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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.

Surprising 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 an Entirely New Version of the Celebrated
“Mrs. Jarley’s Wax Works.”

THE FLEXIBLE GIANT. A COMIC ILLUSION.

Illustrated and explained by sixty fine wood engravings.
Illuminated paper covers 30 cts.
Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.

The Art and Etiquette of Making Love. A Manual of Love, Courtship and Matrimony. It tells

And, in fact, how to fulfill every duty and meet every contingency connected with courtship and matrimony. It includes also a choice collection of sensible Letters suitable for all the contingencies of Love and Courtship.
176 pages, paper covers 30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

Dick’s Quadrille Call-Book and Ball-Room Prompter. Containing clear directions how to call out the figures of every dance, with the quantity of music necessary for each figure, and simple explanations of all the figures and steps which occur in Plain and Fancy Quadrilles. Also, a plain analysis and description of all the steps employed in the favorite round dances, fully describing:

AND OVER ONE HUNDRED FIGURES FOR THE  “GERMAN;”

To which is added a Sensible Guide to Etiquette and Proper Deportment in the Ball and Assembly Room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano.
Paper covers 50 cts.
Bound in boards 75 cts.

Uncle Josh’s Trunkful of Fun. A portfolio of first-class Wit and Humor, and never-ending source of Jollity.

CONTAINING A RICH COLLECTION OF

This book is illustrated with nearly 200 Funny Engravings, and
contains 64 large octavo double-column pages. 15 cts.

Barber’s American Book of Ready-Made Speeches. Containing 159 original examples of Humorous and Serious Speeches, suitable for every possible occasion where a speech may be called for, with appropriate replies to each.

INCLUDING

With this book any person may prepare himself to make a neat little speech, or reply to one when called upon to do so. They are all short, appropriate and witty, and even ready speakers may profit by them.
Paper 50 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 75 cts.

The Amateur Trapper and Trap-Maker’s Guide. A complete and carefully prepared treatise on the art of Trapping, Snaring and Netting; containing plain directions for constructing the most approved Traps, Snares, Nets and Dead-Falls; the best methods of applying them to their various purposes; and the most successful Baits for attracting all kinds of Animals, Birds, etc., with their special uses in each case; introducing receipts for preparing Skins and Furs for Market.

The entire work is based on the experience of the most successful Trappers, and on information derived from other authentic professional sources. By Stanley Harding. This comprehensive work is embellished with fifty well drawn and engraved illustrations; and these, together with the clear explanations which accompany them, will enable anybody of moderate comprehension to make and set any of the traps described. IT TELLS

It also gives the baits usually employed by the most successful Hunters and Trappers, and exposes their secret methods of attracting and catching Animals, Birds, etc., with scarcely a possibility of failure.
Large 16mo, paper covers 50 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 75 cts.

How to Write a Composition. The use of this hand-book will save the student the many hours of labor too often wasted in trying to write a plain composition. It affords a perfect skeleton of one hundred and seventeen different subjects, with their headings or divisions clearly defined, and each heading filled in with the ideas which the subject suggests: so that all the writer has to do, in order to produce a good composition, is to enlarge on them to suit his taste and inclination.
178 pages, paper covers 30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.

The Magician’s Own Book. One of the most extraordinary and interesting volumes ever printed—containing the Whole Art of Conjuring, and all the Discoveries in Magic ever made, either by ancient or modern philosophers. IT EXPLAINS

The tricks are all illustrated by Engravings and Tables, so as to make them easily understood and practiced. As a volume for the amusement of an evening party, this book cannot be surpassed.
Gilt binding, 362 pages $1.50

East Lynne; or, The Earl’s Daughter. Library edition, complete and unabridged. This novel is Mrs. Henry Wood’s masterpiece, and stands in the very front rank of all the works of fiction ever written; it has scarcely a rival as a brilliant creation of literary genius, and is prominent among the very few works of its class that have stood the test of time, and achieved a lasting reputation. In originality of design, and masterly and dramatic development of the subject, East Lynne stands unrivaled; it will be read and re-read long after the majority of the ephemeral romances of to-day have passed out of existence and been forgotten. A handsome 12mo volume of 598 pages, from new electrotype plates, printed on fine toned paper, and elegantly bound in cloth, in black and gold
$1.50

FONTAINE’S
GOLDEN WHEEL FORTUNE-TELLER,
AND
DREAM BOOK.

DICK & FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS,
18 Ann Street.

