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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

⁂ 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.

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.

• The Frenchman's Dilemma; or, Number Five Collect Street.
• The Frenchman's Revenge.
• Noozell and the Organ Grinder.
• How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull.
• Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise.
• The Frenchman and the Landlord.
• The Frenchman and the Sheep's Trotters.
• A Frenchman's Account of the Fall.
• I Vant to Fly.
• The Generous Frenchman.
• The Frenchman and the Flea Powder.
• The Frenchman and the Rats.
• Monsieur Tonson.
• Vat You Please.
• The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes.
• The Frenchman's Patent Screw.
• The Frenchman's Mistake.
• Monsieur Mocquard Between Two Fires.

YANKEE DIALECT.

• Mrs. Bean's Courtship.
• Hez and the Landlord.
• Squire Billings' Pickerel.
• Deacon Thrush in Meeting.
• The Yankee Fireside.
• Peter Sorghum in Love.
• Mrs. Smart Learns how to Skate.
• Capt. Hurricane Jones on the Miracles.
• The Dutchman and the Yankee.
• The Yankee Landlord.
• The Bewitched Clock.
• The Yankee and the Dutchman's Dog.
• Aunt Hetty on Matrimony.
• The Courtin'.
• Ebenezer on a Bust.
• Sut Lovingood's Shirt.

This Collection contains all the best dialect pieces that are incidentally scattered through a large number of volumes of "Recitations and Readings," besides new and excellent sketches never before published.

Dick's Irish Dialect Recitations. A carefully compiled Collection of Rare Irish Stories, Comic, Poetical and Prose Recitations, Humorous Letters and Funny Recitals, all told with the irresistible Humor of the Irish dialect. Containing

• Biddy's Troubles.
• Birth of St. Patrick, The.
• Connor.
• Dermot O'Dowd.
• Dick Macnamara's Matrimonial Adventures.
• Dying Confession of Paddy M'Cabe.
• Father Molloy.
• Father Phil Blake's Collection.
• Father Roach.
• Fight of Hell-Kettle, The.
• Handy Andy's Little Mistakes.
• How Dennis Took the Pledge.
• How Pat Saved his Bacon.
• Irish Astronomy.
• Irish Coquetry.
• Irish Drummer, The.
• Irish Letter, An.
• Irish Philosopher, The.
• Irish Traveler, The.
• Irishman's Panorama, The.
• Jimmy McBride's Letter.
• Jimmy Butler and the Owl.
• King O'Toole and St. Kevin.
• Kitty Malone.
• Love in the Kitchen.
• Micky Free and the Priest.
• Miss Malony on the Chinese Question.
• Mr. O'Hoolahan's Mistake.
• Paddy Blake's Echo.
• Paddy Fagan's Pedigree.
• Paddy McGrath and the Bear.
• Paddy O'Rafther.
• Paddy the Piper.
• Paddy's Dream.
• Pat and the Fox.
• Pat and the Gridiron.
• Pat and his Musket.
• Pat and the Oysters.
• Pat's Criticism.
• Pat's Letter.
• Pat O'Flanigan's Colt.
• Patrick O'Rouke and the Frogs.
• Paudeen O'Rafferty's Say Voyage.
• Peter Mulrooney and the Black Filly.
• Phaidrig Crohoore.
• Rory O'More's Present to the Priest.
• St. Kevin.
• Teddy O'Toole's Six Bulls.
• Wake of Tim O'Hara, The.
• Widow Cummiskey, The.

This Collection contains, in addition to new and original pieces, all the very best Recitations in the Irish dialect that can be gathered from a whole library of "Recitation" books. It is full of sparkling witticisms and it furnishes also a fund of entertaining matter for perusal in leisure moments.

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. This Book is full of Burnt-Cork Drolleries, Funny Stories, Colored Conundrums, Gags and Witty Repartee, all the newest side-splitting conversations between Tambo, Bones, and the Interlocutor, and will be found useful alike to the professional and amateur performer. Contents:

