Chapter IX: Part 9

The Perfect Gentleman. A book of Etiquette and Eloquence. Containing information and instruction for those who desire to become brilliant or conspicuous in General Society, or at Parties, Dinners or Popular Gatherings, etc. It gives directions how to use wine at table, with Rules for judging the quality thereof, Rules for Carving, and a complete Etiquette of the Dinner Table, including Dinner Speeches, Toasts and Sentiments, Wit and Conversation at Table, etc. It has also an American Code of Etiquette and Politeness for all occasions. It also contains all the necessary information relating to the Rules of Etiquette to be observed in fashionable and official society at Washington, and this alone makes it valuable to any one who visits that city, either for pleasure or business. It also contains, Model Speeches, with directions how to deliver them, Duties of the Chairman at Public Meetings, Forms of Preambles and Resolutions, etc. It is a handsomely bound volume of 335 pages.

$1.50

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.

Le Marchand’s Fortune-Teller and Dreamer’s Dictionary. Containing a complete Dictionary of Dreams, alphabetically arranged, with a clear interpretation of each Dream. Also showing how to tell fortunes by the Lady’s Love Oracle. How to foretell the Sex of Children. How to tell any Person’s Age. To know who your future Husband will be, and how soon you will be Married. How to tell Future events with Cards, Dice, Tea and Coffee Grounds, Eggs, Apple Parings and the Lines of the Hand. Illustrated with wood engravings. 144 pages. Bound in boards. 40 cts.

Fontaine’s Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller. Being the most complete book on Fortune Telling and Interpreting Dreams ever printed. This book informs you how to TELL FORTUNES with the _Golden Wheel, Cards, Dice and Dominoes_; how to find whereto dig for water, with the celebrated DIVINING ROD; together with Twenty Ways of Telling Fortunes on New Year’s Eve. It is illustrated with engravings, and contains a large Colored Lithographic Engraving of the _Golden Wheel_, which folds up. 144 pages, bound in boards. 40 cts.

Pettengill’s Perfect Fortune-Teller and Dream-Book; or, The Art of Discerning Future Events. This is a most complete Fortune-Teller and Dream-Book. It is compiled with great care from authorities on Astrology, Geology, Chiromancy, Necromancy, Spiritual Philosophy, etc., etc. Among the subjects treated of, are—Casting Nativities by the Stars, Telling Fortunes by Lines on the Hand, by Moles on the Body, by Turning Cards, by Questions of Destiny, by Physical Appearances, by the Day of Birth, etc. A book of 144 pages. Bound in boards. 40 cts.

Mother Shipton’s Fortune-Teller; or, Future Fate Foretold by the Planets. Being the 900 Answers of Pythagoras to the Questions of Life’s Destiny. Derived from the Mystic Numbers and Letters of the Planets. Containing the Emblematical and Mystical Wheel of Fortune and Fate, colored. 115 pages, paper covers. 30 cts.

Mother Shipton’s Oriental Dream-Book. Being a reliable interpretation of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, etc. Together with a History of Remarkable Dreams, proven true as interpreted. Collected and arranged from the most celebrated masters. 16mo, paper covers. 30 cts.

The Everlasting Fortune-Teller and Magnetic Dream-Book. Containing the Science of Foretelling Events by the Signs of the Zodiac; Lists of Lucky and Unlucky Days; List of Fortunate Hours; the Science of Foretelling Events by Cards, Dice, Dominoes, etc.; the Science of Foretelling anything in the Future by Dreams; and also containing NAPOLEON’S ORACULUM; or, The Book of Fate. 30 cts.

Mother Carey’s Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller. Containing the method of Fortune-Telling with Cards; a complete Dreamer’s Dictionary; the Science of Palmistry, or telling Fortunes by the Lines of the Hand; how to tell a Person’s Character by a list of Lucky and Unlucky days and hours; how to tell with Cards which of Three Ladies has the best Husband. Mathematical Tables for telling any Person’s Age. 15 cts.

Aristotle’s Book of Fate and Dictionary of Dreams. Containing Dreams and their Interpretations; the Signification of Moles on Men and Women; one hundred and eighty-seven Weather Omens; Hymen’s Lottery and Aristotle’s Oraculum, or Book of Fate. 15 cts.

