Dick and Fitzgerald Catalog (1866)

MISCELLANEOUS

The Perfect Gentleman. A book of Etiquette and Eloquence. Containing information and instruction for those who desire to become brilliant or conspicuous in General Society, or at Parties, Dinners or Popular Gatherings, etc. It gives directions how to use wine at table, with Rules for judging the quality thereof, Rules for Carving and a complete Etiquette of the Dinner Table, including Dinner Speeches, Toasts and Sentiments, Wit and Conversation at Table, etc. It has also an American Code of Etiquette and Politeness for all occasions. It also contains all the necessary information relating to the rules of Etiquette to be observed in fashionable and official society at Washington, and this alone makes it valuable to any one who visits that city, either for pleasure or business. It also contains, Model Speeches, with directions how to deliver them, Duties of the Chairman at Public Meetings, Forms of Preambles and Resolutions, etc. It is a handsomely bound volume of 335 pages.

The American Boy's Own Book of Sports and Games. A work expressly designed to amuse and instruct American Boys at all times and seasons, both in and out doors. This work contains 600 pages, and is illustrated with over 600 engravings and diagrams, drawn by White and other American and English artists, and engraved by N. Orr in his best style. It is also embellished with eight full-page ornamental titles, executed in the highest style of art, on tinted paper, illustrating the different departments of the work. An elegant gift for a boy, affording endless amusement, instruction and recreation.

The Twelve Decisive Battles of the War. A History of Eastern and Western Campaigns in relation to the Battles which decided their issue, and their important bearings on the result of the Struggle for the Union. By William Swinton. Illustrated by seven steel portraits of the leading Generals and nine maps of battle-fields. This work is the result of the author's personal experiences, and based on the records of the Generals commanding on both sides; it is, therefore, thorough, impartial and reliable. 520 pages. 8vo.

Day's Cards Of Courtship. Arranged with such apt conversations that you will be enabled to ask the momentous question categorically, in such a delicate manner that the young lady will not suspect what you are at. These cards may be used either by two persons, or they will make lots of fun for an evening party of young people. When used in a party, the question is read aloud by the lady receiving it – she shuffles and hands out an answer – and that also must be read aloud by the gentleman receiving it. The fun thus caused is intense. Put up in handsome cases, on which are printed directions.

Day's Love-Letter Cards; or, Love-Making Made Easy. We have just printed a novel set of Cards which will delight the hearts of young people susceptible of the tender passion. Both letters and answers are either humorous or humorously sentimental – thus creating lots of fun when used at a party of young people – and special pains has been taken with them to avoid that silly, sentimental formality so common in printed letters of this kind. Put up in handsome cases, on which are printed directions.

Day's Conversation Cards. A New and Original Set, comprising Eighteen Questions and Twenty-four Answers, so arranged that the whole of the answers are apt replies to each one of the eighteen questions. The plan of these cards is very simple, and easily understood. Used by a party of young people, they will make a good deal of fun. The set comprises forty-two Cards in the aggregate, which are put up in a handsome case, with printed directions for use.

COOK BOOKS

Dinner Napkins, and How to Fold Them. Containing plain and systematic directions for arranging and folding Napkins or Serviettes for the Dinner Table, from the simplest forms to the most elaborate and artistic designs. By Georgiana C. Clark. This little work embraces all the favorite designs in general use for transforming a plain Napkin into one of the most attractive and ornamental appendages to an elegantly arranged Dinner Table. Some of the patterns being expressly intended for combining artistic display with floral decoration, appropriately symbolic of Bridal and other special occasions.

Mrs. Crowen's American Lady's Cookery Book. Giving every variety of information for ordinary and holiday occasions, and containing over 1,200 Original Receipts for Preparing and Cooking Soups and Broths, Fish and Oysters, Clams, Mussels, Crabs and Terrapins, Meats of all kinds, Poultry and Game, Eggs and Cheese, Vegetables and Salads, Sauces of all kinds, fancy Desserts, Puddings and Custards, Pies and Tarts, Bread and Biscuit, Rolls and Cakes, Preserves and Jellies, Pickles and Catsups, Potted Meats, etc., etc. The whole being a complete system, of American Cookery. By Mrs. T. J. Crowen.

How to Cook and How to Carve. Giving plain and easily understood directions for preparing and cooking, with the greatest economy, every kind of dish, with complete instructions for serving the same. This Book is just the thing for a young Housekeeper. It is worth a dozen of expensive French books.

The American Home Cook Book. Containing several hundred excellent recipes. The whole based on many years' experience of an American Housewife. Illustrated with engravings. All the recipes in this book are written from actual experience in Cooking.

The Yankee Cook Book. A new system of Cookery. Containing hundreds of excellent recipes from actual experience in Cooking; also, full explanation in the art of Carving.

Soyer's Standard Cookery for the People. Embracing an entirely new System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy. By Alexis Soyer. The plain and familiar style adopted in describing the details of the various culinary operations, commends itself to the notice of all economical housekeepers, as it affords the best results with the least expenditure.

