Taxidermist’s Manual.—A complete and practical guide to collecting, preparing, preserving and mounting animals, birds, reptiles, insects, &c. New and revised American edition, with many fine engravings. 50 cts.
Rapid Reckoning.—System of famous “Lightning Calculator,” whose exhibitions seemed almost miraculous; any can learn and apply; valuable to clerks, bookkeepers, teachers and all business men. 25 cts.
Guide to Authorship.—A complete, practical instructor in all kinds of literary work, and all business connected therewith. Useful to professionals, and invaluable to inexperienced writers desirous of getting into print. Also includes editing, proof reading, copyrights, value and disposal of Mss., &c. 50 cts.
Art of Training Animals.—A complete guide for amateur or professional trainers, giving all the secrets and mysteries of the craft, and showing how all circus tricks, and all feats of all performing animals—from elephants to fleas—are accomplished. It also has an improved system of horse and colt breaking, breaking and training sporting dogs, care and tuition of song, talking and performing birds, snake charming, bee taming, and many other things, making a large, handsome volume of over 200 pages, and over 60 illustrations. 50 cts.
Secrets Worth Knowing.—A guide to the manufacture of hundreds of useful and salable articles, including patent medicines, perfumery, toilet and dental articles, and many others easily made at trifling cost and selling readily at large profit. 25 cts.
Phonographic Handbook.—For self-instruction in the modern improved system, used by practical reporters in the courts of law and on the newspapers. It unites simplicity with thoroughness. 25 cts.
SELECT LIST OF VALUABLE BOOKS.
Bad Memory Made Good and Good Made Better.—Shows how a wonderful power of memory may be acquired by a simple art, readily learned, and enables its possessor to achieve feats incomprehensible to those ignorant of the secret. It will be of great assistance to teachers, pupils and professional men generally. Clergymen and speakers will save much time by its chapter on Speaking without Notes, as will students preparing for examination. 15 cts.
Handbook of Ventriloquism.—A practical self-instructor, with examples for practice and exhibition. 15 cts.
Slow Horses Made Fast and Fast Horses Made Faster.—System of increasing speed to which Dexter owes his supremacy, with much useful information for all horsemen. Endorsed by Robert Bonner, Esq. 50 cts.