Frost’s Parlor Acting Charades. These twelve excellent and original Charades are arranged as short parlor Comedies and Farces, full of brilliant repartee and amusing situations.
182 pages, paper covers 30 cts.
Illuminated boards 50 cts.
Frost’s Book of Tableaux and Shadow Pantomimes. A collection of Tableaux Vivants and Shadow Pantomimes, with stage instructions for Costuming, Grouping, etc.
180 pages, paper covers 30 cts.
Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Frost’s Amateur Theatricals. A collection of eight original plays; all short, amusing and new.
180 pages, paper covers 30 cts.
Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Dick’s Original Album Verses and Acrostics. Containing Original Verses.
- For Autograph Albums;
- To Accompany Bouquets;
- For Birthday Anniversaries;
- For Wooden, Tin, Crystal, Silver and Golden Weddings;
- For Album Dedications;
- To Accompany Philopena Forfeits;
- For Congratulation;
- For Valentines in General, and all Trades and Professions.
It contains also Two Hundred and Eighteen Original Acrostic Verses, the initial letters of each verse forming a different Lady’s Christian name, the meaning and derivation of the name being appended to each. The primary object of this book is to furnish entirely fresh and unhackneyed matter for all who may be called upon to fill and adorn a page in a Lady’s Album; but it contains also new and appropriate verses to suit Birthday, Wedding, and all other Anniversaries and Occasions to which verses of Compliment or Congratulation are applicable.
Paper covers. Price. 50 cts.
Bound in full cloth “ 75 cts.
The Debater, Chairman’s Assistant, and Rules of Order. A manual for Instruction and Reference in all matters pertaining to the Management of Public Meetings according to Parliamentary usages. It comprises:
- How to Form and Conduct all kinds of Associations and Clubs;
- How to Organize and Arrange Public Meetings, Celebrations, Dinners, Picnics and Conventions;
- Forms for Constitutions of Lyceums or Institutes, Literary and other Societies;
- The Powers and Duties of Officers, with Forms for Treasurers’, Secretaries’, and other Official Reports;
- The Formation and Duties of Committees;
- Rules of Order, and Order of Business, with Mode of Procedure in all Cases;
- How to draft Resolutions and other Written Business;
- A Model Debate, introducing the greatest possible variety of points of order, with correct Decisions by the Chairman;
- The Rules of Order, in Tabular Form, for instant reference in all Cases of Doubt that may arise, enabling a Chairman to decide on all points at a glance.
The Work is divided into different Sections, for the purpose of Consecutive Instruction as well as Ready Reference, and includes all Decisions and Rulings up to the present day.
Paper covers 30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Dick’s Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing End-Men’s Jokes,