Dick, Fitzgerald
Dick and Fitzgerald Catalog (1866)

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.

Modern Whist. A Treatise on the Game of Whist, introducing all the modern methods and usages of the scientific game, mainly derived from the latest works of "Cavendish", the leading authority in all that pertains to the game of Whist.

The most advantageous leads, according to "Cavendish", as well as the system of "American Leads", are given in detail, including a critical analysis, with Tables and Illustrations, of the best play for second and third hands.

This treatise contains all the instruction necessary to make an expert modern Whist player.

Pole on Whist. The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist. By William Pole, F.R.S. This complete and exhaustive Treatise on the Game is in handy form for the pocket, and affords lucid instructions at all stages of the Game for partners to play in combination for their best interests.

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.

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

Robertson's Guide to the Game of Draughts. Embracing all of the twenty-two well-known Openings, with 3340 Variations, including and correcting all that are given in the leading treatises already published, with about 1200 new and original Variations which appear for the first time in this work, forming a thorough and complete digest and analysis of the Game, with corrections and additions up to the present time. The number of moves aggregate nearly 100,000. Match play by Yates, Wyllie, Barker, and others, will be found regularly classified. A change has been made in the trunks generally, and throughout the whole work there appears much that is fresh and original.

Anderson's Checkers. Containing complete Instructions and Rules for playing Checkers or Draughts. Illustrated with Diagrams; including all the Standard Games and their Variations, and numerous Problems with their Solutions. By Andrew Anderson. In a certain sense, this is a reprint of Anderson's Celebrated "Second Edition", revised, corrected, and enlarged by Robert M'Culloch; that is, his play when sound is given intact, and where improvements have been shown they have been incorporated, and unsound play eliminated.

Spayth's American Draught Player; or, The Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers. Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Sixth edition, with over three hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game-Full Instructions-Draught Board Numbered-Names of the Games, and how formed-The "Theory of the Move and its Changes" practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams.

Dunne's Draughts Player's Guide and Companion. A Guide to the Student and a Companion for the Advanced Player. By Frank Dunne. A thoroughly practical work, containing Instructions for beginners, Standard Rules, the "Move" and its changes, End Games, Openings, Illustrative Games, including the Wyllie-Bryden Match Games, the Losing Game, and some of the finest Problems of the day, with their Solutions. It includes also the Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Turkish varieties of the game; the entire work being profusely illustrated by Diagrams exhibiting the Problems and the critical positions in the progress of the games.

Mortimer's Chess Players' Pocket-book. A complete and handy Manual of all the known Openings and Gambits, with a thorough analysis of each, its variations and defense, the more intricate of which are instructively carried out; beyond the opening moves. By James Mortimer. The special feature of this work is the manner in which the notation is arranged in tabular form, by which greater perspicuity is gained for study, and so reduces the bulk that it can easily be carried in the pocket for ready reference. This book is emphatically indorsed by all the leading Chess Critics.

Gossip's Chess Players' Text-book. It introduces a preliminary Game, elucidated step by step for the instruction of beginners. It gives a full and extended analysis of all the Openings and Gambits in general use, with illustrative Games analytically explained, and a number of interesting End Games and Strategic positions calculated to afford advanced players a more thorough insight into the intricacies of the game.

Scattergood's Game of Draughts; or, Checkers Simplified and Explained. With practical Diagrams and Illustrations, together with a Checker-board, numbered and printed in red. Containing the Eighteen Standard Games, with over 200 of the best variations selected from various authors, with some never before published. By D. Scattergood. Bound in cloth, with flexible covers.

Spayth's Game of Draughts. By Henry Spayth. This book is designed as a supplement to "The American Draught Player"; but it is complete in itself. It contains lucid instructions for beginners, Laws of the Game, Diagrams, the score of 364 games, together with 34 novel, instructive, and ingenious "critical positions."

Spayth's Draughts; or, Checkers for Beginners. This treatise was written by Henry Spayth, the celebrated player, and is by far the most complete and instructive elementary work on Draughts ever published. It is profusely illustrated with diagrams of ingenious stratagems, curious positions, and perplexing Problems, and contains a great variety of interesting and instructive Games, progressively arranged and clearly explained with notes, so that the learner may easily comprehend them. With the aid of this Manual a beginner may soon become a proficient in the game.

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 all the games with cards at present in vogue, including the more recently introduced methods of playing Baccarat, Duplicate Whist, Cayenne Whist, Hearts, Grabouche Newmarket, Solo Whist, and Five and Nine or Domino Whist, etc. Profusely illustrated with explanatory card engravings, and diagrams.

Dick's Hand-book of Whist. Containing Pole's and Clay's Rules for playing the modern scientific game, the Club Rules of Whist, and two interesting Double Dummy Problems. This is a thorough treatise on the game of Whist. It covers all the points and intricacies which arise in the game; including the acknowledged code of etiquette observed by the players, with Drayson's remarks on Trumps, their use and abuse, and the modern methods of signaling between partners.

Marache's Manual of Chess. Containing a description of the Board and Pieces, Chess Notation, Technical Terms, with diagrams illustrating them, Laws of the Game, Relative Value of Pieces, Preliminary Games for beginners, Fifty Opening of Games, with the best games and copious notes; Twenty Endings of Games, showing easiest way of effecting checkmate; Thirty-six ingenious Diagram Problems, and sixteen curious Chess Stratagems, being one of the best Books for Beginners ever published. By N. Marache.

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, and their most popular variations; including the Regulations adopted in Matches and Tournaments.

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

Dick & Fitzgerald

PUBLISHERS,

18 ANN STREET,

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DICK'S

ENCYCLOPEDIA

of Practical Receipts and Processes,

CONTAINING 6,422 PRACTICAL RECEIPTS,

Written in a plain and popular manner, and illustrated with explanatory wood-cuts. Being a comprehensive Book of Reference for the Merchant, Manufacturer, Artisan, Amateur and Housekeeper, embracing valuable information in the Arts, Professions, Trades, Manufactures, including Medicine, Pharmacy and Domestic Economy. It is certainly the most useful book of reference for practical information pertaining to the wants of everyday life ever printed. The Scientific American says "It is worthy of a place in the library of any home, work-shop, factory or laboratory". Prominent among the immense mass of subjects treated of in the book, are the following:

The Art of Dyeing;

Hard, Soft and Toilet Soaps;

Tanning;

Distillation;

Imitation Liquors;

Wines, Cordials and Bitters;

Cider;

Brewing;

Perfumery; Cologne Water and Perfumed Spirits;

Flavoring Essences, etc.;

Cosmetics;

Hair Dyes and Washes;

Pomades and Perfumed Oils;

Tooth Powders, etc.;

Syrups;

Alcohol and Alcoholmetry;

Petroleum and Kerosene;

Bleaching and Cleaning;

Scouring and Cleansing;

Vinegar;

Sauces, Catsups and Pickles;

Receipts for the Garden;

To Remove Stains, Spots, etc.;

The Extermination of Vermin;

Pyrotechny and Explosives;

Cements, etc.;

Soluble Glass;

Waterproofing;

Artificial Gems;

Inks and Writing Fluids;

Aniline Colors;

Liquid Colors;

Paints and Pigments;

Drying Oils and Dryers;

Painting and Paper-hanging;

Kalsomine and Whitewash;

Oil and Spirit Varnishes;

Varnishing and Polishing;

Lubricators;

Japanning and Lacquering;

Boot and Harness Blacking;

Photography;

Metals and Alloys;

Soldering and Welding;

Amalgams;

Gilding, Silvering, etc.;

Electrotyping, Electroplating, etc;

Medicinal Preparations;

Patent Medicines;

Medical Receipts;

Weights and Measures.

DICK & FITZGERALD, Publishers,

RECITATIONS AND DIALOGUES

Dick's Series of Recitations and Headings. Nos. 1 to 17.

Dick's Dutch, French and Yankee Recitations.

