Part 3

_Letters of Introduction._ _Soliciting and Granting Favors._ _Accompanying Gifts._ _Acknowledging Gifts and Favors._ _Letters of Congratulation._ _Letters of Sympathy and Condolence._ _Answers to Advertisements for Help Wanted._ _Inquiries about and Recommendations of Character and Ability._ _Letters between Employers and Employed._ _Accepting and Resigning Positions._ _Letters of Apology._ _Letters of Remonstrance and Complaint._ _Letters of Love and Courtship._ _Letters of Invitation and Acceptance._ _Forms of Cards of Invitation._ _Notes of Postponement._ _Notes Offering Escort._ _Letters to Landlords and about Board and Apartments._ _Family Letters on Various Subjects._ _Business Correspondence._ _Letters on Miscellaneous Subjects._

Including Instructions for the arrangement of the different parts of a Letter, the Address, &c. By William B. Dick. The Letters are all original, and serve as eminent models of matter, expression and style, in plain but well-chosen language and clearness of diction; the great variety of letters on each subject offers a wide field for choice, and with, perhaps, a little modification could be made available for every possible contingency.

Bound in boards ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Commercial Letter Writer~, and ~Book of Business Forms~. Containing entirely original Models of Letters on all business subjects, with appropriate replies; also, several specimens of continuous Correspondence, exhibiting by a series of Letters, the commencement, progress, and completion of Mercantile Transactions. By WILLIAM B. DICK.

This work includes correct forms for Business Notices and Cards, and Partnership Announcements; for Applications for Employment and neatly-worded Answers to Inquiries and Advertisements; for occasional Circulars, properly displayed, and for drawing up Business Documents, Notes, Checks, Receipts, Mortgages, Assignments, Wills, Power of Attorney, Letters of Credit, Account-Sales, Accounts Current, Invoices, Bills of Lading, &c., and the correct method of adjusting General and Particular Averages.

It contains, in addition, a Glossary of Technical Terms used in Commerce; a rapid and simple method of computing Interest; a Table showing the value of Foreign Coins in United States' Currency; and other useful, practical and interesting information, in all the details necessary for conducting commercial correspondence.

200 pages, boards ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Letter Writer for Ladies.~ Consisting of over Five Hundred entirely original Letters and Notes, with various replies, on every subject and occasion that a Lady in good society could possibly require. They are all new and written expressly for this work.

These letters, &c., are excellent models of ease and elegant style, facility in method of expression, and correct form; they furnish, therefore, valuable aid to Ladies, who, however otherwise accomplished, are deficient in the necessary acquirement of the graceful and properly-worded correspondence which their social position demands.

268 pages, boards ~50 cts.~

~Chesterfield's Letter-Writer and Complete Book of Etiquette.~ Containing the Art of Letter-Writing simplified, a guide to friendly, affectionate, polite and business correspondence, and rules for punctuation and spelling, with complete rules of Etiquette and the usages of Society. An excellent hand-book for reference.

Bound in boards ~40 cts.~

CHECKERS OR DRAUGHTS.

~Robertson's Guide to the Game of Draughts.~ Embracing all of the twenty-two well-known Openings, with 3,340 Variations, including and correcting all that are given in the leading treatises already published, with about 1,200 new and original Variations which appear for the first time in this work, forming a thorough and complete digest and analysis of the Game with corrections and additions up to the present time. The number of moves aggregate nearly 100,000. Match play by Yates, Wylie, Barker and others, will be found regularly classified. A change has been made in the trunks generally, and throughout the whole work there appears much that is fresh and original, instead of the usual well-worn book play.

Bound in cloth, 8vo, 320 pages ~$3.00~

~Anderson's Checkers.~ Containing complete Instructions and rules for playing Checkers or Draughts. Illustrated with Diagrams; including all the Standard Games and their Variations, and numerous Problems with their Solutions. By Andrew Anderson. In a certain sense, this is a reprint of Anderson's Celebrated "Second Edition", revised, corrected and enlarged by Robert M'Culloch; that is, his play when sound is given intact, and where improvements have been shown they have been incorporated, and unsound play eliminated.

12mo, cloth ~$1.50~

~Spayth's American Draught Player; or the Theory and Practice of the Scientific Game of Checkers.~ Simplified and Illustrated with Practical Diagrams. Containing upwards of 1,700 Games and Positions. By Henry Spayth. Sixth edition with over three hundred Corrections and Improvements. Containing: The Standard Laws of the Game--Full instructions--Draught Board Numbered--Names of the Games, and how formed--The "Theory of the Move and its Changes" practically explained and illustrated with Diagrams--Playing Tables for Draught Clubs--New Systems of Numbering the Board--Prefixing signs to the Variations-- List of Draught Treatises and Publications chronologically arranged.

