Dick and Fitzgerald Catalog (1866)

Parlor Tricks with Cards. Containing explanations of all the Tricks and Deceptions with playing Cards ever invented. The whole illustrated and made plain and easy with 70 engravings.

Modern Whist. Containing complete Rules and Instructions for playing, including the system of American Leads, play of the first, second, third and fourth hands, management of Trumps, Laws of the Game, etc. Compiled from the latest works of "Cavendish," the leading Modern Authority on Whist. By "Trumps."

ETIQUETTE AND PARLOR MAGIC

Frost's American Etiquette; or, Laws of Good Society. A condensed but thorough treatise on Etiquette and its Usages in America. Containing plain and reliable directions for correct deportment in every situation and under all circumstances in life, including special directions and instructions on the following subjects: —

Dinner Company and Invitations;

Visiting, and Visiting Cards,

Traveling, Riding and Driving;

Balls, Morning and Evening Parties;

Calls, Conversation and Street Etiquette;

Salutes and Salutations;

Weddings, Baptisms and Funerals;

Church and Places of Amusement;

Introductions and Letters of Introduction;

Children, Hotel, and Card Table;

Ladies' and Gentlemen's Toilet;

Letter Writing and Servants.

BESIDES ONE HUNDRED UNCLASSIFIED LAWS APPLICABLE TO ALL OCCASIONS

Martine's Hand-Book of Etiquette and Guide to True Politeness. Containing clear and comprehensive directions for correct manners, conversation, dress, introductions, rules for good behavior at Dinner Parties and the Table, with the Etiquette of the Ball and Assembly Room, Evening Parties, and the usages to be observed when visiting or receiving calls; Deportment in the street and when traveling. To which is added the Etiquette of Courtship, Marriage, and fifty-six rules to be observed in general society.

How to Shine in Society; or, The Science of Conversation. Containing the principles, laws and general usages of polite society, including easily applied hints and directions for commencing and sustaining an agreeable conversation, and for choosing topics appropriate to the time, place and company, thus affording immense assistance to the bashful and diffident.

How to Behave; or, The Spirit of Etiquette. A Guide to Polite Society, for Ladies and Gentlemen; containing rules for good behavior at the dinner table, in the parlor, and in the street; with important hints on introduction, conversation, etc.

12 cts.

The Fireside Magician; or, The Art of Natural Magic Made Easy. Being a scientific explanation of Legerdemain, Recreative Chemistry, Diversion with Cards, and of all the mysteries of Mechanical Magic, comprising two hundred and fifty interesting mental and physical recreations, with explanatory engravings.

The Parlor Magician; or, One Hundred Tricks for the Drawing Room. Containing an extensive and miscellaneous collection of Conjuring, embracing: Tricks with Dice, Dominoes and Cards; Tricks with Ribbons, Rings and Fruit; Tricks with Coin, Handkerchiefs and Balls, etc. The whole illustrated with 121 engravings.

Morgan's Freemasonry Exposed and Explained. Showing the Origin, History and Nature of Masonry, and containing a Key to all the Degrees of Freemasonry. Giving a clear and correct view of the manner of conferring the different degrees, as practiced in all Lodges.

25 cts.

MINSTREL JOKES AND STUMP SPEECHES

Dick's Stump Speeches and Minstrel Jokes. Containing Short and side-splitting Negro Acts and Farces, Eccentric Sketches, Stump Speeches, Darkey Lectures, End-Men's Jokes and Gags, Burlesque Sermons, Funny Dialogues, and everything necessary for a series of first-class Minstrel Entertainments; including the latest excruciations of modern Negro-Minstrelsy, and a number of startling originalities, risible rib-ticklers and hysterical button-starters.

Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing an inexhaustible collection of End-Men's Jokes.

Negro Interludes and Farces;

Fresh Dialogues for Interlocutor and Banjo;

New Stump Speeches;

Humorous Lectures;

Dialect Sketches and Eccentricities;

Dialogues and Repartee for Interlocutor and Bones;

Quaint Burlesque Sermons;

Jokes, Quips and Gags.

Tambo's End-Men's Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best jokes and repartees of the most celebrated "burnt cork" performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. Also containing a rich collection of Darkey Dialogues, Sketches, Plantation Scenes, Eccentric Doings, Humorous Lectures, Laughable Interludes, Burlesque Stump Speeches, Mirth-provoking Witticisms, Conundrums, Yarns, Plantation Songs and Dances, etc., etc. Everything new and rich.

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, interspersed with Dutch, Irish, French and Yankee Stories. This book contains some of the best hits and mirth-provoking jokes and repartees of the most celebrated End-Men of the day. Paper covers.

