Chadwick's American Cricket Manual. Containing the revised rules of the game, with an explanatory appendix to each rule. Also, instructions in bowling, batting, and fielding, together with statistics of the leading clubs in the United States and Canada. To which is added the Game of La Crosse, as played by the leading clubs in Canada and the United States. .Price 50 cents. 144 pp., half-bound.... ....... Clipper Chess Problem Tournament. Being the splendid collection of chess stratagems for which the New York Clipper awarded gold and silver medals. Together with additional problems. Edited by MYRON J. HAZELTINE, Esq., Chess Editor of the New York Clipper. 116 pp., cloth, gilt..... Price 50 cents. De Witt's American Chess Manual. By An Old Player. Containing full instructions for players. Also, the new rules of the game as adopted by the American Chess Association. Together with an account of the American Chess Congresses held since 1857, and the records of Chess Tourneys, with a choice selection of end games, problems, etc. Edited by HENRY CHADWICK. Paper covers....... ..Price 10 cents. Witch Doctor's Dream Book (The). Together with much curious information concerning what may happen. By far the best book of the kind ever published: containing the wisdom of the French Astrologers; the Wheel of Fortune; Fortune Telling Lucky Days; Gems and their Significance; Lucky Numbers, etc. Together with a complete table giving Interpretations of Dreams. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert and others. 160 pp., paper covers........................ Same, half-bound.................................. .......... Price 25 cents. Fortune-Telling by Cards; or, Cartomancy Made Easy. Being a pictorial and practical explanation of the art of fortune-telling by the use of ordinary playing cards; the whole fully and clearly set forth, enabling every one to tell his own fortune and that of others. To which is added a Treatise on Chiromancy; or, the art of divination through reading the human hand, and a full description of the book of Thot, the Egyptian oracle of destiny. Illustrated with 1750 engravings. 200 pp., paper covers............................... Same, half-bound....... ......... ..Price 25 cents, NOTE.-In telling fortunes by "Cartomancy Made Easy," it is necessary that a pack of cards should be used in which the face or figure cards have only a single head. We will furnish this style of cards for 25 cents a pack, post-paid. Maccabe's Art of Ventriloquism and Vocal Illusions, with full directions to learners; showing how to practice ventriloquism; with amusing dialogues for beginners, including the "Repertoire" of the English railway porter, as performed by Frederick Maccabe in his celebrated ventriloquial entertainments. Beginning with the rudiments, this book shows the use of a mirror; the proper position of the lips; how to give the idea of "distance" to sounds; the use of the "falsetto" and the guttural;" imitations of different animals, amusing experiments, ventriloquial dialogues, ete. Together with valuable hints in regard to breathing, speake ing and singing. 4 pp., paper covers............ ...... Price 10 cents. Morphy's Match Games. A full and accurate account of the match chess games played in Europe by the young American champion, Paul Morphy, in which he was astonishingly successful, defeating in most instances the chess celebrities of the old world. With a fine steel en graved portrait of Mr. Morphy. Edited, with copious notes, by CHARLES HENRY STANLEY, author of "The Chess Player's Instructor." 120 pp., flexible cloth, gilt........... ..Price 50 cents. Napoleon's Complete Dream Book. The only reliable treatise on the subject (consulted by the great Corsican), giving plain and full directions for fortune-telling by the interpretation of dreams and visions. Also, an account of remarkable dreams and visions, and a general dictionary of their signification. Compiled from original sources. By Madame Li NORMAND, author of "Fortune-telling by Cards." 200 pp., paper covers...... Same, half-bound .. Price 25 cents. Price 50 cents. Bulwer's Complete Plays (De Witt's acting edition). Being the complete dramatic works of Lord Lytton (Sir E. L. Bulwer, Bart.), comprising "The Lady of Lyons," "Money," "Richelieu," "The Rightful Heir," "Walpole," "Not as Bad as We Seem," and "The Duchess de la Valliere." From the author's original text. An entirely new acting edition. Edited by JOHN M. KINGDOM. This complete edition of Bulwer's works is suitable for the library. 402 pp., cloth, gold lettered ..... ......... Price $1 00 Christmas Plays for Homes and Parishes. Selected and adapted by CLARENCE SATTERLEE. Five plays and entertainments specially arranged for church and home amusement at Christmas-tide, any of which can be successfully used at any other season than Christmas, they being so arranged that the part relative to Christman can be omitted. The plays are very bright and attractive, and all permit the employment of quite a number of juvenile characters, who do not have long and difficult "parts to commit to memory. The arrangements for scenery are simple and inexpensive, and the stage directions are so full and explicit that the merest tyrɔ in amateu theatricals will find no difficulty in comprehending them. 80 pp., paper covers........................................ Same, half-bound ..................... ..................... Price 25 cents. Price 50 cents. De Witt's How to Manage Amateur Theatricals. Giving plain directions for arranging amateur dramatic entertainments, and for making scenery, getting up dresses, "making up" the face, and property adapting the wig, beard, and mustache. Illustrated with colored plates. ..Price 25 cents. 