Part 5

~The Laws of Athletics.~ How to Preserve and Improve Health, Strength and Beauty; and to Correct Personal Defects caused by Want of Physical Exercise. How to Train for Walking, Running, Rowing, etc., with the Systems of the Champion Athletes of the World. Including the Latest Laws of all Athletic Games and How to Play Them. By William Wood, Professor of Gymnastics.

Paper ~25 cts.~

~Athletic Sports for Boys.~ Containing complete instructions in the manly accomplishments of Skating, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing, Horsemanship, Riding, Driving, Angling, Fencing and Broadsword. Illustrated with 194 wood-cuts.

Boards ~75 cts.~

~Dick's Art of Bowling; or, Bowler's Guide.~ Giving the correct method of playing, keeping the score, and the latest Rules which govern the American and German Games, with their most popular Variations, including also the latest Regulations adopted in Match Games and Tournaments. Fully illustrated with Diagrams, &c., explaining the arrangement of the Pins, and correct methods of keeping the games.

~25 cts.~

PHONOGRAPHY AND BOOK-KEEPING.

~Pitman's Phonographic Teacher.~ A Practical Guide to Phonography or Phonetic Short-Hand. By Isaac Pitman. New edition revised and improved. This is acknowledged to be the best and most practical system of Short-Hand, and this work is the only original, thorough and reliable one of that system, which presents the fewest difficulties and the widest resources, entirely dispensing with the aid of a Teacher; and, although every system involves patience, perseverance and steady practice, Pitman's method ensures a more speedy acquisition of fluency and rapidity than any other.

~20 cts.~

~Key to the Phonographic Teacher.~ An efficient aid to the learner in practicing and applying Pitman's Method of Short-hand, with exercises and explanations.

~20 cts.~

~Pitman's Manual of Phonography.~ Containing a complete exposition of the system of Phonetic Short-hand, with numerous short-hand examples interspersed with the text, and exercises in reading. This Manual of Isaac Pitman's System, which is now being introduced as the Text-Book of Phonography in our educational institutions, has been revised and corrected, year after year, by its inventor, and is now presented in its latest and fullest perfection. Its pre-eminence is endorsed by the fact that its sales have already reached 650,000.

Convenient pocket size ~40 cts.~

~Key to the Exercises in Pitman's Manual.~ A great help for students.

~20 cts.~

~Pitman's Phonographic Reporter; or, Reporter's Companion.~ An adaptation of Pitman's System to verbatim reporting. By Isaac Pitman. By the introduction of easily-acquired Phraseograms, Logograms, and other simple devices, time and labor are saved to such an extent that Reporters are enabled to keep pace with the most fluent speakers, and render accurate and verbatim reports, without elisions or condensation. This is the latest and crowning addition to the Phonographic art, and brings it up to the greatest practical perfection. Latest Edition, bound in boards.

~60 cts.~

~The Young Reporter; or, how to Write Shorthand.~ Intended to afford thorough instructions to those who have not the assistance of an Oral Teacher. By the aid of this work, and the explanatory examples which are given as exercises, any person of ordinary intelligence may learn to write Shorthand, and report Speeches and Sermons in a short time.

Boards ~50 cts.~

~Odell's System Of Short-Hand.~ (Taylor Improved.) By which the method of taking down sermons, lectures, trials, speeches, etc., may be easily acquired, without the aid of a master. By this plan the difficulties of mastering this useful art are very much lessened, and the time required to attain proficiency reduced to the least possible limits.

~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 combines the advantages of a handsome style of writing with its very simple and easily understood lessons in Book-keeping. The several pages have explanations at the bottom, in small type, to assist the learner. As a pattern for opening book accounts it is especially valuable--particularly for those who are not well posted in the art.

~50 cts.~

FREEMASONRY.

