Chapter II: Part 2

~Lola Montez' Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet.~ _With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating._ Lola Montez here explains all the Arts employed by the celebrated beauties and ladies in Paris and other cities of Europe, for the purpose of preserving their beauty and improving and developing their charms. The recipes are all clearly given, so that any person can understand them.

Paper ~25 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, September, 1880.

16mo, paper cover ~25 cts.~

READY RECKONERS AND LUMBER MEASURERS.

~Day's American Ready-Reckoner.~ 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.

Boards ~50 cts.~
Cloth ~75 cts.~

~Brisbane's Golden Ready-Reckoner.~ Calculated in Dollars and Cents. Showing at once the amount or value of any number of articles or quantity of goods, or any merchandise, either by gallon, quart, pint, ounce, pound, quarter hundred, yard, foot, inch, bushel, etc., in an easy and plain manner.

Boards ~35 cts.~

~Dick's Log and Lumber Measurer.~ A complete set of Tables, with full instructions for their use, showing at a glance the cubical contents of logs and the feet of inch-boards they contain by Doyle's Rule, the measurement of timber of all kinds and dimensions, and all other necessary information for measuring and estimating the value of lumber according to present usages. It includes also useful and practical Tables of Wages by the day, week, and month, and valuable statistical matter of interest to carpenters, builders, and the lumber trade. All the tables are new, reliable, and proved correct.

Boards ~25 cts.~

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36mo, 232 pages. Boards ~50 cts.~

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80 pages, half bound ~50 cts.~

~The Magicians Own Book; or, The Whole Art of Conjuring.~ A complete hand-book of Parlor Magic, containing over a thousand Optical, Chemical, Mechanical, Magnetic and Magical Experiments, Astonishing Sleights and Subtleties, Celebrated Card Deceptions, Ingenious Tricks with Numbers, curious and entertaining Puzzles, the art of Secret Writing, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.

Illustrated with over 500 wood-cuts, 12mo, cloth, gilt ~$1.50~

~The American Boy's Manual of Practical Mechanics.~ Prominent among the wide range of subjects embraced in this book are Carpentry and Carpenters' Tools; Plain and Ornamental Turning in Woods, Metal, etc.; the construction of various model Steam Engines and Steamboats; Boat and Canoe building, Telegraphy, and the various batteries employed; Electrotyping, Dioramas, Sand Clocks, Glass Blowing and Gilding on Glass; Magic Lanterns, and Calcium Lights; Aquaria; Telescopes; Balloons, and Fireworks; and other useful and ornamental appliances. Profusely illustrated.

169 pages, 8vo, paper ~50 cts.~
Bound in cloth ~$1.00~

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~30 cts.~

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Paper ~30 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.~

~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.

~25 cts.~

~Fox's Ethiopian Comicalities.~ Containing Strange Sayings, Eccentric Doings, Burlesque Speeches, Laughable Drolleries and Funny Stories, by the celebrated Ethiopian Comedian Charles Fox.

~10 cts.~

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~10 cts.~

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~10 cts.~

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~10 cts.~

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~10 cts.~

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~13 cts.~

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~10 cts.~

~How to Speak in Public; or, the Art of Extempore Oratory.~ A valuable manual for those who desire to become ready off-hand speakers; containing clear directions how to arrange ideas logically and quickly, including examples of speeches delivered by some of the greatest orators.

Paper ~25 cts.~

~Jack Johnson's Jokes for the Jolly.~ A collection of Funny Stories, Droll Incidents, Queer Conceits and Apt Repartees. Illustrating the Drolleries of Border Life in the West, Yankee Peculiarities, Dutch Blunders, French Sarcasms, Irish Wit and Humor, etc., with short Ludicrous Narratives.

Paper ~25 cts.~

~Snipsnaps and Snickerings of Simon Snodgrass.~ A collection of Laughable Irish Stories, Dutch Blunders, Yankee Tricks and Dodges, Backwoods Boasting, Humors of Horse-trading, Negro Comicalities, Frenchmen's Queer Mistakes, Scotch Shrewdness, and other phases of eccentric character. It is also full of funny engravings.

~25 cts.~

~The Strange and Wonderful Adventures of Bachelor Butterfly.~ Showing how his passion for Natural history completely eradicated the tender passion implanted in his breast--also detailing his Extraordinary Travels both by sea and land--his Hair-breadth Escapes from fire and cold--his being come over by a Widow with nine small children--and other Perils of a most extraordinary nature. The whole illustrated by about 200 engravings.

~30 cts.~

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~30 cts.~

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Paper ~25 cts.~

~The Mishaps and Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck.~ This humorous and curious book sets forth, with 188 comic drawings, the misfortunes which befell Mr. Oldbuck; and also his five unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide--his hair-breadth escapes from fire, water and famine--his affection for his poor dog, etc. To look over this book will make you laugh, and you can't help it.