Dick's Irish Recitations.

Dick's Comic and Dialect Recitations.

Dick's Diverting Dialogues.

Dick's Dialogues and Monologues.

Dick's Comic Dialogues.

McBride's Funny Dialogues.

McBride's Comic Dialogues.

McBride's All Kinds of Dialogues.

McBride's New Dialogues.

McBride's Humorous Dialogues.

McBride's Temperance Dialogues.

McBride's Comic Speeches and Recitations.

Frost's Dialogues for Young Folks.

Frost's Humorous and Exhibition Dialogues.

Frost's New Dialogues.

Kavanaugh's Comic Pieces for Very Little Children.

Kavanaugh's Humorous Dramas.

Kavanaugh's Juvenile Speaker, for Very Little Children.

Kavanaugh's Exhibition Reciter, for Very Little Children.

Kavanaugh's New Speeches and Dialogues.

Holmes' Very Little Dialogues for Very Little Folks.

Graham's School Dialogues for Young People.

Steele's Exhibition Dialogues.

Martine's Droll Dialogues and Laughable Recitations.

Beecher's Recitations and Readings.

Howard's Recitations; Comic, Serious and Pathetic.

Wilson's Recitations for School Declamation.

Spencer's Comic Speeches and Recitations.

Barton's Comic Recitations and Dialogues.

The price of each of the above books in paper covers is 30 cents; or bound in boards, with cloth back, 50 cents; sent by mail, postage paid, to any address on receipt of the price.

Send for catalogue, mailed free, giving full contents of each book, and the number and sex of the characters required for the dialogues.

LOVE, COURTSHIP AND MATRIMONY

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

How to cure bashfulness,

How to commence a courtship,

How to please a sweetheart or lover,

How to write a love-letter,

How to "pop the question",

How to act before and after a proposal,

How to accept or reject a proposal,

How to break off an engagement,

How to act after an engagement,

How to act as bridesmaid or groomsman,

How the etiquette of a wedding and all the details of the after reception should be observed,

And in fact, how to fulfill every duty and meet every contingency connected with courtship and matrimony. 176 pages.

Howard's Book of Love Poetry. A curious and Beautiful Collection of Tenderly Delicate, Sweetly Pathetic and Amusingly Quizzical Poetical Love-Addresses, containing a large number of the most admired selections from the leading Poets suitable for quotations in Love Letters, and applicable to all phases and contingencies incident to the tender passion.

Courtship Made Easy; or, The Art of Making Love Fully Explained. Containing full directions for Conducting a Courtship with Ladies of every age and Position in society, and valuable information for persons who desire to enter the marriage state. Also, forms of Love-letters to be used on certain occasions.

How to Win and How to Woo. Containing Rules for the Etiquette of Courtship, showing how to win the favor of the Ladies, how to begin and end a Courtship, and how to write Love-Letters.

The Language of Flowers. A complete dictionary of the Language of Flowers, and the sentiments which they express. Well arranged and comprehensive in every detail. All unnecessary matter has been omitted. This little volume is destined to fill a want long felt for a reliable book at a price within the reach of all.

Dictionary of Love. Containing a Definition of all the terms used in the History of the Tender Passion, together with specimens of curious model love letters, and many other interesting matters appertaining to Love, never before published; the whole forming a remarkable Text-Book for all Lovers, as well as a Complete Guide to Matrimony, and a Companion of Married Life.

Anecdotes of Love. Being a true account of the most remarkable events connected with the History of Love in all ages and among all Nations. By Lola Montez, Countess of Landsfeldt.

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

Green's 100 Tricks With Cards, By J. H. Green, reformed Gambler. This is a book of 96 pages, and exposes and explains all the mysteries of the Gambling Table. It is interesting not only to those who play, but to those who do not. Old Players will get some new ideas from this curious book.

The Wizard of the North's Hand-Book of Natural Magic. Being a series of Tricks of Deception, arranged for Amateurs. By Professor J. H. Anderson.

BOOKS ON CARD GAMES

Blackbridge's Complete Poker Player. A Practical Guide-Book to the American National Game; containing mathematical and experimental analyses of the probabilities of Draw Poker. By John Blackbridge, Actuary. This, as its title implies, is an exhaustive treatise on Draw Poker, giving minute and detailed information on the various chances, expectations, possibilities and probabilities that can occur in all stages of the game, with directions and advice for successful play, deduced from actual practice and experience, and founded on precise mathematical data.

Proctor on Draw-Poker. 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, and especially in regard to their doctrines relating to cumulative recurrences.

15 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. Illustrated.

How Gamblers Win; or, The Secrets of Advantage Playing Exposed. Being a complete and scientific exposé of the manner of playing all the numerous advantages in the various Card Games, as practised by professional gamblers. This work is designed as a warning to self-confident card-players.

The Thompson Street Poker Club. A true and authentic record of the astonishing poker play perpetrated by this notorious "Culled" Club with their peculiar hands, and summarily simple mode of settlements, portraying the peculiar humor, oddities and extravagances of the Negro in his happiest vein. Profusely illustrated by E. W. Kemble, in his most mirth-provoking style.

25 cts.

The Mott Street Poker Club. Being the Secretary's Minutes of each session of this celebrated Chinese Club from its foundation to its close; a full revelation of its proceedings, and the ludicrous incidents arising from the eccentric ways of playing adopted by the guileless members of the club, and the astounding poker hands held by the tricky "Heathen Chinee." Profusely illustrated by Michal Woolf.

25cts.

Draw-Poker for Poker Players. A Condensed Treatise on the Game, explaining the Technical Terms used, the relative value of the Hands, and complete directions for successful play, including Schenck's Rules. Vest pocket size, illustrated.

15 cts.

American Whist. Containing a full description of the Game, Technical Terms, Rules for successful Play, the Laws of the Game, and a specimen Game with the Hands played throughout. Vest pocket size, fully illustrated.

15 cts.

Day's Fortune-Telling Cards. We have just printed an original set of cards for telling fortunes, which are an improvement on any hitherto made. They are so arranged that each answer will respond to every one of the questions which may be put. These cards will also afford a fund of amusement in a party of young people. Each pack is enclosed in a card case, on which are printed directions.

30 cts.

MISCELLANEOUS

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

The American Boy's Own Book of Sports and Games. A work expressly designed to amuse and instruct American Boys at all times and seasons, both in and out doors. This work contains 600 pages, and is illustrated with over 600 engravings and diagrams, drawn by White and other American and English artists, and engraved by N. Orr in his best style. It is also embellished with eight full-page ornamental titles, executed in the highest style of art, on tinted paper, illustrating the different departments of the work. An elegant gift for a boy, affording endless amusement, instruction and recreation.

The Twelve Decisive Battles of the War. A History of Eastern and Western Campaigns in relation to the Battles which decided their issue, and their important bearings on the result of the Struggle for the Union. By William Swinton. Illustrated by seven steel portraits of the leading Generals and nine maps of battle-fields. This work is the result of the author's personal experiences, and based on the records of the Generals commanding on both sides; it is, therefore, thorough, impartial and reliable. 520 pages. 8vo.

Day's Cards Of Courtship. Arranged with such apt conversations that you will be enabled to ask the momentous question categorically, in such a delicate manner that the young lady will not suspect what you are at. These cards may be used either by two persons, or they will make lots of fun for an evening party of young people. When used in a party, the question is read aloud by the lady receiving it – she shuffles and hands out an answer – and that also must be read aloud by the gentleman receiving it. The fun thus caused is intense. Put up in handsome cases, on which are printed directions.

30 cts.

Day's Love-Letter Cards; or, Love-Making Made Easy. We have just printed a novel set of Cards which will delight the hearts of young people susceptible of the tender passion. Both letters and answers are either humorous or humorously sentimental – thus creating lots of fun when used at a party of young people – and special pains has been taken with them to avoid that silly, sentimental formality so common in printed letters of this kind. Put up in handsome cases, on which are printed directions.

