Howard's Book of Drawing-Room Theatricals. A collec tion of twelve short and amusing plays in one act and one scene, specially adapted for private performances; with practical directions, for their preparation and management. Some of the plays are adapted for performers of one sex only. This book is just what is wanted by those who purpose getting up an entertainment of private theatricals: it contains all the necessary instructions for insuring complete success. 180 pages. Paper cover. Price... Bound in boards with cloth back.............................................. 30 cts .50 ctso A Hudson's Private Theatricals for Home Performance. collection of Humorous Plays suitable for an Amateur Entertainment, with directions how to carry out a performance successfully. Some of the plays in this collection are adapted for performance by males only, others require only females for the cast, and all of them are in one scene and one act, and may be represented in any moderate sized parlor, without much prepara tion of costume or scenery. 180 pages. Paper covers. Price... Bound in boards with cloth back. .... .30 cts. .50 cts. The Art of Dressing Well. By Miss S. A. Frost. This book is designed for ladies and gentlemen who desire to make a favorable impression upon society, and is intended to meet the requirements of any season, place, or time; to offer such suggestions as will be valuable to those just entering society; to brides, for whose guidance a complete trousseau is described; to persons in mourning; indeed, to every individual who pays attention to the important objects of economy, style, and propriety of costume. 188 pages. Paper covers. Price.... Bound in boards, cloth back.............. .......... ......... .30 cts .50 ets How to Amuse an Evening Party. A complete collection of Home Recreations, including Round Games, Forfeits, Parlor Magic, Puzzles, and Comic Diversions; together with a great variety of Scientific Recreations and Evening Amusements. Profusely illustrated with nearly two hundred fine woodcuts. Here is family amusement for the million. Here is parlor or drawing-room entertainment, night after night, for a whole winter. A young man with this volume may render himself the beau ideal of a delightful companion at every party. He may take the lead in amusing the company, and win the hearts of all the ladies, and charm away the obduracy of the stoniest-hearted parent, by his powers of entertainment. Bound in ornamental paper cover. Price.. .30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back.. .50 cts. Martine's Droll Dialogues and Laughable Recitations, By Arthur Martine, author of "Martine's Letter-Writer," etc., etc. A sollection of Humorous Dialogues, Comic Recitations, Brilliant Burlesques, Spirited Stump Speeches, and Ludicrous Farces, adapted for School Cele brations and Home Amusement. 188 pages. Paper covers. Price... Bound in boards, with cloth back. ...... .......... .30 cts .50 cts. 'rost's Humorous and Exhibition Dialogues This is a collection of sprightly original Dialogues, in Prose and Verse, intended to be spoken at School Exhibitions. Some of the pieces are for boys, some for girls, while a number are designed to be used by both sexes. The Dialogues are all good, and will recommend themselves to those who desire to have innocent fun-the prevailing feature at a school celebration. 180 pages. Paper cover. Price... Bound in boards.... ...30 cts. 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 embraces the correct routine of Opening and Closing the Lodge in each Degree; calling off and on; calling the Lodge up and down; the regular Order of Business; together with the entire Ceremonies of Initiating. Passing and Raising Candidates, as well as the Lectures of each Degree, all Ritually and Monitorially complete. Bound in cloth.. Bound in Leather Tucks (pocket-book style), gilt edges.. $2.00 .$2.50 Dick's Recitations and Readings. No. 1. 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 first of a Series, uniform in size and style, which will include everything that is fresh and popular, introducing also some of the older gems of the English language that are always in demand, but excluding everything that is not eminently appropriate either for Declamation or Public Reading. Paper cover. 30 cts. 16mo, full cloth................ ..50 cts. Frost's Proverbs and Charades. Containing a collection of Original Proverbs and Charades, some of which are for Dramatic Performance, and others arranged for Tableaux-Vivants. By S. A. Frost. This book com prises a selection of Acting Proverbs and ingenious Charades; a portion of them in the form of short and sprightly comedies, and the remainder arranged to be represented by Tableaux, all the details of which are clearly described. They are all taken from "The Parlor Stage" by the same author. 16mo, illuminated paper cover....... Bound in boards.... .30 cts. .50 cts. Frost's Parlor Acting Charades. Intended solely for Performance in the Drawing Room, and requiring no expensive Scenery or Properties to render them effective. By S. A. Frost. These excellent and original Charades are arranged as short parlor Comedies and Farces, full of brilliant repartee and amusing situations. They are selected from "The Parlor Stage" by the same author. 16mo, illuminated paper cover...30 cts. 16mo, illuminated boards... ..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. 16mo, illuminated paper cover.. Bound in boards.... 30 cts. .50 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. Large octavo. Price, 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 hence combines the advantages of a handsome style of writing with its very simple and easily understood lessons in Book-keeping. It presents a fac-simile of a handsomely written set of account books-on a small scale, it is true, but very neat and pretty. This will enable the learner to improve his hand-writing, while perfecting himself as an expert, or first-class accountant-which is done by frequent practice. The book exhibits all the differ ent forms of Accounts, Balance Sheets, Trial-Balance, Commercial and Monetary Letters, Drafts, Notes, Credits, Orders, Inquiries, Replies, etc., etc., arranged in the script type exactly as they should be written for business purposes. This feature makes the work invaluable as a book of reference. The several pages have explanations at the bottom, to assist the learner, in small type. As a pattern for opening book-accounts it is especially valuable-particularly for those who are not well posted in the art. DAY'S BOOK-KEEPING is the size of a regular quarto Account Book, and is made to lie flat open, for convenience in use. Price.. ..50 Cts Blank Books for Day's Book-keeping. We have for sale Books of 96 pages each, ruled according to the patterns mentioned on page 3 of DAY'S BOOK-KEEPING, suitable for practice of the learner, viz.: No. 1For General Book-keeping, pages 4 and 5; for Cash Account on page 13; for Day Book in Single Entry, pages 15 to 25. No 2-For Condensed Accounts, pages 9 and 10; for Cash Accounts, page 12; for Journal in Double Entry, pages 34 to 43. No. 3-For Ledgers in Double or Single Entry, pages 26 to 44. Price, each..... ..50 Cts. How to Write a Composition. This original work will be found a valuable aid in writing a composition on any topic. It lays down plain directions for the division of a subject into its appropriate heads, and for arranging them in their natural order, commencing with the simplest theme and advancing progressively to the treatment of more complicated subjects. 