price $1.25

Dick’s Mysteries of the Hand; or, Palmistry made Easy. Translated, Abridged and Arranged from the French Works of Desbarrolles, D’Arpentigny and De Para d’Hermes. This book is a concise summary of the elaborate works of the above-named authorities on Palmistry.

The various lines and mounts on the palm of the hand, and the typical formation of the hand and fingers are all clearly explained and illustrated by diagrams. The meaning to be deduced from the greater or less development of these mounts and lines (each of which has its own signification), also from the length, thickness and shape of the thumb and fingers, and from the mutual bearing they exercise on each other, is all distinctly explained.

Complete facility for instant reference is insured by means of marginal notes by which any point of detail may be found and consulted at a glance.

By means of this book the hitherto occult mystery of Palmistry is made simple and easy, and the whole Art may be acquired without difficulty or delay. It is emphatically Palmistry in a nutshell, and by its use, character and disposition can be discerned and probable future destiny foretold with surprising accuracy. Illuminated paper cover 50 cts.

Dick’s Hand-Book of Whist. Containing Pole’s and Clay’s Rules for playing the modern scientific game; the Club Rules of Whist, and two interesting Double Dummy Problems. This is a thorough treatise on the game of Whist, taken from “The American Hoyle” which is the standard authority. It covers all the points and intricacies which arise in the game; including the acknowledged code of etiquette observed by the players, with Drayson’s remarks on Trumps, their use and abuse, and all the modern methods of signalling between partners. Price 25 cts.

The Amateur Printer; or, Type-Setting at Home. A thorough and complete instructor for the amateur in all the details of the Printer’s Art, giving practical information in regard to type, ink, paper and all the implements requisite, with illustrated directions for using them in a proper manner. It teaches how to set type in the stick, transfer the matter to the galley and make it up in forms; also how to take proofs and correct them, showing all the signs used by practical proof-readers in correcting proofs; it illustrates the plan of the type-case, showing the relative positions of the compartments allotted to the type of each letter, etc., and the correct manner of replacing or distributing type in the case. The practical instructions given in this work are complete and so plainly described that any amateur can become a good printer by studying and applying the information it contains. Paper covers. Price 25 cts.

Talk of Uncle George to his Nephew About Draw Poker. Containing valuable suggestions in connection with this Great American Game; also instructions and directions to Clubs and Social Card Parties, whose members play only for recreation and pastime, with timely warnings to young players. Illustrated. In which Uncle George narrates to his nephew the experience he has gathered in the course of his travels West and East; showing him, in a chatty and familiar style, the devices, tricks, appliances, and advantages by which gentlemanly gamblers fleece the unsophisticated and unwary in the popular game of Draw Poker, and offering him plain and fatherly advice as to the best means for frustrating their efforts and avoiding their traps. Every one who takes a hand at “Draw” will be a gainer by perusing what Uncle George says about it, and become a wiser as well as a richer man. Quarto. Paper. Price 25 cts.

Proctor on Draw-Poker. A Critical Dissertation on “Poker Principles and Chance Laws.” By Prof. Richard A. Proctor. An interesting Treatise on the Laws and Usages which govern the Game of Draw-Poker, with Practical Remarks upon the Chances and Probabilities of the Game, and a Critical Analysis of the Theories and Statistics advanced by Blackbridge and other writers on the subject, and especially in regard to their doctrines relating to cumulative recurrences. Small quarto 15 cts.

Lander’s Revised Work of Odd-Fellowship. Containing all the Lectures, complete, with Regulations for Opening, Conducting, and Closing a Lodge; together with Forms of Initiation, Charges of the Various Officers, etc., with the Complete work in the following Degrees: Initiation; First, or Pink Degree; Second, or Royal Blue Degree; Third, or Scarlet Degree. By Edwin F. Lander. This hand-book of the Revised Work of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellowship has been prepared in conformity with the amendments and alterations adopted by the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Canada in September, 1880. 16mo., paper cover, 25 cts.

The Jolly Joker; or, a Laugh all Round. An Immense Collection of the Funniest Jokes, Drollest Anecdotes and most Side-Splitting Oddities in existence, profusely illustrated from beginning to end, in the most mirth-provoking style. The illustrations alone are sufficient for a constant and long-sustained series of good, square laughs for all time. 12mo., 144 pages, illustrated cover 25 cts.

