Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know; or, Over 3,500 Facts for the People. “Inquire Within” is one of the most valuable and extraordinary volumes ever presented to the American public, and embodies nearly 4,000 facts, in most of which any person living will find instruction, aid and entertainment. As a book to be kept in the family for reference it is unequaled, comprising, as it does, all kinds of books of information in a single volume.
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Bound in extra cloth, with gilt side and back.
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The Perfect Gentleman. A book of Etiquette and Eloquence.
Containing information and instruction for those who desire to become brilliant
or conspicuous in General Society, or at Parties, Dinners or Popular
Gatherings, etc. 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,
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and Politeness for all occasions. It also contains all the necessary
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Model Speeches, with directions how to deliver them, Duties of the Chairman
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$1.50
McBride’s New Dialogues. Especially designed for School and Literary Amateur Entertainments; containing entirely New and Original Dialogues, introducing Irish, Yankee, and other eccentric characters. By H. Elliott McBride.
Contents.
The marked favor with which the four preceding volumes have been received
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16mo, 178 pages, illuminated paper cover. 30 cts.
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Dick’s Book of Toasts, Speeches and Responses. Containing Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Social Occasions, and specimen Speeches with appropriate replies suitable for the following occasions:
This work includes an instructive dissertation on the Art of making amusing After-dinner Speeches, giving hints and directions by the aid of which persons with only ordinary intelligence can make an entertaining and telling speech. Also, Correct Rules and Advice for Presiding at Table.
The use of this work will render a poor and diffident speaker fluent and
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Price. 30 cts.
How Boggins Was Cured. An intensely ludicrous sketch,
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Le Marchand’s Fortune-Teller and Dreamer’s Dictionary.
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Fontaine’s Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller.
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Pettengill’s Perfect Fortune-Teller and Dream-Book; or, The Art of Discerning Future Events. This is a most complete Fortune-Teller and Dream-Book. It is compiled with great care from authorities on Astrology, Geology, Chiromancy, Necromancy, Spiritual Philosophy, etc., etc. Among the subjects treated of, are—Casting Nativities by the Stars, Telling Fortunes by Lines on the Hand, by Moles on the Body, by Turning Cards, by Questions of Destiny, by Physical Appearances, by the Day of Birth, etc. A book of 144 pages. Bound in boards. 40 cts.
Mother Shipton’s Fortune-Teller; or, Future Fate Foretold
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115 pages, paper covers. 30 cts.
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The Everlasting Fortune-Teller and Magnetic Dream-Book. Containing the Science of Foretelling Events by the Signs of the Zodiac; Lists of Lucky and Unlucky Days; List of Fortunate Hours; the Science of Foretelling Events by Cards, Dice, Dominoes, etc.; the Science of Foretelling anything in the Future by Dreams; and also containing Napoleon’s Oraculum; or, The Book of Fate. 30 cts.
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The French Wine and Liquor Manufacturer. A Practical
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Bartender’s Guide. Containing Recipes for Mixing American,
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The Independent Liquorist; or, The Art of Manufacturing
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The Bordeaux Wine and Liquor Dealer’s Guide. A Treatise
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Lacour on the Manufacture of Liquors, Wines and Cordials,
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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, a pastime which is steadily gaining in popularity, embraces a number of new and original Games, and all the Games of Patience at present in favor with the most experienced players. This comprehensive work contains the following Games:
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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:
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150 pages, paper cover 30 cts.
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Walker’s Rhyming, Spelling and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. Containing
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Book of Household Pets. Containing valuable instructions
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Chesterfield’s Art of Letter-Writing Simplified. A Guide to
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The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth. With
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25 cts.