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 each subject, with its 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. Bound in boards, cloth back. Price...... .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 Pianoforte Accompaniments. These Plays require no scenery, and the dialogue is short, witty, and easy to learn. To cach Charade will be found an introductory note, containing hints for its performance. Paper cover. Price.. .30 Cts. Bound in boards, cloth back.. ..50 Cts. Snipsnaps and Snickerings of Simon Snodgrass. These funny and amusing stories are illustrative of Irish Drolleries, Ludicrous Dutch Blunders, Yankee Tricks and Dodges, Backwoods Boasting, Negro Comicalities, Perilous Pranks of Fighting Men, Frenchmen's Queer Mistakes, and other phases of eccentric character to make a complete Medley of Wit and Humor. Full of funny engravings. Price.. ..25 cts. The Strange and Wonderful Adventures of Bachelor Butterfly. Showing his Hairbreadth Escapes from fire and coldhis being come over by a Widow with nine small children-and his firm endurance of these and other perils of a most extraordinary nature. The whole illustrated by about 200 engravings. Price.................... ..30 cts. Martine's Letter-writer and Etiquette Combined. For the use of Ladies and Gentlemen. 12mo., cloth, gilt side and back. 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 enough to suit the class of people who may be called new beginners in fashionable life. This book is entirely different from others in that respect. It 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 in life, and iz probably the best treatise on Letter-writing that has ever been printed. It gives easily understood directions that are brief and to the point. 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.........$1 50 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 per week. By Nelson Row. By this book, which is particularly useful when part of a week, day, or hour is lost, 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. Every employer hiring help by the hour, day or week, should get a copy; and every employee should also obtain ono, as it will enable him to know exactly the amount of money he is entitled to on pay-day. 12mo, 80 pages. Half bound... Cloth. Roan Tuck. .50 cts. .75 cts. .$1.00 The Young Reporter; or, How to Write Short-Hand. A coraplete Phonographic Teacher, intended to afford thorough instruction to those who have not the assistance of an Oral Teacher. By the aid of this work, any person of the most ordinary intelligence may learn to write Short-Hand, and report Speeches and Sermons in a short time. Bound in boards, with cloth back... ...50 cts. The Yankee Cook Book. A New System of Cookery. Containing hundreds of excellent receipts from actual experience in Cooking; also, full explanations in the art of Carving. 126 pages. Illuminated paper cover.. ..... ..30 cts. .50 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back. 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, 118 pages. Illuminated paper cover............. ..30 cts. 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Bound in paper covers. Price.... ..50 cts .30 cts Amateur Theatricals and Fairy-Tale Dramas. A collection of original plays, expressly designed for Drawing-room performance. By 8. A. FROST. This work is designed to meet a want, which has been long felt, of short and amusing pieces suitable to the limited stage of the private parlor. The old friends of fairy-land will be recognized among the FairyTale Dramas, newly clothed and arranged. Paper covers. Price... Bound in boards, with eloth back.. .30 cts. ..50 cts. Parlor Tricks with Cards. Containing explanations of Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards, embracing Tricks with Cards performed by Sleight-of-hand, by the aid of Memory, Mental Calculation and Arrangement of the Cards, by the aid of Confederacy; and Tricks performed by the aid of Prepared Cards. The whole illustrated and made plain and easy, with 70 engravings. This book is an abridgment of our large work, entitled "The Secret Out." Paper covers. Price... Bound in boards, with cloth back... ...30 cts. .50 cts. Chesterfield's Letter-writer and Complete Book of Etiquette; or, Concise, Systematic Directions for Arranging and Writing Letters. Also, Model Correspondence in Friendship and Business, and a great variety of Model Love Letters. This work is also a Complete Book of Etiquette. There is more real information in this book than in half a dozen volumes of the most expensive ones. Bound in boards, with cloth back. Price........ ...35 cts Frank Converse's Complete Banjo Instructor. Without a Master. Containing a choice collection of Banjo Solos, Hornpipes, Reels, Jigs, Walk Arounds, Songs, and Banjo Stories, progressively arranged and plainly explained. Bound in boards, with cloth back. Price.......50 cts. The Magician's Own Book. Containing several hundred amusing Sleight-of-hand and Card Tricks, Perplexing Puzzles, Entertaining Tricks and Secret Writing Explained. Illustrated with over 500 wood engravings. 12mo., cloth, gilt side and back stamp. Price............$1 50 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. Interspersed with the author's comments thereon. The whole forming a convenient handbook 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. This book is recommended to all who are from any cause in doubt as to the manner in which they should write or reply to letters upon love and courtship. The reader will be aided in his thoughts-he will see where he is likely to please and where to displease, how to begin and how to end his letter, and how to judge of those nice shades of expres. sion and feeling concerning which a few mistaken expressions may create misunderstanding. All who wish not only to copy a love letter, but to learn the art of writing them, will find North's book a very pleasant, sensible and friendly companion. It is an additional recommendation that the variety offered is very large. Cloth. Price.. .75 cts. 50 cts Bound in boards............. |