30 cts.

Day's Conversation Cards. A New and Original Set, comprising Eighteen Questions and Twenty-four Answers, so arranged that the whole of the answers are apt replies to each one of the eighteen questions. The plan of these cards is very simple, and easily understood. Used by a party of young people, they will make a good deal of fun. The set comprises forty-two Cards in the aggregate, which are put up in a handsome case, with printed directions for use.

30 cts.

COOK BOOKS

Dinner Napkins, and How to Fold Them. Containing plain and systematic directions for arranging and folding Napkins or Serviettes for the Dinner Table, from the simplest forms to the most elaborate and artistic designs. By Georgiana C. Clark. This little work embraces all the favorite designs in general use for transforming a plain Napkin into one of the most attractive and ornamental appendages to an elegantly arranged Dinner Table. Some of the patterns being expressly intended for combining artistic display with floral decoration, appropriately symbolic of Bridal and other special occasions.

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. The whole being a complete system, of American Cookery. By Mrs. T. J. Crowen.

How to Cook and How to Carve. Giving plain and easily understood directions for preparing and cooking, with the greatest economy, every kind of dish, with complete instructions for serving the same. This Book is just the thing for a young Housekeeper. It is worth a dozen of expensive French books.

The American Home Cook Book. Containing several hundred excellent recipes. The whole based on many years' experience of an American Housewife. Illustrated with engravings. All the recipes in this book are written from actual experience in Cooking.

The Yankee Cook Book. A new system of Cookery. Containing hundreds of excellent recipes from actual experience in Cooking; also, full explanation in the art of Carving.

Soyer's Standard Cookery for the People. Embracing an entirely new System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy. By Alexis Soyer. The plain and familiar style adopted in describing the details of the various culinary operations, commends itself to the notice of all economical housekeepers, as it affords the best results with the least expenditure.

The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory. This valuable book embraces three hundred and seventy-eight recipes for cooking all sorts of American dishes in the most economical manner.

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.

Book of Wonders, Mysteries and Disclosures. A complete hand-book of useful information. Giving a large number of Recipes for the manufacture of valuable articles of every-day use, and of great value to manufacturers, storekeepers, druggists, peddlers and families. To which is added Taxidermy and Traps and Trapping.

BOXING AND WRESTLING

How to Join a Circus. This contains all the information necessary for those who desire to qualify themselves for the Circus or Gymnasium; with hints to Amateurs and advice to Professional performers; affording thorough instruction in all branches of the business. Illustrated. By the celebrated Tony Denier. By carefully following the advice and instruction contained in this book, any person with a moderate degree of perseverance can become proficient in all the startling acts on the horizontal bar, flying trapeze, and other evolutions that challenge the admiration of all who behold them.

Jerry Thomas' Bar Tender's Guide; or How to Mix all kinds of Fancy Drinks. An entirely new edition; new plates; new drinks. Containing clear and reliable directions for mixing all the beverages used in the United States. Embracing Punches, Juleps, Cobblers, Cocktails, etc., etc., in endless variety. By Jerry Thomas. This work also contains the best receipts for preparing bottled Punch, bottled Cocktails, Punch Essences, etc., after the most approved methods; also, all the newest Egg Noggs, Fizzes, Slings, Sours, and other Fancy Drinks in endless variety.

Dick's Art Of Wrestling. A New Hand-Book of thorough instruction in Wrestling, with the accepted Rules to be observed in the different methods of wrestling generally adopted at the present time. Fully illustrated by well-designed engravings, exhibiting all the aggressive and defensive positions necessary for success.

25 cts.

Price's Science of Self-Defense. Illustrated with Engravings. This book was written by Ned Price, the celebrated boxer, and is the best work that was ever written upon the subject of Sparring and Wrestling. It contains all the tricks and stratagems resorted to by professional boxers and the descriptions of the passes, blows and parries are all clearly explained by the aid of numerous diagrams and engravings. That portion of the work which treats on wrestling is particularly thorough, and is well illustrated with engravings.

Ned Donnelly's Art of Boxing. A thorough Manual of Sparring and Self-Defence, illustrated with Forty Engravings, showing the various Blows, Stops and Guards; by Ned Donnelly, Professor of Boxing to the London Athletic Club, etc., etc. This work explains in detail every movement of attack and defence in the clearest language, and in accordance with the most approved and modern methods; the engravings are very distinctly drawn, and show each position and motion as plainly as the personal instruction of a professor could convey it. It teaches all the feints and dodges practised by experienced boxers, and gives advice to those who desire to perfect themselves in the Manly Art. Including the London Prize Ring Rules, and revised Marquis of Queensbury's Rules.

The Art of Attack and Defence. A Manual of Fencing, Sword Exercise, Bayonet Practice and Boxing, affording instructions in the modern method of Fencing, the mode of attack with sword against sword or bayonet, and with bayonet against sword or bayonet. By Major W. J. Elliott.

Boxing Made Easy; or, The Complete Manual of Self-Defense. Clearly explained and Illustrated in a Series of Easy Lessons, with some important Hints to Wrestlers.

15 cts.

MODEL SPEECHES AND SKELETON ESSAYS

Ogden's Model Speeches for all School Occasions. Containing Original Addresses and Orations on everything appertaining to School Life; comprising Set Speeches on all occasions connected with Schools, Academies and Colleges, for School Officers, as well as for Teachers and Students of both sexes, with appropriate replies. By Christol Ogden.

This original work contains over one-hundred telling speeches and replies in well-chosen words, and every variety of style, for

All Kinds of School Ceremonials.

Speeches on Opening and Dedicating New Schools and Academies.

Salutatory and Valedictory Addresses.

Presentations and Conferring Honors.

Burlesque Speeches.

Addresses to Teachers.

Prologues and Epilogues for School Exhibitions.

Anniversary Congratulations.

Including practical hints on Extempore speaking with a dissertation on the selection of appropriate topics, suitable style, and effective delivery, and also valuable advice to those who lack confidence when addressing the Public.

Ogden's Skeleton Essays; or Authorship in Outline. Consisting of Condensed Treatises on popular subjects, with references to sources of information, and directions how to enlarge them into Essays, or expand them into Lectures. Fully elucidated by example as well as precept. By Christol Ogden.

In this work is a thorough analysis of some SEVENTY prominent and popular subjects, with extended specimens of the method of enlarging them into Essays and Lectures.

The following interesting topics are separately and ably argued on both sides of the question, thus presenting also well digested matter for Debate, being on subjects of absorbing interest everywhere: —

Bi-Metalism.

Civil Service Reform.

Prohibition.

Is Marriage a Failure?

City and Country.

The Credit System.

Free Trade and Protection.

Capital Punishment.

Shall More or Less be Taught in Public Schools.

All the remaining subjects are equally thoroughly discussed, and form a valuable aid to the student in preparing compositions, essays, etc.

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.

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.

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.

DEBATES AND READY MADE SPEECHES

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

Presentation Speeches.

Convivial Speeches.

Festival Speeches.

Addresses of Congratulation.

Addresses of Welcome.

Addresses of Compliment.

Political Speeches.

Dinner and Supper Speeches for Clubs.

Off-Hand Speeches on a Variety of Subjects.

Miscellaneous Speeches.

Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Private Entertainments.

Preambles and Resolutions of Congratulation, Compliment and Condolence.

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

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

The Debater, Chairman's Assistant, and Rules of Order. A manual for Instruction and Reference in all matters pertaining to the Management of Public Meetings according to Parliamentary usages. It gives all necessary details connected with the following topics: —

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

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

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

The Powers and Duties of Officers, with Forms for Treasurers', Secretaries', and other regular or occasional Official Reports;

The Formation and Duties of Committees;

Rules of Order, and Order of Business, with Mode of Procedure in all cases. Also the Rules of Order in Tabular Form for instant reference in all Cases of Doubt that may arise, enabling a Chairman to decide on all points at a glance;

How to draft Resolutions, Reports and Petitions on various subjects and for various occasions, with numerous model examples;

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

This work includes all Decisions and Rulings up to the present day.

