Part 19

It might strike the casual observer as something incredible, if not impossible, that such an immense and varied amount of matter could be crowded into a book of the merely nominal price of a dollar and a half; but the work contains 436 large pages of small type, closely printed in double column, and a perusal of it will convince the most skeptical that the only thing to be wondered at in it, is the extremely low price at which it is offered.

Bound in extra cloth, with gilt side and back. $1.50

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

$1.50

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

CONTENTS.

_A Happy Woman._ _The Somnambulist._ _Those Thompsons._ _Playing School._ _Tom and Sally._ _Assisting Hezekiah._ _A Visit to the Oil Regions._ _Breaking up the Exhibition._ _Turning Around._ _A Little Boy’s Debate._ _The Silver Lining._ _Restraining Jotham._ _A Shoemaker’s Troubles._ _An Uncomfortable Predicament._ _The Opening Speech._ _The Cucumber Hill Debating Club._ _Married by the New Justice._ _Bread on the Waters._ _An Unsuccessful Advance._ _When Women Have Their Rights._ _Only Another Footprint._ _Rosabella’s Lovers._ _A Smart Boy._ _A Heavy Shower._ _Master of the Situation._

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

16mo, 178 pages, illuminated paper cover. 30 cts. Bound in boards. 50 cts.

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

_Public Dinners_, _Social Dinners_, _Convivial Gatherings_, _Art and Professional Banquets_, _Manufacturers’ Meetings_, _Agricultural and Commercial Festivals_, _Special Toasts for Ladies_, _Christmas, Thanksgiving and other Festivals_, _Friendly Meetings_, _Weddings and their Anniversaries_, _Army and Navy Banquets_, _Patriotic and Political Occasions_, _Trades’ Unions and Dinners_, _Benedicts’ and Bachelors’ Banquets_, _Masonic Celebrations_, _Sporting Coteries_, _All Kinds of Occasions_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Auld Lang Syne._ _Tam O’Shanter._ _The Four Seasons._ _Simplicity._ _The Gathering of the Clans._ _Napoleon at St. Helena._ _The Calculation._ _The Surprise Party._ _The Four Kings._ _The Clock._ _The Garden._ _The Queen’s Audience._ _The Phalanx._ _The Idle Year._ _The Chameleon._ _La Belle Lucie._ _The Shamrocks._ _The House in the Wood._ _The House on the Hill._ _The Grand Duchess._ _The Constitution._ _The Beleaguered Castle._ _The Citadel._ _The Exiled Kings._ _Penelope’s Web._ _Napoleon’s Square._ _The Court Yard._ _The Windmill._ _Leoni’s Own._ _La Nivernaise._ _The Four Corners._ _The Baker’s Dozen._ _The Salic Law._ _The Sultan of Turkey._ _The Fortress._ _The Hemispheres._ _The Elevens._ _The Chester Game._ _The Shah of Persia._ _The Empress of India._ _The Zodiac._ _The Blockade._ _The Besieged City._ _The Fourteens._ _Napoleon’s Favorite._ _The Fifteen Puzzle._ _The Contra-Dance._ _The Betrothal._ _The Reinforcements._ _The Reserve._ _The Frog._ _The Pyramid._ _The Quadrille._ _The Chatelaine._ _The Order of Precedence._ _The Congress._ _Thirteen Down._ _The Octagon._ _Light and Shade._ _St. Louis._ _Rouge et Noir._ _The Blondes and Brunettes._ _The Royal Cotillion._ _Nestor._

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

Board cover 75 cts. Cloth $1 00.

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

_Tableaux Vivants._ _Living Portraits._ _Living Statuary._ _Dame History’s Peep Show._ _Shadow Pantomimes._ _Popular Ballads illustrated by appropriate action._ _Charades of all kinds._ _Parlor Pantomimes._ _Punch and Judy._

AND FIFTY OTHER DIVERTING PARLOR PASTIMES AND AMUSEMENTS.

It contains also a full Catalogue of the celebrated  “ART EXHIBITION,” and a practical treatise on the wonderful SCIENCE OF SECOND-SIGHT, by the aid of which all the startling effects and achievements of second-sight may be performed by any one possessing a tolerable retentive memory.

This work is thoroughly practical and gives the fullest instructions for preparing and lighting the stage, the construction of the FRAMES FOR LIVING PORTRAITS, and shows how each performance can be presented with complete success. It is illustrated with numerous engravings explaining the text.

