 
Dick’s One Hundred Amusements for Evening Parties, Picnics and Social Gatherings. This book is full of Original Novelties. It contains: New and Attractive Games, clearly illustrated by means of Witty Examples, showing how each may be most successfully played. Surprising Tricks, easy of performance. Musical and other innocent sells. A variety of new and ingenious puzzles. Comical Illusions, fully described. These surprising and grotesque illusions are very startling in their effects, and present little or no difficulty in their preparation. Also an Entirely New Version of the Celebrated THE FLEXIBLE GIANT. A COMIC ILLUSION. Illustrated and explained by sixty fine wood engravings. The Art and Etiquette of Making Love. A Manual of Love, Courtship and Matrimony. It tells Cherubs playing leapfrog
And, in fact, how to fulfill every duty and meet every contingency connected with courtship and matrimony. It includes also a choice collection of sensible Letters suitable for all the contingencies of Love and Courtship. Dick’s Quadrille Call-Book and Ball-Room Prompter. Containing clear directions how to call out the figures of every dance, with the quantity of music necessary for each figure, and simple explanations of all the figures and steps which occur in Plain and Fancy Quadrilles. Also, a plain analysis and description of all the steps employed in the favorite round dances, fully describing:
AND OVER ONE HUNDRED FIGURES FOR THE “GERMAN;” To which is added a Sensible Guide to Etiquette and Proper Deportment in the Ball and Assembly Room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano. Uncle Josh’s Trunkful of Fun. A portfolio of first-class Wit and Humor, and never-ending source of Jollity. CONTAINING A RICH COLLECTION OF
Laughing man This book is illustrated with nearly 200 Funny Engravings, and Barber’s American Book of Ready-Made Speeches. Containing 159 original examples of Humorous and Serious Speeches, suitable for every possible occasion where a speech may be called for, with appropriate replies to each. INCLUDING
With this book any person may prepare himself to make a neat little speech, or reply to one when called upon to do so. They are all short, appropriate and witty, and even ready speakers may profit by them. The Amateur Trapper and Trap-Maker’s Guide. A complete and carefully prepared treatise on the art of Trapping, Snaring and Netting; containing plain directions for constructing the most approved Traps, Snares, Nets and Dead-Falls; the best methods of applying them to their various purposes; and the most successful Baits for attracting all kinds of Animals, Birds, etc., with their special uses in each case; introducing receipts for preparing Skins and Furs for Market. A Trap The entire work is based on the experience of the most successful Trappers, and on information derived from other authentic professional sources. By Stanley Harding. This comprehensive work is embellished with fifty well drawn and 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 TELLS
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. How to Write a Composition. The use of this 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. The Magician’s Own Book. One of the most extraordinary and interesting volumes ever printed—containing the Whole Art of Conjuring, and all the Discoveries in Magic ever made, either by ancient or modern philosophers. IT EXPLAINS
Two hands holding coins The tricks are all illustrated by Engravings and Tables, so as to make them easily understood and practiced. As a volume for the amusement of an evening party, this book cannot be surpassed. East Lynne; or, The Earl’s Daughter. Library edition, complete and unabridged. This novel is Mrs. Henry Wood’s masterpiece, and stands in the very front rank of all the works of fiction ever written; it has scarcely a rival as a brilliant creation of literary genius, and is prominent among the very few works of its class that have stood the test of time, and achieved a lasting reputation. In originality of design, and masterly and dramatic development of the subject, East Lynne stands unrivaled; it will be read and re-read long after the majority of the ephemeral romances of to-day have passed out of existence and been forgotten. A handsome 12mo volume of 598 pages, from new electrotype plates, printed on fine toned paper, and elegantly bound in cloth, in black and gold FONTAINE’S DICK & FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS, THE GOLDEN WHEEL FORTUNE TELLER. Title Page THE |
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