Some Comicalities. A Whole Volume of Jolly Jokes, Quaint Anecdotes, Funny Stories, Brilliant Witticisms, and Crushing Conundrums, with as many droll illustrations to the page—and every page at that—as can be crowded into it. 144 pages. Illustrated cover 25 cts.

McBride’s New Dialogues. Especially designed for School and Literary Amateur Entertainments; containing entirely New and Original Dialogues, introducing Irish, Yankee, and other eccentric characters. By H. Elliott McBride.

Contents.

A Happy Woman.

The Somnambulist.

Those Thompsons.

Playing School.

Tom and Sally.

Assisting Hezekiah.

A Visit to the Oil Regions.

Breaking up the Exhibition.

Turning Around.

A Little Boy’s Debate.

The Silver Lining.

Restraining Jotham.

A Shoemaker’s Troubles.

An Uncomfortable Predicament.

The Opening Speech.

The Cucumber Hill Debating Club.

Married by the New Justice.

Bread on the Waters.

An Unsuccessful Advance.

When Women Have Their Rights.

Only Another Footprint.

Rosabella’s Lovers.

A Smart Boy.

A Heavy Shower.

Master of the Situation.

The marked favor with which the four preceding volumes have been received suggested the necessity for an increased variety of new eccentric and characteristic pieces, to form an addition to the repertoire contained in “McBride’s Comic Dialogues,” “McBride’s All Kinds of Dialogues,” “McBride’s Humorous Dialogues,” and “McBride’s Temperance Dialogues.” They are all written with a view to develop dramatic talent, and abound in quaint humor, Dialect Drolleries, and telling stage “situations.” 16mo., 178 pages, illuminated paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards 50 cts.

Dick’s Book of Toasts, Speeches and Responses. Containing Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Social Occasions, and specimen Speeches with appropriate replies suitable for the following occasions:

Public Dinners,

Social Dinners,

Convivial Gatherings,

Art and Professional Banquets,

Manufacturers’ Meetings,

Agricultural and Commercial Festivals,

Special Toasts for Ladies,

Christmas, Thanksgiving and other Festivals,

Friendly Meetings,

Weddings and their Anniversaries,

Army and Navy Banquets,

Patriotic and Political Occasions,

Trades’ Unions and Dinners,

Benedicts’ and Bachelors’ Banquets,

Masonic Celebrations,

Sporting Coteries,

All Kinds of Occasions.

This work includes an instructive dissertation on the Art of making amusing After-dinner Speeches, giving hints and directions by the aid of which persons with only ordinary intelligence can make an entertaining and telling speech. Also, Correct Rules and Advice for Presiding at Table.

The use of this work will render a poor and diffident speaker fluent and witty—and a good speaker better and wittier, besides affording an immense fund of anecdotes, wit and wisdom, and other serviceable matter to draw upon at will. Paper covers. Price 30 cts.

How Boggins Was Cured. An intensely ludicrous sketch, pictorially expressed; showing how Mr. Boggins, who had been reduced to a despairingly crippled state by rheumatism and a complication of other causes, was induced to submit to the wonderful effects of a course of dynamo-electro magnetic therapeutics, tracing the magical and potent effects of the treatment, and the heroic efforts he made while submitting to the doctor’s system of pathology; until, crowned with complete success, he is able to throw aside his crutches and is restored to perfect health and pristine agility. An entirely new and original series of sketches. Funny! is no name for it. Small quarto. Illustrated 10 cts.

Dick’s Games of Patience; or Solitaire with Cards. New and Revised Edition. Containing Sixty-four Games. Illustrated with Fifty explanatory full-page Tableaux. This treatise on Solitaire, a pastime which is steadily gaining in popularity, embraces a number of new and original Games, and all the Games of Patience at present in favor with the most experienced players. This comprehensive work contains the following Games:

Auld Lang Syne.

Tam O’Shanter.

The Four Seasons.

Simplicity.

The Gathering of the Clans.

Napoleon at St. Helena.

The Calculation.

The Surprise Party.

The Four Kings.

The Clock.

The Garden.

The Queen’s Audience.

The Phalanx.

The Idle Year.

The Chameleon.

La Belle Lucie.

The Shamrocks.

The House in the Wood.

The House on the Hill.

The Grand Duchess.

The Constitution.

The Beleaguered Castle.

The Citadel.

The Exiled Kings.

Penelope’s Web.

Napoleon’s Square.

The Court Yard.

The Windmill.

Leoni’s Own.

La Nivernaise.

The Four Corners.

The Baker’s Dozen.

The Salic Law.