Bound in cloth, giltside and back ~$3.00~

~Dunne's Draughts-Player's Guide and Companion.~ By Frank Dunne. A thoroughly practical work, containing Instructions for beginners, standard Rules, the "Move" and its changes, End Games, Openings, Illustrative Games, Match Games, the Losing Game, and Problems, with their Solutions. Also the Spanish, Italian, Polish and Turkish varieties of the game.

12mo, cloth ~$1.50~

~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. It is profusely illustrated with diagrams of ingenious stratagems, curious positions and perplexing Problems and contains a great variety of interesting and instructive Games, progressively arranged and clearly explained with notes, so that the learner may easily comprehend them. With the aid of this Manual a beginner may soon become a proficient in the game.

Cloth, gilt side ~75 cts.~

~Scattergood's Game of Draughts, or Checkers Simplified and Explained.~ With practical Diagrams and Illustrations, together with a Checker-Board, numbered and printed in red. Containing the Eighteen Standard Games, with over 200 of the best variations selected from various authors, with some never before published. By D. Scattergood.

Bound in cloth, with flexible covers ~50 cts.~

CHESS AND CARD GAMES.

~Mortimer's Chess Players' Pocket-Book.~ A complete and handy Manual of all the known Openings and Gambits, with a thorough analysis of each, its variations and defense, the more intricate of which are instructively carried out beyond the opening moves. By James Mortimer. The special feature of this work is the manner in which the notation is arranged in tabular form, by which greater perspicuity is gained for study, and so reduces the bulk that it can easily be carried in the pocket for ready reference. This book is emphatically endorsed by all the leading Chess Critics.

Cloth, pocket size ~50 cts.~

~Gossip's Chess-Players' Text Book.~ It introduces a preliminary Game, elucidated step by step for the instruction of beginners. It gives a full and extended analysis of all the Openings and Gambits in general use, with illustrative Games analytically explained, and a number of interesting End-Games and Strategic positions calculated to afford advanced players a more thorough insight into the intricacies of the Game.

Bound in Cloth. 156 pages ~75 cts.~

~Marache's Manual of Chess.~ Containing a description of the Board and Pieces, Chess Notation, Technical Terms, with diagrams illustrating them. Laws of the Game, Relative Value of Pieces, Preliminary Games for beginners, Fifty Openings of Games, giving all the latest discoveries of Modern Masters, with the best games and copious notes; Twenty Endings of Games, showing easiest way of effecting checkmate; Thirty-six ingenious Diagram Problems, and sixteen curious Chess Stratagems, being one of the best Books for Beginners ever published. By N. Marache.

Bound in cloth, gilt side ~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.

18mo., cloth, flexible ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Hand-Book of Whist.~ Containing Pole's and Clay's Rules for playing the modern scientific game, the Club Rules of Whist, and two interesting Double Dummy Problems. This is a thorough treatise on the game of Whist, taken from "The American Hoyle" which is the standard authority. It covers all the points and intricacies which arise in the game; including the acknowledged code of etiquette observed by the players, with Drayson's remarks on Trumps, their use and abuse, and all the modern methods of signalling between partners.

~25 cts.~

~Pole on Whist.~ The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist. By William Pole, F.R.S. This complete and exhaustive Treatise on the Game is in handy form for the pocket, and affords lucid instructions at all stages of the game for partners to play in combination for their best interests.

14th Edition ~20 cts.~

~The Game of Euchre.~ Containing the Game tersely described, valuable hints and advice to learners, the latest rules, and all necessary directions for playing the Two-Handed, Three-Handed (or Cut-Throat) and Four-Handed Games, clearly explained.

Vest pocket size ~15 cts.~

ALBUM VERSES, ODD-FELLOWSHIP, &c.

~Dick's Original Album Verses and Acrostics.~ Containing a voluminous and varied collection of Original Verses written expressly

_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 ~50 cts.~ Bound in full cloth ~75 cts.~

~Sut Lovingood.~ Yarns spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool", Warped and Wove for Public Wear, by George W. Harris. Illustrated with eight fine full page engravings, from designs by Howard. It would be difficult, we think, to cram a larger amount of pungent humor into 300 pages than will be found in this really funny book. The Preface and Dedication are models of sly simplicity, and the 24 Sketches which follow are among the best specimens of broad burlesque to which the genius of the ludicrous, for which the Southwest is so distinguished, has yet given birth.

