Dick and Fitzgerald Catalog (1866)

BANJO AND BALL-ROOM GUIDES

Dick's Quadrille Call-Book and Ball-Room Prompter. Containing clear directions how to call out the figures of every dance, with the quantity of music necessary for each figure, and simple explanations of all the figures which occur in Plain and Fancy Quadrilles. This book gives plain and comprehensive instructions how to dance all the new and popular dances, fully describing

The Opening March or Polonaise,

Various Plain and Fancy Quadrilles,

Waltz and Glide Quadrilles,

Plain Lancers and Caledonians,

Glide Lancers and Caledonians,

Saratoga Lancers,

The Parisian Varieties,

The Prince Imperial Set,

Social and Basket Quadrilles,

Nine-Pin and Star Quadrilles,

Gavotte and Minuet Quadrilles,

March and Cheat Quadrilles,

Favorite Jigs and Contra-Dances,

Polka and Polka Redowa,

Redowa and Redowa Waltz,

Polka Mazourka and Old Style Waltz,

Modern Plain Waltz and Glide,

Boston Dip and Hop Waltz,

Five-Step Waltz and Schottische,

Varsovienne and Zulma L'Orientale,

Galop and Deux Temps,

Esmeralda, Sicilienne, Danish Dance,

To which is added a Sensible Guide to Etiquette and proper Deportment in the Ball and Assembly Room, besides seventy pages of dance music for the piano.

Hillgrove's Ball-Boom Guide and Complete Dancing-Master. Containing a plain treatise on Etiquette and Deportment at Balls and Parties, with valuable hints on Dress and the Toilet, together with

Full Explanations of the Rudiments, Terms, Figures and Steps used in Dancing,

Including Clear and Precise Instructions how to dance all kinds of Quadrilles, Waltzes, Polkas, Redowas, Reels, Round, Plain and Fancy Dances, so that any person may learn them without the aid of a Teacher,

To which is added easy directions how to call out the Figures which belong to every dance, and the amount of music required for each. Illustrated with 176 descriptive engravings. By T. Hillgrove, Professor of Dancing.

Frank Converse's Complete Banjo Instructor Without a Master. Containing a choice collection of Banjo Solos and Hornpipes, Walk Arounds, Reels and Jigs, Songs and Banjo Stories, progressively arranged and plainly explained, enabling the learner to become a proficient banjoist without the aid of a teacher. The necessary explanations accompany each tune, and are placed under the notes on each page, plainly showing the string required, the finger to be used for stopping it, the manner of striking, and the number of times it must be sounded. The Instructor is illustrated with diagrams and explanatory symbols.

The Banjo, and How to Play it. Containing, in addition to the elementary studies, a choice collection of Polkas, Waltzes Solos, Schottisches. Songs, Hornpipes, Jigs, Reels, etc., with full explanations of both the "Banjo" and "Guitar" styles of execution, and designed to impart a complete knowledge of the art of playing the Banjo practically, without the aid of a teacher. This work is arranged on the progressive system, showing the learner how to play the first few notes of a tune, then the next notes, and so on, a small portion at a time, until he has mastered the entire piece, every detail being as clearly and thoroughly explained as if he had a teacher at his elbow all the time. By Frank B. Converse, author of the "Banjo without a Master."

GYMNASTICS, CALISTHENICS AND TRAINING

Alexander's Calisthenics and Musical Drill for Little Children. Containing Fifty-nine Exercises, with numerous variations, introducing simple Calisthenics and Swimming Motions, Ring, Skipping and Marching Exercises, profusely illustrated, with Piano Music for every movement. A complete work on Recreative Calisthenics for young children and Primary School Classes. By A. Alexander, Professor of Calisthenics and Gymnastics.

Cruden's Calisthenic Training and Musical Drill. A System of Physical Exercises as an aid to Teachers in Class Training. By George Cruden, A.M.

This work contains complete instructions in Military Marching, Dumb-Bell, and Indian Club Exercises; including Musical Drill in Free Gymnastics, Dumb-Bell and Bar-Bell Exercises and Hoop Drill, with explanatory illustrations and Piano Music for every movement.

Maclaren's Training in Theory and Practice. A Handbook of Training for all athletic exercises in accordance with the accepted modern theories and methods. It shows conclusively the errors and risks of the old styles of Training, and gives the most thorough ways of developing in the highest degree the muscular vigor, full respiration, and physical endurance which is indispensable to success in all athletic exercises and competitive exhibitions of strength, speed and skill. By Archibald Maclaren, Professor of Gymnastics of the Oxford University Gymnasium, England.