150 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chesterfield’s Art of Letter-Writing Simplified. A Guide to Friendly, Affectionate, Polite and Business Correspondence. Containing a collection of valuable information relative to the Art of Letter-Writing, with clear instructions how to begin and end Correspondence, Rules for Punctuation and Spelling, etc., with numerous examples of Letters and Notes, with several important hints on Love-letters. 15 cts.

The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth. With a full Sketch of the Conspiracy of which he was the Leader, and the Pursuit, Trial and Execution of his Accomplices, together with an original Poem on Abraham Lincoln. By George Alfred Townsend, a Special Correspondent. Illustrated on the cover with a fine portrait of the Assassin and also containing Plans, Maps, etc. Octavo. 25 cts.

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

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

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

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

Allyn’s Ritual of Freemasonry. Containing a complete Key to the following Degrees: Degree of Entered Apprentice; Degree of Fellow Craft; Degree of Master Mason; Degree of Mark Master; Degree of Past Master; Degree of Excellent Master; Degree of Royal Arch; Royal Arch Chapter; Degree of Royal Master; Degree of Select Master; Degree of Super-Excellent Master; Degree of Ark and Dove; Degree of Knights of Constantinople; Degree of Secret Monitor; Degree of Heroine of Jericho; Degree of Knights of Three Kings; Mediterranean Pass; Order of Knights of the Red Cross; Order of Knights Templar and Knights of Malta; Knights of the Christian Mark, and Guards of the Conclave; Knights of the Holy Sepulchre; The Holy and Thrice Illustrious Order of the Cross; Secret Master; Perfect Master; Intimate Secretary; Provost and Judge; Intendant of the Buildings, or Master in Israel; Elected Knights of Nine; Elected Grand Master; Sublime Knights Elected; Grand Master Architect; Knights of the Ninth Arch; Grand Elect. Perfect and Sublime Mason. Illustrated with 38 copper-plate engravings; to which is added, a Key to the Phi Beta Kappa, Orange and Odd Fellows Societies. By Avery Allyn, K. R. C. K. T. K. M., etc. 12mo, cloth

$5.00

Lester’s  “Look to the East.” (Webb Work.) A Ritual of the First Three Degrees of Masonry. Containing the complete work of the Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason’s Degrees, and their Ceremonies, Lectures, etc. Edited by Ralph P. Lester. This complete and beautiful Pocket Manual of the First Three Degrees of Masonry, is printed in clear, legible type, and not obscured by any attempts at cypher or other perplexing contractions. It differs entirely from all other Manuals, from the fact that it contains neither the passwords, grips, nor any other purely esoteric matter, with which Masons, and Masons only are necessarily entirely familiar. It affords, therefore, a thorough and valuable guide to the regular  “work” in the above degrees, divested of everything that any member of the Fraternity would object to see in print, or hesitate to carry in his pocket. It gives the correct routine of

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

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

Duncan’s Masonic Ritual and Monitor; _or, Guide to the Three Symbolic Degrees of the Ancient York Rite, Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason_. And to the Degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and the Royal Arch. By Malcom C. Duncan. Explained and Interpreted by copious Notes and numerous Engravings. It is not so much the design of the author to gratify the curiosity of the uninitiated, as to furnish a Guide to the Younger Members of the Order, by means of which their progress from grade to grade may be facilitated. With the aid of this invaluable Masonic Companion, any mason can, in a short time, become qualified to take the Chair as Master of a Lodge. Nothing is omitted in it that may tend to impart a full understanding of the principles of Masonry. This is a valuable book for the Fraternity, containing, as it does, the Modern  “Work” of the order. No Mason should be without it.

Bound in cloth $2.50 Leather tucks (pocket-book style), with gilt edges 3.00

Lander’s Expose of Odd-Fellowship. Containing all the Lectures complete, with regulations for Opening, Conducting and Closing a Lodge; together with Forms of Initiation. Charges of the various Officers, etc., giving all the work in the following Degrees: 1st, or White Degree; 2d, or Covenant Decree; 3d, or Royal Blue Degree; 4th, or Remembrance Degree; 5th, or Scarlet Degree

25 cts.

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

$1.50

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

$1.50

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

$1.50

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

$1.50

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

$1.50