~30 cts.~

~Uncle Josh's Trunkful Of Fun.~ Containing a rich collection of

_Comical Stories, Cruel Sells_,
_Side-Splitting Jokes, Humorous Poetical Drolleries_,
_Quaint Parodies, Burlesque Sermons._
_New Conundrums, Mirth-Provoking Speeches._
_Curious Puzzles, Amusing Card Tricks, and_
_Astonishing Feats of Parlor-Magic._

This book is illustrated with nearly 200 funny engravings, and contains, in 64 large octavo double-column pages, at least three times as much reading matter and real fun as any other book of the price.

~15 cts.~

~Draiper's Six Hundred Ways to Make Money.~ A reliable Compendium of valuable Receipts for making articles in constant demand and of ready sale, carefully selected from private sources and the best established authorities. By Edmund S. Draiper, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, etc. This Collection of Receipts is undoubtedly the most valuable and comprehensive that has ever been offered to the public in so cheap a form.

144 pages, paper ~30 cts.~

~The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth.~ With a full Sketch of the Conspiracy of which he was the Leader, and the Pursuit, Trial and Execution of his Accomplices. By George Alfred Townsend. Illustrated on the cover with a fine portrait of the Assassin, and also containing Plans, Maps, etc.

~25 cts.~

MISCELLANEOUS.

~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.

Cloth, illustrated ~$1.50~

~Biblical Reason Why.~ A Handsome Book for Biblical Students, and a Guide to Family Scripture Readings. This work gives 1,434 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~

~Biblical Things not Generally Known.~ A collection of Facts, Notes and Information concerning much that is rare, quaint, curious, obscure and little known in relation to Biblical subjects. This work is complete in two volumes, the second volume containing the entire index to both.

12mo, cloth. Each volume ~$1.50~

~Dick's Festival Reciter.~ Containing Original and Selected Pieces, Recitations, and Attractive Programmes, suitable for the Anniversaries of the Fourth of July and Washington's Birthday, including Memorial or Decoration Day, and the Festivals of Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, Easter, Arbor Day and May Day.

Paper covers ~30 cts.~

~Dick's Choice Pieces for Little Children.~ Containing Speeches and Recitations adapted for Children from four to ten years of age, including Prologues, Epilogues, and appropriate Pieces for Christmas, Arbor Day, and other Occasions.

Paper covers ~15 cts.~

~Little Lines for Little Speakers.~ A collection of Short and Easy Pieces for very young children; new, bright and effective.

16mo, paper cover ~15 cts.~

~Briggs' American Tanner.~ Containing improved quick methods for Tanning all kinds of light Skins, such as Sheep, Goat, Dog, Rabbit, Otter, Beaver, Mink, Muskrat, Wolf, Fox, etc., with or without the wool or fur; with hints how to cure skins, and color wool or fur. By N. R. Briggs.

~25 cts.~

~American Leads at Whist.~ A condensed Treatise abridged from the well-known work by "Cavendish," explaining and elucidating the generally accepted modern methods of American Leads as applied to legitimate signaling between partners during the progress of the game. Illustrated with Diagrams.

Vest pocket size ~15 cts.~

~Cinch.~ A thorough hand-book of the game of "Cinch" or High-Five, containing the correct method of playing and the Laws which govern it; compiled from the best and most reliable authorities by "Trumps".

~10 cts.~

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Bound in cloth ~75 cts.~

~Mitchell's Manual of Boxing.~ A thorough Handbook of Instruction in all the legitimate methods of Attack and Defense in the Manly Art, with Rules and Exercises, and including the Laws adopted by the Amateur Boxing Association. By Charley Mitchell. Illustrated with thirty-two engravings, showing all the Hits, Guards, Counters, etc., which are necessary in scientific boxing, with a great deal of wholesome advice based upon the author's personal career and experience.

~25 cts.~

~Muldoon's Wrestling.~ A complete Treatise on the various English, Scotch, American, French, German, and Japanese styles of Wrestling, with thorough Instructions and Rules. By James Muldoon. Profusely illustrated with engravings, explaining the positions of attack with the best means of defense in every style of Wrestling. The author's wide experience and successful career are sufficient guarantees of the thoroughness and comprehensiveness of this work.

~25 cts.~

~The Young Gymnast.~ Containing thorough Instructions for the Gymnasium, with Exercises with the Leaping Pole, Horizontal and Parallel Bars, Trapeze, Dumb Bells, and Indian Clubs; including directions for Training, and for the treatment of accidental injuries. All the exercises are very clearly explained, and the illustrations make them easily comprehended. It includes also a number of amusing Gymnastic tricks and feats.

Large 16mo ~25 cts.~

~Dunn's Fencing Instructor.~ A complete Manual of the Art of Fencing, giving a plain description of the Lines of Engagement, Position, Salute and Assault, and Attacks and Parries. By H. A. Colemore Dunn. Fully illustrated. By the aid of this book of instructions the art of Fencing can be thoroughly learned, and proficiency attained without the aid of a master.