Dick's Art of Gymnastics. Containing practical and progressive exercises applicable to all the principal apparatus of a well-appointed Gymnasium. Profusely illustrated. This work conveys plain and thorough instruction in the exercises and evolutions taught by the leading Professors of Gymnastics, so that proficiency may be attained, even without the aid of a Teacher. It also offers to Teachers a ready-arranged systematic course for their guidance.

Dick's Dumb-Bell and Indian Club Exercises. Containing practical and progressive instructions in the use of Dumb-Bells, Bar-Bells and Indian Clubs. Illustrated with cuts showing every position and motion of the body and limbs.

The Laws of Athletics. How to Preserve and Improve Health, Strength and Beauty; and to Correct Personal Defects caused by Want of Physical Exercise. How to Train for Walking, Running, Rowing, etc., with the Systems of the Champion Athletes of the World. Including the Latest Laws of all Athletic Games and How to Play Them. By William Wood, Professor of Gymnastics.

Athletic Sports for Boys. Containing complete instructions in the manly accomplishments of Skating, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing, Horsemanship, Riding, Driving, Angling, Fencing and Broadsword. Illustrated with 194 wood-cuts.

Dick's Art of Bowling; or, Bowler's Guide. Giving the correct method of playing, keeping the score, and the latest Rules which govern the American and German Games, with their most popular Variations, including also the latest Regulations adopted in Match Games and Tournaments. Fully illustrated with Diagrams, &c., explaining the arrangement of the Pins, and correct methods of keeping the games.

PHONOGRAPHY AND BOOK-KEEPING

Pitman's Phonographic Teacher. A Practical Guide to Phonography or Phonetic Short-Hand. By Isaac Pitman. New edition revised and improved. This is acknowledged to be the best and most practical system of Short-Hand, and this work is the only original, thorough and reliable one of that system, which presents the fewest difficulties and the widest resources, entirely dispensing with the aid of a Teacher; and, although every system involves patience, perseverance and steady practice, Pitman's method ensures a more speedy acquisition of fluency and rapidity than any other.

Key to the Phonographic Teacher. An efficient aid to the learner in practicing and applying Pitman's Method of Short-hand, with exercises and explanations.

Pitman's Manual of Phonography. Containing a complete exposition of the system of Phonetic Short-hand, with numerous short-hand examples interspersed with the text, and exercises in reading. This Manual of Isaac Pitman's System, which is now being introduced as the Text-Book of Phonography in our educational institutions, has been revised and corrected, year after year, by its inventor, and is now presented in its latest and fullest perfection. Its pre-eminence is endorsed by the fact that its sales have already reached 650,000.

Key to the Exercises in Pitman's Manual. A great help for students.

Pitman's Phonographic Reporter; or, Reporter's Companion. An adaptation of Pitman's System to verbatim reporting. By Isaac Pitman. By the introduction of easily-acquired Phraseograms, Logograms, and other simple devices, time and labor are saved to such an extent that Reporters are enabled to keep pace with the most fluent speakers, and render accurate and verbatim reports, without elisions or condensation. This is the latest and crowning addition to the Phonographic art, and brings it up to the greatest practical perfection. Latest Edition, bound in boards.

The Young Reporter; or, how to Write Shorthand. Intended to afford thorough instructions to those who have not the assistance of an Oral Teacher. By the aid of this work, and the explanatory examples which are given as exercises, any person of ordinary intelligence may learn to write Shorthand, and report Speeches and Sermons in a short time.

Odell's System Of Short-Hand. (Taylor Improved.) By which the method of taking down sermons, lectures, trials, speeches, etc., may be easily acquired, without the aid of a master. By this plan the difficulties of mastering this useful art are very much lessened, and the time required to attain proficiency reduced to the least possible limits.

Day's Book-Keeping Without a Master. Containing the Rudiments of Book-keeping in Single and Double Entry, together with the proper Forms and Rules for opening and keeping condensed and general Book Accounts. This work is printed in a beautiful script type, and combines the advantages of a handsome style of writing with its very simple and easily understood lessons in Book-keeping. The several pages have explanations at the bottom, in small type, to assist the learner. As a pattern for opening book accounts it is especially valuable – particularly for those who are not well posted in the art.