The Egyptian Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller. Containing an Alphabetical list of Dreams, with their signification and their lucky numbers. Illustrated with explanatory diagrams. Boards, cloth back. 40 cts.

The French Wine and Liquor Manufacturer. A Practical Guide and Receipt Book for the Liquor Merchant. Being a clear and comprehensive Treatise on the Manufacture and Imitation of Brandy, Rum, Gin and Whisky, with Practical Observations and Rules for the Manufacture and Management of all kinds of Wine, by Mixing, Boiling and Fermentation, as practiced in Europe; including complete instructions for Manufacturing Champagne Wine, and the most approved methods for making a variety of Cordials, Liquors, Punch, Essences, Bitters and Syrups, together with a number of Recipes for Fining, Flavoring, Filtering and Coloring Wines and Liquors, and instructions for Restoring and Keeping Ale and Cider. Also containing the latest improvements for Manufacturing Vinegar by the Quick Method. To which is added a collection of Descriptive Articles on Alcohol, Distillation, Maceration and the use of the Hydrometer; with Tables, Comparative Scale, and 14 important Rules for Purchasing, Reducing and Raising the Strength of Alcohol, etc. Illustrated with descriptive diagrams and engravings. Adapted for the Use and Information of the Trade in the United States and Canada. By John Rack, Practical Wine and Liquor Manufacturer. Bound in cloth. $3.00

Bartender’s Guide. Containing Recipes for Mixing American, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian Drinks—such as Juleps, Punches, Cobblers, Slings, Cocktails, etc. By Jerry Thomas, late Bartender at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and Planter’s House, St. Louis. To which is appended a Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liquors, Fancy Syrups, etc., containing Recipes after the most approved methods now used in the Distillation of Liquors and Beverages, designed for the special use of Manufacturers and Dealers in Wines and Spirits, Grocers, Tavern-keepers and Private Families—the same being adapted to the trade of the United States and Canada. The whole work containing over 700 valuable recipes. A large book, bound in cloth. $2.50

The Independent Liquorist; or, The Art of Manufacturing all kinds of Syrups, Bitters, Cordials, Champagne, Wines, Lager Beer, Ale, Porter, Beer, Punches, Tinctures, Extracts, Brandy, Gin, Essences, Flavorings, Colorings, Sauces, Catsups, Pickles, Preserves, etc. By L. Monzert, Practical Liquorist and Chemist. Every Druggist, Grocer, Restaurant, Hotel-keeper, Farmer, Fruit Dealer, Wine Merchant, should have a copy of this work. It gives the most approved methods, and a true description of the manner in which our most popular beverages are prepared, in such plain terms that the most inexperienced person can manufacture as well as the practical man, without the aid of any expensive apparatus. 12mo, cloth. $3.00

The Bordeaux Wine and Liquor Dealer’s Guide. A Treatise on the Manufacture of French Wines and Liquors, with full directions to the Liquor Dealer how to manage his Liquors, Wines, etc., etc. A book of great value to every person who deals in Foreign and American Spirituous Liquors, or Foreign Wines, Cordials, etc. It tells exactly how all kinds of them are made. The directions are simple and easily understood. It also tells how to make all kinds of Ales, Porter and other fermented liquor, how to manage Cider, etc. 12mo, cloth. $2.50

Lacour on the Manufacture of Liquors, Wines and Cordials, Without the aid of Distillation. Also, the Manufacture of Effervescing Beverages and Syrups, Vinegar and Bitters. Prepared and arranged expressly for the Trade. By Pierre Lacour. By the use of this book every man can make all kinds of liquors, wines, cordials and vinegar and syrups at home, without the use of any apparatus of any kind. The work is by the French chemist, Lacour, of Bordeaux. We would advise all who are concerned in the liquor business to get the work. Bound in cloth. $2.50

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.