Large 16mo ~25 cts.~

~The Lovers' Guide to Courtship and Marriage.~ A dissertation on Love and Lovers, with wise suggestions for successful Courtship, and excellent advice in all matters before and after Marriage.

Large 16mo ~25 cts.~

~The Oarsman's Manual.~ Containing thorough and practical instructions in Rowing and Sculling. It gives valuable advice and hints for Professionals in the Art, with the best methods for coaching Tyros from their first beginnings to perfect proficiency. It includes a searching analysis of the most effective styles of rowing, as well as of the faulty methods frequently met with, and the best ways of correcting them. Illustrated.

Large 16mo ~25 cts.~

~The Complete Checker-Player.~ A handy Manual of the Game of Draughts or Checkers, giving a lucid description of the game, with the regular openings, endings, critical and interesting positions, the Laws of the Game, the Losing Game, and Polish Checkers, with an illustrative game played out for the instruction of the learner. Fully illustrated by Diagrams.

Large 16mo ~25 cts.~

THEATRICALS, DIALOGUES AND TABLEAUX.

~Weldon's Fancy Costumes.~ Containing complete instructions how to make an immense variety of Historical, National and Fancy Dresses; giving minute details regarding the color and quantity of all the materials needed for each Costume, and illustrated with over fifty full-page engravings.

~50 cts.~

~Tony Denier's Parlor Tableaux, or Living Pictures.~ Containing about eighty popular subjects, with plain directions for arranging the stage, dressing-room, lights, full description of costumes, duties of stage manager, properties and scenery required, and all the directions for getting them up. Among the contents there are nine tableaux for _male_ and an equal number for _female_ characters only. Everything is stated in a plain, simple manner, so that it will be easily understood; everything like style or unnecessary show has been avoided.

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.

Price ~25 cts.~

~Pollard's Artistic Tableaux.~ With Picturesque Diagrams and descriptions of Costumes. Text by Josephine Pollard; arrangement of Diagrams by Walter Satterlee. This excellent work gives all the necessary information in relation to the preparation of the stage, the dressing and grouping of the characters, and the method of arranging everything so as to produce the proper effects. It is furnished with descriptive diagrams by an artist who has had large experience in the arrangement of tableaux.

Paper ~30 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.~

~Kavanaugh's Humorous Dramas for School Exhibitions and Private Theatricals.~ Original and written expressly for School and Parlor performance.

Paper ~30 cts.~
Boards ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Diverting Dialogues.~ They are short, full of telling "situations," introducing easy dialect characters, and present the least possible difficulties in scenery and costume to render them exceedingly attractive.

Paper ~30 cts.~
Boards ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Comic Dialogues.~ Eight of the Dialogues are for males only, requiring from two to six characters; the remaining pieces are for both sexes. They are all bright, witty, very entertaining, and full of droll and effective "situations."

184 pages, paper ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards ~50 cts.~

~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, paper ~30 cts.~
Boards ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Little Dialogues for Little People.~ Original and carefully selected Dialogues specially adapted for performance by young and quite young Children in Sunday School and other juvenile entertainments. Some of the Dialogues are exceedingly witty and effective; others are well suited for more serious occasions, and all of them entirely within the capabilities of small children.

~15 cts.~

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~The Hunter and Angler.~ A handy Manual of Hunting. Trapping, and Angling, with Valuable Hints in regard to Guns, Rods, Game, Fish, and Baits; including instructions for the care and Medical Treatment of Dogs. It gives good advice in the choice of guns, rifles, and their necessary ammunition for the different purposes for which they are employed; also a description of the dogs used for sporting, with their treatment in health and sickness. It includes advice and instructions for the use of fishing rods and their appurtenances, with the best flies and baits for attracting the various kinds of fishes. Also a description of the most reliable and successful traps and snares for animals and birds, with appropriate baits. Illustrated.

Large 16mo ~25 cts.~

~The Taxidermist's Manual.~ Containing complete Instructions in the Art of Taxidermy, with directions how to Prepare, Mount, and Preserve all kinds of Birds, Animals and Insects. By Graham Allen. Profusely illustrated.

Large 16mo ~25 cts.~

~The Hamilton Speaker.~ A collection of New and Original Extracts, arranged and adapted for Reading, Speaking, Recitation, and Elocutionary Culture, for the use of High Schools and Colleges, by Oliver E. Branch, A.M., of the New York Bar, formerly of the Brooklyn Polytechnic and Collegiate Institute.

257 pages, cloth ~$1.00~

~Burbank's Recitations and Readings.~ A collection of Humorous, Dramatic and Dialect Selections, edited and arranged for public readings or recitation, by Alfred P. Burbank. Containing many choice selections never before in print.