The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory. This valuable book embraces three hundred and seventy-eight recipes for cooking all sorts of American dishes in the most economical manner.

Souillard's Book of Practical Receipts. For the use of Families, Druggists, Perfumers, Confectioners and Dealers in Soaps and Fancy Articles for the Toilet. By F. A. Souillard.

Book of Wonders, Mysteries and Disclosures. A complete hand-book of useful information. Giving a large number of Recipes for the manufacture of valuable articles of every-day use, and of great value to manufacturers, storekeepers, druggists, peddlers and families. To which is added Taxidermy and Traps and Trapping.

BOXING AND WRESTLING

How to Join a Circus. This contains all the information necessary for those who desire to qualify themselves for the Circus or Gymnasium; with hints to Amateurs and advice to Professional performers; affording thorough instruction in all branches of the business. Illustrated. By the celebrated Tony Denier. By carefully following the advice and instruction contained in this book, any person with a moderate degree of perseverance can become proficient in all the startling acts on the horizontal bar, flying trapeze, and other evolutions that challenge the admiration of all who behold them.

Jerry Thomas' Bar Tender's Guide; or How to Mix all kinds of Fancy Drinks. An entirely new edition; new plates; new drinks. Containing clear and reliable directions for mixing all the beverages used in the United States. Embracing Punches, Juleps, Cobblers, Cocktails, etc., etc., in endless variety. By Jerry Thomas. This work also contains the best receipts for preparing bottled Punch, bottled Cocktails, Punch Essences, etc., after the most approved methods; also, all the newest Egg Noggs, Fizzes, Slings, Sours, and other Fancy Drinks in endless variety.

Dick's Art Of Wrestling. A New Hand-Book of thorough instruction in Wrestling, with the accepted Rules to be observed in the different methods of wrestling generally adopted at the present time. Fully illustrated by well-designed engravings, exhibiting all the aggressive and defensive positions necessary for success.

Price's Science of Self-Defense. Illustrated with Engravings. This book was written by Ned Price, the celebrated boxer, and is the best work that was ever written upon the subject of Sparring and Wrestling. It contains all the tricks and stratagems resorted to by professional boxers and the descriptions of the passes, blows and parries are all clearly explained by the aid of numerous diagrams and engravings. That portion of the work which treats on wrestling is particularly thorough, and is well illustrated with engravings.

Ned Donnelly's Art of Boxing. A thorough Manual of Sparring and Self-Defence, illustrated with Forty Engravings, showing the various Blows, Stops and Guards; by Ned Donnelly, Professor of Boxing to the London Athletic Club, etc., etc. This work explains in detail every movement of attack and defence in the clearest language, and in accordance with the most approved and modern methods; the engravings are very distinctly drawn, and show each position and motion as plainly as the personal instruction of a professor could convey it. It teaches all the feints and dodges practised by experienced boxers, and gives advice to those who desire to perfect themselves in the Manly Art. Including the London Prize Ring Rules, and revised Marquis of Queensbury's Rules.

The Art of Attack and Defence. A Manual of Fencing, Sword Exercise, Bayonet Practice and Boxing, affording instructions in the modern method of Fencing, the mode of attack with sword against sword or bayonet, and with bayonet against sword or bayonet. By Major W. J. Elliott.

Boxing Made Easy; or, The Complete Manual of Self-Defense. Clearly explained and Illustrated in a Series of Easy Lessons, with some important Hints to Wrestlers.

MODEL SPEECHES AND SKELETON ESSAYS

Ogden's Model Speeches for all School Occasions. Containing Original Addresses and Orations on everything appertaining to School Life; comprising Set Speeches on all occasions connected with Schools, Academies and Colleges, for School Officers, as well as for Teachers and Students of both sexes, with appropriate replies. By Christol Ogden.

This original work contains over one-hundred telling speeches and replies in well-chosen words, and every variety of style, for

All Kinds of School Ceremonials.

Speeches on Opening and Dedicating New Schools and Academies.

Salutatory and Valedictory Addresses.

Presentations and Conferring Honors.

Burlesque Speeches.

Addresses to Teachers.

Prologues and Epilogues for School Exhibitions.

Anniversary Congratulations.

Including practical hints on Extempore speaking with a dissertation on the selection of appropriate topics, suitable style, and effective delivery, and also valuable advice to those who lack confidence when addressing the Public.

Ogden's Skeleton Essays; or Authorship in Outline. Consisting of Condensed Treatises on popular subjects, with references to sources of information, and directions how to enlarge them into Essays, or expand them into Lectures. Fully elucidated by example as well as precept. By Christol Ogden.

In this work is a thorough analysis of some SEVENTY prominent and popular subjects, with extended specimens of the method of enlarging them into Essays and Lectures.

The following interesting topics are separately and ably argued on both sides of the question, thus presenting also well digested matter for Debate, being on subjects of absorbing interest everywhere: —

Bi-Metalism.

Civil Service Reform.

Prohibition.

Is Marriage a Failure?

City and Country.

The Credit System.

Free Trade and Protection.