Walker’s Rhyming, Spelling and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. Containing

I. _The whole Language arranged according to its terminations._

II. _Every Word explained and divided into Syllables, exactly as pronounced._

III. _Multitudes of Words, liable to a double pronunciation, fixed in their true sound by a Rhyme._

IV. _Many of the most difficult Words rendered easy to be pronounced, by being classed according to their endings._

V. _Numerous classes of Words ascertained in their pronunciation, by distinguishing them into perfect, nearly perfect and allowable Rhymes._

To which is added critical and practical Observations on Orthography Syllabication, Pronunciation, an Index of Allowable Rhymes, with Authorities for their usage, etc. Royal 12mo, 700 pages. $3.00

Book of Household Pets. Containing valuable instructions about the Diseases, Breeding, Training and Management of the Canary, Mocking Bird, Brown Thrush or Thrasher, Blue Bird, Yellow Bird, Scarlet Tanager, Bobolink, Baltimore Oriole, European Black Bird, Blue Jay, Blue and Yellow Macaw, Carolina Parrakeet, Cockatoo, Green and Gray Parrot, and the rearing and management of all kinds of Pigeons and Fancy Poultry, Rabbits, Squirrels, Guinea Pigs, White Mice and Dogs; together with a Comprehensive Treatise on the Principle and Management of the Salt and Fresh Water Aquarium, with instructions how to make, lay the foundation, and stock the Tank. Illustrated with 123 fine wood-cuts. Bound in boards, cloth back. 50 cts.

Chesterfield’s Art of Letter-Writing Simplified. A Guide to Friendly, Affectionate, Polite and Business Correspondence. Containing a collection of valuable information relative to the Art of Letter-Writing, with clear instructions how to begin and end Correspondence, Rules for Punctuation and Spelling, etc., with numerous examples of Letters and Notes, with several important hints on Love-letters. 15 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, together with an original Poem on Abraham Lincoln. By George Alfred Townsend, a Special Correspondent. Illustrated on the cover with a fine portrait of the Assassin and also containing Plans, Maps, etc. Octavo. 25 cts.

The Hindoo Fortune-Teller and Oracle of Destiny. Containing Ten Methods of Telling Fortunes with Cards, a complete system of Fortune Telling with Dice, together with Sixty-seven Good and Bad Omens, with their interpretation. 15 cts.

The Combination Fortune-Teller and Dictionary of Dreams. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia explaining all the different methods extant by which good and evil events, are foretold, containing 430 pages, and illustrated with numerous engravings and two large colored lithographs. 16mo, cloth. $1.25.

The Play-Ground; or, Out-Door Games for Boys. A Book of Healthy Recreations for Youth, containing over a hundred Amusements, including Games of Activity and Speed, Games with Toys, Marbles, Tops, Hoops, Kites, Archery, Balls; with Cricket, Croquet and Base-Ball. Splendidly illustrated with 124 fine wood-cuts. Bound in boards. 50 cts.

10,000 Wonderful Things. Comprising the Marvelous and Rare, Eccentric and Extraordinary, in all Ages and Nations. Enriched with hundreds of illustrations. 12mo, cloth, gilt side. $1.50

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 differs entirely from all other Manuals, from the fact that it contains neither the passwords, grips, nor any other purely esoteric matter, with which Masons, and Masons only are necessarily entirely familiar. It affords, therefore, a thorough and valuable guide to the regular “work” in the above degrees, divested of everything that any member of the Fraternity would object to see in print, or hesitate to carry in his pocket. 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 Malcom C. Duncan. Explained and Interpreted by copious Notes and numerous Engravings. It is not so much the design of the author to gratify the curiosity of the uninitiated, as to furnish a Guide to the Younger Members of the Order, by means of which their progress from grade to grade may be facilitated. With the aid of this invaluable Masonic Companion, any mason can, in a short time, become qualified to take the Chair as Master of a Lodge. Nothing is omitted in it that may tend to impart a full understanding of the principles of Masonry. 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

Lander’s Expose 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., giving all the work in the following Degrees: 1st, or White Degree; 2d, or Covenant Decree; 3d, or Royal Blue Degree; 4th, or Remembrance Degree; 5th, or Scarlet Degree

25 cts.

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.

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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.

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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 |

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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._