~25 cts.~

~Dick's Comic and Dialect Recitations.~ A collection of comic Recitations and Dialogues, funny Stories, laughable Descriptive Pieces and Parodies, in Yankee, Dutch, Irish, and Chinese Dialects, suitable for Entertainments and Exhibitions.

Paper covers ~30 cts.~
Boards ~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.

170 pages, paper ~30 cts.~
Boards ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Irish Dialect Recitations.~ A 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.

170 pages, paper ~30 cts.~
Boards ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Little Speeches for Little Speakers.~ A carefully selected collection of short and easy pieces, suitable for young children and little tots, thoroughly in keeping with their cunning little ideas and ways; including also instructive, patriotic and earnest pieces appropriate for all occasions.

~15 cts.~

~Kavanaugh's Juvenile Speaker. For very Little Boys and Girls.~ Containing short and easily-learned Speeches and Dialogues, expressly adapted for School Celebrations, May-day Festivals and Children's Exhibitions. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh.

Paper ~30 cts.~
Boards ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Home Made Candies; or, How to Make Candy in the Kitchen.~ Containing complete Directions for making all the newest and most delicious Cream Confections, with boiled syrup, or by the French method without boiling: also the best receipts for all the favorite Candies, Bon-bons, Glaces, Caramels, Taffy, etc., with perfectly harmless flavorings and colorings, including all the information for syrup-boiling, clarifying, and the use of utensils, necessary to insure the most successful results.

~25 cts.~

~Confectioner's Hand-Book.~ Giving plain and practical directions for making Confectionery. Containing upward of three hundred Recipes, consisting of directions for making all sorts of Candies, Jellies, Comfits, Preserves, Sugar Boiling, Iced Liquors, Waters, Gum, Paste and Candy Ornaments, Syrups, Marmalades, Essences, Fruit, Pastes, Ice Creams, Icings, Meringues, Chocolates, etc., etc. A complete Hand-Book of the Confectioner's Art.

Price ~25 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 ~50 cts.~
Boards ~75 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.

Boards, cloth ~50 cts.~

~Holberton's Art of Angling; or, How and Where to Catch Fish.~ A practical Hand-Book for learners in everything that pertains to the art of fishing with Rod and Reel. By Wakeman Holberton. Fully illustrated. It describes the special methods and appliances requisite to catch each variety of the finny tribe, and the most favorable localities to find them; with practical hints on camping out, necessary outfit, and the best choice of apparatus and baits, etc.

Cloth, flexible ~50 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.

Paper ~25 cts.~

~The Painter's Hand-Book.~ A thorough Guide to all that pertains to internal and external plain and tasteful House-painting. It explains the nature of the pigments or materials in general use, the best methods for their preparation and appliance, and the art of mixing colors to produce any desired tint or shade; with valuable receipts, hints and information to amateurs and experts.

~25 cts.~

BANJO AND BALL-ROOM GUIDES.

~Dick's Quadrille Call-Book and Ball-Room Prompter.~ Containing clear directions how to call out the figures of every dance, with the quantity of music necessary for each figure, and simple explanations of all the figures which occur in Plain and Fancy Quadrilles. This book gives plain and comprehensive instructions how to dance all the new and popular dances, fully describing

_The Opening March or Polonaise_,
_Various Plain and Fancy Quadrilles_,
_Waltz and Glide Quadrilles_,
_Plain Lancers and Caledonians_,
_Glide Lancers and Caledonians_,
_Saratoga Lancers_,
_The Parisian Varieties_,
_The Prince Imperial Set_,
_Social and Basket Quadrilles_,
_Nine-Pin and Star Quadrilles_,
_Gavotte and Minuet Quadrilles_,
_March and Cheat Quadrilles_,
_Favorite Jigs and Contra-Dances_,
_Polka and Polka Redowa_,
_Redowa and Redowa Waltz_,
_Polka Mazourka and Old Style Waltz_,
_Modern Plain Waltz and Glide_,
_Boston Dip and Hop Waltz_,
_Five-Step Waltz and Schottische_,
_Varsovienne and Zulma L'Orientale_,
_Galop and Deux Temps_,
_Esmeralda, Sicilienne, Danish Dance_,

AND OVER ONE HUNDRED FIGURES FOR THE "GERMAN";

To which is added a Sensible Guide to Etiquette and proper Deportment in the Ball and Assembly Room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano.

Paper ~50 cts.~
Bound in boards ~75 cts.~

~Hillgrove's Ball-Boom Guide and Complete Dancing-Master.~ Containing a plain treatise on Etiquette and Deportment at Balls and Parties, with valuable hints on Dress and the Toilet, together with

_Full Explanations of the Rudiments, Terms, Figures and Steps
used in Dancing_,

_Including Clear and Precise Instructions how to dance all kinds
of Quadrilles, Waltzes, Polkas, Redowas, Reels, Round, Plain and
Fancy Dances, so that any person may learn them without the aid of
a Teacher_,

_To which is added easy directions how to call out the Figures which belong_ to every dance, and the amount of music required for each. Illustrated with 176 descriptive engravings. By T. Hillgrove, Professor of Dancing.

