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Ever invented, and which are illustrated with Engravings to make each trick understood with ease.

The Magician's Own Book

OR,

THE WHOLE ART OF CONJURING.

Being a Complete Hand-Book of Parlor Magic, containing over One Thousand Optical, Chemical, Mechanical, Magnetical, and Magical Experiments, Amusing Transmutations, Astonishing Sleights and Subtleties, Celebrated Card Deceptions, Ingenious Tricks with Numbers, Curious and Entertaining Puzzles--together with all the most Noted Tricks of Modern Performers.

The whole Illustrated with over 500 Wood Cuts, And intended as a source of Amusement for ONE THOUSAND AND ONE EVENINGS.

12mo, cloth, 400 pages, gilt side and back stamp. Price ONE DOLLAR, sent free of postage.

Here is a book for the long winter evenings, and one that will make all merry and happy. It contains over a THOUSAND TRICKS, of every description; and they are all explained so clear and explicitly, that any person can comprehend and perform them with ease. It also contains numerous CURIOUS PUZZLES, with patterns showing how they are done, any one of which will afford amusement enough for a whole evening.

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A Book of Never-Ending Entertainment.

THE SOCIABLE;

OR,

One Thousand and One Home Amusements.

CONTAINING

ACTING PROVERBS, DRAMATIC CHARADES, ACTING CHARADES, OR DRAWING-ROOM PANTOMIMES, MUSICAL BURLESQUES, TABLEAUX VIVANTS, PARLOR GAMES, GAMES OF ACTION, FORFEITS, SCIENCE IN SPORT AND PARLOR MAGIC, AND A CHOICE COLLECTION OF CURIOUS MENTAL AND MECHANICAL PUZZLES, &c.

By the author of "The Magician's Own Book."

Illustrated with nearly 300 Engravings and Diagrams,

THE WHOLE BEING A FUND OF NEVER-ENDING ENTERTAINMENT.

Nearly 400 pages, 12mo., Cloth, gilt side stamp, $1.00.

"The Sociable" will be found one of the most extensively popular family books ever issued from the press. As its title implies, it is a collection--a complete _repertoire_--of the

AMUSEMENTS OF HOME,

Embracing a large and comprehensive list of recreative pastimes, arranged as follows:

Parlor Theatricals, including Acting Proverbs, Acting Charades, Dramatic Charades and Tableaux Vivants; Games of Action; Games requiring Memory and Attention; Games requiring Wit and Intelligence; Ruses, or Catch Games; Forfeits; Puzzles; Fireside Games for Winter Evenings, and Science in Sport, and Parlor Magic.

Many of these Games--the majority of them--are ENTIRELY NEW, as are, also, the

PARLOR THEATRICALS

AND

TABLEAUX VIVANTS,

Which were PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK. Everything in the book is superior of its kind--the greatest care hiving been taken to exclude everything that was not above the standard of mediocrity in interest and ingenuity. It is

THE ONLY BOOK

OF THIS KIND

Ever Published in America,

And as it will be invaluable to Families, Schools, Social Clubs, etc., as a book of reference on all matters of Amusement and Recreation, there must be a steady and permanent demand for it at all seasons and in all years, although few of the so-called "Holiday Books" are as appropriate for Gifts as THE SOCIABLE.

Each department is AMPLY ILLUSTRATED with

BEAUTIFUL WOOD ENGRAVINGS

Which render the Text clear, and fully explain all the Puzzles, the Mechanical Contrivances mentioned, and other things difficult to describe in writing. It is elegantly bound, so as to be an ornament to any center-table, and its typographical execution is a specimen of the highest excellence.

The need of such a collection of HOME GAMES has long been felt, and the publishers believe that this endeavor on their part, to supply that want, must meet with the fullest success. They have spared neither trouble nor expense to render it a complete and invaluable _vade mecum_ of Domestic Amusements, so that its name may be familiar as a "Household Word" in all families, north, south, east and west, where the value of wholesome and innocent recreation is recognized.

Price only One Dollar, bound in cloth, with gilt side and back stamp, sent to any address in the United States, free of postage. Send cash orders to

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The Perfect Gentleman;

Or, ETIQUETTE AND ELOQUENCE.

A Book of Information and Instruction for those who desire to become Brilliant or Conspicuous in General Society, or at Parties, Dinners or Popular Gatherings, &c.

A handsome volume of 335 pages, beautifully bound and gilt. Price $1 00.

This is not only a valuable book of reference, but it contains minute Instructions for Gentlemen in all those modern accomplishments which have become almost a necessity in this age of refinement. It gives directions how to use Wine at Table, with rules for judging the quality thereof--Rules for Carving, and a complete Etiquette of the Dinner Table, including Dinner Speeches, Toasts and Sentiments, Wit and Conversation at Table, &c. It has also an American Code of Etiquette and Politeness for all occasions--Model Speeches, with directions how to deliver them--Duties of the Chairman at Public Meetings, Forms of Preambles and Resolutions, &c. In short, this book will give a man every possible information he may desire to enable him to appear to good advantage in either public or private life. It is a choice book that any gentleman will find a valuable addition to his library. We expect to sell at least one hundred thousand copies of this work, and the price is correspondingly low.