How to Learn the Sense of 3,000 French Words in one Hour. It is a fact that there are at least three thousand words in the French language, forming a large proportion of those used in ordinary conversation, which are spelled the same as in English.

25 cts.

500 French Phrases, with their English Translations. The phrases here given are all selected for their general usefulness for occasional quotation.

10 cts.

COMPOSITION AND LANGUAGES

Live and Learn; or, One Thousand Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Writing and Pronunciation, Corrected and Explained. There are hundreds of persons who are sensible of their deficiencies on many points connected with the Grammar of their own tongue, and who, by self-tuition, may correct such deficiencies.

It Corrects and Explains 1,000 Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Writing and Pronunciation.

It Explains the many Perplexing points that occasion difficulty to the student.

It explains most of the Latin and French words and phrases of frequent occurrence in newspapers.

It shows how to punctuate and paragraph correctly.

It shows all the current improprieties of expression and gives rules for their correction.

It gives clear rules for the use of Capitals and Italics.

It gives plain, general rules for spelling.

It gives detailed instructions for writing for the Press in the various departments of newspaper and general literature.

Walker's Rhyming, Spelling and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. To which is added critical and practical Observations on Orthography, Syllabication, Pronunciation, an Index of Allowable Rhymes, with Authorities for their usage, etc.

How to Write a Composition. The use of this book will save the student the many hours of labor too often wasted in trying to write a plain composition. It affords a perfect skeleton of one hundred and seventeen different subjects, with their divisions clearly defined, and each heading filled in with the ideas which the subject suggests; so that all the writer has to do, in order to produce a good composition is to enlarge on them to suit his taste.

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

25 cts.

Mind Your Stops. Punctuation made plain, and Composition simplified for Readers, Writers and talkers.

12 cts.

Thimm's French Self-Taught. A new system on the most simple principles, for universal Self-Tuition, with English pronunciation of every word. By this system the acquirement of the French Language is rendered less laborious and more thorough than by any of the old methods. By Franz Thimm.

25 cts.

Thimm's German Self-Taught. Uniform with "French Self-Taught," and arranged in accordance with the same principles of thoroughness and simplicity. By Franz Thimm.

25 cts.

Thimm's Spanish Self-Taught. A book of self-instruction in the Spanish Language, arranged according to the same method as the "French" and "German," by the same author, and uniform with them in size. By Franz Thimm.

25 cts.

Thimm's Italian Self-Taught. Uniform in style and size with the three foregoing books. By Franz Thimm.

25 cts.

LETTER WRITERS

Martine's Sensible Letter-Writer. Being a comprehensive and complete Guide and Assistant for those who desire to carry on Epistolary Correspondence; containing a large collection of model letters on the simplest matters of life, adapted to all ages, conditions and occasions,

EMBRACING,

Business Letters;

Applications for Employment, with Letters of Recommendation and Answers to Advertisements;

Letters between Parents and Children;

Letters of Friendly Counsel;

Letters soliciting Advice, Assistance and Friendly Favors;

Letters of Courtesy, Friendship and Affection;

Letters of Condolence and Sympathy;

A Choice Collection of Love-Letters, for Every Situation in a Courtship;

Notes of Ceremony, Familiar Invitations, etc., together with Notes of Acceptance and Regret.

The whole containing 300 Sensible Letters and Notes. This is an invaluable book for those persons who have not had sufficient practice to enable them to write letters without great effort. It contains such a variety of letters that models may be found to suit every subject.

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

North's Book Of Love-Letters. With directions how to write and when to use them, and 120 Specimen Letters, suitable for Lovers of any age and condition, and under all circumstances, with the author's comments thereon. Being a Hand-book of valuable information and counsel for the use of those who need friendly guidance and advice in matters of Love, Courtship and Marriage. By Ingoldsby North.

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

This work is divided into two parts, the portion for Ladies being kept distinct from the rest of the book, in order to provide better facilities for ready reference.

Frost's Twenty-Five Cent Letter-Writer. Containing Three Hundred Letters and appropriate Replies upon every subject of daily life, including plain Directions on all the details which constitute a well-written Letter. It would be difficult to find any want or occasion in life which requires correspondence that is not fairly supplied by some letter or letters in this comprehensive collection, affording just what is needed or an excellent model which can be easily modified to suit the most peculiar circumstances.

Dick's Common Sense Letter Writer. Containing Three Hundred and Sixty Sensible Social and Business Letters with appropriate Answers on the following subjects:

Letters of Introduction.

Soliciting and Granting Favors.

Accompanying Gifts.

Acknowledging Gifts and Favors.

Letters of Congratulation.

Letters of Sympathy and Condolence.

Answers to Advertisements for Help Wanted.

Inquiries about and Recommendations of Character and Ability.

Letters between Employers and Employed.

Accepting and Resigning Positions.

Letters of Apology.

Letters of Remonstrance and Complaint.

Letters of Love and Courtship.

Letters of Invitation and Acceptance.

Forms of Cards of Invitation.

Notes of Postponement.

Notes Offering Escort.

Letters to Landlords and about Board and Apartments.

Family Letters on Various Subjects.

Business Correspondence.

Letters on Miscellaneous Subjects.

Including Instructions for the arrangement of the different parts of a Letter, the Address, &c. By William B. Dick. The Letters are all original, and serve as eminent models of matter, expression and style, in plain but well-chosen language and clearness of diction; the great variety of letters on each subject offers a wide field for choice, and with, perhaps, a little modification could be made available for every possible contingency.

Dick's Commercial Letter Writer, and Book of Business Forms. Containing entirely original Models of Letters on all business subjects, with appropriate replies; also, several specimens of continuous Correspondence, exhibiting by a series of Letters, the commencement, progress, and completion of Mercantile Transactions. By William B. Dick.

This work includes correct forms for Business Notices and Cards, and Partnership Announcements; for Applications for Employment and neatly-worded Answers to Inquiries and Advertisements; for occasional Circulars, properly displayed, and for drawing up Business Documents, Notes, Checks, Receipts, Mortgages, Assignments, Wills, Power of Attorney, Letters of Credit, Account-Sales, Accounts Current, Invoices, Bills of Lading, &c., and the correct method of adjusting General and Particular Averages.

It contains, in addition, a Glossary of Technical Terms used in Commerce; a rapid and simple method of computing Interest; a Table showing the value of Foreign Coins in United States' Currency; and other useful, practical and interesting information, in all the details necessary for conducting commercial correspondence.

Dick's Letter Writer for Ladies. Consisting of over Five Hundred entirely original Letters and Notes, with various replies, on every subject and occasion that a Lady in good society could possibly require. They are all new and written expressly for this work.

These letters, &c., are excellent models of ease and elegant style, facility in method of expression, and correct form; they furnish, therefore, valuable aid to Ladies, who, however otherwise accomplished, are deficient in the necessary acquirement of the graceful and properly-worded correspondence which their social position demands.

Chesterfield's Letter-Writer and Complete Book of Etiquette. Containing the Art of Letter-Writing simplified, a guide to friendly, affectionate, polite and business correspondence, and rules for punctuation and spelling, with complete rules of Etiquette and the usages of Society. An excellent hand-book for reference.

CHECKERS OR DRAUGHTS

Robertson's Guide to the Game of Draughts. Embracing all of the twenty-two well-known Openings, with 3,340 Variations, including and correcting all that are given in the leading treatises already published, with about 1,200 new and original Variations which appear for the first time in this work, forming a thorough and complete digest and analysis of the Game with corrections and additions up to the present time. The number of moves aggregate nearly 100,000. Match play by Yates, Wylie, Barker and others, will be found regularly classified. A change has been made in the trunks generally, and throughout the whole work there appears much that is fresh and original, instead of the usual well-worn book play.

