Part 21
Introduction; Shadow Bluff, or, Who’s Who? Tooth Drawing Extraordinary; Amputation like Winking; The Haunted House; We Won’t Go Home till Morning; Jocko, or the Mischievous Monkey; The Madcap Barber; Cribbage, or, The Devil among the Cards; The Lover’s Stratagem; The Game of Base Ball; Regular Hash, or, The Boarding-House Conspiracy; The Mechanical Statue; The African Serenaders; The Model Prize Fight; The Magic Cask, or, The Industrious and Idle Apprentice; The Tragical Duel, or, The Comical Rivals; Old Dame Trot and her Comical Cat.
Price 25 cts.
Brudder Bones’ Book of Stump Speeches and Burlesque Orations. Also containing Humorous Lectures, Dialogues, Plantation Scenes, Negro Farces and Burlesques, Laughable Interludes and Comic Recitations, interspersed with Dutch, Irish, French and Yankee Stories. Compiled and edited by John F. Scott.
This book contains some of the best hits of the leading negro delineators of the present time, as well as mirth-provoking jokes and repartees of the most celebrated End-Men of the day, and specially designed for the introduction of fun in an evening’s entertainment.
Price 30 cts. Bound in boards 50 cts.
Burton’s Amateur Actor. A complete guide to Private Theatricals; giving plain directions for arranging, decorating and lighting the Stage; with rules and suggestions for mounting, rehearsing and performing all kinds of Plays, Parlor Pantomimes and Shadow Pantomimes. Illustrated with numerous engravings, and including a selection of original Plays, with Prologues, Epilogues, etc.
16mo, illuminated paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
READINGS AND RECITATIONS.
Kavanaugh’s New Speeches and Dialogues for Young Children. This is an entirely new series of Recitations and short Dialogues, by Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh. Containing easy pieces in plain language, readily understood by little children, and expressly adapted for School Exhibitions and Christmas and other juvenile celebrations.
Paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Kavanaugh’s Exhibition Reciter, for Very Little Children. A collection of entirely Original Recitations, Dialogues, Short Speeches and Speaking Tableaux, adapted for very little boys and girls; including also a variety of pieces, humorous, serious and dramatic, suitable for children from Three to Ten Years Old.
Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in board covers 50 cts.
Kavanaugh’s Juvenile Speaker. For Very Little Boys and and Girls. Containing short and easily-learned Speeches and Dialogues, expressly adapted for School Celebrations, May-Day Festivals and other Children’s Entertainments. Embracing one hundred and twenty-three effective pieces. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh.
Illuminated paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Dick’s Series of Recitations and Readings, Nos. 1 to 15. Comprising a carefully compiled selection of Humorous, Pathetic, Eloquent, Patriotic and Sentimental Pieces in Poetry and Prose, exclusively designed for Recitation or Reading. Edited by Wm. B. Dick. Each number of the Series contains about 180 pages.
Illuminated paper cover, each 30 cts. Bound in full cloth 50 cts.
Beecher’s Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic, including Prose and Poetical Selections in Dutch, Yankee, Irish, Negro and other Dialects.
180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Howard’s Recitations. Comic, Serious and Pathetic. Being a collection of fresh Recitations in Prose and Poetry, suitable for Exhibitions and Evening Parties.
180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Spencer’s Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations. A collection of Comic Speeches, Humorous Prose and Poetical Recitations, Laughable Dramatic Scenes and Eccentric Dialect Stories.
192 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Wilson’s Book of Recitations and Dialogues. Containing a choice selection of Poetical and Prose Recitations. Designed as an Assistant to Teachers and Students in preparing Exhibitions.
188 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Barton’s Comic Recitations and Humorous Dialogues. A variety of Comic Recitations in Prose and Poetry, Eccentric Orations and Laughable Interludes.
180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Martine’s Droll Dialogues and Laughable Recitations. A collection of Humorous Dialogues, Comic Recitations, Brilliant Burlesques and Spirited Stump Speeches.