~Allyn's Ritual of Freemasonry.~ Containing a complete Key to the following Degrees: Degree of Entered Apprentice; Degree of Fellow Craft; Degree of Master Mason; Degree of Mark Master; Degree of Past Master; Degree of Excellent Master; Degree of Royal Arch; Royal Arch Chapter; Degree of Royal Master; Degree of Select Master; Degree of Super-Excellent Master; Degree of Ark and Dove; Degree of Knights of Constantinople; Degree of Secret Monitor; Degree of Heroine of Jericho; Degree of Knights of Three Kings; Mediterranean Pass; Order of Knights of the Red Cross; Order of Knights Templar and Knights of Malta; Knights of the Christian Mark, and Guards of the Conclave; Knights of the Holy Sepulchre; The Holy and Thrice Illustrious Order of the Cross; Secret Master; Perfect Master; Intimate Secretary; Provost and Judge; Intendant of the Buildings, or Master in Israel; Elected Knights of Nine; Elected Grand Master; Sublime Knights Elected; Grand Master Architect; Knights of the Ninth Arch; Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason. Illustrated with 38 copper-plate engravings; to which is added, a Key to the Phi Beta Kappa, Orange, and Odd Fellows Societies. By Avery Allyn, K. R. C. K. T. K. M., etc.

12mo, cloth ~$5.00~

~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 gives the correct routine of

_Opening and Closing the Lodge in each Degree._ _Calling off and Calling On._ _Calling the Lodge Up and Down._ _The Entire Ceremonies of Initiating, Passing and Raising Candidates._ _The Lectures all Ritually and Monitorially Complete._

Bound in cloth ~$2.00~ Leather tucks (pocket-book style) gilt edges ~2.50~

~Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor~; _or, Guide to the Three Symbolic Degrees of the Ancient York Rite, Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason_. And to the Degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, Most excellent Master, and the Royal Arch. By Malcolm C. Duncan. Explained and Interpreted by copious Notes and numerous Engravings. This is a valuable book for the Fraternity, containing, as it does, the Modern "Work" of the order. No Mason should be without it.

Bound in cloth ~$2.50~ Leather tucks (pocket-book style) with gilt edges ~3.00~

~Duncan's Rituale der Freimaurerei.~ A Guide, in the German language, to the Three Symbolic Degrees of the Ancient York Rite. Dieses Werk ist geschrieben, um den jungern Mitglieder des Ordens einen Leitfaden an die Hand zu geben, und gibt eine genaue Beschreibung aller in der _Arbeit_ gebrauchlichen Ceremonien, Zeichen, Worte, Griffe, u.s.w.

Leather tucks (pocket-book style), gilt edges ~$2.00~

~Richardson's Monitor of Freemasonry.~ A complete Guide to the various Ceremonies and Routine in Freemasons' Lodges, Chapters, Encampments, Hierarchies, etc., in all the Degrees, whether Modern, Ancient, Ineffable, Philosophical or Historical. Containing, also, the Lectures, Addresses, Charges, Signs, Tokens, Grips, Passwords, Regalias and Jewels in each Degree. Profusely illustrated with Explanatory Engravings, Plans of the interior of Lodges, etc.

Paper covers ~75 cts.~ Bound in gilt ~$1.25~ Bound in leather tucks (pocket-book style) ~$2.00~

BOOKS ON CARDS AND OTHER GAMES.

~The American Hoyle; or, Gentleman's Hand-Book of Games.~ By "Trumps". This work has long since been accorded the position of an exclusive authority on games played in America. The FIFTEENTH EDITION, now issued, newly arranged, in new type, contains all the latest novelties, as well as the recent changes in games already in vogue, profusely illustrated. Among the new games introduced in this edition are Rubicon Piquet, Rubicon Bézique, Grabouche, Solo Whist, Cayenne Whist, Domino Whist, Cinch or High Five, Baccarat Banque and Baccarat Chemin de Fer, etc. In the game of Whist, the new features are "Cavendish's" rules for play, with best leads, and a critical examination of the system of "American Leads", elucidated by card illustrations; also, the mode of procedure in Duplicate Whist. The various games of Billiards and Pool, with the rules adopted in matches and tournaments, are inserted by permission of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. The work also includes an exposition of the Doctrine of Chances.

Library Edition, 514 pages, 12 mo., cloth ~$1.50~ A cheaper edition, 16 mo., in paper covers ~50 cts.~ Bound in boards ~75 cts.~

~Hoyle's Games.~ By "Trumps". A complete Manual of the games of skill and chance as played in America, and an acknowledged "arbiter on all disputed points"; thoroughly revised and corrected in accordance with the latest and best authorities. It contains the modern laws and complete instructions for the games of Chess, Draughts, Dominoes, Dice, Backgammon, and Billiards, as well as the games with cards at present in vogue, including Baccarat, Duplicate Whist, Cayenne Whist, Hearts, Grabouche, Newmarket, Solo Whist, Cinch or High Five, etc.