Anderson's Checkers. Containing complete Instructions and rules for playing Checkers or Draughts. Illustrated with Diagrams; including all the Standard Games and their Variations, and numerous Problems with their Solutions. By Andrew Anderson. In a certain sense, this is a reprint of Anderson's Celebrated "Second Edition", revised, corrected and enlarged by Robert M'Culloch; that is, his play when sound is given intact, and where improvements have been shown they have been incorporated, and unsound play eliminated.

Spayth's American Draught Player; or the Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers. Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1,700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Sixth edition with over three hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game – Full instructions – Draught Board Numbered – Names of the Games, and how formed – The "Theory of the Move and its Changes" practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams – Playing Tables for Draught Clubs – New Systems of Numbering the Board – Prefixing signs to the Variations – List of Draught Treatises and Publications chronologically arranged.

Dunne's Draughts-Player's Guide and Companion. By Frank Dunne. A thoroughly practical work, containing Instructions for beginners, standard Rules, the "Move" and its changes, End Games, Openings, Illustrative Games, Match Games, the Losing Game, and Problems, with their Solutions. Also the Spanish, Italian, Polish and Turkish varieties of the game.

Spayth's Draughts or Checkers for Beginners. This treatise was written by Henry Spayth, the celebrated player, and is by far the most complete and instructive elementary work on Draughts ever published. It is profusely illustrated with diagrams of ingenious stratagems, curious positions and perplexing Problems and contains a great variety of interesting and instructive Games, progressively arranged and clearly explained with notes, so that the learner may easily comprehend them. With the aid of this Manual a beginner may soon become a proficient in the game.

Scattergood's Game of Draughts, or Checkers Simplified and Explained. With practical Diagrams and Illustrations, together with a Checker-Board, numbered and printed in red. Containing the Eighteen Standard Games, with over 200 of the best variations selected from various authors, with some never before published. By D. Scattergood.

CHESS AND CARD GAMES

Mortimer's Chess Players' Pocket-Book. A complete and handy Manual of all the known Openings and Gambits, with a thorough analysis of each, its variations and defense, the more intricate of which are instructively carried out beyond the opening moves. By James Mortimer. The special feature of this work is the manner in which the notation is arranged in tabular form, by which greater perspicuity is gained for study, and so reduces the bulk that it can easily be carried in the pocket for ready reference. This book is emphatically endorsed by all the leading Chess Critics.

Gossip's Chess-Players' Text Book. It introduces a preliminary Game, elucidated step by step for the instruction of beginners. It gives a full and extended analysis of all the Openings and Gambits in general use, with illustrative Games analytically explained, and a number of interesting End-Games and Strategic positions calculated to afford advanced players a more thorough insight into the intricacies of the Game.

Marache's Manual of Chess. Containing a description of the Board and Pieces, Chess Notation, Technical Terms, with diagrams illustrating them. Laws of the Game, Relative Value of Pieces, Preliminary Games for beginners, Fifty Openings of Games, giving all the latest discoveries of Modern Masters, with the best games and copious notes; Twenty Endings of Games, showing easiest way of effecting checkmate; Thirty-six ingenious Diagram Problems, and sixteen curious Chess Stratagems, being one of the best Books for Beginners ever published. By N. Marache.

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

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

25 cts.

Pole on Whist. The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist. By William Pole, F.R.S. This complete and exhaustive Treatise on the Game is in handy form for the pocket, and affords lucid instructions at all stages of the game for partners to play in combination for their best interests.

The Game of Euchre. Containing the Game tersely described, valuable hints and advice to learners, the latest rules, and all necessary directions for playing the Two-Handed, Three-Handed (or Cut-Throat) and Four-Handed Games, clearly explained.

ALBUM VERSES, ODD-FELLOWSHIP, &c

Dick's Original Album Verses and Acrostics. Containing a voluminous and varied collection of Original Verses written expressly

For Autograph Albums;

To Accompany Bouquets;

For Birthday Anniversaries;

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

For Album Dedications;

To Accompany Philopena Forfeits;

For Congratulation;

For Valentines in General and all Trades and Professions.

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

Sut Lovingood. Yarns spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool", Warped and Wove for Public Wear, by George W. Harris. Illustrated with eight fine full page engravings, from designs by Howard. It would be difficult, we think, to cram a larger amount of pungent humor into 300 pages than will be found in this really funny book. The Preface and Dedication are models of sly simplicity, and the 24 Sketches which follow are among the best specimens of broad burlesque to which the genius of the ludicrous, for which the Southwest is so distinguished, has yet given birth.

Dick's Mysteries of the Hand; or, Palmistry made Easy. Translated, Abridged and Arranged from the French Works of Desbarrolles, D'Arpentigny and De Para d'Hermes. The various lines and mounts on the palm of the hand, and the typical formation of the hand and fingers are all clearly explained and illustrated by diagrams. The meaning to be deduced from the greater or less development of these mounts and lines (each of which has its own signification), also from the length, thickness and shape of the thumb and fingers, and from the mutual bearing they exercise on each other, is all distinctly explained. Complete facility for instant reference is insured by means of marginal notes by which any point of detail may be found and consulted at a glance. By means of this book the hitherto occult mystery of Palmistry is made simple and easy, and the whole Art may be acquired without difficulty or delay. It is emphatically Palmistry in a nutshell, and by its use, character and disposition can be discerned and probable future destiny foretold with surprising accuracy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Row's Complete Fractional Ready Reckoner. For buying and selling any kind of merchandise, giving the fractional parts of a pound, yard, etc., from one-quarter to one thousand at any price from one-quarter of a cent to five dollars.

Row's National Wages Tables. Showing at a glance the amount of wages, from half an hour to sixty hours, at from $1 to $37 per week. Also from one-quarter of a day to four weeks, at $1 to $37 per week. By this book a large pay-roll can be made out in a few minutes, thus saving more time in making out one pay-roll than the cost of the book.

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.

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.

HUMOROUS BOOKS

Dr. Valentine's Comic Lectures; or, Morsels of Mirth for the Melancholy. Containing Comic Lectures on Heads, Faces, Noses and Mouths; Comic Lectures on Animal Magnetism; Burlesque Specimens of Stump Eloquence; Transactions of Learned Societies; Comical Delineation of Eccentric Characters; Amusing Colloquies and Monologues. With twelve portraits of Dr. Valentine in character.

30 cts.

Mrs. Partington's Carpet-Bag of Fun. Containing the Queer Sayings of Mrs. Partington, and the Funny Doings of her remarkable Son Isaac. Also the most amusing collection extant of Playful Puns, Phunny Poems, Pleasing Prose, Popular Parodies, and Political Pasquinades, Rhymes Without Reason and Reason Without Rhymes, Anecdotes, Conundrums, Anagrams, etc. Illustrated.

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 10 °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.

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

10 cts.

Ned Turner's Black Jokes. A collection of Funny Stories, Jokes and Conundrums, with Witty Sayings and Humorous Dialogues, as given by Ned Turner.

10 cts.

Ned Turner's Clown Joke Book. Containing the best Jokes and Gems of Wit, composed and delivered by Ned Turner.

10 cts.

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

10 cts.

Black Wit and Darky Conversations. Containing laughable Anecdotes, Jokes and Darky Conversations.

10 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.

13 cts.

Very, Very Funny. Containing the Cream of the best funny things published in "Puck", "The Detroit Free Press," "Norristown Herald," "Peck's Sun," "Texas Siftings," "Arkansaw Traveler," etc. No threadbare jokes, but everything fresh and profusely illustrated.

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.

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.

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.

The Laughable Adventures of Messrs. Brown, Jones, and Robinson. Showing where they went, and how they went, what they did and how they did it. Here is a book which will make you split your sides laughing. It shows the comical adventures of three jolly young greenhorns, who went travelling, and got into all manner of scrapes and funny adventures. Illustrated with nearly 200 comic engravings.