FREEMASONRY

Allyn's Ritual of Freemasonry. Containing a complete Key to the following Degrees: Degree of Entered Apprentice; Degree of Fellow Craft; Degree of Master Mason; Degree of Mark Master; Degree of Past Master; Degree of Excellent Master; Degree of Royal Arch; Royal Arch Chapter; Degree of Royal Master; Degree of Select Master; Degree of Super-Excellent Master; Degree of Ark and Dove; Degree of Knights of Constantinople; Degree of Secret Monitor; Degree of Heroine of Jericho; Degree of Knights of Three Kings; Mediterranean Pass; Order of Knights of the Red Cross; Order of Knights Templar and Knights of Malta; Knights of the Christian Mark, and Guards of the Conclave; Knights of the Holy Sepulchre; The Holy and Thrice Illustrious Order of the Cross; Secret Master; Perfect Master; Intimate Secretary; Provost and Judge; Intendant of the Buildings, or Master in Israel; Elected Knights of Nine; Elected Grand Master; Sublime Knights Elected; Grand Master Architect; Knights of the Ninth Arch; Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason. Illustrated with 38 copper-plate engravings; to which is added, a Key to the Phi Beta Kappa, Orange, and Odd Fellows Societies. By Avery Allyn, K. R. C. K. T. K. M., etc.

Lester's "Look to the East." (Webb Work.) A Ritual of the First Three Degrees of Masonry. Containing the complete work of the Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason's Degrees, and their Ceremonies, Lectures, etc. Edited by Ralph P. Lester. This complete and beautiful Pocket Manual of the First Three Degrees of Masonry is printed in clear, legible type, and not obscured by any attempts at cypher or other perplexing contractions. It gives the correct routine of

Opening and Closing the Lodge in each Degree.

Calling off and Calling On.

Calling the Lodge Up and Down.

The Entire Ceremonies of Initiating, Passing and Raising Candidates.

The Lectures all Ritually and Monitorially Complete.

Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor; or, Guide to the Three Symbolic Degrees of the Ancient York Rite, Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason. And to the Degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, Most excellent Master, and the Royal Arch. By Malcolm C. Duncan. Explained and Interpreted by copious Notes and numerous Engravings. This is a valuable book for the Fraternity, containing, as it does, the Modern "Work" of the order. No Mason should be without it.

Duncan's Rituale der Freimaurerei. A Guide, in the German language, to the Three Symbolic Degrees of the Ancient York Rite. Dieses Werk ist geschrieben, um den jungern Mitglieder des Ordens einen Leitfaden an die Hand zu geben, und gibt eine genaue Beschreibung aller in der Arbeit gebrauchlichen Ceremonien, Zeichen, Worte, Griffe, u.s.w.

Richardson's Monitor of Freemasonry. A complete Guide to the various Ceremonies and Routine in Freemasons' Lodges, Chapters, Encampments, Hierarchies, etc., in all the Degrees, whether Modern, Ancient, Ineffable, Philosophical or Historical. Containing, also, the Lectures, Addresses, Charges, Signs, Tokens, Grips, Passwords, Regalias and Jewels in each Degree. Profusely illustrated with Explanatory Engravings, Plans of the interior of Lodges, etc.

BOOKS ON CARDS AND OTHER GAMES

The American Hoyle; or, Gentleman's Hand-Book of Games. By "Trumps". This work has long since been accorded the position of an exclusive authority on games played in America. The FIFTEENTH EDITION, now issued, newly arranged, in new type, contains all the latest novelties, as well as the recent changes in games already in vogue, profusely illustrated. Among the new games introduced in this edition are Rubicon Piquet, Rubicon Bézique, Grabouche, Solo Whist, Cayenne Whist, Domino Whist, Cinch or High Five, Baccarat Banque and Baccarat Chemin de Fer, etc. In the game of Whist, the new features are "Cavendish's" rules for play, with best leads, and a critical examination of the system of "American Leads", elucidated by card illustrations; also, the mode of procedure in Duplicate Whist. The various games of Billiards and Pool, with the rules adopted in matches and tournaments, are inserted by permission of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. The work also includes an exposition of the Doctrine of Chances.

Hoyle's Games. By "Trumps". A complete Manual of the games of skill and chance as played in America, and an acknowledged "arbiter on all disputed points"; thoroughly revised and corrected in accordance with the latest and best authorities. It contains the modern laws and complete instructions for the games of Chess, Draughts, Dominoes, Dice, Backgammon, and Billiards, as well as the games with cards at present in vogue, including Baccarat, Duplicate Whist, Cayenne Whist, Hearts, Grabouche, Newmarket, Solo Whist, Cinch or High Five, etc.

"Trumps" New Card Games. Containing correct method and rules for playing the games of Hearts, Boodle, New Market, Five and Nine or Domino-Whist, Solo, and Cayenne Whist.

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 embraces a number of new and original Games, and all the Games of Patience at present in favor with the most experienced players. 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. Quarto, 143 pages.