• A Bird that can't be Plucked
• Annihilating Time
• At Last
• Bashful
• Bet, The
• Big Fortune, A
• Blackberrying
• Black Swan, The
• Bones and his little Game
• Bones and the Monkey Tricks
• Bones as a Fortune Teller
• Bones as a Legitimate Actor
• Bones as a Pilot
• Bones as a Prize Fighter
• Bones as a "Stugent"
• Bones as a Traveler
• Bones as a Victim to the Pen
• Bones as a Walkist
• Bones assists at the Performance of a New Piece
• Bones attends a Seance
• Bones finds Himself Famous
• Bones gets Dunned
• Bones gets Stuck
• Bones has a Small Game with the Parson
• Bones' Horse Race
• Bones in an Affair of Honor
• Bones In Love
• Bones keeps a Boarding House
• Bones on the War Path
• Bones on George Washington
• Bones on the Light Fantastic
• Bones Opens a Spout Shop
• Bones Plays O'Fella
• Bones sees a Ghost
• Bones Slopes with Sukey Sly
• Bones tells a "Fly" Story
• Brother will come home tonight
• Bones as a Carpet Bagger
• Bones as an Inkslinger
• Bones in a New Character
• Bones in Clover
• Bones' Love Scrape
• "Cullud" Ball, The
• Conundrums
• Curious Boy
• Dancing Mad
• Dat's What I'd Like to Know
• Definitions
• De Mudder of Inwention
• Difference, The
• Don't Kiss every Puppy
• "Far Away in Alabam'"
• First White Man, The
• Fishy Argument
• Four-Eleven-Forty-Four
• Four Meetings, The
• From the Polks
• Girl at the Sewing Machine
• Hard Times
• Hard to take a Hint
• Heavy Spell, A
• Highfalutin'
• Horrible!
• How Bones became a Minstrel
• How Tambo took his Bitters
• How to do it
• Impulsive Oration
• Inquisitive
• Jeallusest of her Sect
• Legal Problem, A
• Liberal Discount for Cash
• Manager in a Fix, The
• Mathematics
• Merry Life, A
• Momentous Question
• Mosquitoes
• Music
• Notes
• Ob Course
• Our Shop Girls
• Pomp and Ephy Green
• Presidency on de Brain
• Proposed Increase of Taxes
• Railroad Catastrophe
• Reality versus Romance
• Rough on Tambo
• Sassy Sam and Susie Long
• School's In
• Shakespeare with a Vengeance
• Simple Sum in Arithmetic
• Sleighing in the Park
• Sliding Down the Hill
• Style
• Sublime
• Swearing by Proxy
• Tambo's Traveling Agent
• That Dear Old Home
• "The Pervisions, Jostar"
• Thieves
• Tonsorial
• Toast, A
• Uncle Eph's Lament
• Waiting to See Him Off
• You Bet
• And 40 popular songs and dances.

McBride's Comic Speeches and Recitations. Designed for Schools, Literary and Social Circles. By H. Elliott McBride, Author of "McBride's Humorous Dialogues," etc., etc. This is one of the very best series of original speeches, in Yankee, Darkey, Spread-Eagle and village styles, with a number of diverting addresses and recitations, and funny stories, forming an excellent volume of selections for supplying the humorous element of an exhibition. Contents:

• A Burst of Indignation
• Disco'se by a Colored Man
• A Trumpet Sarmon
• Sarmon on Skilletvillers
• Nancy Matilda Jones
• Hezekiah's Proposal
• About the Billikinses
• Betsy and I are Out Once More
• A Stump Speech
• About Katharine
• Deborah Doolittle's Speech on Women's Rights
• A Salutatory
• A Mournful Story
• An Address to Schoolboys
• Zachariah Popp's Courtship and Marriage
• A Sad Story
• How to Make Hasty Pudding
• My Matilda Jane
• Courtship, Marriage, Separation and Reunion
• Lecture by a Yankee
• A Colored Man's Disco'se on Different Subjects
• A Girl's Address to Boys
• McSwinger's Fate
• Peter Peabody's Stump Speech
• Mr. Styx Rejoices on Account of a New Well Spring
• Victuals and Drink
• Speech by Billy Higgins on the Destruction of His Rambo Apple Tree
• A Boy's Address to Young Ladies
• An Old Man's Address to Young Wives
• Salu-ta-tat-n-a-ry
• Valedictory.