30 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. The illustrations alone are sufficient for a constant and long-sustained series of good square laughs for all time. 12 mo, 144 pages.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

POPULAR HAND-BOOKS

Dick's Yachting and Sailing. Containing practical instructions in all that pertains to the Construction, Rigging, and Management of Sloop, Schooner, Yawl, Ketch-rigged, Cutter, Cat, and other Yachts, with the Laws and Regulations concerning Sailing, Lights, Flags, Signals, etc., and the general Rules for Sailing and Nautical Etiquette adopted by the leading Yacht Clubs of the United States. It includes a complete Glossary of Nautical Terms and Phrases, with a tabulated explanation of Bell-time, and Instructions in the use of the Log-line, Mercator's Chart, Compass, and other implements and appliances necessary for navigation, and all the Knots, Bends, Hitches and Splices for Ropes and Cordage. Illustrated with explanatory engravings and diagrams.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Frost's Book of Tableaux and Shadow Pantomimes. A collection of Tableaux Vivants and Shadow Pantomimes, with Stage instructions for Costuming, Grouping, etc.

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

POPULAR HAND-BOOKS

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

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.

The Book Of 50 °Curious Puzzles. A collection of Curious Puzzles and Paradoxes, Deceptions in Numbers, Amusing Tricks in Geometry; illustrated with a great variety of engravings.

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.

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.

⁂ 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Polks

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 Traveling Agent

That Dear Old Home

"The Pervisions, Jostar"

Thieves

Tonsorial

Toast, A

Uncle Eph's Lament

Waiting to See Him Off

You Bet

And 40 popular songs and dances.

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-n-a-ry

Valedictory.

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, Lot's 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 – 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

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 Darkey

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

Kavanaugh's New Speeches and Dialogues for Young Children. Containing easy pieces in plain language, readily understood by little children, and expressly adapted for School Exhibitions and Christmas and other juvenile celebrations. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh. This is an entirely new series of Recitations and Dialogues by this author, and full of pieces, in her well-known style of familiar simplicity, admirably calculated to give the little ones additional opportunities to distinguish themselves before an audience. It contains the following:

Howard's Recitations. Comic, Serious and Pathetic. Collection of fresh Recitations in Prose and Poetry, suitable for Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Social Gatherings, and Evening Parties. Contents:

Miss Malony on the Chinese Question

Kit Carson's Ride

Buck Fanshaw's Funeral

Knocked About

Puzzled Dutchman

Shamus O'Brien

Naughty Little Girl

Bells of Shandon

No Sect in Heaven

Rory O'Moore's Present

"Mother's Fool"

Queen Elizabeth – a Comic Oration

The Starling

Lord Dundreary's Riddle

The Stuttering Lass

The Irish Traveler

The Remedy as Bad as the Disease

A Subject for Dissection

The Heathen Chinee

Mona's Waters

A Showman on the Woodchuck

How Happy I'll Be

A Frenchman's Account of the Fall

Isabel's Grave

Parson and the Spaniel

An Irishman's Letter

Irish Letter

The Halibut in Love

The Merry Soap-Boiler

The Unbeliever

The Voices at the Throne

Dundreary Proposing

The Fireman

Paul Revere's Ride

Annie and Willie's Prayer

A Frenchman on Macbeth

The New Church Organ

Katrina Likes me Poody Vell

How to Save a Thousand Pounds

How I Got Invited to Dinner

Patient Joe

Jimmy Butler and the Owl

The Menagerie

Old Quizzle

Infidel and Quaker

The Lawyer and the Chimney-Sweeper

Bill Mason's Bride

Judging by Appearances

The Death's Head

Betsey and I are Out

Betsey Destroys the Paper

Father Blake's Collection

Blank Verse in Rhyme

Roguery Taught

Banty Tim

Antony and Cleopatra

Deacon Hezekiah

The Frenchman and the Landlord

The Family Quarrel – A Dialogue on the Sixteenth Amendment

The Guess

Atheist and Acorn

Brother Watkins

Hans in a Fix

To-Morrow

The Highgate Butcher

The Lucky Call

Challenging the Foreman

Country Schoolmaster

The Matrimonial Bugs and the Travelers

Peter Sorghum in Love

Tim Tuff

Nick Van Stann

The Debating Society

Deacon Stokes

To Our Honored Dead

The Dying Soldier

The Yankee Fireside

The Suicidal Cat

The Son's Wish

Spencer's Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations. A collection of Comic Speeches and Dialogues, Dramatic Scenes and Characteristic Soliloquies and Stories Suitable for School Exhibitions. Contents:

Comic Prologue and Introduction

The Yankee Landlord

His Eye was Stern

The Goddess of Slang

Dick, the Apprentice

Courting in French Hollow

The Case Altered

Fox and the Ranger

The Declaration

The Warrantee Deed

A Night's Adventure

Julia – Comic Love Scene

Saying not Meaning

Negro Burlesque for 3 males

The Nimmers

Gucom and the Back-log

Widow Bedott's Mistake

How a Bashful Lover "Popped the Question"

Crossing Dixie

My Last Shirt

The Three Black Crows

The Barber's Shop

Paddy O'Rafther

Decidedly Cool

Frenchman and the Rats

The Jester Condemned to Death

Kindred Quacks

Hans Breitmann's Party

The Generous Frenchman

Saint Jonathan

Stump Speech

The Rival Lodgers

The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes

The Maiden's Mishap

The Removal

Talking Latin

Praying for Rain

Darkey Photographer

Paddy and his Musket

Hezekiah Bedoit

Uncle Reuben's Tale

Mr. Caudle has been to a Fair

Chemist and his Love

Disgusted Dutchman

The Frightened Traveler

Jewess and her Son

Clerical Wit – True Lies

The School House

Daniel versus Dishclout

Spectacles

The Pig

A Stray Parrot

Dame Fredegonde

Toby Tosspot

Courtship and Matrimony

Rings and Seals

The Biter Bit

Pat and the Gridiron

Barmecide's Feast

The Country Pedagogue

The Middle-aged Man and Two Widows

Saratoga Waiter – Negro Scene for 2 males

The Wrangling Pair – A Poetical Dialogue for Male and Female

A Connubial Eclogue

The Italian from Cork

Gasper Schnapps' Exploit

Epilogue – Suitable for Conclusion of an Entertainment

Martine's Droll Dialogues and Laughable Recitations. A collection of Humorous Dialogues, Comic Recitations and Spirited Stump Speeches and Farces, adapted for School and other Celebrations. Contents:

Hints to Amateur Actors.

Humorous Poetical Address

The Bell and the Gong

Mrs. Dove's Boarding House

The Wilkins Family

The Lawyer's Stratagem

Eulogy on Laughing

Drawing a Long Bow. For 3 males and 1 female.

The Origin of Woman's Ascendency over Man

Veny Raynor's Bear Story

The Game of Life

The Fortune Hunter. For 2 males and 3 females

The Parson and the Widow

Hezekiah Stubbins' Fourth of July Oration

Make your Wills. Farce for 7 male characters

Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise

Job Trotter's Secret

The Darkey Debating Society. Dialogue for 2 males

The Scandal Monger. Dialogue for 2 males and 2 females

Poor Richard's Sayings

Prologue to "The Apprentice"

Address in the character of "Hope" A Prologue

Parody on the Declaration of Independence

Bombastes Furioso. A Burlesque for 7 males

Characteristic Address

Examining de Bumps. Ethiopian Dialogue for 2 males

Election Stump Speech

A Matrimonial Tiff. Dialogue for 1 male and 2 females

The Frenchman and the Sheep's Trotters

The Poor Relation. Comic Drama for 7 males

Vat you Please

The Babes in the Wood. For 3 males and 4 females.

My Aunt.

Handy Andy's Mistakes.

The Cat Eater.

