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

The use of this work will render a poor and diffident speaker fluent and witty—and a good speaker better and wittier, besides affording an immense fund of anecdotes, wit and wisdom, and other serviceable matter to draw upon at will. Paper covers.
Price 30 cts.

How Boggins Was Cured. An intensely ludicrous sketch, pictorially expressed; showing how Mr. Boggins, who had been reduced to a despairingly crippled state by rheumatism and a complication of other causes, was induced to submit to the wonderful effects of a course of dynamo-electro magnetic therapeutics, tracing the magical and potent effects of the treatment, and the heroic efforts he made while submitting to the doctor’s system of pathology; until, crowned with complete success, he is able to throw aside his crutches and is restored to perfect health and pristine agility. An entirely new and original series of sketches. Funny! is no name for it. Small quarto. Illustrated
10 cts.

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:

• Auld Lang Syne.
• Tam O’Shanter.
• The Four Seasons.
• Simplicity.
• The Gathering of the Clans.
• Napoleon at St. Helena.
• The Calculation.
• The Surprise Party.
• The Four Kings.
• The Clock.
• The Garden.
• The Queen’s Audience.
• The Phalanx.
• The Idle Year.
• The Chameleon.
• La Belle Lucie.
• The Shamrocks.
• The House in the Wood.
• The House on the Hill.
• The Grand Duchess.
• The Constitution.
• The Beleaguered Castle.
• The Citadel.
• The Exiled Kings.
• Penelope’s Web.
• Napoleon’s Square.
• The Court Yard.
• The Windmill.
• Leoni’s Own.
• La Nivernaise.
• The Four Corners.
• The Baker’s Dozen.
• The Salic Law.
• The Sultan of Turkey.
• The Fortress.
• The Hemispheres.
• The Elevens.
• The Chester Game.
• The Shah of Persia.
• The Empress of India.
• The Zodiac.
• The Blockade.
• The Besieged City.
• The Fourteens.
• Napoleon’s Favorite.
• The Fifteen Puzzle.
• The Contra-Dance.
• The Betrothal.
• The Reinforcements.
• The Reserve.
• The Frog.
• The Pyramid.
• The Quadrille.
• The Chatelaine.
• The Order of Precedence.
• The Congress.
• Thirteen Down.
• The Octagon.
• Light and Shade.
• St. Louis.
• Rouge et Noir.
• The Blondes and Brunettes.
• The Royal Cotillion.
• Nestor.

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. The work is attractive in style and elegant in execution, and will prove an interesting companion for many a solitary hour. Quarto. 143 pages.
Board cover 75 cts.
Cloth $1 00.

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:

• 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, by the aid of which all the startling effects and achievements of second-sight may be performed by any one possessing a tolerable retentive memory.

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.
150 pages, paper cover 30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.