Beecher's Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic. Designed for Public and Private Exhibitions. Contents:

• Miss Maloney at the Dentist's
• Lost and Found
• Mygel Snyder's Barty
• Magdalena
• Jim Wolfe and the Cats
• The Woolen Doll
• The Charity Dinner
• Go-Morrow or, Lot's Wife
• The Wind and the Moon
• Dyin' Words of Isaac
• Maude Muller in Dutch
• Moses the Sassy
• Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"
• Paddy the Piper
• Schneider sees "Leah"
• Caldwell of Springfield
• Artemus Ward's Panorama
• Tale of a Servant Girl
• How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull
• Tiamondts on der Prain
• King Robert of Sicily
• Gloverson the Mormon
• De Pint wid Ole Pete
• Pat and the Pig
• The Widow Bedott's Letter
• The Cry of the Children
• The Dutchman and the Small-pox
• Sculpin
• Rats—Descriptive Recitation
• A Reader Introduces Himself to an Audience
• A Dutchman's Dolly Varden
• "Rock of Ages"
• Feeding the Black Fillies
• The Hornet
• The Glove and the Lions
• I Vant to Fly
• That Dog of Jim Smiley's
• The Faithful Soul
• "My New Pittayatees"
• Mary Ann's Wedding
• An Inquiring Yankee
• The Three Bells
• Love in a Balloon
• Mrs. Brown on the Streets
• Shoo Flies
• Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Bosan
• Without the Children
• Signor Billsmethi's Dancing Academy
• Der Goot Lookin Shnow
• The Jumping Frog
• The Lost Chord
• The Tale of a Leg
• That West-side Dog
• How Dennis Took the Pledge
• The Fisherman's Summons
• Badger's Debut as Hamlet
• Hezekiah Stole the Spoons
• Paddy's Dream
• Victuals and Drink
• How Jake Schneider Went Blind
• Aurelia's Young Man
• Mrs. Brown on Modern Houses
• Farm Yard Song
• Murphy's Pork Barrel
• The Prayer Seeker
• An Extraordinary Phenomenon
• The Case of Young Bangs
• A Mule Ride in Florida
• Dhree Shkaders

Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing the following Rich Collection of Negro Dialogues, Scenes, Farces, End-Men's Jokes, Gags, Rollicking Stories, Excruciating Conundrums, Questions and Answers for Bones, Tambo and Interlocutor, etc. Contents:

• I's Gwine to Jine de Masons
• Jes' Nail dat Mink to de Stable Do'—Oration
• But the Villain still Pursued Her—A Thrilling Tale
• Bones at a Free-and-Easy
• Buncombe Speech
• Shakespeare Improved
• End Gag—Bones and Tambo
• A Man of Nerve—Comic Sketch
• End Gag—Bones and Tambo
• Uncle Pete—Darkey Sketch
• The Rival Darkeys
• The Stage-Struck Darkey
• Add Ryman's Fourth of July Oration
• Absent-Mindedness—Bones and Tambo
• Don't Call a Man a Liar
• The Mysterious Darkey
• Rev Uncle Jim's Sermon
• The 'Possum-Run Debating Society
• Tim Murphy's Irish Stew
• Brudder Bones in Love—Interlocutor and Bones
• 'Lixey: or, The Old Gum Game—Negro Scene
• Brudder Bones' Duel
• Brudder Bones' Sweetheart
• Brudder Bones in Hard Luck
• Two Left-Bones and Tambo
• Speech on Boils
• How Bones Cured a Smoky Chimney
• Sermon on Keards, Hosses, Fiddlers, etc.
• Huggin' Lamp-Posts
• Not Opposed to Matrimony
• How Pat Sold a Dutchman
• The Coopers—one Act Farce
• Questions Easily Answered—Bones and Tambo
• Examination in Natural History—Minstrel Dialogue
• O'Quirk's Sinecure
• The Widower's Speech
• Bones at a Raffle
• Uncle Pete's Sermon
• Bones at a Soiree—Interlocutor and Bones
• Speech on Woman's Rights
• Bones' Discovery
• Mark Twain Introduces Himself—Characteristic Speech
• Speech on Happiness
• Burnt Corkers—Minstrel Dialogue
• The Nervous Woman
• The Five Senses—Minstrel Dialogue
• The Dutchman's Experience
• Essay on the Wheelbarrow
• Bones at a Pic-Nic
• The Virginia Mummy—Negro Farce
• Brudder Bones in Clover
• Artemus Ward's Advice to Husbands
• Where the Lion Roareth, and the Wang-Doodle Mourneth
• Romeo and Juliet in 1880
• Artemus Ward's Panorama
• Brudder Bones as a Carpet-Bagger—Interlocutor and Bones
• Major Jones' Fourth of July Oration
• Curiosities for a Museum—Minstrel Dialogue
• Burlesque Oration on Matrimony
• Brudder Bones on the Raging Canawl
• The Snackin'-Turtle Man—Ethiopian Sketch
• Bones' Dream—Ethiopian Sketch
• Come and Hug Me
• Widow O'Brien's Toast
• Scenes at the Police Court—Musical Minstrel Dialogue
• Brudder Bones as a Log-Roller
• De Pint Wid Old Pete—Negro Dialect Recitation
• A Touching Appeal—Dutch Dialect Recitation
• Wounded in the Corners
• Darkey Dialogue
• End Gag—Interlocutor and Bones