A Shocking Mistake. Dialogue for 3 males and 2 females

Wanted a Governess

Rival Broom Makers

Paudeen O'Rafferty's Say-Voyage

Mr. Caudle's Wedding Dinner

Our Cousins. Negro Dialogue for 2 male characters

Mr. Caudle made a Mason

Address of Sergeant Buzfuz

The Wonderful Whalers

Sam Weller's Valentine

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. By Floyd B. Wilson, Professor of Elocution. Contents:

Instruction In Elocution

Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery

Sheridan's Ride

There's but one Pair of Stockings

Modulation

Drummer Boy's Burial

John Maynard, the Pilot

The Boys

The Duel

Lochiel's Warning

Socrates Snooks

Mosaic Poetry

Burial of the Champion of his Class at Yale College

Scott and the Veteran

Barbara Frietchie

I Wouldn't – Would You?

The Professor Puzzled

Thanatopsis

The Two Roads

The Pawnbroker's Shop

The Sophomore's Soliloquy

The Nation's Hymn

Address to a Skeleton

A Glass of Cold Water

Little Gretchen; or New Year's Eve

Good News from Ghent

The Sea Captain's Story

Our Heroes

The Closing Year

Burial of Little Nell

The Picket Guard

The Poor Man and the Fiend

Our Country's Call

The Conquered Banner

The High Tide; or, the Brides of Enderby

Death of Gaudentis

Don Garzia

Past Meridian

The Founding of Gettysburg Monument

Spartacus to the Gladiators

Soliloquy of the Dying Alchemist

The Country Justice

Unjust National Acquisition

Dimes and Dollars

Dead Drummer Boy

Home

Responsibility of American Citizens

The Jester's Sermon

Left on the Battle Field

The American Flag

Oh! Why should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?

Parrhasius

The Vagabonds

A Bridal Wine Cup

Blanche of Devan's Last Words

Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles

A Psalm of the Union

Charge of a Dutch Magistrate

Stars in my Country's Sky

Bingen on the Rhine

Religious Character of President Lincoln

The Raven

The Loyal Legion

Agnes and the Years

Cataline's Defiance

Our Folks

The Beautiful Snow

The Ambitious Youth

The Flag of Washington

The Abbot of Waltham

Ode to an Infant Son

The Scholar's Mission

Claude Melnotte's Apology

Forging of the Anchor

Wreck of the Hesperus

The Man of Ross

No Work the Hardest Work

What is Time?

Brutus's Oration over the Body of Lucretia

What is That, Mother?

A Colloquy with Myself

St. Philip Neri and the Youth

The Chameleon

Henry the Fourth's Soliloquy on Sleep

On Procrastination

Appendix

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. Contents:

If I may so Speak. Burlesque Oration

Dr. Pillsbury's Lecture on Politics

Vegetable Poetry. For 2 males

Teco Brag's Lecture on Astronomy

We saw Her but a Moment

Stocks Up, Stocks Down. For 2 males

Brudder Bones' Love Scrapes.

Stump Speech; or, "Any other Man."

War's your Hoss. Dialogue Recital

Geology. Dialogue for 2 males

Tin-pan-o-ni-on. For Leader and Orchestra

Dr. Puff Stuff's Lecture on Patent Medicines

Sailing. For 2 males

Challenge Dance. For 3 males

Lecture on Bad Boys

Tony Pastor's Great Union Speech

A Tough Boarding House

Sleeping Child. 2 males

Ain't I Right, Eh? Speech

Wonderful Egg. For 2 males

Bootblack's Soliloquy

Lecture to a Fire Company

Julius' Peaches. For 2 males

De Trouble Begins at Nine

The Arkansas Traveler. For 2 Violin players

Slap Jack. For 2 Darkeys

Turkey-town Celebration. An Oration

Uncle Steve's Stump Speech

A Midnight Murder

Dat's What's de Matter

The Freezing Bed Feller

Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins

Paddy Fagan's Pedigree

The Rival Darkeys. Act for 2 males

Hans Sourcrout on Signs and Omens

Hun-ki-do-ris Fourth of July Oration

Josh Billings on Mosquitoes

History of Cap. John Smith

A Speech on Women

Impulsive Peroration

The Bet. For 2 Darkeys

Old Times gone By. Dialogue for 2 Darkeys

The Echo. Act for 2 Negroes

Sol Slocum's Bugle.

Western Stump Speech

In the Show Business. Dialogue for 2 males

"We are." Stump Oration

Original Burlesque Oration

Waiting to see Him off. For 2 males

Patriotic Stump Speech

De Railroad Accident. For 2 Darkeys

The Dutchman's Lecture

Prof. Unworth's Lecture

The Three old Ladies

Josh Billings' Lecture onto Musick

Brudder Bones' Lady-Love. Dialogue for 2 males

Deaf – In a Horn. Act for 2 males

Or any oder Man's Dog. A Speech

Happy Uncle Tom

Stick a Pin Dere, Brudder Horace

Lecture on Woman's Rights

Dat's wot de "Ledger" says. For 2 Darkeys

Goose Hollow Stump Speech

De Milk in de Cocoa Nut

A Dutchman's Answer

Lecture on Cats

The Patent Screw

The Auctioneer

Hints on Courtship

Dutch Recruiting Officer

Spirit Rappings. Dialogue for 2 males

Dar's de Money

Let Her Rip. Burlesque Lecture

The Stranger. Scene for 1 male and 1 female

Dick's Diverting Dialogues. A collection of effective Dramatic Dialogues, written expressly for this work by various authors, and adapted for Parlor Performances. 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. Edited by Wm. B. Dick.

Including a complete programme of effective Living Portraits and Tableaux, with full directions for exhibiting them successfully.

Dick's Comic and Dialect Recitations. A capital collection of Comic Recitations, Ludicrous Dialogues, Funny Stories, and Inimitable Dialect Pieces, containing:

An Æsthetic Housekeeper

At the Rug Auction

Aunt Sophronia Tabor at the Opera – Yankee Dialect

Awfully Lovely Philosophy

Bad Boy and the Limburger Cheese, The

Barbara Frietchie – Dutch

Boy in the Dime Museum

Bric-a-Brac

Brudder Johnson on 'Lectricity – Negro Dialect

Butterwick's Weakness

By Special Request

Can this be True?

Champion Liar, The

Conversion of Colonel Quagg

Cut, Cut Behind – Dutch

Debit and Credit in the Next World

Der Oak und der Vine

Der 'Sperience of Reb'rend Quacko Strong – Negro

Der Vater Mill

Doctor's Story.

Dutch Advertisement.

Dutchman and the Raven

Dutch Security – Dutch

Early Bird, The

Gentle Mule, The

Granny Whar You Gwine?

Girl of Culture.

Goin' Somewhere – Yankee

Go-Morrow, or Lot's Wife

Hard Witness, A

Horse that Wins the Race

How a Woman Does It

How Buck was Brought to Time – Yankee Dialect

How Uncle Fin had the Laugh on the Boys

Humming Top, The

In der Shweed Long Ago

Inquisitive Boy, The

Irishman's Perplexity, An

Jim Onderdonk's Sunday-School Oration

John Chinaman's Protest

Juvenile Inquisitor, A

Malony's Will – Irish Dialect

Mark Twain on the 19th Century

Mickey Feeny and the Priest

Mine Moder-in-Law

Mother's Doughnuts

Mr. and Mrs. Potterman

Mr. Schmidt's Mistake

Mr. Spoopendyke Hears Burglars

O'Branigan's Drill

Old Bill Stevens

Old Erasmus' Temperance Pledge – Negro Dialect

Ole Settlers' Meetun

Original Love Story, An

Our Debating Club

Parson Jinglejaw's Surprise

Pat's Correspondence

Pleasures of the Telephone

Positively the Last Performance – Cockney Dialect

Raven, The – Dutch Dialect

Sad Fate of a Policeman

Scripture Questions

Sermon for the Sisters, A

Solemn Book-Agent, The

That Fire at Nolan's

That Freckle-Faced Girl

The Latest Barbara Frietchie – Dutch Dialect

The Paper Don't Say

Thikhead's New Year's Call

Tickled all Oafer

'Twas at Manhattan Beach

Uncle Billy's Disaster

Uncle Mellick Dines with his Master – Negro Dialect

Uncle Remus' Tar Baby

Uncle Reuben's Baptism

United Order of Half-Shells

Waiter's Trials, A

Warning to Woman, A

Ways of Girls at the Play

Western Artist's Accomplishments, A

Wily Bee, The

Woman's Description of a Play, A

Yaller Dog, The

Barton's Comic Recitations and Humorous Dialogues. Containing a variety of Comic Recitations in Prose and Poetry, Amusing Dialogues, Burlesque Scenes, Eccentric Orations, Humorous Interludes and Laughable Farces.