Bound in cloth, with gilt side and back ~$1.00~
Bound in boards ~75 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.

Boards ~50 cts.~

~The Banjo, and How to Play it.~ Containing, in addition to the elementary studies, a choice collection of Polkas, Waltzes Solos, Schottisches. Songs, Hornpipes, Jigs, Reels, etc., with full explanations of both the "Banjo" and "Guitar" styles of execution, and designed to impart a complete knowledge of the art of playing the Banjo practically, without the aid of a teacher. This work is arranged on the progressive system, showing the learner how to play the first few notes of a tune, then the next notes, and so on, a small portion at a time, until he has mastered the entire piece, every detail being as clearly and thoroughly explained as if he had a teacher at his elbow all the time. By Frank B. Converse, author of the "Banjo without a Master."

16mo, bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

GYMNASTICS, CALISTHENICS AND TRAINING.

~Alexander's Calisthenics and Musical Drill for Little Children.~ Containing Fifty-nine Exercises, with numerous variations, introducing simple Calisthenics and Swimming Motions, Ring, Skipping and Marching Exercises, profusely illustrated, with Piano Music for every movement. A complete work on Recreative Calisthenics for young children and Primary School Classes. By A. Alexander, Professor of Calisthenics and Gymnastics.

Paper ~25 cts.~

~Cruden's Calisthenic Training and Musical Drill.~ A System of Physical Exercises as an aid to Teachers in Class Training. By George Cruden, A.M.

This work contains complete instructions in Military Marching, Dumb-Bell, and Indian Club Exercises; including Musical Drill in Free Gymnastics, Dumb-Bell and Bar-Bell Exercises and Hoop Drill, with explanatory illustrations and Piano Music for every movement.

Boards ~50 cts.~

~Maclaren's Training in Theory and Practice.~ A Handbook of Training for all athletic exercises in accordance with the accepted modern theories and methods. It shows conclusively the errors and risks of the old styles of Training, and gives the most thorough ways of developing in the highest degree the muscular vigor, full respiration, and physical endurance which is indispensable to success in all athletic exercises and competitive exhibitions of strength, speed and skill. By Archibald Maclaren, Professor of Gymnastics of the Oxford University Gymnasium, England.

Paper ~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.

Cloth ~$1.00~.

~Dick's Dumb-Bell and Indian Club Exercises.~ Containing practical and progressive instructions in the use of Dumb-Bells, Bar-Bells and Indian Clubs. Illustrated with cuts showing every position and motion of the body and limbs.

Paper ~25 cts.~

~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 ~25 cts.~

~Athletic Sports for Boys.~ Containing complete instructions in the manly accomplishments of Skating, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing, Horsemanship, Riding, Driving, Angling, Fencing and Broadsword. Illustrated with 194 wood-cuts.

Boards ~75 cts.~

~Dick's Art of Bowling; or, Bowler's Guide.~ Giving the correct method of playing, keeping the score, and the latest Rules which govern the American and German Games, with their most popular Variations, including also the latest Regulations adopted in Match Games and Tournaments. Fully illustrated with Diagrams, &c., explaining the arrangement of the Pins, and correct methods of keeping the games.

~25 cts.~

PHONOGRAPHY AND BOOK-KEEPING.

~Pitman's Phonographic Teacher.~ A Practical Guide to Phonography or Phonetic Short-Hand. By Isaac Pitman. New edition revised and improved. This is acknowledged to be the best and most practical system of Short-Hand, and this work is the only original, thorough and reliable one of that system, which presents the fewest difficulties and the widest resources, entirely dispensing with the aid of a Teacher; and, although every system involves patience, perseverance and steady practice, Pitman's method ensures a more speedy acquisition of fluency and rapidity than any other.

~20 cts.~

~Key to the Phonographic Teacher.~ An efficient aid to the learner in practicing and applying Pitman's Method of Short-hand, with exercises and explanations.

~20 cts.~

~Pitman's Manual of Phonography.~ Containing a complete exposition of the system of Phonetic Short-hand, with numerous short-hand examples interspersed with the text, and exercises in reading. This Manual of Isaac Pitman's System, which is now being introduced as the Text-Book of Phonography in our educational institutions, has been revised and corrected, year after year, by its inventor, and is now presented in its latest and fullest perfection. Its pre-eminence is endorsed by the fact that its sales have already reached 650,000.

Convenient pocket size ~40 cts.~

~Key to the Exercises in Pitman's Manual.~ A great help for students.

~20 cts.~

~Pitman's Phonographic Reporter; or, Reporter's Companion.~ An adaptation of Pitman's System to verbatim reporting. By Isaac Pitman. By the introduction of easily-acquired Phraseograms, Logograms, and other simple devices, time and labor are saved to such an extent that Reporters are enabled to keep pace with the most fluent speakers, and render accurate and verbatim reports, without elisions or condensation. This is the latest and crowning addition to the Phonographic art, and brings it up to the greatest practical perfection. Latest Edition, bound in boards.

