DICK'S RECITATIONS AND READINGS. Number 5. 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. This is the Fifth of a Series, uniform in size and style. No. 5 contains: Phil Blood's Leap. Aux Italiens. Measuring the Baby. Whistling in Heaven. Daddy Flick's Spree. Love and Death in Russia. How Gilead Beck became an Editor. Miltiades Peterkin Paul. Monk Felix. Maclaine's Child. The Romance of the Carpet. Monsieur Mocquard's Hard Fate. The Story of Some Bells. The Long Ago. Tim O'Connor's Cat. Schneider's Tomatoes. Love's Reasons. Little Ned. Prayer and Potatoes. "What's a Dolla' to a Man wid a Family?" Mary, Queen of Scots. The First Client. Didn't Understand the Game. The Quaker's Meeting. Jamie Douglas. Scottish Pulpit Eloquence. The Messiah. Colonel Sellers's Salvation for Sore The Monkey-Showman. Die Wacht am Rhein. The Road to a Woman's Heart. The Rabbit-A Boy's Composition. William Tell to his Native Mountains. The Past Eternity. Not so Dull as he Looked. The Drunkard's Dream. The Passions. Auld John Broon. A Large-Hearted View of the Indian Disappointed Hopes. Mr. Schmidt's Mistake. The Wedding Fee. The Closing Year. The Tale of a Temptation. The Frenchman and the Flea-Pow der. The King of Denmark's Ride. Bachelor's Hall. Lieutenant Luff. Life of a Leaf. Engaged. Forgive?-No, Never. Skipper Ireson's Ride. Lady Clara Vere de Vere. The Portrait. 180 pp., illuminated 16mo, full cloth... paper cover.. ..30 Cts. .50 Cts. HOWARD'S RECITATIONS. Comic, Serious and Pathetic. Being a carefully selected collection of fresh Recitations in Prose and Poetry, suitable for Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Social Gatherings, and Evening Parties; affording, also, an abundance of excellent material for practice and declamation. Edited by Clarence J. Howard. CONTENTS. Miss Malony on the Chinese Question. Kit Carson's Ride. A fine descrip The Stuttering Lass. Amusing recital. The Irish Traveler. Humorous piece. Mona's Waters. Pathetic recitation. An Affectionate Letter. Irish style. The Unbeliever. A solemn recitation Lord Dundreary Proposing. A very comic recitation. The Fireman. Descriptive piece. Annie and Willie's Prayer. Pathetic morous Ditty in Dutch dialect. How to Save a Thousand Pounds. How I Got Invited to Dinner. Patient Joe. A serious recitation. Jimmy Butler and the Owl. 16mo. 180 pages. Paper covers. Bound in boards, cloth back. The Menagerie. A wild beast show. Old Quizzle. The Infidel and Quaker. Recitation. Bill Mason's Bride. A railroad yarn. The Death's Head; or, Honesty the Antony and Cleopatra. The Frenchman and the Landlord. Old English Recitation. Hans in a Fix A Dutchman's dream of Matrimony. To-Morrow. Poetical recitation. The Lucky Call. The Lost Spectacles. The Matrimonial Bugs and the Trav elers. Peter Sorghum in Love. story. Yankee Tim Tuff. A sharp bargain. A Tribute to our Honored Dead. The Suicidal Cat. An affecting tale. The Son's Wish. A dying father's bequest. Price.. .30 c .50 BEECHER'S RECITATIONS AND READINGS. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic, including Prose - and Foetical Selections in Dutch, French, Yankee, Irish, Backwoods, Negro and other Dialects. Edited by Alvah C. Beecher. This excellent selection has been compiled to meet a growing demand for Public Readings, and contains a number of the favorite pieces that have been rendered with telling effect by the most popular Public Readers of the present time. It includes, also, choice selections for Recitations, and is, therefore, admirably adapted for use at Evening Entertainments, School Celebrations, and other Festival occasions. CONTENTS. Miss Maloney goes to the Dentist. The Woolen Doll. A Maniac's Story. Go-Morrow; or, Lot's Wife. Negro The Wind and the Moon. Recitation. Maude Muller in Dutch. Moses the Sassy; or the Disguised The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell." Caldwell of Springfield. A Story. Tiamondts on der Prain. King Robert of Sicily. A Dream. De Pint wid Ole Pete. Negro Dialect. The Dutchman and the Small-pox. Paper covers. Price.. Bound in boards, cloth back.. With instructions in Elocution and Declamation. Containing a choice selection of Poetical and Prose Recitations. Designed as an Assistant to Teachers and Students in preparing Exhibi- Blanche of Devan's Last Words. Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles. SPENCER'S BOOK OF COMIC SPEECHES AND HUMOROUS RECITATIONS. A collection of Comic Speeches and Dialogues, Humorous Prose and Poetical Recitations, Laughable Dramatic Scenes and Burlesques, and Eccentric Characteristic Soliloquies and Stories. Suitable for School Exhibitions and Evening Entertainments. Edited by Albert J. Spencer. The Warrantee Deed. Comic Song The Nimmers. Degrees of Crime. Widow Bedott's Mistake. Dialogue for 1 male and 1 female. Categorical Courtship. How a Bashful Lover " popped the Question." Mr. Artemus Ward crossing Dixie. My Last Shirt. Pathetic Rhapsodv. The Three Black Crows. The Barber's Shop. For 2 males. The Frenchman and the Rats. Hans Breitmann's Party. Dialect. The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes. The Maiden's Mishap. The Removal. An Amusing Recital. Talking Latin. Characteristic. Praying for Rain. Paper covers. Price.... Bound in boards, cloth back.. The Darkey Photographer. Negro scene for 3 males. Paddy and his Musket. Funny. Gossipy Style. Uncle Reuben's Tale. Mr. Caudle has been to Greenwich The Chemist and his Love. Dialect An Ad Economy. The Jewess and her Son. Clerical Wit. True Lies. The School House. Descriptive Piece. Daniel versus Dishclout. Spectacles, or Helps to Read. The Pig. Colloquial Poem in praise of this much despised animal. A Stray Parrot. Farce for 1 male and 2 females. Dame Fredegonde. A Priest's advice. Toby Tosspot. Convivial Adventure. Courtship and Matrimony. Rings and Seals. Poetical. The Biter Bit. A Wail of the Forsaken. Pat and the Gridiron. Dialect Recitation. The Barmecide's Feast. Amusing Burlesque for 5 males, with directions. The Country Pedagogue. Descriptive Sketch after Nature. The Middle-aged Man and Two Wid |