Profusely illustrated. 16 mo, 514 pages, cloth ~$1.25~ Bound in boards ~75 cts.~ Paper covers ~50 cts.~

~"Trumps" New Card Games.~ Containing correct method and rules for playing the games of Hearts, Boodle, New Market, Five and Nine or Domino-Whist, Solo, and Cayenne Whist.

Paper covers ~25 cts.~

~Dick's Games of Patience; or Solitaire with Cards.~ New and Revised Edition. Containing Sixty-four Games. Illustrated with Fifty explanatory full-page Tableaux. This treatise on Solitaire embraces a number of new and original Games, and all the Games of Patience at present in favor with the most experienced players. Each game is carefully and lucidly described, with the distinctive rules to be observed and hints as to the best means of success in play. The Tableaux furnish efficient aid in rendering the disposition of the cards necessary to each game plain and easily comprehensible. The difficulty usually attending descriptions of intricate games is reduced, as far as possible, by precision in method and terseness of expression in the text, and the illustrations serve to dispel any possible ambiguity that might be unavoidable without their aid. Quarto, 143 pages.

Board cover ~75 cts.~ Cloth ~$1.00~

~Parlor Tricks with Cards.~ Containing explanations of all the Tricks and Deceptions with playing Cards ever invented. The whole illustrated and made plain and easy with 70 engravings.

Paper ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, with cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Modern Whist.~ Containing complete Rules and Instructions for playing, including the system of American Leads, play of the first, second, third and fourth hands, management of Trumps, Laws of the Game, etc. Compiled from the latest works of "Cavendish," the leading Modern Authority on Whist. By "Trumps."

Paper covers ~25 cts.~

ETIQUETTE AND PARLOR MAGIC.

~Frost's American Etiquette; or, Laws of Good Society.~ A condensed but thorough treatise on Etiquette and its Usages in America. Containing plain and reliable directions for correct deportment in every situation and under all circumstances in life, including special directions and instructions on the following subjects:--

_Dinner Company and Invitations_; _Visiting, and Visiting Cards_, _Traveling, Riding and Driving_; _Balls, Morning and Evening Parties_; _Calls, Conversation and Street Etiquette_; _Salutes and Salutations_; _Weddings, Baptisms and Funerals_; _Church and Places of Amusement_; _Introductions and Letters of Introduction_; _Children, Hotel, and Card Table_; _Ladies' and Gentlemen's Toilet_; _Letter Writing and Servants_.

BESIDES ONE HUNDRED UNCLASSIFIED LAWS APPLICABLE TO ALL OCCASIONS.

Paper covers ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Martine's Hand-Book of Etiquette and Guide to True Politeness.~ Containing clear and comprehensive directions for correct manners, conversation, dress, introductions, rules for good behavior at Dinner Parties and the Table, with the Etiquette of the Ball and Assembly Room, Evening Parties, and the usages to be observed when visiting or receiving calls; Deportment in the street and when traveling. To which is added the Etiquette of Courtship, Marriage, and fifty-six rules to be observed in general society.

Bound in boards ~50 cts.~ Bound in cloth, gilt sides ~75 cts.~

~How to Shine in Society; or, The Science of Conversation.~ Containing the principles, laws and general usages of polite society, including easily applied hints and directions for commencing and sustaining an agreeable conversation, and for choosing topics appropriate to the time, place and company, thus affording immense assistance to the bashful and diffident.

16mo. Paper covers ~25 cts.~

~How to Behave; or, The Spirit of Etiquette.~ A Guide to Polite Society, for Ladies and Gentlemen; containing rules for good behavior at the dinner table, in the parlor, and in the street; with important hints on introduction, conversation, etc.

~12 cts.~

~The Fireside Magician; or, The Art of Natural Magic Made Easy.~ Being a scientific explanation of Legerdemain, Recreative Chemistry, Diversion with Cards, and of all the mysteries of Mechanical Magic, comprising two hundred and fifty interesting mental and physical recreations, with explanatory engravings.