Kavanaugh's New Speeches and Dialogues for Young Children. Containing easy pieces in plain language, readily understood by little children, and expressly adapted for School Exhibitions and Christmas and other juvenile celebrations. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh. This is an entirely new series of Recitations and Dialogues by this author, and full of pieces, in her well-known style of familiar simplicity, admirably calculated to give the little ones additional opportunities to distinguish themselves before an audience. It contains the following:

Howard's Recitations. Comic, Serious and Pathetic. Collection of fresh Recitations in Prose and Poetry, suitable for Anniversaries, Exhibitions, Social Gatherings, and Evening Parties. Contents:

• Miss Malony on the Chinese Question
• Kit Carson's Ride
• Buck Fanshaw's Funeral
• Knocked About
• Puzzled Dutchman
• Shamus O'Brien
• Naughty Little Girl
• Bells of Shandon
• No Sect in Heaven
• Rory O'Moore's Present
• "Mother's Fool"
• Queen Elizabeth—a Comic Oration
• The Starling
• Lord Dundreary's Riddle
• The Stuttering Lass
• The Irish Traveler
• The Remedy as Bad as the Disease
• A Subject for Dissection
• The Heathen Chinee
• Mona's Waters
• A Showman on the Woodchuck
• How Happy I'll Be
• A Frenchman's Account of the Fall
• Isabel's Grave
• Parson and the Spaniel
• An Irishman's Letter
• Irish Letter
• The Halibut in Love
• The Merry Soap-Boiler
• The Unbeliever
• The Voices at the Throne
• Dundreary Proposing
• The Fireman
• Paul Revere's Ride
• Annie and Willie's Prayer
• A Frenchman on Macbeth
• The New Church Organ
• Katrina Likes me Poody Vell
• How to Save a Thousand Pounds
• How I Got Invited to Dinner
• Patient Joe
• Jimmy Butler and the Owl
• The Menagerie
• Old Quizzle
• Infidel and Quaker
• The Lawyer and the Chimney-Sweeper
• Bill Mason's Bride
• Judging by Appearances
• The Death's Head
• Betsey and I are Out
• Betsey Destroys the Paper
• Father Blake's Collection
• Blank Verse in Rhyme
• Roguery Taught
• Banty Tim
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Deacon Hezekiah
• The Frenchman and the Landlord
• The Family Quarrel—A Dialogue on the Sixteenth Amendment
• The Guess
• Atheist and Acorn
• Brother Watkins
• Hans in a Fix
• To-Morrow
• The Highgate Butcher
• The Lucky Call
• Challenging the Foreman
• Country Schoolmaster
• The Matrimonial Bugs and the Travelers
• Peter Sorghum in Love
• Tim Tuff
• Nick Van Stann
• The Debating Society
• Deacon Stokes
• To Our Honored Dead
• The Dying Soldier
• The Yankee Fireside
• The Suicidal Cat
• The Son's Wish

Spencer's Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations. A collection of Comic Speeches and Dialogues, Dramatic Scenes and Characteristic Soliloquies and Stories Suitable for School Exhibitions. Contents:

• Comic Prologue and Introduction
• The Yankee Landlord
• His Eye was Stern
• The Goddess of Slang
• Dick, the Apprentice
• Courting in French Hollow
• The Case Altered
• Fox and the Ranger
• The Declaration
• The Warrantee Deed
• A Night's Adventure
• Julia—Comic Love Scene
• Saying not Meaning
• Negro Burlesque for 3 males
• The Nimmers
• Gucom and the Back-log
• Widow Bedott's Mistake
• How a Bashful Lover "Popped the Question"
• Crossing Dixie
• My Last Shirt
• The Three Black Crows
• The Barber's Shop
• Paddy O'Rafther
• Decidedly Cool
• Frenchman and the Rats
• The Jester Condemned to Death
• Kindred Quacks
• Hans Breitmann's Party
• The Generous Frenchman
• Saint Jonathan
• Stump Speech
• The Rival Lodgers
• The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes
• The Maiden's Mishap
• The Removal
• Talking Latin
• Praying for Rain
• Darkey Photographer
• Paddy and his Musket
• Hezekiah Bedoit
• Uncle Reuben's Tale
• Mr. Caudle has been to a Fair
• Chemist and his Love
• Disgusted Dutchman
• The Frightened Traveler
• Jewess and her Son
• Clerical Wit—True Lies
• The School House
• Daniel versus Dishclout
• Spectacles
• The Pig
• A Stray Parrot
• Dame Fredegonde
• Toby Tosspot
• Courtship and Matrimony
• Rings and Seals
• The Biter Bit
• Pat and the Gridiron
• Barmecide's Feast
• The Country Pedagogue
• The Middle-aged Man and Two Widows
• Saratoga Waiter—Negro Scene for 2 males
• The Wrangling Pair—A Poetical Dialogue for Male and Female
• A Connubial Eclogue
• The Italian from Cork
• Gasper Schnapps' Exploit
• Epilogue—Suitable for Conclusion of an Entertainment