120 pp., paper covers......................................................................... Same, half-bound .Price 50 cents. De Witt's Selections for Amateur and Parlor Theatricals, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Being choice selections from the best dramas, come dies, and farces, with striking dramatic scenes and dialogues, chosen from the most popular plays, as being particularly adapted for presentation by ama teurs, and for parlor and drawing-room entertainments. The five numbers form a complete library for the amateur. Circulars, giving a list of contenta of the entire series will be sent, post-paid, to any applicant. Price 25 cents. 144 pp. each, paper covers.... De Witt's School Vocalist. A choice collection of original and select songs, arranged as solos, duets, trios, semi-choruses and choruses. Edited by George W. Bungay, with special reference to school use. Arranged by Henry Tucker. ......................Price 25 cents./ Paper covers.•••• De Witt's Acting Plays. The best edition published. Selected and arranged especially with a view to their fitness for performance by amateurs. The most careful attention has been given to all the details of scenery, costumes, properties, stage directions, and all other information needful for putting each play properly on the stage. The list embraces over three hundred of the best works of the best authors who have written for the stage, and new plays are being constantly added. Each play is bound sepa rately in a neat paper cover, Price 15 cents each, unless otherwise noted. De Witt's Ethiopian and Comic Drama. Exceeds in number and excels in quality any other list of similar works. The best work of the celebrated writers of Ethiopian comedy, such as Charles White, J. C. Stewart, A. J. Leavitt, H. L. Williams, Frank Dumont, and Wm. Courtright, will be found in it; and the most careful instructions as to scenery, costumes, and stage directions are given in each play. The list also embraces a number of short Dutch and Irish sketches suitable for the variety stage. Each play is bound separately in neat paper covers, and sold at a uniform price. ...15 cents each. A full descriptive catalogue of "De Witt's Acting Plays," Ethiopian and Comic Drama," and of all articles needed by amateurs in "making up" for the stage, mailed free, post-paid, on application to the publishers. Dick's London Acting Edition of Standard English Plays AND COMIC DRAMAS. We have secured from the publisher the sole agency in America for the sale of this celebrated edition of plays; the list containing over one thousand of the most popular plays of the most eminent authorsall reprinted from new type, in uniform style, from the original unabridged editions, with full casts of characters, stage directions, etc., making by far the best English edition published, and including many plays not to be found in the list of any other publisher. This is the cheapest edition of plays yet offered to the public... Price 10 cents each. A complete descriptive catalogue mailed free on application. Humpty Dumpty. Pantomime Play. By John Denier. As played by the renowned George L. Fox. Eight male, four female characters. No pantomime yet published has as full instructions for its performance as are here given. 24 pp., paper covers........... ...Price 25 cents. Mrs. Jarley's Wax Figures. Not the worn out "original," but a fresh version, introducing new characters and descriptive matter, and adapted for Christmas gatherings, by introducing "St. Nick," with his miniature sledge, at the close. 12 pp., paper covers........... .Price 15 cents. Short Comedies for Amateur Players. Adapted and arranged by Mrs. BURTON HARRISON. Illustrated by KELLY. The comedies selected for this volume-"The Mouse Trap," "Weeping Wives," "Behind a Curtain," "Tea at Five O'clock," and "Two Strings to Her Bow"-are easily within the scope of intelligent amateurs. They have been tested and approved as suitable for this purpose by various audiences assembled at private houses, and by the larger hearing accorded them on the occasions of their production at the Madison Square and Lyceum theatres in New York city. Unusual care has been exercised in preparing this volume to make it the most attractive as well as the most valuable contribution to the literature of amateur theatricals ever offered. The five charming little sketches by Mr. Kelly will be found invaluable as suggestions for costuming and stage grouping. 120 pp., paper covers. Same, half-bound... Price 50 cents. .Price 75 cents. Burnt Cork: The Amateur Minstrel. A collection of humorous speeches, end men's jokes, conundrums, recitations, farces, finales for "first part," and a full description of everything necessary to arrange a minstrel entertainment. A most valuable companion and guide to the young amateur. By FBANK DUMONT, the Boucicault of the Ethiopian drama. 300 pp., paper covers................ Price 25 cents. Same, half-bound............................................................................................................................... Price 50 cents. ........ Black Jokes. A book full and running over with darkey jokes and comicalities, illustrated with too of the most comic engravings. 