188 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
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DIALOGUE BOOKS.
Graham’s School Dialogues for Young People. Being a new and original collection of Dialogues intended for Anniversaries and Exhibitions, carefully prepared and well calculated to develop dramatic talent.
176 pages, illuminated paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
McBride’s New Dialogues. Especially designed for School and Literary Amateur Entertainments; containing twenty-four entirely New and Original Dialogues, introducing Irish, Yankee, and other eccentric characters. By H. Elliott McBride.
178 pages, illuminated paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards 50 cts.
McBride’s Temperance Dialogues. Designed for the use of Schools, Temperance Societies, Bands of Hope, Divisions, Lodges and Literary Circles. Introducing Yankee, Dutch, Irish, Negro and other dialect characters. By H. Elliott McBride.
183 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
McBride’s Humorous Dialogues. A collection of New Dialogues, full of humor and witty repartee; some of them introducing Irish, Dutch, Yankee and other dialect characters.
192 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
McBride’s Comic Dialogues. A collection of twenty-three Original Humorous Dialogues, especially designed for the display of Amateur dramatic talent, and introducing a variety of sentimental, sprightly, comic and genuine Yankee characters, and other ingeniously developed eccentricities. By H. Elliott McBride.
180 pages, illuminated paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
McBride’s All Kinds of Dialogues. A collection of twenty-five Original, Humorous and Domestic Dialogues, introducing Yankee, Irish, Dutch and other characters. Excellently adapted for Amateur Performances.
180 pages, illuminated paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Holmes’ Very Little Dialogues for Very Little Folks. Containing forty-seven New and Original Dialogues, with short and easy parts, almost entirely in words of one syllable, suited to the capacity and comprehension of very young children.
Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Frost’s Dialogues for Young Folks. A collection of thirty-six Original, Moral and Humorous Dialogues. Adapted for boys and girls between the ages of ten and fourteen years.
Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Frost’s New Book of Dialogues. Containing twenty-nine entirely New and Original Humorous Dialogues for boys and girls between the ages of twelve and fifteen years.
180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Frost’s Humorous and Exhibition Dialogues. This is a collection of twenty-five Sprightly Original Dialogues in Prose and Verse, intended to be spoken at School Exhibitions.
178 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards 50 cts.
AMATEUR THEATRICALS.
_All the plays in the following excellent books are especially designed for Amateur performance. The majority of them are in one act and one scene, and may be represented in any moderate-sized parlor, without much preparation of costume or scenery._
Kavanagh’s Humorous Dramas for School Exhibitions and Private Theatricals. This collection of Dramas are all original, and were written expressly for School and Parlor performance.
Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards 50 cts.
Barmby’s Musical Plays for Young People. Suitable for Private Theatricals. These Plays are in Burlesque style and entirely in Rhyme; they are irresistably Comical in expression, and elegant in construction. Each Play includes the Vocal Score and Piano Accompaniment to all Songs, Duets and Choruses introduced, making it complete in itself, both in text and music.
201 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards 50 cts.
Parlor Theatricals; or, Winter Evenings’ Entertainment. Containing Acting Proverbs, Dramatic Charades, Drawing-Room Pantomimes, a Musical Burlesque and an amusing Farce, with instructions for Amateurs. Illustrated with engravings.
Paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Howard’s Book of Drawing-Room Theatricals. A collection of twelve short and amusing plays. Some of the plays are adapted for performers of one sex only.
186 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Hudson’s Private Theatricals. A collection of fourteen humorous plays. Four of these plays are adapted for performance by males only, and three are for females.
180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Nugent’s Burlesque and Musical Acting Charades. Containing ten Charades, all in different styles, two of which are easy and effective Comic Parlor Operas, with Music and Piano-forte Accompaniments.