The Hindoo Fortune-Teller and Oracle of Destiny. Containing
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The Combination Fortune-Teller and Dictionary of
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The Play-Ground; or, Out-Door Games for Boys. A Book
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10,000 Wonderful Things. Comprising the Marvelous and
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Allyn’s Ritual of Freemasonry. Containing a complete Key
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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 differs entirely from all other Manuals, from the fact that it contains neither the passwords, grips, nor any other purely esoteric matter, with which Masons, and Masons only are necessarily entirely familiar. It affords, therefore, a thorough and valuable guide to the regular “work” in the above degrees, divested of everything that any member of the Fraternity would object to see in print, or hesitate to carry in his pocket. It gives the correct routine of
Duncan’s Masonic Ritual and Monitor; or, Guide to the
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Craft and Master Mason. And to the Degrees of Mark Master, Past
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Explained and Interpreted by copious Notes and numerous Engravings.
It is not so much the design of the author to gratify the curiosity of
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Lander’s Expose of Odd-Fellowship. Containing all the Lectures
complete, with regulations for Opening, Conducting and Closing a
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giving all the work in the following Degrees: 1st, or White Degree; 2d,
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25 cts.
Martine’s Manual of Etiquette and Perfect Letter-Writer.
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Frost’s Original Letter-Writer, and Laws and By-Laws of
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One Hundred and Thirty Comic Dialogues and Recitations.
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Frost’s School and Exhibition Dialogues. Comprising Frost’s
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Twenty-six Short and Amusing Plays for Private Theatricals.
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Dr. Valentine’s Comic Lectures; or, Morsels of Mirth for
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Broad Grins of the Laughing Philosopher. This book is full
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The American Boy’s Book of Sports and Games. A Repository
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Mrs. Crowen’s American Lady’s Cookery Book. Giving
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The Reason Why of General Science. A careful collection
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Biblical Reason Why. A Handsome Book for Biblical Students,
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The Reason Why of Natural History. An illustrated book
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The Three Volumes of the REASON WHY SERIES are uniform in size and style, and form a valuable addition to every Library.
Souillard’s Book of Practical Receipts. For the use of
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The Amateur Printer; or, Type-Setting at Home. A thorough
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Talk of Uncle George to his Nephew About Draw Poker.
Containing valuable suggestions in connection with this Great American
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whose members play only for recreation and pastime, with timely warnings
to young players. Illustrated. In which Uncle George narrates to
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Proctor on Draw-Poker. A Critical Dissertation on “Poker
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Treatise on the Laws and Usages which govern the Game of
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Lander’s Revised Work of Odd-Fellowship. Containing all
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Closing a Lodge; together with Forms of Initiation, Charges of the
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Initiation; First, or Pink Degree; Second, or Royal Blue Degree; Third,
or Scarlet Degree. By Edwin F. Lander. This hand-book of the Revised
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The Jolly Joker; or, a Laugh all Round. An Immense Collection
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Some Comicalities. A Whole Volume of Jolly Jokes, Quaint
Anecdotes, Funny Stories, Brilliant Witticisms, and Crushing Conundrums,
with as many droll illustrations to the page—and every page at
that—as can be crowded into it. 144 pages. Illustrated cover.
25 cts.
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.
FRENCH DIALECT.
YANKEE DIALECT.
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.
170 pages, paper cover 30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
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
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.
170 pages, paper cover 30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Beecher’s Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic. Designed for Public and Private Exhibitions. Contents:
Paper covers. Price 30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
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:
178 pages, paper covers 30 cts.
Bound in board, 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. 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:
Everything new and rich. Paper covers 30 cts.
Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
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:
Paper covers, illuminated 30 cts.
Board covers, illuminated 50 cts.
Burton’s Amateur Actor. A Complete Guide to Private Theatricals; giving plain directions for arranging, decorating and lighting the Stage and its appurtenances, with rules and suggestions for mounting, rehearsing and performing all kinds of Plays, Parlor Pantomimes and Shadow Pantomimes. Illustrated with numerous engravings, and including a selection of original Plays, with Prologues, Epilogues, etc. By C. E. Burton.
CONTENTS.
16mo, illuminated paper covers. Price 30 cts.
Bound in Boards 50 cts.
Howard’s Book of Drawing-Room Theatricals. A collection of short and amusing plays in one act and one scene, especially adapted for private performances; with practical directions for their preparation and management. Some of the plays are adapted for performers of one sex only.