1887 The bar-tender's guide

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McBrido's Hew Dialer and Literary Amateur Ente: Hal Dialogues, introducing By H. Elliott MgBbide.

Especially designed for Schot.

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rtainments : containing entirely New and Origi- Irish, Yankee, and otnaf eccentric characters.

Congests.

A Happy Woman. The Somnambulist, Those Thompsons. Playing School. Torn and Sally. Assisting Hezekiah.

An Uncomfortable Predicament. The Opening Speech. The Cucumber Hill Debating Club. Married by the JVeiv Justice. Bread on the Waters. An Unsuccessful Advance. When Women Have Their Rights. Only Another Footprint. Rosabella's Lovers. A Smart Boy. A Heavy Shower. Master of the Situation.

A Visit to the Oil Regions. Breaking vp the Exhibition. Turning Around. A Little Boy's Debate. The Silver Lining. Restraining Jotham. A Shoemaker's Troubles*

The marked favor with which the four preceding volumes have been re- ceived suggested the necessity for an increased variety of new eccentric and characteristic pieces, to form an addition to the repertoire con- tained in *' McBilde's Comic Dialogues," " McBride's All Kinds of Dia- logues," " McBride's Humorous Dialogues," and " McBride's Temperance Dialogues." They are all written with a view to develop dramatic talent, and abound in quaint humor, Dialect Drolleries, and telling stage " situa- tions." 16mo, 178 pages, illuminated paper cover 30 Ct3. Bound in boards 50 cts. Dick's Book of Toasts, Speeches and Eesponses. Contain- ing Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Social Occasions, and specimen Speeches with appropriate replies suitable for the following occasions :

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Public Dinners, Social Dinners, Convivial Gatherings, Art and Professional Banquets, Manufacturers' Meetings, Agricultural and Commercial Festivals, Special Toasts for Ladies, Christmas, Thanksgiving and other Fes- tivals,

This work includes an instructive dissertation on the Art of making amusing After-dinner Speeches, giving hints ana 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 im- mense fund of anecdotes, wit and wisdom, and other serviceable matter to draw upon at will. Paper covers. Price 30 Ct3 Dinner Uapkins, 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. Xhis little work embraces all the favorite designs in general use for trans- forming 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 deeora- \ tion, appropriately symbolic of Bridal and other special occasions. Profusely illustrated

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