The Sultan of Turkey.

The Fortress.

The Hemispheres.

The Elevens.

The Chester Game.

The Shah of Persia.

The Empress of India.

The Zodiac.

The Blockade.

The Besieged City.

The Fourteens.

Napoleon’s Favorite.

The Fifteen Puzzle.

The Contra-Dance.

The Betrothal.

The Reinforcements.

The Reserve.

The Frog.

The Pyramid.

The Quadrille.

The Chatelaine.

The Order of Precedence.

The Congress.

Thirteen Down.

The Octagon.

Light and Shade.

St. Louis.

Rouge et Noir.

The Blondes and Brunettes.

The Royal Cotillion.

Nestor.

Each game is carefully and lucidly described, with the distinctive rules to be observed and hints as to the best means of success in play. The Tableaux furnish efficient aid in rendering the disposition of the cards necessary to each game plain and easily comprehensible. The difficulty usually attending descriptions of intricate games is reduced, as far as possible, by precision in method and terseness of expression in the text, and the illustrations serve to dispel any possible ambiguity that might be unavoidable without their aid. The work is attractive in style and elegant in execution, and will prove an interesting companion for many a solitary hour. Quarto. 143 pages. Board cover 75 cts. Cloth $1 00.

Dick’s Parlor Exhibitions, and How to Make them Successful. Containing complete and detailed directions for preparing and arranging Parlor Exhibitions and Amateur Performances. It includes:

Tableaux Vivants.

Living Portraits.

Living Statuary.

Dame History’s Peep Show.

Shadow Pantomimes.

Popular Ballads illustrated by appropriate action.

Charades of all kinds.

Parlor Pantomimes.

Punch and Judy.

AND FIFTY OTHER DIVERTING PARLOR PASTIMES AND AMUSEMENTS.

It contains also a full Catalogue of the celebrated “Art Exhibition,” and a practical treatise on the wonderful Science of Second-Sight, by the aid of which all the startling effects and achievements of second-sight may be performed by any one possessing a tolerable retentive memory.

This work is thoroughly practical and gives the fullest instructions for preparing and lighting the stage, the construction of the Frames for Living Portraits, and shows how each performance can be presented with complete success. It is illustrated with numerous engravings explaining the text. 150 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Barber’s American Book of Ready-Made Speeches. Containing 159 original examples of Humorous and Serious Speeches, suitable for every possible occasion where a speech may be called for, together with appropriate replies to each. Including:

Presentation Speeches.

Convivial Speeches.

Festival Speeches.

Addresses of Congratulation.

Addresses of Welcome.

Addresses of Compliment.

Political Speeches.

Dinner and Supper Speeches for Clubs, etc.

Off-Hand Speeches on a Variety of Subjects.

Miscellaneous Speeches.

Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Private Entertainments.

Preambles and Resolutions of Congratulation, Compliment and Condolence.

With this book any person may prepare himself to make a neat little speech, or reply to one when called upon to do so. They are all short, appropriate and witty, and even ready speakers may profit by them. Paper 50 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 75 cts.

Day’s American Ready-Reckoner. By B. H. Day. This Ready-Reckoner is composed of Original Tables, which are positively correct, having been revised in the most careful manner. It is a book of 192 pages, and embraces more matter than 500 pages of any other Reckoner. It contains: Tables for Rapid Calculations of Aggregate Values, Wages, Salaries, Board, Interest Money, etc.; Tables of Timber and Plank Measurement; Tables of Board and Log Measurement, and a great variety of Tables and useful calculations which it would be impossible to enumerate in an advertisement of this limited space. All the information in this valuable book is given in a simple manner, and is made so plain, that any person can use it at once without any previous study or loss of time. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts. Bound in cloth, gilt back 75 cts.

The Art and Etiquette of Making Love. A Manual of Love, Courtship and Matrimony. It tells

How to cure bashfulness, How to commence a courtship, How to please a sweetheart or lover, How to write a love-letter, How to “pop the question,” How to act before and after a proposal, How to accept or reject a proposal, How to break off an engagement, How to act after an engagement, How to act as bridesmaid or grooms-man, How the etiquette of a wedding and the after reception should be observed.