176 Pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Frost’s Dramatic Proverbs and Charades. Containing eleven Proverbs and fifteen Charades, some of which are for Dramatic Performance, and others arranged for Tableaux Vivants.
176 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Frost’s Parlor Acting Charades. These twelve excellent and original Charades are arranged as short parlor Comedies and Farces, full of brilliant repartee and amusing situations.
182 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Illuminated boards 50 cts.
Frost’s Book of Tableaux and Shadow Pantomimes. A collection of Tableaux Vivants and Shadow Pantomimes, with stage instructions for Costuming, Grouping, etc.
180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Frost’s Amateur Theatricals. A collection of eight original plays; all short, amusing and new.
180 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Dick’s Original Album Verses and Acrostics. Containing Original Verses.
_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.
Paper covers. Price. 50 cts. Bound in full cloth “ 75 cts.
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 comprises:
_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 Official Reports_;
_The Formation and Duties of Committees_;
_Rules of Order, and Order of Business, with Mode of Procedure in all Cases_;
_How to draft Resolutions and other Written Business_;
_A Model Debate, introducing the greatest possible variety of points of order, with correct Decisions by the Chairman_;
_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._
The Work is divided into different Sections, for the purpose of Consecutive Instruction as well as Ready Reference, and includes all Decisions and Rulings up to the present day.
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Dick’s Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing 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._
It includes a number of Amusing Scenes and Negro Acts, and is full of the side-splitting vagaries of the best Minstrel Troupes in existence, besides a number of Original Recitations and Sketches in the Negro Dialect.
178 pages, paper covers 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Dick’s Dutch, French and Yankee Dialect Recitations. An unsurpassed Collection of Droll Dutch Blunders, Frenchmen’s Funny Mistakes, and Ludicrous and Extravagant Yankee Yarns, each Recitation being in its own peculiar dialect. To those who make Dialect Recitations a speciality, this Collection will be of particular service, as it contains all the best pieces that are incidently scattered through a large number of volumes of “Recitations and Readings,” besides several 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. 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 the sparkling witticisms and queer conceits of the wittiest nation on earth, and apart from its special object, it furnishes a fund of the most entertaining matter for perusal in leisure moments.
170 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
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 applicable to Ladies being kept distinct from the rest of the book, in order to provide better facilities for ready reference.
216 pages. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
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.
18 mo. Cloth, Flexible 50 cts.
Dick’s Art of Gymnastics. Containing practical and progressive exercises applicable to all the principal apparatus of a well-appointed Gymnasium. Profusely illustrated. This work conveys plain and thorough instruction in the exercises and evolutions taught by the leading Professors of Gymnastics; so that proficiency may be attained, even without the aid of a Teacher. It also offers to Teachers a ready-arranged systematic course for their guidance.
Artistically bound in cloth, 4to $1 00
Dick’s Dialogues and Monologues. Containing entirely original Dialogues, Monologues, Farces, etc., etc., expressly designed for parlor performance, full of humor and telling “situations,” and requiring the least possible preparation of Costumes and Scenery to make them thoroughly effective.
180 pages. 16 mo., paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Dr. Valentine’s Comic Lectures; or, Morsels of Mirth for the Melancholy. A certain cure for the “blues” and all other serious complaints. Containing Comic Lectures on Heads, Faces, Noses and Mouths; Comic Lectures on Animal Magnetism; Humorous Specimens of Stump Eloquence; Burlesque Specimens of Eloquence; Transactions of Learned Societies; Comical Delineation of Eccentric Characters; Amusing Colloquies and Monologues; Laughable Duologues and Characteristic Drolleries. Illustrated with twelve portraits of Dr. Valentine in his most celebrated characters. 192 pages. Paper cover. Price 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, and, in fact, all other kinds of Grams. Illustrated with 100 most amusing engravings, prepared expressly for this work from designs by the most eminent Comic Artists.
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The Comical Doings of a Funny Man. Being the Scrapes and Adventures of a Practical Joker. Illustrated with Laughable Engravings. Octavo.
