Part 20

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

75 cts.

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

13 cts.

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

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

$1.50

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

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

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

$1.50

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

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

25 cts.

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

Price 25 cts.

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

Price 25 cts.

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

15 cts.

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

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

25 cts.

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

25 cts.

Dick’s Dutch, French and Yankee Dialect Recitations.

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

DUTCH DIALECT.

Der Mule Shtood on der Steamboad Deck. Go Vay, Becky Miller. Der Drummer. Mygel Snyder’s Barty. Snyder’s Nose. Dyin’ Vords of Isaac. Fritz und I. Betsey und I Hafe Bust Ub. Schneider sees Leah. Dot Funny Leetle Baby. Schnitzeri’s Philosopede. Der Dog und der Lobster. Schlosser’s Ride. Mine Katrine. Maud Muller. Ein Deutsches Lied. Hans and Fritz. Schneider’s Tomatoes. Deitsche Advertisement. Vas Bender Henshpecked. Life, Liberty and Lager. Der Goot Lookin’ Shnow. Mr. Schmidt’s Mistake. Home Again. Dot Surprise Party. Der Wreck of der Hezberus. Isaac Rosenthal on the Chinese Question. Hans Breitmann’s Party. Shoo Flies. A Dutchman’s Answer. How Jake Schneider Went Blind. I Vash so Glad I Vash Here. The Dutchman and the Yankee. How the Dutchman Killed the Woodchuck. Der Nighd Pehind Grisdmas. The Dutchman’s Snake. Yoppy’s Yarder und Hees Drubbles. Dhree Shkaders. Katrina Likes Me Poody Vell. Hans in a Fix. Leedle Yawcob Strauss. How a Dutchman was Done. Dot Lambs vot Mary Haf Got. The Yankee and the Dutchman’s Dog. Zwei Lager. Schneider’s Ride. The Dutchman and the Small-pox. Tiamondts on der Prain. A Dutchman’s Testimony in a Steamboat Case. Hans Breitmann and the Turners.

FRENCH DIALECT.

The Frenchman’s Dilemma; or, Number Five Collect Street. The Frenchman’s Revenge. Noozell and the Organ Grinder. How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull. Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise. The Frenchman and the Landlord. The Frenchman and the Sheep’s Trotters. A Frenchman’s Account of the Fall. I Vant to Fly. The Generous Frenchman. The Frenchman and the Flea Powder. The Frenchman and the Rats. Monsieur Tonson. Vat You Please. The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes. The Frenchman’s Patent Screw. The Frenchman’s Mistake. Monsieur Mocquard Between Two Fires.

YANKEE DIALECT.

Mrs. Bean’s Courtship. Hez and the Landlord. Squire Billings’ Pickerel. Deacon Thrush in Meeting. The Yankee Fireside. Peter Sorghum in Love. Mrs. Smart Learns how to Skate. Capt. Hurricane Jones on the Miracles. The Dutchman and the Yankee. The Yankee Landlord. The Bewitched Clock. The Yankee and the Dutchman’s Dog. Aunt Hetty on Matrimony. The Courtin’. Ebenezer on a Bust. Sut Lovingood’s Shirt.

This Collection contains all the best dialect pieces that are incidentally scattered through a large number of volumes of  “Recitations and Readings,” besides new and excellent sketches never before published.

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

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

Biddy’s Troubles. Birth of St. Patrick, The. Bridget O’Hoolegoin’s Letter. Connor. Dermot O’Dowd. Dick Macnamara’s Matrimonial Adventures. Dying Confession of Paddy M’Cabe. Father Molloy. Father Phil Blake’s Collection. Father Roach. Fight of Hell-Kettle, The. Handy Andy’s Little Mistakes. How Dennis Took the Pledge. How Pat Saved his Bacon. Irish Astronomy. Irish Coquetry. Irish Drummer, The. Irish Letter, An. Irish Philosopher, The. Irish Traveler, The. Irishman’s Panorama, The. Jimmy McBride’s Letter. Jimmy Butler and the Owl. King O’Toole and St. Kevin. Kitty Malone. Love in the Kitchen. Micky Free and the Priest. Miss Malony on the Chinese Question. Mr. O’Hoolahan’s Mistake. Paddy Blake’s Echo. Paddy Fagan’s Pedigree. Paddy McGrath and the Bear. Paddy O’Rafther. Paddy the Piper. Paddy’s Dream. Pat and the Fox. Pat and the Gridiron. Pat and his Musket. Pat and the Oysters. Pat’s Criticism. Pat’s Letter. Pat O’Flanigan’s Colt. Patrick O’Rouke and the Frogs. Paudeen O’Rafferty’s Say Voyage. Peter Mulrooney and the Black Filly. Phaidrig Crohoore. Rory O’More’s Present to the Priest. St. Kevin. Teddy O’Toole’s Six Bulls. Wake of Tim O’Hara, The. Widow Cummiskey, The.