12mo., cloth ~$1.50~

~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. 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. By means of this book the hitherto occult mystery of Palmistry is made simple and easy, and the whole Art may be acquired without difficulty or delay. It is emphatically Palmistry in a nutshell, and by its use, character and disposition can be discerned and probable future destiny foretold with surprising accuracy.

Illuminated paper cover ~50 cts.~

~Lola Montez' Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet.~ _With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating._ Lola Montez here explains all the Arts employed by the celebrated beauties and ladies in Paris and other cities of Europe, for the purpose of preserving their beauty and improving and developing their charms. The recipes are all clearly given, so that any person can understand them.

Paper ~25 cts.~

~Lander's Revised Work of Odd-Fellowship.~ Containing all the Lectures, complete, with Regulations for Opening, Conducting, and Closing a Lodge; together with forms of Initiation, Charges of the Various Officers, etc., with the Complete work in the following degrees: Initiation; First, or Pink Degree; Second, or Royal Blue Degree; Third, or Scarlet Degree. By EDWIN F. LANDER. This hand-book of the Revised Work of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellowship has been prepared in conformity with the amendments and alterations adopted by the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Canada, September, 1880.

16mo, paper cover ~25 cts.~

READY RECKONERS AND LUMBER MEASURERS.

~Day's American Ready-Reckoner.~ This Ready-Reckoner is composed of Original Tables, which are positively correct, having been revised in the most careful manner. It is a book of 192 pages, and embraces more matter than 500 pages of any other Reckoner. It contains: Tables for Rapid Calculations of Aggregate Values, Wages, Salaries, Board, Interest Money, etc.; Tables of Timber and Plank Measurement; Tables of Board and Log Measurement, and a great variety of Tables and useful calculations which it would be impossible to enumerate in an advertisement of this limited space. All the information in this valuable book is given in a simple manner, and is made so plain, that any person can use it at once without any previous study or loss of time.

Boards ~50 cts.~ Cloth ~75 cts.~

~Brisbane's Golden Ready-Reckoner.~ Calculated in Dollars and Cents. Showing at once the amount or value of any number of articles or quantity of goods, or any merchandise, either by gallon, quart, pint, ounce, pound, quarter hundred, yard, foot, inch, bushel, etc., in an easy and plain manner.

Boards ~35 cts.~

~Dick's Log and Lumber Measurer.~ A complete set of Tables, with full instructions for their use, showing at a glance the cubical contents of logs and the feet of inch-boards they contain by Doyle's Rule, the measurement of timber of all kinds and dimensions, and all other necessary information for measuring and estimating the value of lumber according to present usages. It includes also useful and practical Tables of Wages by the day, week, and month, and valuable statistical matter of interest to carpenters, builders, and the lumber trade. All the tables are new, reliable, and proved correct.

Boards ~25 cts.~

~Row's Complete Fractional Ready Reckoner.~ For buying and selling any kind of merchandise, giving the fractional parts of a pound, yard, etc., from one-quarter to one thousand at any price from one-quarter of a cent to five dollars.

36mo, 232 pages. Boards ~50 cts.~

~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 week. By this book 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.

80 pages, half bound ~50 cts.~

~The Magicians Own Book; or, The Whole Art of Conjuring.~ A complete hand-book of Parlor Magic, containing over a thousand Optical, Chemical, Mechanical, Magnetic and Magical Experiments, Astonishing Sleights and Subtleties, Celebrated Card Deceptions, Ingenious Tricks with Numbers, curious and entertaining Puzzles, the art of Secret Writing, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.

Illustrated with over 500 wood-cuts, 12mo, cloth, gilt ~$1.50~

~The American Boy's Manual of Practical Mechanics.~ Prominent among the wide range of subjects embraced in this book are Carpentry and Carpenters' Tools; Plain and Ornamental Turning in Woods, Metal, etc.; the construction of various model Steam Engines and Steamboats; Boat and Canoe building, Telegraphy, and the various batteries employed; Electrotyping, Dioramas, Sand Clocks, Glass Blowing and Gilding on Glass; Magic Lanterns, and Calcium Lights; Aquaria; Telescopes; Balloons, and Fireworks; and other useful and ornamental appliances. Profusely illustrated.