Price 10 cts.
Chips from Uncle Sam’s Jack-Knife. Illustrated with over 100 Comical Engravings, and comprising a collection of over 500 Laughable Stories, Funny Adventures, Comic Poetry, Queer Conundrums, Terrific Puns and Sentimental Sentences.
Large octavo 25 cts.
Fox’s Ethiopian Comicalities. Containing Strange Sayings, Eccentric Doings, Burlesque Speeches, Laughable Drolleries and Funny Stories, as recited by the celebrated Ethiopian Comedian.
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, interspersed with Witty Sayings and Humorous Dialogues, as given by Ned Turner, the celebrated Ethiopian Delineator
10 cts.
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10 cts.
Black Wit and Darky Conversations. By Charles White. Containing a large collection of laughable Anecdotes, Jokes, Stories, Witticisms and Darky Conversations.
10 cts.
Yale College Scrapes; or, How the Boys Go it at New Haven. This is a book of 114 pages, containing accounts of all the famous “Scrapes” and “Sprees” of which Students of Old Yale have been guilty for the last quarter of a century.
25 cts.
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 are a large collection of debatable questions. The authorities to be referred to for information being given at the close of every debate throughout the work. By F. Rowton. 232 pages.
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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.
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How to Write a Composition. The use of this excellent hand-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 headings or 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 and inclination.
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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. This is a valuable book for the Fraternity, containing, as it does, the Modern “Work” of the order. No Mason should be without it.
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The Laws of Athletics. How to Preserve and Improve Health, Strength, and Beauty; and to Correct Personal Defects caused by Want of Physical Exercise. How to Train for Walking, Running, Rowing, etc., with the Systems of the Champion Athletes of the World. Including the Latest Laws of all Athletic Games and How to Play Them.
By William Wood, Professor of Gymnastics. Paper cover 25 cts. Flexible cloth cover 50 cts.
The Bartender’s Guide; or, How to Mix all Kinds of Fancy 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.
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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.
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Dick’s Society Letter Writer for Ladies. Containing MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED entirely Original Letters and Notes, with appropriate answers, on all subjects and occasions incident to life in Good Society; including specific instructions in all the details of a well-written letter, and General Hints for Conducting Polite Correspondence. Edited by Wm. B. Dick.
THE CONTENTS EMBRACE THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS:
_Hints on Letter Writing_ _Letters of Introduction_ _Answers to Letters of Introduction_ _Letters and Notes of Invitation_ _Forms of Cards_ _Notes of Postponement_ _Letters and Notes Accepting and Declining Invitations_ _Letters of Apology_ _Letters of Announcement_ _Notes and Letters Accompanying Gifts_ _Notes and Letters of Acknowledgment_ _Notes and Letters Soliciting Favors_ _Notes and Letters Offering Favors_ _Notes and Letters Granting or Declining Favors_ _Notes Soliciting Donations_ _Notes and Letters Granting or Refusing Donations_ _Letters of Congratulation_ _Letters of Condolence_ _Answers to Letters of Condolence_ _Household Letters and Notes_ _Forms of Household Orders_ _Answers to Household Letters_ _Business Letters and Notes_ _Shopping by Mail_ _Forms of Orders_ _Miscellaneous Business Letters_ _Family Letters_ _Miscellaneous Notes and Letters_
These new and Original Letters have been written expressly for this work in an easy and elegant style, furnishing excellent models which fulfill all the social, formal and business conditions that occur in the Correspondence of Ladies who move in refined society. There are many otherwise highly accomplished ladies who experience considerable difficulty in inditing a good letter, and frequently find themselves embarrassed from a want of facility in method of expression and proper form; to them this work is especially adapted, and will afford them valuable aid in rendering the task of correspondence easy and light.
12mo., Cloth, Price $1.25
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. This book is a concise summary of the elaborate works of the above-named authorities on Palmistry.
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.