THE
GOLDEN WHEEL DREAM-BOOK,
AND
FORTUNE-TELLER,

BEING THE MOST COMPLETE WORK ON FORTUNE-TELLING AND INTERPRETING DREAMS EVER PRINTED, CONTAINING AN

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DREAMS, WITH THEIR
INTERPRETATION,

AND THE LUCKY NUMBERS THEY SIGNIFY.

ALSO EXPLAINING HOW TO TELL FORTUNES BY THE MYSTERIOUS GOLDEN WHEEL,
WITH CARDS, DICE, AND DOMINOES. HOW TO TELL FUTURE EVENTS BY
THE LINES OF THE HANDS, BY MOLES ON THE BODY, BY THE FACE,
NAILS OF THE FINGERS, HAIR AND SHAPE OF THE HEAD.
HOW TO FIND WHERE TO DIG FOR WATER, COAL,
AND ALL KINDS OF METALS, BY MEANS OF

THE CELEBRATED DIVINING OR LUCK ROD.

HOW TO TELL THE TEMPER AND DISPOSITION OF ANYBODY, HOW TO TELL FORTUNES
WITH TEA LEAVES AND COFFEE GROUNDS, SIGNS OF THE MOON’S AGE, LUCKY
AND UNLUCKY DAYS, TOGETHER WITH CHARMS TO MAKE YOUR
SWEETHEART LOVE YOU, AND TO MAKE A LOVER POP THE
QUESTION, WITH TWENTY WAYS OF TELLING FORTUNES
ON NEW YEAR’S EVE, AND A COMPLETE
LANGUAGE AND SIGNIFICATION
OF THE FLOWERS.

BY FELIX FONTAINE,
Professor of Astrology, and Lecturer on Astronomy and Spiritual Philosophy.

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

NEW YORK:
DICK & FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS,
18 Ann Street.

[CONTENTS.]

Page.
Bride’s Omen[129]
Bridge Omen[132]
Candle Spell[132]
Candle Token[129]
Card Charm[127]
Cards, Fortune-telling with[94]
Cat Portent[126]
Charm against Nightmare[130]
Charms and Magic Prognostications[124]
Cricket[128]
Crow Sign[129]
Death-tick[128]
Dice, How to find Lucky Numbers with[92]
Dice, How to tell Fortunes with[106]
Dominoes, How to tell Fortunes with[101]
Dreams, about the Interpretation of[7]
Dreams, Alphabetical List of[10]-92
Dreams, What are[7]
Easter-water[130]
Finger-nails, Signification of the[120]
Frog Prognostic[129]
Golden Wheel, How to tell Fortunes by the[3]
Golden Wheel of Fortune, The[3]
Hair Spell[133]
Hair, To choose a Husband by the[119]
Hand, Telling Fortunes by the Lines of the[109]
How a Girl may ascertain if she will ever marry[125]
How to be sure of a Partner at a Dance[129]
How to discover if your Wish will be Fulfilled[100]
How to get a Sweetheart[130]
How to tell the first letter of your future Wife’s or Husband’s name[131]
Key and Book Charm[126]
Language of Flowers[139]
Lead and Wax Spell[131]
Lucky and Unlucky Days[133]
Means to compel Love[125]
Moles, Telling Fortunes by[114]
Nail Token[133]
New Moon[126]
New Year’s Eve, How to tell Fortunes on[131]
Nutshell Witchery[132]
Omen of Riches[128]
Palmistry[109]
Phrenology and Physiognomy[111]
Rabbit Augury[130]
Rye Charm[130]
Saucer Charm[131]
Scissor or Knife Prognostic[126]
Sheep and Swine Token[130]
Shift Charm[93]
Signs from the Moon’s age[137]
Sign of a Sneeze[128]
Sign of Visitors[126]
Sign when your Ear tingles[128]
Sign when your Nose itches[128]
Sign when your you wet your Apron [133]
Spider Omen[127]
Star Augury[129]
Strange Bed[128]
Straw Sign[126]
String Token[128]
Table to find Lucky Numbers[9]
Tea or Coffee-Grounds, Fortune-telling by[121]
Telling Fortunes by Dominoes and Dice[100]
The Divining-rod, to tell where to dig for Water and Metals[134]
Thirty Physiological Significations[142]
To find out whom one is to have for a Husband[99]
To know if a Woman with Child will have a Girl or a Boy[129]
To know the Temper and Disposition of every one[138]
To prepare a Love Potion[124]
What a Prick in the Finger signifies[130]
What a Spider-web foretells[130]

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862,
BY DICK & FITZGERALD,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.

FONTAINE’S
GOLDEN WHEEL DREAM-BOOK,
AND
FORTUNE-TELLER.