| 188 pages. Paper Covers. Price | 30 cts. |
| Bound in Boards, cloth back | 50 cts. |
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
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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
| 16 mo. 188 pages. Paper covers. Price | 30 cts. |
| Bound in boards, illuminated | 50 cts. |
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.
| Girls. | Boys. | |
| Lost and Won | 2 | 2 |
| Running for Office | 3 | |
| The Uncle. A Proverb | 1 | 2 |
| Love's Labor Not Lost | 1 | 2 |
| Wanted—A Nurse | 3 | 2 |
| Almost A Tragedy | 2 | |
| The Will. A Proverb | 1 | 3 |
| Who Wears the Breeches | 1 | 1 |
| A Cold in the Head | 4 | 2 |
| The Wedding Day. A Proverb | 1 | 3 |
| A Society for Doing Good | 4 | |
| The Reception. A Proverb | 2 | 3 |
| Caught in their Own Trap | 2 | 3 |
| Elwood's Decision | 4 | |
| The Report. A Proverb | 2 | 1 |
| Reformed Mormon Tippler | 3 | 1 |
| The Fortune Hunter. A Proverb | 2 | 2 |
| Petticoat Government | 1 | 2 |
| Now or Never. A Proverb | 1 | 3 |
| A Close Shave | 2 |
Including a complete programme of effective Living Portraits and Tableaux, with full directions for exhibiting them successfully.