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

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

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

Miss Maloney at the Dentist’s Lost and Found Mygel Snyder’s Barty Magdalena Jim Wolfe and the Cats The Woolen Doll The Charity Dinner Go-Morrow; or, Lots Wife The Wind and the Moon Dyin’ Words of Isaac Maude Muller in Dutch Moses the Sassy Yarn of the  “Nancy Bell” Paddy the Piper Schneider sees  “Leah” Caldwell of Springfield Artemus Ward’s Panorama Tale of a Servant Girl How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull Tiamondts on der Prain King Robert of Sicily Gloverson the Mormon De Pint wid Ole Pete Pat and the Pig The Widow Bedott’s Letter The Cry of the Children The Dutchman and the Small-pox Sculpin Rats [TN: possibly Bats]—Descriptive Recitation A Reader Introduces Himself to an Audience A Dutchman’s Dolly Varden  “Rock of Ages” Feeding the Black Fillies The Hornet The Glove and the Lions I Vant to Fly That Dog of Jim Smiley’s The Faithful Soul  “My New Pittayatees” Mary Ann’s Wedding An Inquiring Yankee The Three Bells Love in a Balloon Mrs. Brown on the Streets Shoo Flies Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Bosan Without the Children Signor Billsmethi’s Dancing Academy Der Goot Lookin Shnow The Jumping Frog The Lost Chord The Tale of a Leg That West-side Dog How Dennis Took the Pledge The Fisherman’s Summons Badger’s Debut as Hamlet Hezekiah Stole the Spoons Paddy’s Dream Victuals and Drink How Jake Schneider Went Blind Aurelia’s Young Man Mrs. Brown on Modern Houses Farm Yard Song Murphy’s Pork Barrel The Prayer Seeker An Extraordinary Phenomenon The Case of Young Bangs A Mule Ride in Florida Dhree Shkaders

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

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

I’s Gwine to Jine de Masons Jes’ Nail dat Mink to de Stable Do’—Oration But the Villain still Pursued Her—A Thrilling Tale Bones at a Free-and-Easy Buncombe Speech Shakespeare Improved End Gag—Bones and Tambo A Man of Nerve—Comic Sketch End Gag—Bones and Tambo Uncle Pete—Darkey Sketch The Rival Darkeys The Stage-Struck Darkey Add Ryman’s Fourth of July Oration Absent-Mindedness—Bones and Tambo Don’t Call a Man a Liar The Mysterious Larkey Rev. Uncle Jim’s Sermon The ’Possum-Run Debating Society Tim Murphy’s Irish Stew Brudder Bones in Love—Interlocutor and Bones ’Lixey; or, The Old Gum Game—Negro Scene Brudder Bones’ Duel Brudder Bones’ Sweetheart Brudder Bones in Hard Luck Two Left-Bones and Tambo Speech on Boils How Bones Cured a Smoky Chimney Sermon on Keards, Hosses, Fiddlers, etc. Huggin’ Lamp-Posts Not Opposed to Matrimony How Pat Sold a Dutchman The Coopers—one Act Farce Questions Easily Answered—Bones and Tambo Examination in Natural History—Minstrel Dialogue O’Quirk’s Sinecure The Widower’s Speech Bones at a Raffle Uncle Pete’s Sermon Bones at a Soiree—Interlocutor and Bones Speech on Woman’s Rights Bones’ Discovery Mark Twain Introduces Himself—Characteristic Speech Speech on Happiness Burnt Corkers—Minstrel Dialogue The Nervous Woman The Five Senses—Minstrel Dialogue The Dutchman’s Experience Essay on the Wheelbarrow Bones at a Pic-Nic The Virginia Mummy—Negro Farce Brudder Bones in Clover Artemus Ward’s Advice to Husbands Where the Lion Roareth, and the Wang-Doodle Mourneth Romeo and Juliet in 1880 Artemus Ward’s Panorama Brudder Bones as a Carpet-Bagger—Interlocutor and Bones Major Jones’ Fourth of July Oration Curiosities for a Museum—Minstrel Dialogue Burlesque Oration on Matrimony Brudder Bones on the Raging Canawl The Snackin’-Turtle Man—Ethiopian Sketch Bones’ Dream—Ethiopian Sketch Come and Hug Me Widow O’Brien’s Toast Scenes at the Police Court—Musical Minstrel Dialogue Brudder Bones as a Log-Roller De Pint Wid Old Pete—Negro Dialect Recitation A Touching Appeal—Dutch Dialect Recitation Wounded in the Corners Darkey Dialogue End Gag—Interlocutor and Bones