Paper ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~The Parlor Magician; or, One Hundred Tricks for the Drawing Room.~ Containing an extensive and miscellaneous collection of Conjuring, embracing: Tricks with Dice, Dominoes and Cards; Tricks with Ribbons, Rings and Fruit; Tricks with Coin, Handkerchiefs and Balls, etc. The whole illustrated with 121 engravings.

Paper ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards with cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Morgan's Freemasonry Exposed and Explained.~ Showing the Origin, History and Nature of Masonry, and containing a Key to all the Degrees of Freemasonry. Giving a clear and correct view of the manner of conferring the different degrees, as practiced in all Lodges.

~25 cts.~

MINSTREL JOKES AND STUMP SPEECHES.

~Dick's Stump Speeches and Minstrel Jokes.~ Containing Short and side-splitting Negro Acts and Farces, Eccentric Sketches, Stump Speeches, Darkey Lectures, End-Men's Jokes and Gags, Burlesque Sermons, Funny Dialogues, and everything necessary for a series of first-class Minstrel Entertainments; including the latest excruciations of modern Negro-Minstrelsy, and a number of startling originalities, risible rib-ticklers and hysterical button-starters.

Paper ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches.~ Containing an inexhaustible collection of End-Men's Jokes.

_Negro Interludes and Farces_; _Fresh Dialogues for Interlocutor and Banjo_; _New Stump Speeches_; _Humorous Lectures_; _Dialect Sketches and Eccentricities_; _Dialogues and Repartee for Interlocutor and Bones_; _Quaint Burlesque Sermons_; _Jokes, Quips and Gags_.

Paper covers ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Tambo's End-Men's Minstrel Gags.~ Containing some of the best jokes and repartees of the most celebrated "burnt cork" performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. Also containing a rich collection of Darkey Dialogues, Sketches, Plantation Scenes, Eccentric Doings, Humorous Lectures, Laughable Interludes, Burlesque Stump Speeches, Mirth-provoking Witticisms, Conundrums, Yarns, Plantation Songs and Dances, etc., etc. Everything new and rich.

Paper covers ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Brudder Bones' Book of Stump Speeches and Burlesque Orations.~ Also containing Humorous Lectures, Ethiopian Dialogues, Plantation Scenes, Negro Farces and Burlesques, Laughable Interludes and Comic Recitations, interspersed with Dutch, Irish, French and Yankee Stories. This book contains some of the best hits and mirth-provoking jokes and repartees of the most celebrated End-Men of the day. Paper covers.

Price ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Howard's Book of Conundrums and Riddles.~ Containing over 1,200 of the best Conundrums, Riddles, Enigmas, Ingenious Catches and Amusing Sells ever invented. This splendid collection of curious paradoxes will afford the material for a never-ending feast of fun and amusement. Any person, with the assistance of this book, may take the lead in entertaining a company, and keep them in roars of laughter for hours together.

Paper covers ~30 cts.~ Bound in boards, cloth back ~50 cts.~

~Rowan's Riddles and Conundrums.~ A very choice gathering of Ancient, Modern, and quite recent Riddles and Conundrums, quaintly arranged, for amusement and merriment on opportune occasions. A first-rate pocket companion for Picnics and Winter Evenings.

~15 cts.~

~Dick's Book of Alphabets.~ Containing a great variety of designs for plain and Fanciful Alphabets, Numerals and illuminated Initial letters in various colors, and elegant in style. It includes specimens of modern Ornamental designs, and of the ancient grotesque, Arabesque, and other eccentric devices for decoration and illumination, mainly gathered from rare old vellums and scarce books of past centuries. This work will be appreciated by Architects, Decorators, Designers, Draughtsmen, etc.

Oblong quarto, full cloth ~$1.50~

GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS.

~Dick's Parlor Exhibitions, and How to Make them Successful.~ Containing complete and detailed directions for preparing and arranging Parlor Exhibitions and Amateur Performances. It includes:

_Tableaux Vivants._ _Living Portraits._ _Living Statuary._ _Dame History's Peep Show._ _Shadow Pantomimes._ _Popular Ballads illustrated by appropriate action._ _Charades of all kinds._ _Parlor Pantomimes._ _Punch and Judy._

AND FIFTY OTHER DIVERTING PARLOR PASTIMES AND AMUSEMENTS.