Howard's Book of Conundrums and Riddles. Containing over 1,200 of the best Conundrums, Riddles, Enigmas, Ingenious Catches and Amusing Sells ever invented. This splendid collection of curious paradoxes will afford the material for a never-ending feast of fun and amusement. Any person, with the assistance of this book, may take the lead in entertaining a company, and keep them in roars of laughter for hours together.

Rowan's Riddles and Conundrums. A very choice gathering of Ancient, Modern, and quite recent Riddles and Conundrums, quaintly arranged, for amusement and merriment on opportune occasions. A first-rate pocket companion for Picnics and Winter Evenings.

15 cts.

Dick's Book of Alphabets. Containing a great variety of designs for plain and Fanciful Alphabets, Numerals and illuminated Initial letters in various colors, and elegant in style. It includes specimens of modern Ornamental designs, and of the ancient grotesque, Arabesque, and other eccentric devices for decoration and illumination, mainly gathered from rare old vellums and scarce books of past centuries. This work will be appreciated by Architects, Decorators, Designers, Draughtsmen, etc.

GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS

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:

Tableaux Vivants.

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.

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.

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 A NEW VERSION OF THE CELEBRATED "MRS. JARLEY'S WAX WORKS"

The Book of Fireside Games. Containing an explanation of a variety of Witty, Rollicking, Entertaining and Innocent Games and Amusing Forfeits, suited to the Family Circle as a Recreation. This book is just the thing for social gatherings, parties and picnics.

The Book Of 50 °Curious Puzzles. A collection of Curious Puzzles and Paradoxes, Deceptions in Numbers, Amusing Tricks in Geometry; illustrated with a great variety of engravings.

How to Amuse an Evening Party. A Complete collection of Home Recreations. Profusely Illustrated with over Two Hundred fine wood-cuts, containing Round Games and Forfeit Games, Parlor Magic and Curious Puzzles, Comic Diversions and Parlor Tricks, Scientific Recreations and Evening Amusements.

Book of Riddles and 500 Home Amusements. Containing a curious collection of Riddles, Charades and Enigmas; Rebuses, Anagrams and Transpositions; Conundrums and Amusing Puzzles: Recreations in Arithmetic, and Queer Sleights, and numerous other Entertaining Amusements. Illustrated with 60 engravings.

⁂ Any of the above may be had bound in boards. Price 50 cts

The Secret Out; or 1,000 Tricks with Cards, and Other Recreations. Illustrated with over 300 engravings. A book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards ever known, and gives, besides, a great many new ones. The whole being described so carefully, with engravings to illustrate them, that anybody can easily learn how to perform them. This work also contains 240 of the best Tricks of Legerdemain, in addition to the Card Tricks.

Dick's Dutch, French and Yankee Dialect Recitations. An unsurpassed Collection of Droll Dutch Blunders, Frenchmen's Funny Mistakes, and Ludicrous and Extravagant Yankee Yarns, each Recitation being in its own dialect.

DUTCH DIALECT

Der Mule Shtood on der Steamboad Deck.

Go Vay, Becky Miller.

Der Drummer.

Mygel Snyder's Barty.

Snyder's Nose.

Dyin' Vords of Isaac.

Fritz und I.

Betsey und I Hafe Bust Ub.

Schneider sees Leah.

Dot Funny Leetle Baby.

Schnitzerl's Philosopede.

Der Dog und der Lobster.

Schlosser's Ride.

Mine Katrine.

Maud Muller.

Ein Deutsches Lied.

Hans and Fritz.

Schneider's Tomatoes.

Deitsche Advertisement.

Vas Bender Henshpecked.

Life, Liberty and Lager.

Der Goot Lookin' Shnow.

Mr. Schmidt's Mistake.

Home Again.

Dot Surprise Party.

Der Wreck of der Hezberus.

Isaac Rosenthal on the Chinese Question.

Hans Breitmann's Party.

Shoo Flies.

A Dutchman's Answer.

How Jake Schneider Went Blind.

I Vash so Glad I Vash Here.

The Dutchman and the Yankee.

How the Dutchman Killed the Woodchuck.

Der Nighd Pehind Grisdmas.

The Dutchman's Snake.

Yoppy's Varder und Hees Drubbles.

Dhree Shkaders.

Katrina Likes Me Poody Vell.

Hans in a Fix.

Leedle Yawcob Strauss.

How a Dutchman was Done.

Dot Lambs vot Mary Haf Got.

The Yankee and the Dutchman's Dog.

Zwei Lager.

Schneider's Ride.

The Dutchman and the Small-pox.

Tiamondts on der Prain.

A Dutchman's Testimony in a Steamboat Case.