Art of Dancing without a Master;

Or, Ball Room Guide and Instructor.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

Hints on Etiquette; also, The Figures, Music and Necessary Instruction for the Performance of the most Modern and Improved Dances.

By EDWARD FERRERO, Professor of Dancing at West Point.

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ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE PAGES OF THE CHOICEST MUSIC,

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+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber notes: | | | | p. vi. 'Cumbustion without Flame,' changed 'Cumbustion' to | | 'Combustion'. | | P. 18. 'diaphonous' changed to 'diaphanous' as in 'diaphanous | | bodies'. | | P. 29. 'here it' changed to 'here is'. | | P. 32. 'the stall' changed to 'the stalk.'. | | P. 38. 'the performed', changed 'performed' to 'performer'. | | P. 61. 'Several t icks', should read 'Several tricks', fixed. | | P. 74. 'convinience' changed to 'convenience'. | | P. 76. 'supicion' changed to 'suspicion'. | | P. 93. 'the smooth', changed 'the' to 'them'. | | P. 94. 'sacer' changed to 'saucer'. | | P. 101. 'appearence' changed to 'appearance'. | | P. 103. 'lines will will', changed to 'lines will'. | | P. 105. 'salt of strontian', changed 'strontian' to 'strontium'. | | P. 105. 'will loose', changed 'loose' to 'lose'. | | P. 122. 'seperated' changed to 'separated'. | | P. 130. 'ja' changed to 'jar'. | | P. 141. 'the crd, aon' changed to 'the crd, on'. | | P. 142. 'thst the' changed to 'that the'. | | P. 160. 'these are are' changed to 'these are'. | | P. 167. 'sprinke some powdered camphor', changed 'sprinke' to | | 'sprinkle'. | | P. 169. 'preduce similar effects', changed 'preduce' to 'produce'. | | P. 175. Fig. 2 'REFRACTING STERESCOPE' changed to 'REFRACTING | | STEREOSCOPE'. | | P. 192. 'blow throw the quill' changed 'throw' to 'through'. | | P. 195. 'calcuated' changed to 'calculated'. | | P. 196. 'abou' chanaged to 'about'. | | P. 198. 'phemomena of nature.', changed 'phemomena' to 'phenomena'.| | P. 201. 'perpindicular' changed to 'perpendicular'. | | P. 210. 'half of tha triple', changed 'tha' to 'that'. | | P. 214. 'a little scrunity' changed 'scrunity' to 'scrutiny'. | | P. 216. 'in successsion' changed to 'in succession'. | | P. 225. 'proceded' changed to 'proceeded'. | | P. 253. Added two missing em dashes to answers. | | P. 254. 'put suppose the', changed 'put' to 'but'. | | P. 255. 'put prior', changed 'put' to 'but'. | | P. 284. 'when you clearl', changed 'clearl' to 'clearly'. | | P. 288. '48. A MAZE OR LABRYINTH.'; changed 'LABRYINTH' to | | 'LABYRINTH'. | | P. 303. 'line us the basis', changed 'us' to 'as'. | | P. 305. 'will readly', changed 'readly' to 'readily'. | | P. 306. 'the forms therto)', changed 'therto' to 'thereto'. | | P. 307. 'Fig 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,', changed 'Fig' to 'Figs.' | | P. 307. 'With this uplex', changed 'uplex' to 'duplex'. | | P. 307. 'several direetions', changed 'direetions' to 'directions'.| | P. 316. 'illustrations o', changed 'o' to 'of'. | | P. 317. 'In desigining' changed 'desigining' to 'designing'. | | P. 320. 'first (Fig.', changed to 'first (Fig. 54)'. | | P. 349. 'and unlimited' changed to 'an unlimited'. | | P. 351. 'the flottom' changed to 'the bottom'. | | P. 353. 'beng reflected' changed to 'being reflected'. | | P. 353. 'mithltiplied' changed to 'multiplied'. | | Add: Inquire Within... 'populur' changed to 'popular'. | | Changed 'fradulent' to 'fraudulent'. | | Add: 'The Reason Why:' changed 'lightining' to 'lightning'. | | Add: 'Live and Learn;' changed 'recommonded' to 'recommend'. | | Add: 'Amusements of Home,' changed 'pastime' to 'pastimes'. | | Add: 'PARLOR THEATRICALS' changed 'everthing' to 'everything'. | | Add: 'Chesterfield's Art of Letter-writing' changed 'Busines' | | to 'Business'. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+