It contains also a full Catalogue of the Celebrated "ART EXHIBITION," and a practical treatise on the wonderful SCIENCE OF SECOND SIGHT.

This work is thoroughly practical and gives the fullest instructions for preparing and lighting the stage, the construction of the FRAMES FOR LIVING PORTRAITS, and shows how each performance can be presented with complete success. It is illustrated with numerous engravings explaining the text.

150 pages, paper ~30 cts.~

~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. Surpassing 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 A NEW VERSION OF THE CELEBRATED "MRS. JARLEY'S WAX WORKS".

Illustrated by sixty fine wood engravings. Paper ~30 cts.~

~The Book of Fireside Games.~ Containing an explanation of a variety of Witty, Rollicking, Entertaining and Innocent Games and Amusing Forfeits, suited to the Family Circle as a Recreation. This book is just the thing for social gatherings, parties and picnics.

Paper covers. ~30 cts.~

~The Book Of 500 Curious Puzzles.~ A collection of Curious Puzzles and Paradoxes, Deceptions in Numbers, Amusing Tricks in Geometry; illustrated with a great variety of engravings.

Paper ~30 cts.~

~How to Amuse an Evening Party.~ A Complete collection of Home Recreations. Profusely Illustrated with over Two Hundred fine wood-cuts, containing Round Games and Forfeit Games, Parlor Magic and Curious Puzzles, Comic Diversions and Parlor Tricks, Scientific Recreations and Evening Amusements.

Paper ~30 cts.~

~Book of Riddles and 500 Home Amusements.~ Containing a curious collection of Riddles, Charades and Enigmas; Rebuses, Anagrams and Transpositions; Conundrums and Amusing Puzzles: Recreations in Arithmetic, and Queer Sleights, and numerous other Entertaining Amusements. Illustrated with 60 engravings.

Paper ~30 cts.~

[asterism] Any of the above may be had bound in boards. Price 50 cts.

~The Secret Out; or 1,000 Tricks with Cards, and Other Recreations.~ Illustrated with over 300 engravings. A book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards ever known, and gives, besides, a great many new ones. The whole being described so carefully, with engravings to illustrate them, that anybody can easily learn how to perform them. This work also contains 240 of the best Tricks of Legerdemain, in addition to the Card Tricks.

400 pages, cloth ~$1.50~

~Dick's Dutch, French and Yankee Dialect Recitations.~ An unsurpassed Collection of Droll Dutch Blunders, Frenchmen's Funny Mistakes, and Ludicrous and Extravagant Yankee Yarns, each Recitation being in its own dialect.

DUTCH DIALECT.

Der Mule Shtood on der Steamboad Deck. Go Vay, Becky Miller. Der Drummer. Mygel Snyder's Barty. Snyder's Nose. Dyin' Vords of Isaac. Fritz und I. Betsey und I Hafe Bust Ub. Schneider sees Leah. Dot Funny Leetle Baby. Schnitzerl's Philosopede. Der Dog und der Lobster. Schlosser's Ride. Mine Katrine. Maud Muller. Ein Deutsches Lied. Hans and Fritz. Schneider's Tomatoes. Deitsche Advertisement. Vas Bender Henshpecked. Life, Liberty and Lager. Der Goot Lookin' Shnow. Mr. Schmidt's Mistake. Home Again. Dot Surprise Party. Der Wreck of der Hezberus. Isaac Rosenthal on the Chinese Question. Hans Breitmann's Party. Shoo Flies. A Dutchman's Answer. How Jake Schneider Went Blind. I Vash so Glad I Vash Here. The Dutchman and the Yankee. How the Dutchman Killed the Woodchuck. Der Nighd Pehind Grisdmas. The Dutchman's Snake. Yoppy's Varder und Hees Drubbles. Dhree Shkaders. Katrina Likes Me Poody Vell. Hans in a Fix. Leedle Yawcob Strauss. How a Dutchman was Done. Dot Lambs vot Mary Haf Got. The Yankee and the Dutchman's Dog. Zwei Lager. Schneider's Ride. The Dutchman and the Small-pox. Tiamondts on der Prain. A Dutchman's Testimony in a Steamboat Case. Hans Breitmann and the Turners.

FRENCH DIALECT.