Hans Breitmann and the Turners.

FRENCH DIALECT

The Frenchman's Dilemma; or, Number Five Collect Street.

The Frenchman's Revenge.

Noozell and the Organ Grinder.

How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull.

Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise.

The Frenchman and the Landlord.

The Frenchman and the Sheep's Trotters.

A Frenchman's Account of the Fall.

I Vant to Fly.

The Generous Frenchman.

The Frenchman and the Flea Powder.

The Frenchman and the Rats.

Monsieur Tonson.

Vat You Please.

The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes.

The Frenchman's Patent Screw.

The Frenchman's Mistake.

Monsieur Mocquard Between Two Fires.

YANKEE DIALECT

Mrs. Bean's Courtship.

Hez and the Landlord.

Squire Billings' Pickerel.

Deacon Thrush in Meeting.

The Yankee Fireside.

Peter Sorghum in Love.

Mrs. Smart Learns how to Skate.

Capt. Hurricane Jones on the Miracles.

The Dutchman and the Yankee.

The Yankee Landlord.

The Bewitched Clock.

The Yankee and the Dutchman's Dog.

Aunt Hetty on Matrimony.

The Courtin'.

Ebenezer on a Bust.

Sut Lovingood's Shirt.

This Collection contains all the best dialect pieces that are incidentally scattered through a large number of volumes of "Recitations and Readings," besides new and excellent sketches never before published.

Dick's Irish Dialect Recitations. A carefully compiled Collection of Rare Irish Stories, Comic, Poetical and Prose Recitations, Humorous Letters and Funny Recitals, all told with the irresistible Humor of the Irish dialect. Containing

Biddy's Troubles.

Birth of St. Patrick, The.

Connor.

Dermot O'Dowd.

Dick Macnamara's Matrimonial Adventures.

Dying Confession of Paddy M'Cabe.

Father Molloy.

Father Phil Blake's Collection.

Father Roach.

Fight of Hell-Kettle, The.

Handy Andy's Little Mistakes.

How Dennis Took the Pledge.

How Pat Saved his Bacon.

Irish Astronomy.

Irish Coquetry.

Irish Drummer, The.

Irish Letter, An.

Irish Philosopher, The.

Irish Traveler, The.

Irishman's Panorama, The.

Jimmy McBride's Letter.

Jimmy Butler and the Owl.

King O'Toole and St. Kevin.

Kitty Malone.

Love in the Kitchen.

Micky Free and the Priest.

Miss Malony on the Chinese Question.

Mr. O'Hoolahan's Mistake.

Paddy Blake's Echo.

Paddy Fagan's Pedigree.

Paddy McGrath and the Bear.

Paddy O'Rafther.

Paddy the Piper.

Paddy's Dream.

Pat and the Fox.

Pat and the Gridiron.

Pat and his Musket.

Pat and the Oysters.

Pat's Criticism.

Pat's Letter.

Pat O'Flanigan's Colt.

Patrick O'Rouke and the Frogs.

Paudeen O'Rafferty's Say Voyage.

Peter Mulrooney and the Black Filly.

Phaidrig Crohoore.

Rory O'More's Present to the Priest.

St. Kevin.

Teddy O'Toole's Six Bulls.

Wake of Tim O'Hara, The.

Widow Cummiskey, The.

This Collection contains, in addition to new and original pieces, all the very best Recitations in the Irish dialect that can be gathered from a whole library of "Recitation" books. It is full of sparkling witticisms and it furnishes also a fund of entertaining matter for perusal in leisure moments.

Tambo's End-Men's Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best Jokes and Repartees of the most celebrated "burnt cork" performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. This Book is full of Burnt-Cork Drolleries, Funny Stories, Colored Conundrums, Gags and Witty Repartee, all the newest side-splitting conversations between Tambo, Bones, and the Interlocutor, and will be found useful alike to the professional and amateur performer. Contents:

A Bird that can't be Plucked

Annihilating Time

At Last

Bashful

Bet, The

Big Fortune, A

Blackberrying

Black Swan, The

Bones and his little Game

Bones and the Monkey Tricks

Bones as a Fortune Teller

Bones as a Legitimate Actor

Bones as a Pilot

Bones as a Prize Fighter

Bones as a "Stugent"