And, in fact, how to fulfill every duty and meet every contingency connected with courtship and matrimony. 176 pages. Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Frank Converse’s Complete Banjo Instructor Without a Master. Containing a choice collection of Banjo Solos and Hornpipes, Walk Arounds, Reels and Jigs, Songs and Banjo Stories, progressively arranged and plainly explained, enabling the learner to become a proficient banjoist without the aid of a teacher. The necessary explanations accompany each tune, and are placed under the notes on each page, plainly showing the string required, the finger to be used for stopping it, the manner of striking, and the number of times it must be sounded. The Instructor is illustrated with diagrams and explanatory symbols. 100 pages. Bound in boards, cloth back. 50 cts.

Hard Words Made Easy. Rules for Pronunciation and Accent; with instructions how to pronounce French, Italian, German, Spanish, and other foreign names. 12 cts.

Rarey & Knowlson’s Complete Horse Tamer and Farrier. A New and Improved Edition, containing: Mr. Rarey’s Whole Secret of Subduing and Breaking Vicious Horses; His Improved Plan of Managing Young Colts, and Breaking them to the Saddle, to Harness and the Sulky. Rules for Selecting a Good Horse, and for Feeding Horses. Also the Complete Farrier or Horse Doctor; being the result of fifty years’ extensive practice of the author, John C. Knowlson, during his life an English Farrier of high popularity; containing the latest discoveries in the cure of Spavin. Illustrated with descriptive engravings. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

How to Amuse an Evening Party. A Complete collection of Home Recreations. Profusely Illustrated with over Two Hundred fine wood-cuts, containing Round Games and Forfeit Games, Parlor Magic and Curious Puzzles, Comic Diversions and Parlor Tricks, Scientific Recreations and Evening Amusements. A young man with this volume may render himself the beau ideal of a delightful companion at every party, and win the hearts of all the ladies, by his powers of entertainment. Bound in ornamental paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with, cloth back 50 cts.

Frost’s Laws and By-Laws of American Society. A Complete Treatise on Etiquette. Containing plain and Reliable Directions for Deportment in every Situation in Life, by S. A. Frost, author of “Frost’s Letter-Writer,” etc. This is a book of ready reference on the usages of Society at all times and on all occasions, and also a reliable guide in the details of deportment and polite behavior. Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

Frost’s Original Letter-Writer. A complete collection of Original Letters and Notes, upon every imaginable subject of Every-Day Life, with plain directions about everything connected with writing a letter. By S. A. Frost. To which is added a comprehensive Table of Synonyms, alone worth double the price asked for the book. We assure our readers that it is the best collection of letters ever published in this country; they are written in plain and natural language, and elegant in style without being high-flown. Bound in boards, cloth back, with illuminated sides 50 cts.

North’s Book of Love-Letters. With directions how to write and when to use them, and 120 Specimen Letters, suitable for Lovers of any age and condition, and under all circumstances. Interspersed with the author’s comments thereon. The whole forming a convenient Hand-book of valuable information and counsel for the use of those who need friendly guidance and advice in matters of Love, Courtship and Marriage. By Ingoldsby North. Bound in boards 50 cts. Bound in cloth 75 cts.

How to Shine in Society; or, The Science of Conversation. Containing the principles, laws and general usages of polite society, including easily applied hints and directions for commencing and sustaining an agreeable conversation, and for choosing topics appropriate to the time, place and company, thus affording immense assistance to the bashful and diffident. 16mo. Paper covers 25 cts.

The Poet’s Companion. A Dictionary of all Allowable Rhymes in the English Language. This gives the Perfect, the Imperfect and Allowable Rhymes, and will enable you to ascertain to a certainty whether any word can be mated. It is invaluable to any one who desires to court the Muses, and is used by some of the best writers in the country 25 cts.

Mind Your Stops. Punctuation made plain, and Composition simplified for Readers, Writers and Talkers 12 cts.

Five Hundred French Phrases. A book giving all the French words and maxims in general use in writing the English language 12 cts.

Steele’s Exhibition Dialogues. A Collection of Dramatic Dialogues and easy Plays, excellently adapted for Amateurs in Parlor and Exhibition Performances; with Hints and instructions relative to management, arrangements and other details necessary to render them successful. By Silas S. Steele.

CONTENTS.

The Stage-Struck Clerk. For 6 Males and 3 Females.

The Tailor of Tipperary. For 7 Males and 4 Females.

Opera Mad. For 7 Males and 1 Female.

The Painter’s Studio. Portrait Sketch. For 2 Males.

The Well of Death. For 2 males.

Blanche of Devan. For 3 Males and 1 Female.

The Youth Who Never Saw a Woman. For 3 Males and 1 Female.

The Masked Ball. For 3 Males and 2 Females.