Martine's Droll Dialogues and Laughable Recitations. A collection of Humorous Dialogues, Comic Recitations and Spirited Stump Speeches and Farces, adapted for School and other Celebrations. Contents:

• Hints to Amateur Actors.
• Humorous Poetical Address
• The Bell and the Gong
• Mrs. Dove's Boarding House
• The Wilkins Family
• The Lawyer's Stratagem
• Eulogy on Laughing
• Drawing a Long Bow. For 3 males and 1 female.
• The Origin of Woman's Ascendency over Man
• Veny Raynor's Bear Story
• The Game of Life
• The Fortune Hunter. For 2 males and 3 females
• The Parson and the Widow
• Hezekiah Stubbins' Fourth of July Oration
• Make your Wills. Farce for 7 male characters
• Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise
• Job Trotter's Secret
• The Darkey Debating Society. Dialogue for 2 males
• The Scandal Monger. Dialogue for 2 males and 2 females
• Poor Richard's Sayings
• Prologue to "The Apprentice"
• Address in the character of "Hope" A Prologue
• Parody on the Declaration of Independence
• Bombastes Furioso. A Burlesque for 7 males
• Characteristic Address
• Examining de Bumps. Ethiopian Dialogue for 2 males
• Election Stump Speech
• A Matrimonial Tiff. Dialogue for 1 male and 2 females
• The Frenchman and the Sheep's Trotters
• The Poor Relation. Comic Drama for 7 males
• Vat you Please
• The Babes in the Wood. For 3 males and 4 females.
• My Aunt.
• Handy Andy's Mistakes.
• The Cat Eater.
• A Shocking Mistake. Dialogue for 3 males and 2 females
• Wanted a Governess
• Rival Broom Makers
• Paudeen O'Rafferty's Say-Voyage
• Mr. Caudle's Wedding Dinner
• Our Cousins. Negro Dialogue for 2 male characters
• Mr. Caudle made a Mason
• Address of Sergeant Buzfuz
• The Wonderful Whalers
• Sam Weller's Valentine

Wilson's Book of Recitations and Dialogues. Containing a choice selection of Poetical and Prose Recitations. Designed as an Assistant to Teachers and Students in preparing Exhibitions. By Floyd B. Wilson, Professor of Elocution. Contents:

• Instruction In Elocution
• Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery
• Sheridan's Ride
• There's but one Pair of Stockings
• Modulation
• Drummer Boy's Burial
• John Maynard, the Pilot
• The Boys
• The Duel
• Lochiel's Warning
• Socrates Snooks
• Mosaic Poetry
• Burial of the Champion of his Class at Yale College
• Scott and the Veteran
• Barbara Frietchie
• I Wouldn't—Would You?
• The Professor Puzzled
• Thanatopsis
• The Two Roads
• The Pawnbroker's Shop
• The Sophomore's Soliloquy
• The Nation's Hymn
• Address to a Skeleton
• A Glass of Cold Water
• Little Gretchen; or New Year's Eve
• Good News from Ghent
• The Sea Captain's Story
• Our Heroes
• The Closing Year
• Burial of Little Nell
• The Picket Guard
• The Poor Man and the Fiend
• Our Country's Call
• The Conquered Banner
• The High Tide; or, the Brides of Enderby
• Death of Gaudentis
• Don Garzia
• Past Meridian
• The Founding of Gettysburg Monument
• Spartacus to the Gladiators
• Soliloquy of the Dying Alchemist
• The Country Justice
• Unjust National Acquisition
• Dimes and Dollars
• Dead Drummer Boy
• Home
• Responsibility of American Citizens
• The Jester's Sermon
• Left on the Battle Field
• The American Flag
• Oh! Why should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?
• Parrhasius
• The Vagabonds
• A Bridal Wine Cup
• Blanche of Devan's Last Words
• Widow Bedott to Elder Sniffles
• A Psalm of the Union
• Charge of a Dutch Magistrate
• Stars in my Country's Sky
• Bingen on the Rhine
• Religious Character of President Lincoln
• The Raven
• The Loyal Legion
• Agnes and the Years
• Cataline's Defiance
• Our Folks
• The Beautiful Snow
• The Ambitious Youth
• The Flag of Washington
• The Abbot of Waltham
• Ode to an Infant Son
• The Scholar's Mission
• Claude Melnotte's Apology
• Forging of the Anchor
• Wreck of the Hesperus
• The Man of Ross
• No Work the Hardest Work
• What is Time?
• Brutus's Oration over the Body of Lucretia
• What is That, Mother?
• A Colloquy with Myself
• St. Philip Neri and the Youth
• The Chameleon
• Henry the Fourth's Soliloquy on Sleep
• On Procrastination
• Appendix