Bones as a Traveler

Bones as a Victim to the Pen

Bones as a Walkist

Bones assists at the Performance of a New Piece

Bones attends a Seance

Bones finds Himself Famous

Bones gets Dunned

Bones gets Stuck

Bones has a Small Game with the Parson

Bones' Horse Race

Bones in an Affair of Honor

Bones In Love

Bones keeps a Boarding House

Bones on the War Path

Bones on George Washington

Bones on the Light Fantastic

Bones Opens a Spout Shop

Bones Plays O'Fella

Bones sees a Ghost

Bones Slopes with Sukey Sly

Bones tells a "Fly" Story

Brother will come home tonight

Bones as a Carpet Bagger

Bones as an Inkslinger

Bones in a New Character

Bones in Clover

Bones' Love Scrape

"Cullud" Ball, The

Conundrums

Curious Boy

Dancing Mad

Dat's What I'd Like to Know

Definitions

De Mudder of Inwention

Difference, The

Don't Kiss every Puppy

"Far Away in Alabam'"

First White Man, The

Fishy Argument

Four-Eleven-Forty-Four

Four Meetings, The

From the Polks

Girl at the Sewing Machine

Hard Times

Hard to take a Hint

Heavy Spell, A

Highfalutin'

Horrible!

How Bones became a Minstrel

How Tambo took his Bitters

How to do it

Impulsive Oration

Inquisitive

Jeallusest of her Sect

Legal Problem, A

Liberal Discount for Cash

Manager in a Fix, The

Mathematics

Merry Life, A

Momentous Question

Mosquitoes

Music

Notes

Ob Course

Our Shop Girls

Pomp and Ephy Green

Presidency on de Brain

Proposed Increase of Taxes

Railroad Catastrophe

Reality versus Romance

Rough on Tambo

Sassy Sam and Susie Long

School's In

Shakespeare with a Vengeance

Simple Sum in Arithmetic

Sleighing in the Park

Sliding Down the Hill

Style

Sublime

Swearing by Proxy

Tambo's Traveling Agent

That Dear Old Home

"The Pervisions, Jostar"

Thieves

Tonsorial

Toast, A

Uncle Eph's Lament

Waiting to See Him Off

You Bet

And 40 popular songs and dances.

McBride's Comic Speeches and Recitations. Designed for Schools, Literary and Social Circles. By H. Elliott McBride, Author of "McBride's Humorous Dialogues," etc., etc. This is one of the very best series of original speeches, in Yankee, Darkey, Spread-Eagle and village styles, with a number of diverting addresses and recitations, and funny stories, forming an excellent volume of selections for supplying the humorous element of an exhibition. Contents:

A Burst of Indignation

Disco'se by a Colored Man

A Trumpet Sarmon

Sarmon on Skilletvillers

Nancy Matilda Jones

Hezekiah's Proposal

About the Billikinses

Betsy and I are Out Once More

A Stump Speech

About Katharine

Deborah Doolittle's Speech on Women's Rights

A Salutatory

A Mournful Story

An Address to Schoolboys

Zachariah Popp's Courtship and Marriage

A Sad Story

How to Make Hasty Pudding

My Matilda Jane

Courtship, Marriage, Separation and Reunion

Lecture by a Yankee

A Colored Man's Disco'se on Different Subjects

A Girl's Address to Boys

McSwinger's Fate

Peter Peabody's Stump Speech

Mr. Styx Rejoices on Account of a New Well Spring

Victuals and Drink

Speech by Billy Higgins on the Destruction of His Rambo Apple Tree

A Boy's Address to Young Ladies

An Old Man's Address to Young Wives

Salu-ta-tat-n-a-ry

Valedictory.

Beecher's Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic. Designed for Public and Private Exhibitions. Contents:

Miss Maloney at the Dentist's

Lost and Found

Mygel Snyder's Barty

Magdalena

Jim Wolfe and the Cats

The Woolen Doll

The Charity Dinner

Go-Morrow or, Lot's Wife

The Wind and the Moon

Dyin' Words of Isaac

Maude Muller in Dutch

Moses the Sassy

Yarn of the "Nancy Bell"

Paddy the Piper

Schneider sees "Leah"

Caldwell of Springfield

Artemus Ward's Panorama

Tale of a Servant Girl

How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull

Tiamondts on der Prain

King Robert of Sicily

Gloverson the Mormon

De Pint wid Ole Pete

Pat and the Pig

The Widow Bedott's Letter

The Cry of the Children

The Dutchman and the Small-pox

Sculpin

Rats – Descriptive Recitation

A Reader Introduces Himself to an Audience

A Dutchman's Dolly Varden

"Rock of Ages"

Feeding the Black Fillies

The Hornet

The Glove and the Lions

I Vant to Fly

That Dog of Jim Smiley's

The Faithful Soul

"My New Pittayatees"

Mary Ann's Wedding

An Inquiring Yankee

The Three Bells

Love in a Balloon

Mrs. Brown on the Streets

Shoo Flies

Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Bosan

Without the Children