- The Stage-Struck Clerk. For 6 Males and 3 Females.
- The Tailor of Tipperary. For 7 Males and 4 Females.
- Opera Mad. For 7 Males and 1 Female.
- The Painter’s Studio. Portrait Sketch. For 2 Males.
- The Well of Death. For 2 males.
- Blanche of Devan. For 3 Males and 1 Female.
- The Youth Who Never Saw a Woman. For 3 Males and 1 Female.
- The Masked Ball. For 3 Males and 2 Females.
- The Hypochondriac. For 4 Males and 1 Female.
- Two Families in One Room. For 4 Males and 2 Females.
- The Country Cousin. For 4 Males and 2 Females.
- The Carpenter and his Apprentice. For 8 Males.
- The Yankee Tar’s Return. For 5 Males and 1 Female.
- The Lawyer, Doctor, Soldier and Actor. For 3 Males.
- The Children in the Wood. For 6 Males and 4 Females.
- The Wizard’s Warning. For 2 Males.
Paper covers. Price 30 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.
Kavanaugh’s Humorous Dramas for School Exhibitions and Private Theatricals. Consisting of short and easy Dramatic Pieces, suitable for Amateur Exhibitions. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh, author of “The Juvenile Speaker.”
| Contents. | Boys. | Girls. |
| Eh! What is it? | 3 | 2 |
| That Awful Girl | 5 | 5 |
| The Lady Killer | 2 | 1 |
| How I Made My Fortune | 6 | |
| A Cure for Obstinancy | 3 | 9 |
| Aunt Jerusha’s Mistake | 2 | 2 |
| A Fair Fight | 4 | 4 |
| Between Two Stools | 2 | 3 |
| The Pet of the School | 8 | 3 |
| Maud May’s Lovers | 8 | 2 |
| The Heiress’ Ruse | 4 | 4 |
| The Cardinal’s Godson | 6 | 1 |
The foregoing collection of Dramas are all original, and were written expressly for School and Parlor performance.
Bound in boards 50 cts.
Paper covers 30 cts.
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.
- Surpassing 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 whole being illustrated by sixty fine wood engravings.
Illuminated paper covers 30 cts.
Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Madame Le Normand’s Fortune Teller. An entertaining book, said to have been written by Madame Le Normand, the celebrated French Fortune Teller, who was frequently consulted by the Emperor Napoleon. A party of ladies and gentlemen may amuse themselves for hours with this curious book. It tells fortunes by “The Chart of Fate” (a large lithographic chart), and gives 624 answers to questions on every imaginable subject that may happen in the future. It explains a variety of ways for telling fortunes by Cards and Dice; gives a list of 79 curious old superstitions and omens, and 187 weather omens, and winds up with the celebrated Oraculum of Napoleon. We will not endorse this book as infallible; but we assure our readers that it is the source of much mirth whenever introduced at a gathering of ladies and gentlemen. Bound in boards.
40 cts.