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. Contents:

• If I may so Speak. Burlesque Oration
• Dr. Pillsbury's Lecture on Politics
• Vegetable Poetry. For 2 males
• Teco Brag's Lecture on Astronomy
• We saw Her but a Moment
• Stocks Up, Stocks Down. For 2 males
• Brudder Bones' Love Scrapes.
• Stump Speech; or, "Any other Man."
• War's your Hoss. Dialogue Recital
• Geology. Dialogue for 2 males
• Tin-pan-o-ni-on. For Leader and Orchestra
• Dr. Puff Stuff's Lecture on Patent Medicines
• Sailing. For 2 males
• Challenge Dance. For 3 males
• Lecture on Bad Boys
• Tony Pastor's Great Union Speech
• A Tough Boarding House
• Sleeping Child. 2 males
• Ain't I Right, Eh? Speech
• Wonderful Egg. For 2 males
• Bootblack's Soliloquy
• Lecture to a Fire Company
• Julius' Peaches. For 2 males
• De Trouble Begins at Nine
• The Arkansas Traveler. For 2 Violin players
• Slap Jack. For 2 Darkeys
• Turkey-town Celebration. An Oration
• Uncle Steve's Stump Speech
• A Midnight Murder
• Dat's What's de Matter
• The Freezing Bed Feller
• Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins
• Paddy Fagan's Pedigree
• The Rival Darkeys. Act for 2 males
• Hans Sourcrout on Signs and Omens
• Hun-ki-do-ris Fourth of July Oration
• Josh Billings on Mosquitoes
• History of Cap. John Smith
• A Speech on Women
• Impulsive Peroration
• The Bet. For 2 Darkeys
• Old Times gone By. Dialogue for 2 Darkeys
• The Echo. Act for 2 Negroes
• Sol Slocum's Bugle.
• Western Stump Speech
• In the Show Business. Dialogue for 2 males
• "We are." Stump Oration
• Original Burlesque Oration
• Waiting to see Him off. For 2 males
• Patriotic Stump Speech
• De Railroad Accident. For 2 Darkeys
• The Dutchman's Lecture
• Prof. Unworth's Lecture
• The Three old Ladies
• Josh Billings' Lecture onto Musick
• Brudder Bones' Lady-Love. Dialogue for 2 males
• Deaf—In a Horn. Act for 2 males
• Or any oder Man's Dog. A Speech
• Happy Uncle Tom
• Stick a Pin Dere, Brudder Horace
• Lecture on Woman's Rights
• Dat's wot de "Ledger" says. For 2 Darkeys
• Goose Hollow Stump Speech
• De Milk in de Cocoa Nut
• A Dutchman's Answer
• Lecture on Cats
• The Patent Screw
• The Auctioneer
• Hints on Courtship
• Dutch Recruiting Officer
• Spirit Rappings. Dialogue for 2 males
• Dar's de Money
• Let Her Rip. Burlesque Lecture
• The Stranger. Scene for 1 male and 1 female

Dick's Diverting Dialogues. A collection of effective Dramatic Dialogues, written expressly for this work by various authors, and adapted for Parlor Performances. They are short, full of telling "situations," introducing easy dialect characters, and present the least possible difficulties in scenery and costume to render them exceedingly attractive. Edited by Wm. B. Dick.