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

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

A Bird that can’t be Plucked Annihilating Time At Last Bashful Bet, The Big Fortune, A Blackberrying Black Swan, The Bones and his little Game Bones and the Monkey Tricks Bones as a Fortune Teller Bones as a Legitimate Actor Bones as a Pilot Bones as a Prize Fighter Bones as a  “Stugent” Bones as a Traveler Bones as a Victim to the Pen Bones as a Walkist Bones assists at the Performance of a New Piece Bones attends a Seance Bones finds Himself Famous Bones gets Dunned Bones gets Stuck Bones has a Small Game with the Parson Bones’ Horse Race Bones in an Affair of Honor Bones in Love Bones keeps a Boarding House Bones on the War Path Bones on George Washington Bones on the Light Fantastic Bones Opens a Spout Shop Bones Plays O’Fella Bones sees a Ghost Bones Slopes with Sukey Sly Bones tells a  “Fly” Story Brother will come home tonight Bones as a Carpet Bagger Bones as an Inkslinger Bones in a New Character Bones in Clover Bones’ Love Scrape  “Cullud” Ball, The Conundrums Curious Boy Dancing Mad Dat’s What I’d Like to Know Definitions De Mudder of Inwention Difference, The Don’t Kiss every Puppy  “Far Away in Alabam’” First White Man, The Fishy Argument Four-Eleven-Forty-Four Four Meetings, The From the Poiks Girl at the Sewing Machine Hard Times Hard to take a Hint Heavy Spell, A Highfalutin’ Horrible! How Bones became a Minstrel How Tambo took his Bitters How to do it Impulsive Oration Inquisitive Jeallusest of her Sect Legal Problem, A Liberal Discount for Cash Manager in a Fix, The Mathematics Merry Life, A Momentous Question Mosquitoes Music Notes Ob Course Our Shop Girls Pomp and Ephy Green Presidency on de Brain Proposed Increase of Taxes Railroad Catastrophe Reality versus Romance Rough on Tambo Sassy Sam and Susie Long School’s In Shakespeare with a Vengeance Simple Sum in Arithmetic Sleighing in the Park Sliding Down the Hill Style Sublime Swearing by Proxy Tambo’s Travelling Agent That Dear Old Home  “The Pervisions, Josiar” Thieves Tonsorial Toast, A Uncle Eph’s Lament Waiting to See Him Off You Bet And 40 popular songs and dances.

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

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

A Burst of Indignation Disco’se by a Colored Man A Trumpet Sarmon Sarmon on Skilletvillers Nancy Matilda Jones Hezekiah’s Proposal About the Billikinses Betsy and I are Out Once More A Stump Speech About Katharine Deborah Doolittle’s Speech on Women’s Rights A Salutatory A Mournful Story An Address to Schoolboys Zachariah Popp’s Courtship and Marriage A Sad Story How to Make Hasty Pudding My Matilda Jane Courtship, Marriage, Separation and Reunion Lecture by a Yankee A Colored Man’s Disco’se on Different Subjects A Girl’s Address to Boys McSwinger’s Fate Peter Peabody’s Stump Speech Mr. Styx Rejoices on Account of a New Well Spring Victuals and Drink Speech by Billy Higgins on the Destruction of His Rambo Apple Tree A Boy’s Address to Young Ladies An Old Man’s Address to Young Wives Salu-ta-tat-u-a-ry Valedictory.

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

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

CONTENTS.

How to form an Amateur Company. Duties of the Manager and Prompter. Theatrical Music. Rules for an Amateur Company. How to Arrange a Stage. How to Make a Curtain. How to Light the Stage. Colored and Calcium Light Effects. How to Make and Paint the Scenes. How to Imitate Moonlight, Sunrise, Thunder, Rain, Wind and various other effects. How to make all kinds of  “Properties.” How to make up Dresses, Wigs, Beards, etc. How to  “make up” the Face to imitate Old Men and other characters. General Directions for Acting. Stage Business, Entrances and Exits. Four Appropriate Prologues; Three Epilogues. On the Selection of Plays. A Family Fix. Comedy for Three Males and three Females. The Philopena. Comedy for two Males and one Female. Directions for Performing Parlor Pantomimes. Love’s Obstacles; or, Jack’s Triumph. An Original Parlor Pantomime. Complete Directions for Performing Shadow Pantomimes. Detailed Instructions for producing all Shadow Illusions. The Feejee Islanders at Home. An Original and unequaled Shadow Pantomime. A list of Farces, Comedies, etc., specially adapted to Parlor Performances, with the Characters of Each Enumerated and Described.

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

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

CONTENTS. Males. Females. Explanations of stage directions. | | | Hints to Amateurs. | | | The Student’s Frolic | 3 | 2 | A Household Fairy | 1 | 1 | A Kiss in the Dark | 2 | 3 | Mrs. Willis’ Will | | 5 | Jack of all Trades | 6 | | His First Brief | 3 | 2 | A Sudden Arrival | 5 | | A Medical Man | 2 | 1 | A Terrible Secret | 2 | 2 | Poisoned | 4 | | An Eligible Situation | 2 | 6 |  “Wanted a Young Lady” | 2 | 1 |

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

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

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

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

Price 25 cts.

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

CONTENTS.