A Prologue to Open an Entertainment

The Stage-Struck Hero

Here She Goes – and There She Goes

Pastor M'Knock's Address

Old Sugar's Courtship

The Bachelor's Reasons for Taking a Wife

The Spanish Valet and the Maid – Dialogue for 1 male and 1 Female.

The Jackdaw of Rheims

Jonathan and the Englishman

Artemus Ward's Trip

Auctioneer and the Lawyer

Mr. and Mrs. Skinner

The Bachelor and the Bride

Drunkard and his Wife

A Western Lawyer's Plea against the Fact

Reading a Tragedy

Cast-off Garments

How to Cure a Cough

The Soldier's Return

Countrymen and the Ass

Come and Go

How they Pop the Question

The Clever Idiot

The Knights

How the Lawyer got a Patron Saint

Josh Billings on Laughing

Night after Christmas

A Change of System – for 2 males and 1 female

Citizen and the Thieves

Bogg's Dogs

The Smack in School

The Tinker and the Miller's Daughter

An Original Parody

The Parsons and the Corkscrew

The Old Gentleman who Married a Young Wife

Stage-Struck Darkey – Interlude for males

Goody Grim versus Lapstone – Dialogue for 4 males

The Woman of Mind

Wanted, a Confederate – Farce for 4 males

Lodgings for Single Gentlemen

Nursery Reminiscences

The Farmer and the Councellor

The Pugilists

How Pat Saved his Bacon

The Irish Drummer

Mike Hooter's Bear Story

The Critic

Mr. Caudle Wants a Latch Key

Humbugging a Tourist

The Widow's Victim – for 2 males and 1 female

Josh Rillings on the Mule

Tinker and the Glazier

Wonderful Dream – Negro Dialogue for 2 males

An Occasional Address – For a Lady's First Appearance

An Occasional Prologue – For Opening a Performance

Address on Closing a Performance

A Prologue for a Performance by Boys

An Epilogue for a School Performance

DEBATES AND READY MADE SPEECHES

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

Presentation Speeches.

Convivial Speeches.

Festival Speeches.

Addresses of Congratulation.

Addresses of Welcome.

Addresses of Compliment.

Political Speeches.

Dinner and Supper Speeches for Clubs.

Off-Hand Speeches on a Variety of Subjects.

Miscellaneous Speeches.

Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Private Entertainments.

Preambles and Resolutions of Congratulation, Compliment and Condolence.

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

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

The Debater, Chairman's Assistant, and Rules of Order. A manual for Instruction and Reference in all matters pertaining to the Management of Public Meetings according to Parliamentary usages. It gives all necessary details connected with the following topics: —

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

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

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

The Powers and Duties of Officers, with Forms for Treasurers', Secretaries', and other regular or occasional Official Reports;

The Formation and Duties of Committees;

Rules of Order, and Order of Business, with Mode of Procedure in all cases. Also the Rules of Order in Tabular Form for instant reference in all Cases of Doubt that may arise, enabling a Chairman to decide on all points at a glance;

How to draft Resolutions, Reports and Petitions on various subjects and for various occasions, with numerous model examples;

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

This work includes all Decisions and Rulings up to the present day.

How to Learn the Sense of 3,000 French Words in one Hour. It is a fact that there are at least three thousand words in the French language, forming a large proportion of those used in ordinary conversation, which are spelled the same as in English.

25 cts.

500 French Phrases, with their English Translations. The phrases here given are all selected for their general usefulness for occasional quotation.

10 cts.

MODEL SPEECHES AND SKELETON ESSAYS

Ogden's Model Speeches for all School Occasions. Containing Original Addresses and Orations on everything appertaining to School Life; comprising Set Speeches on all occasions connected with Schools, Academies and Colleges, for School Officers, as well as for Teachers and Students of both sexes, with appropriate replies. By Christol Ogden.

This original work contains over one-hundred telling speeches and replies in well-chosen words, and every variety of style, for

All Kinds of School Ceremonials.

Speeches on Opening and Dedicating New Schools and Academies.

Salutatory and Valedictory Addresses.

Presentations and Conferring Honors.

Burlesque Speeches.

Addresses to Teachers.

Prologues and Epilogues for School Exhibitions.

Anniversary Congratulations.

Including practical hints on Extempore speaking with a dissertation on the selection of appropriate topics, suitable style, and effective delivery, and also valuable advice to those who lack confidence when addressing the Public.

Ogden's Skeleton Essays; or Authorship in Outline. Consisting of Condensed Treatises on popular subjects, with references to sources of information, and directions how to enlarge them into Essays, or expand them into Lectures. Fully elucidated by example as well as precept. By Christol Ogden.

In this work is a thorough analysis of some SEVENTY prominent and popular subjects, with extended specimens of the method of enlarging them into Essays and Lectures.

The following interesting topics are separately and ably argued on both sides of the question, thus presenting also well digested matter for Debate, being on subjects of absorbing interest everywhere: —

Bi-Metalism.

Civil Service Reform.

Prohibition.

Is Marriage a Failure?

City and Country.

The Credit System.

Free Trade and Protection.

Capital Punishment.

Shall More or Less be Taught in Public Schools.

All the remaining subjects are equally thoroughly discussed, and form a valuable aid to the student in preparing compositions, essays, etc.

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.

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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.

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.

LETTER WRITERS

Dick's Common Sense Letter Writer. Containing Three Hundred and Sixty Sensible Social and Business Letters with appropriate Answers on the following subjects:

Letters of Introduction.

Soliciting and Granting Favors.

Accompanying Gifts.

Acknowledging Gifts and Favors.

Letters of Congratulation.

Letters of Sympathy and Condolence.

Answers to Advertisements for Help Wanted.

Inquiries about and Recommendations of Character and Ability.

Letters between Employers and Employed.

Accepting and Resigning Positions.

Letters of Apology.

Letters of Remonstrance and Complaint.

Letters of Love and Courtship.

Letters of Invitation and Acceptance.

Forms of Cards of Invitation.

Notes of Postponement.

Notes Offering Escort.

Letters to Landlords and about Board and Apartments.

Family Letters on Various Subjects.

Business Correspondence.

Letters on Miscellaneous Subjects.

Including Instructions for the arrangement of the different parts of a Letter, the Address, &c. By William B. Dick. The Letters are all original, and serve as eminent models of matter, expression and style, in plain but well-chosen language and clearness of diction; the great variety of letters on each subject offers a wide field for choice, and with, perhaps, a little modification could be made available for every possible contingency.

Dick's Commercial Letter Writer, and Book of Business Forms. Containing entirely original Models of Letters on all business subjects, with appropriate replies; also, several specimens of continuous Correspondence, exhibiting by a series of Letters, the commencement, progress, and completion of Mercantile Transactions. By William B. Dick.

This work includes correct forms for Business Notices and Cards, and Partnership Announcements; for Applications for Employment and neatly-worded Answers to Inquiries and Advertisements; for occasional Circulars, properly displayed, and for drawing up Business Documents, Notes, Checks, Receipts, Mortgages, Assignments, Wills, Power of Attorney, Letters of Credit, Account-Sales, Accounts Current, Invoices, Bills of Lading, &c., and the correct method of adjusting General and Particular Averages.

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