Capital Punishment.

Shall More or Less be Taught in Public Schools.

All the remaining subjects are equally thoroughly discussed, and form a valuable aid to the student in preparing compositions, essays, etc.

Dick's Book of Toasts, Speeches and Responses. Containing Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Social Occasions, and specimen Speeches with appropriate replies suitable for the following occasions:

Public Dinners.

Social Dinners.

Convivial Gatherings.

Art and Professional Banquets.

Agricultural and Commercial Festivals.

Special Toasts for Ladies.

Christmas, Thanksgiving and other Festivals.

Friendly Meetings.

Weddings and their Anniversaries.

Army and Navy Banquets.

Patriotic and Political Occasions.

Trades' Unions and Dinners.

Benedicts' and Bachelors' Banquets.

Masonic Celebrations.

All Kinds of Occasions.

This work includes an instructive dissertation on the Art of making amusing After-dinner Speeches, giving hints and directions by the aid of which persons with only ordinary intelligence can make an entertaining and telling speech. Also, Correct Rules and Advice for Presiding at Table.

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.

DEBATES AND READY MADE SPEECHES

Barber's American Book of Ready-Made Speeches. Containing 159 original examples of Humorous and Serious Speeches, suitable for every possible occasion where a speech may be called for, together with appropriate replies to each. Including:

Presentation Speeches.

Convivial Speeches.

Festival Speeches.

Addresses of Congratulation.

Addresses of Welcome.

Addresses of Compliment.

Political Speeches.

Dinner and Supper Speeches for Clubs.

Off-Hand Speeches on a Variety of Subjects.

Miscellaneous Speeches.

Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Private Entertainments.

Preambles and Resolutions of Congratulation, Compliment and Condolence.

With this book any person may prepare himself to make a neat little speech, or reply to one when called upon to do so. They are all short, appropriate and witty, and even ready speakers may profit by them.

How to Conduct a Debate. A Series of Complete Debates, Outlines of Debates and Questions for Discussion. In the complete debates, the questions for discussion are defined, the debate formally opened, an array of brilliant arguments adduced on either side, and the debate closed according to parliamentary usages. The second part consists of questions for debate, with heads of arguments, for and against, given in a condensed form, for the speakers to enlarge upon to suit their own fancy. In addition to these is a large collection of debatable questions. The authorities to be referred to for information are given at the close of every debate throughout the work. By F. Rowton. 232 pages.

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 gives all necessary details connected with the following topics: —

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 regular or occasional Official Reports;

The Formation and Duties of Committees;

Rules of Order, and Order of Business, with Mode of Procedure in all cases. Also 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;

How to draft Resolutions, Reports and Petitions on various subjects and for various occasions, with numerous model examples;

A Model Debate, introducing the greatest possible variety of points of order, with correct Decisions by the Chairman;

This work includes all Decisions and Rulings up to the present day.

How to Learn the Sense of 3,000 French Words in one Hour. It is a fact that there are at least three thousand words in the French language, forming a large proportion of those used in ordinary conversation, which are spelled the same as in English.

500 French Phrases, with their English Translations. The phrases here given are all selected for their general usefulness for occasional quotation.

COMPOSITION AND LANGUAGES

Live and Learn; or, One Thousand Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Writing and Pronunciation, Corrected and Explained. There are hundreds of persons who are sensible of their deficiencies on many points connected with the Grammar of their own tongue, and who, by self-tuition, may correct such deficiencies.

It Corrects and Explains 1,000 Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Writing and Pronunciation.

It Explains the many Perplexing points that occasion difficulty to the student.

It explains most of the Latin and French words and phrases of frequent occurrence in newspapers.

It shows how to punctuate and paragraph correctly.

It shows all the current improprieties of expression and gives rules for their correction.

It gives clear rules for the use of Capitals and Italics.

It gives plain, general rules for spelling.

It gives detailed instructions for writing for the Press in the various departments of newspaper and general literature.

Walker's Rhyming, Spelling and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. To which is added critical and practical Observations on Orthography, Syllabication, Pronunciation, an Index of Allowable Rhymes, with Authorities for their usage, etc.

How to Write a Composition. The use of this book will save the student the many hours of labor too often wasted in trying to write a plain composition. It affords a perfect skeleton of one hundred and seventeen different subjects, with their divisions clearly defined, and each heading filled in with the ideas which the subject suggests; so that all the writer has to do, in order to produce a good composition is to enlarge on them to suit his taste.

The Poet's Companion. A Dictionary of all Allowable Rhymes in the English Language. This gives the Perfect, the Imperfect and Allowable Rhymes, and will enable you to ascertain to a certainty whether any word can be mated. It is invaluable to any one who desires to court the Muses, and is used by some of the best writers.

Mind Your Stops. Punctuation made plain, and Composition simplified for Readers, Writers and talkers.

Thimm's French Self-Taught. A new system on the most simple principles, for universal Self-Tuition, with English pronunciation of every word. By this system the acquirement of the French Language is rendered less laborious and more thorough than by any of the old methods. By Franz Thimm.