~60 cts.~

~The Young Reporter; or, how to Write Shorthand.~ Intended to afford thorough instructions to those who have not the assistance of an Oral Teacher. By the aid of this work, and the explanatory examples which are given as exercises, any person of ordinary intelligence may learn to write Shorthand, and report Speeches and Sermons in a short time.

Boards ~50 cts.~

~Odell's System Of Short-Hand.~ (Taylor Improved.) By which the method of taking down sermons, lectures, trials, speeches, etc., may be easily acquired, without the aid of a master. By this plan the difficulties of mastering this useful art are very much lessened, and the time required to attain proficiency reduced to the least possible limits.

~25 cts.~

~Day's Book-Keeping Without a Master.~ Containing the Rudiments of Book-keeping in Single and Double Entry, together with the proper Forms and Rules for opening and keeping condensed and general Book Accounts. This work is printed in a beautiful script type, and combines the advantages of a handsome style of writing with its very simple and easily understood lessons in Book-keeping. The several pages have explanations at the bottom, in small type, to assist the learner. As a pattern for opening book accounts it is especially valuable--particularly for those who are not well posted in the art.

~50 cts.~

FREEMASONRY.

~Allyn's Ritual of Freemasonry.~ Containing a complete Key to the following Degrees: Degree of Entered Apprentice; Degree of Fellow Craft; Degree of Master Mason; Degree of Mark Master; Degree of Past Master; Degree of Excellent Master; Degree of Royal Arch; Royal Arch Chapter; Degree of Royal Master; Degree of Select Master; Degree of Super-Excellent Master; Degree of Ark and Dove; Degree of Knights of Constantinople; Degree of Secret Monitor; Degree of Heroine of Jericho; Degree of Knights of Three Kings; Mediterranean Pass; Order of Knights of the Red Cross; Order of Knights Templar and Knights of Malta; Knights of the Christian Mark, and Guards of the Conclave; Knights of the Holy Sepulchre; The Holy and Thrice Illustrious Order of the Cross; Secret Master; Perfect Master; Intimate Secretary; Provost and Judge; Intendant of the Buildings, or Master in Israel; Elected Knights of Nine; Elected Grand Master; Sublime Knights Elected; Grand Master Architect; Knights of the Ninth Arch; Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason. Illustrated with 38 copper-plate engravings; to which is added, a Key to the Phi Beta Kappa, Orange, and Odd Fellows Societies. By Avery Allyn, K. R. C. K. T. K. M., etc.

12mo, cloth ~$5.00~

~Lester's "Look to the East." (Webb Work.)~ A Ritual of the First Three Degrees of Masonry. Containing the complete work of the Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason's Degrees, and their Ceremonies, Lectures, etc. Edited by Ralph P. Lester. This complete and beautiful Pocket Manual of the First Three Degrees of Masonry is printed in clear, legible type, and not obscured by any attempts at cypher or other perplexing contractions. It gives the correct routine of

_Opening and Closing the Lodge in each Degree._
_Calling off and Calling On._
_Calling the Lodge Up and Down._
_The Entire Ceremonies of Initiating, Passing and Raising
Candidates._
_The Lectures all Ritually and Monitorially Complete._

Bound in cloth ~$2.00~
Leather tucks (pocket-book style) gilt edges ~2.50~

~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 Malcolm 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~

~Duncan's Rituale der Freimaurerei.~ A Guide, in the German language, to the Three Symbolic Degrees of the Ancient York Rite. Dieses Werk ist geschrieben, um den jungern Mitglieder des Ordens einen Leitfaden an die Hand zu geben, und gibt eine genaue Beschreibung aller in der _Arbeit_ gebrauchlichen Ceremonien, Zeichen, Worte, Griffe, u.s.w.

Leather tucks (pocket-book style), gilt edges ~$2.00~

~Richardson's Monitor of Freemasonry.~ A complete Guide to the various Ceremonies and Routine in Freemasons' Lodges, Chapters, Encampments, Hierarchies, etc., in all the Degrees, whether Modern, Ancient, Ineffable, Philosophical or Historical. Containing, also, the Lectures, Addresses, Charges, Signs, Tokens, Grips, Passwords, Regalias and Jewels in each Degree. Profusely illustrated with Explanatory Engravings, Plans of the interior of Lodges, etc.

Paper covers ~75 cts.~
Bound in gilt ~$1.25~
Bound in leather tucks (pocket-book style) ~$2.00~

BOOKS ON CARDS AND OTHER GAMES.