169 pages, 8vo, paper ~50 cts.~ Bound in cloth ~$1.00~

HUMOROUS BOOKS.

~Dr. Valentine's Comic Lectures; or, Morsels of Mirth for the Melancholy.~ Containing Comic Lectures on Heads, Faces, Noses and Mouths; Comic Lectures on Animal Magnetism; Burlesque Specimens of Stump Eloquence; Transactions of Learned Societies; Comical Delineation of Eccentric Characters; Amusing Colloquies and Monologues. With twelve portraits of Dr. Valentine in character.

~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, etc. Illustrated.

Paper ~30 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.~

~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.

~25 cts.~

~Fox's Ethiopian Comicalities.~ Containing Strange Sayings, Eccentric Doings, Burlesque Speeches, Laughable Drolleries and Funny Stories, by the celebrated Ethiopian Comedian Charles Fox.

~10 cts.~

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~10 cts.~

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~10 cts.~

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~Black Wit and Darky Conversations.~ Containing laughable Anecdotes, Jokes and Darky Conversations.

~10 cts.~

~Broad Grins of the Laughing Philosopher.~ This book is full of the drollest and queerest incidents imaginable, interspersed with jokes, quaint sayings and funny pictures.

~13 cts.~

~Very, Very Funny.~ Containing the Cream of the best funny things published in "Puck", "The Detroit Free Press," "Norristown Herald," "Peck's Sun," "Texas Siftings," "Arkansaw Traveler," etc. No threadbare jokes, but everything fresh and profusely illustrated.

~10 cts.~

~How to Speak in Public; or, the Art of Extempore Oratory.~ A valuable manual for those who desire to become ready off-hand speakers; containing clear directions how to arrange ideas logically and quickly, including examples of speeches delivered by some of the greatest orators.

Paper ~25 cts.~

~Jack Johnson's Jokes for the Jolly.~ A collection of Funny Stories, Droll Incidents, Queer Conceits and Apt Repartees. Illustrating the Drolleries of Border Life in the West, Yankee Peculiarities, Dutch Blunders, French Sarcasms, Irish Wit and Humor, etc., with short Ludicrous Narratives.

Paper ~25 cts.~

~Snipsnaps and Snickerings of Simon Snodgrass.~ A collection of Laughable Irish Stories, Dutch Blunders, Yankee Tricks and Dodges, Backwoods Boasting, Humors of Horse-trading, Negro Comicalities, Frenchmen's Queer Mistakes, Scotch Shrewdness, and other phases of eccentric character. It is also full of funny engravings.

~25 cts.~

~The Strange and Wonderful Adventures of Bachelor Butterfly.~ Showing how his passion for Natural history completely eradicated the tender passion implanted in his breast--also detailing his Extraordinary Travels both by sea and land--his Hair-breadth Escapes from fire and cold--his being come over by a Widow with nine small children--and other Perils of a most extraordinary nature. The whole illustrated by about 200 engravings.

~30 cts.~

~The Laughable Adventures of Messrs. Brown, Jones, and Robinson.~ Showing where they went, and how they went, what they did and how they did it. Here is a book which will make you split your sides laughing. It shows the comical adventures of three jolly young greenhorns, who went travelling, and got into all manner of scrapes and funny adventures. Illustrated with nearly 200 comic engravings.

~30 cts.~

~The Jolly Joker; or, a Laugh all Round.~ An immense Collection of the Funniest Jokes, Drollest Anecdotes and most Side-Splitting Oddities in existence. The illustrations alone are sufficient for a constant and long-sustained series of good square laughs for all time. 12 mo, 144 pages.

Paper ~25 cts.~

~The Mishaps and Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck.~ This humorous and curious book sets forth, with 188 comic drawings, the misfortunes which befell Mr. Oldbuck; and also his five unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide--his hair-breadth escapes from fire, water and famine--his affection for his poor dog, etc. To look over this book will make you laugh, and you can't help it.

~30 cts.~

~Uncle Josh's Trunkful Of Fun.~ Containing a rich collection of

_Comical Stories, Cruel Sells_, _Side-Splitting Jokes, Humorous Poetical Drolleries_, _Quaint Parodies, Burlesque Sermons._ _New Conundrums, Mirth-Provoking Speeches._ _Curious Puzzles, Amusing Card Tricks, and_ _Astonishing Feats of Parlor-Magic._

This book is illustrated with nearly 200 funny engravings, and contains, in 64 large octavo double-column pages, at least three times as much reading matter and real fun as any other book of the price.

~15 cts.~