96 pp., paper covers...... Price 25 cents. Bones: His Gags and Stump Speeches. A book full of the very juice and cream of minstrel fun, containing genuine darkey stump speeches, colloquies between middle and end men, dialect stories, etc. 64 pp., paper covers..... .. Price 15 cents. Brudder Bones' 4-11-44 Joker. Containing end men's dialogues, conundrums, "gags," and funny stories. 64 pp., paper covers....... Price 10 cents. Christy's Black Clown Joke Book. A capital lot of jokes, colloquies, end men's speeches, conundrums, etc., for the minstrel stage. 64 pp., paper covers... Price 10 cents. Christy's Burnt Cork Comicalities. Another fine lot of humorous speeches, dialogues, and conundrums, by that well known deline ator of Ethiopian character, BYRON CHRISTY. 54 pp., paper covers..... Clog Dancing Made Easy. .Price 10 cents. By HENRY TUCKER. The elements and practice of this art, so popular on the minstrel stage, are here simplified and explained; showing all the steps and figures, giving examples, full explanations of the terms used, and all information necessary for becoming a graceful clog dancer. With appropriate music. .Price 15 cents. 32 pp., paper covers..... Fun in Black; or, Sketches of Minstrel Life. By Chas. H. DAY. With "The Origin of Minstrelsy," by Col. T. ALSTON BROWN, giving the History of Ethiopian Minstrelsy from 1799. Singular scenes before the footlights, amusing anecdotes, etc. Sixty exceedingly funny pictures add greatly to the humorous text. 100 pp., paper covers............. Gus Williams' World of Humor. ...Price 25 cents. A collection of hu morous stories, queer anecdotes, Dutch and Irish drolleries, jolly jokes, and bright sayings. Compiled by that prince of humorists, GUS WILLIAMS. 128 pp., paper covers. Price 25 cents. .......... Pat Rooney's Quaint Conundrums and Funny Gags. Interlarded with Irish wit and humor, Chinese sketches, humorous anec dotes, and mirth-provoking stories. A capital book for end men in minstre! entertainments. 100 pp., paper covers........ ........ Price 25 cents. Tambo: His Jokes and Funny Sayings. With which is incorporated "Hints to the Amateur Minstrel, by BOBBY NEWCOMB." It teaches all the "tricks of the trade," and furnishes a full budget of go things "to set the house in a roar." 64 pp., paper covers..........、、^. -、................................. ......................... Price 15 cents ... Advanced School Speaker. Adapted particularly to those pupils who give proof that they have the ability to become good readers. There is a fine assortment of excellent pieces in this Speaker, many of them American in every sense. 100 pp., paper covers................ ....Price 10 cents. Choice School Speaker. The pieces in this book are most carefully chosen from many hundreds of the best pieces. Any one having a copy of this book will never be at loss for fine specimens of interesting and animated speaking. ...... Price 10 cents. 100 pp., paper covers.... Challenge School Speaker. A choice collection of stirring, effective, and brilliant gems, expressly prepared for the display of forensic talent, whether tragic, pathetic, or argumentative. 100 pp., paper covers... ...Price 10 cents. Comic School Speaker. Containing an unequalled col lection of the most amusing, eccentric, droll, and humorous pieces, suitable for recitation in schools or at drawing-room entertainments. It would be impossible to find so many irresistibly funny pieces in any other tongue. They range from the most refined wit to the broadest farcical humor; but always free from even an approach to vulgarity. 100 pp., paper covers............ ..Price 10 cents. Dramatic School Speaker. Containing a large number of the most effective, eloquent, instructive, and brilliant pieces for public and private schools and academies. Many of the articles in this book are the most admired specimens in our language, expressive of every shade of feeling and passion. Every youthful reader can find some pieces to suit his peculiar genius in this book. 100 pp., paper covers.. ............Price 10 cents. Exhibition School Speaker. Comprising very many of the most exquisite pieces in our language, particularly adapted for recitation in public. There is no accomplishment that imparts such a nameless grace as the faculty of reading and reciting plainly and eloquently. This work furnishes many of the finest pieces for elocutionary effect in the language. 00 pp., paper covers.. Price 10 cents. Improved School Speaker. This book is in every way an improvement on nine-tenths of the Speakers published. All the pieces are of a kind that must make them heartily liked by both teachers and pupils. There is not a heavy, dull article in the work. 100 pp., paper covers..... .Price 10 cents. Patriotic School Speaker. Filled with the noblest bursts of patriotic eloquence, in prose and verse. Every youth that feels-as all should feel that he has a country to admire and love, should master the brilliant specimens of oratory that abound in this book. 100 pp., paper covers.......... ......... Price 10 cents. Perfection School Speaker. No other collection of pieces has any right to be compared to this. It is the very best of them. There isn't a chip of dead wood in it. Every speech is marked by some excellent quality, either of subject or expression. .Price 10 cents. 100 pp., paper covers.... Primary School Speaker. Containing a variety of pieces adapted both in thought and language for recitation by the very youngest speakers. In many "Speakers" intended for young children, the authors get together a number of pieces only noticeable for jingling rhymes; in this boo all the articles are full of meaning, without being dull or prosy. 100 P., paper covers....... ...... ... .Price 10 gents. |