~The American Hoyle; or, Gentleman's Hand-Book of Games.~ By "Trumps". This work has long since been accorded the position of an exclusive authority on games played in America. The FIFTEENTH EDITION, now issued, newly arranged, in new type, contains all the latest novelties, as well as the recent changes in games already in vogue, profusely illustrated. Among the new games introduced in this edition are Rubicon Piquet, Rubicon Bézique, Grabouche, Solo Whist, Cayenne Whist, Domino Whist, Cinch or High Five, Baccarat Banque and Baccarat Chemin de Fer, etc. In the game of Whist, the new features are "Cavendish's" rules for play, with best leads, and a critical examination of the system of "American Leads", elucidated by card illustrations; also, the mode of procedure in Duplicate Whist. The various games of Billiards and Pool, with the rules adopted in matches and tournaments, are inserted by permission of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. The work also includes an exposition of the Doctrine of Chances.

Library Edition, 514 pages, 12 mo., cloth ~$1.50~
A cheaper edition, 16 mo., in paper covers ~50 cts.~
Bound in boards ~75 cts.~

~Hoyle's Games.~ By "Trumps". A complete Manual of the games of skill and chance as played in America, and an acknowledged "arbiter on all disputed points"; thoroughly revised and corrected in accordance with the latest and best authorities. It contains the modern laws and complete instructions for the games of Chess, Draughts, Dominoes, Dice, Backgammon, and Billiards, as well as the games with cards at present in vogue, including Baccarat, Duplicate Whist, Cayenne Whist, Hearts, Grabouche, Newmarket, Solo Whist, Cinch or High Five, etc.

Profusely illustrated. 16 mo, 514 pages, cloth ~$1.25~
Bound in boards ~75 cts.~
Paper covers ~50 cts.~

~"Trumps" New Card Games.~ Containing correct method and rules for playing the games of Hearts, Boodle, New Market, Five and Nine or Domino-Whist, Solo, and Cayenne Whist.

Paper covers ~25 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 embraces a number of new and original Games, and all the Games of Patience at present in favor with the most experienced players. 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. Quarto, 143 pages.

Board cover ~75 cts.~
Cloth ~$1.00~

~Parlor Tricks with Cards.~ Containing explanations of all the Tricks and Deceptions with playing Cards ever invented. The whole illustrated and made plain and easy with 70 engravings.

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

~Modern Whist.~ Containing complete Rules and Instructions for playing, including the system of American Leads, play of the first, second, third and fourth hands, management of Trumps, Laws of the Game, etc. Compiled from the latest works of "Cavendish," the leading Modern Authority on Whist. By "Trumps."

Paper covers ~25 cts.~

ETIQUETTE AND PARLOR MAGIC.

~Frost's American Etiquette; or, Laws of Good Society.~ A condensed but thorough treatise on Etiquette and its Usages in America. Containing plain and reliable directions for correct deportment in every situation and under all circumstances in life, including special directions and instructions on the following subjects:--

_Dinner Company and Invitations_;
_Visiting, and Visiting Cards_,
_Traveling, Riding and Driving_;
_Balls, Morning and Evening Parties_;
_Calls, Conversation and Street Etiquette_;
_Salutes and Salutations_;
_Weddings, Baptisms and Funerals_;
_Church and Places of Amusement_;
_Introductions and Letters of Introduction_;
_Children, Hotel, and Card Table_;
_Ladies' and Gentlemen's Toilet_;
_Letter Writing and Servants_.

BESIDES ONE HUNDRED UNCLASSIFIED LAWS APPLICABLE TO ALL OCCASIONS.

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

~Martine's Hand-Book of Etiquette and Guide to True Politeness.~ Containing clear and comprehensive directions for correct manners, conversation, dress, introductions, rules for good behavior at Dinner Parties and the Table, with the Etiquette of the Ball and Assembly Room, Evening Parties, and the usages to be observed when visiting or receiving calls; Deportment in the street and when traveling. To which is added the Etiquette of Courtship, Marriage, and fifty-six rules to be observed in general society.

Bound in boards ~50 cts.~
Bound in cloth, gilt sides ~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.~

~How to Behave; or, The Spirit of Etiquette.~ A Guide to Polite Society, for Ladies and Gentlemen; containing rules for good behavior at the dinner table, in the parlor, and in the street; with important hints on introduction, conversation, etc.

~12 cts.~

~The Fireside Magician; or, The Art of Natural Magic Made Easy.~ Being a scientific explanation of Legerdemain, Recreative Chemistry, Diversion with Cards, and of all the mysteries of Mechanical Magic, comprising two hundred and fifty interesting mental and physical recreations, with explanatory engravings.

Paper ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~The Parlor Magician; or, One Hundred Tricks for the Drawing Room.~ Containing an extensive and miscellaneous collection of Conjuring, embracing: Tricks with Dice, Dominoes and Cards; Tricks with Ribbons, Rings and Fruit; Tricks with Coin, Handkerchiefs and Balls, etc. The whole illustrated with 121 engravings.

Paper ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards with cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Morgan's Freemasonry Exposed and Explained.~ Showing the Origin, History and Nature of Masonry, and containing a Key to all the Degrees of Freemasonry. Giving a clear and correct view of the manner of conferring the different degrees, as practiced in all Lodges.

~25 cts.~

MINSTREL JOKES AND STUMP SPEECHES.

~Dick's Stump Speeches and Minstrel Jokes.~ Containing Short and side-splitting Negro Acts and Farces, Eccentric Sketches, Stump Speeches, Darkey Lectures, End-Men's Jokes and Gags, Burlesque Sermons, Funny Dialogues, and everything necessary for a series of first-class Minstrel Entertainments; including the latest excruciations of modern Negro-Minstrelsy, and a number of startling originalities, risible rib-ticklers and hysterical button-starters.

Paper ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches.~ Containing an inexhaustible collection of 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_.

Paper covers ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards, 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 Darkey Dialogues, Sketches, Plantation Scenes, Eccentric Doings, Humorous Lectures, Laughable Interludes, Burlesque Stump Speeches, Mirth-provoking Witticisms, Conundrums, Yarns, Plantation Songs and Dances, etc., etc. Everything new and rich.

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

~Brudder Bones' Book of Stump Speeches and Burlesque Orations.~ Also containing Humorous Lectures, Ethiopian Dialogues, Plantation Scenes, Negro Farces and Burlesques, Laughable Interludes and Comic Recitations, interspersed with Dutch, Irish, French and Yankee Stories. This book contains some of the best hits and mirth-provoking jokes and repartees of the most celebrated End-Men of the day. Paper covers.

Price ~30 cts.~
Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Howard's Book of Conundrums and Riddles.~ Containing over 1,200 of the best Conundrums, Riddles, Enigmas, Ingenious Catches and Amusing Sells ever invented. This splendid collection of curious paradoxes will afford the material for a never-ending feast of fun and amusement. Any person, with the assistance of this book, may take the lead in entertaining a company, and keep them in roars of laughter for hours together.

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

~Rowan's Riddles and Conundrums.~ A very choice gathering of Ancient, Modern, and quite recent Riddles and Conundrums, quaintly arranged, for amusement and merriment on opportune occasions. A first-rate pocket companion for Picnics and Winter Evenings.

~15 cts.~

~Dick's Book of Alphabets.~ Containing a great variety of designs for plain and Fanciful Alphabets, Numerals and illuminated Initial letters in various colors, and elegant in style. It includes specimens of modern Ornamental designs, and of the ancient grotesque, Arabesque, and other eccentric devices for decoration and illumination, mainly gathered from rare old vellums and scarce books of past centuries. This work will be appreciated by Architects, Decorators, Designers, Draughtsmen, etc.

Oblong quarto, full cloth ~$1.50~

GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS.

~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.

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 ~30 cts.~

~Dick's One Hundred Amusements for Evening Parties, Picnics and Social Gatherings.~ This book is full of Original Novelties. It contains: New and Attractive Games, clearly illustrated by means of Witty Examples, showing how each may be most successfully played. Surpassing Tricks, easy of performance. Musical and other innocent sells. A variety of new and ingenious puzzles. Comical illusions, fully described. These surprising and grotesque illusions, are very startling in their effects, and present little or no difficulty in their preparation.

ALSO A NEW VERSION OF THE CELEBRATED "MRS. JARLEY'S WAX WORKS".

Illustrated by sixty fine wood engravings. Paper ~30 cts.~

~The Book of Fireside Games.~ Containing an explanation of a variety of Witty, Rollicking, Entertaining and Innocent Games and Amusing Forfeits, suited to the Family Circle as a Recreation. This book is just the thing for social gatherings, parties and picnics.

Paper covers. ~30 cts.~

~The Book Of 500 Curious Puzzles.~ A collection of Curious Puzzles and Paradoxes, Deceptions in Numbers, Amusing Tricks in Geometry; illustrated with a great variety of engravings.

Paper ~30 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.

Paper ~30 cts.~

~Book of Riddles and 500 Home Amusements.~ Containing a curious collection of Riddles, Charades and Enigmas; Rebuses, Anagrams and Transpositions; Conundrums and Amusing Puzzles: Recreations in Arithmetic, and Queer Sleights, and numerous other Entertaining Amusements. Illustrated with 60 engravings.

Paper ~30 cts.~

[asterism] Any of the above may be had bound in boards. Price 50 cts.

~The Secret Out; or 1,000 Tricks with Cards, and Other Recreations.~ Illustrated with over 300 engravings. A book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards ever known, and gives, besides, a great many new ones. The whole being described so carefully, with engravings to illustrate them, that anybody can easily learn how to perform them. This work also contains 240 of the best Tricks of Legerdemain, in addition to the Card Tricks.

400 pages, cloth ~$1.50~

~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.
Schnitzerl'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 Varder 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.~