Blitz, Antonio. Fifty years in the magic circle; an account of the author's professional life, his wonderful tricks and feats, with laughable incidents and adventures as a magician, necromancer and ventriloquist. Hartford. 1871. D. 791:4 Hoffmann, L: Modern magic; a practical treatise on the art of conjuring. Ill. 4th ed. Lond. 1882. D.

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Frickell, G. Magic no mystery; conjuring tricks with cards, balls and dice, magic writing, performing animals, by the author of "The secret out"; ed. by W. H. Cremer, jr. Lond. 1876. D. 791:6 Hermon, Harry. Hellerism, second-sight mystery, supernatural vision or second-sight. what is it? a mystery; a complete manual for teaching this peculiar art. Bost. 1884.

S. 791:9 Frost, Sarah Annie. The book of tableaux and shadow pantomimes; containing a choice collection of tableaux vivants or living pictures, embracing moving_tableaux, charades in tableaux, Mother Goose tableaux and fairy-tale tableaux, together with directions for arranging the stage, costuming the characters and forming appropriate groups. Added, a number of shadow acts and pantomimes, with complete stage instructions. N. Y. [1869]. S. 791:7

Pollard, Josephine. Artistic tableaux; with picturesque diagrams and descriptions of costumes. Arr. of diagrams by Walter Satterlee. N. Y. 1884. T.

791:8 Holt, Ardern. Fancy dresses described; or What to wear at fancy balls. 4th ed. Lond. n. d. O. 791:10

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Contents. V. 1. Prologue.-The decline and fall of the players.-The "boy actresses" and the " young ladies."-The gentlemen of the king's company.-T: Betterton. - "Exeunt" and "enter." - Elizabeth Barry." Their first appearance on this stage."-The dramatic poets.-Noble, gentle and humble authors. -Professional authoresses. The audiences of the 17th century.-A seven years' rivalry.-The united and disunited companies.-Union, strength, prosperity.-Competition and what came of it. The progress of James Quin and decline of Barton Booth.Barton Booth.-Mrs. Oldfield. — From the death of Anne Oldfield to that of Wilks. Robert Wilks.Enter, Garrick. - Garrick, Quin, Mrs. Porter.-Rivalry; and enter, Spranger Barry. The old Dublin theatre. Garrick and Quin; Garrick and Barry.The audiences of 1700-1750.-Exit, James Quin.-England and Scotland. 2. Margaret Woffington.-Colley Cibber.-England and Ireland.-Ryan, Rich, O'Brien. -Susanna Maria Cibber.-Reappearance of Spranger

Barry. Retirement of mrs. Pritchard. · The last years of Garrick and Barry.-D: Garrick.— Spranger and Anne Barry.-Kitty Clive, Woodward, Shuter.S: Foote.-Supplemental catalogue of new plays from the retirement of Garrick to the end of the 18th century. Of authors, and particularly of condemned authors.-The audiences of the last half of the 18th century.-C: Macklin.-A bevy of ladies, but chiefly mrs. Bellamy, miss Farren, mrs. Abington, and "Perdita."-A group of gentlemen. -J: Henderson.--Sarah Siddons.-J: Kemble.-G: F: Cooke.-Master Betty.Stage costume and stage tricks.-Prologue, epilogue, dedications and benefits. - Old stagers departing.New ideas, new theatres, new authors, and the new actors.-Edmund Kean.

Fitzgerald, Percy. A new history of the english stage from the restoration to the liberty of the theatres, in connection with the patent houses, from original papers in the lord chamberlain's office, the state paper office, and other sources. Lond. 1882. 2 v. O.

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Williams, Michael. Some London theatres, past 792:10 and present. Lond. 1883. D.

Contents. The story of old Sadler's Wells.-Something about old Highbury barn.-The drama in Norton Folgate.-The drama in Portman-market.-Three lyceums. Matthews, James Brander. The theatres of Paris. Ill. N. Y. 1880. D. 792:5

Phelps, H. P. Players of a century; a record of the Albany stage, incl. notices of prominent actors who have appeared in America. Albany. 1880. D. 792:8 Ludlow, N. M. Dramatic life as I found it; a record of personal experience, with an account of the rise and progress of the drama in the west and south, with anec-. dotes and biographical sketches of the principal actors and actresses who have at times appeared upon the stage in the Mississippi valley. St. Louis. 1880. O. 792:4 Murdoch, James E: The stage, or Recollections of actors and acting from an experience of fifty years; a series of dramatic sketches, with an app. Phila. 1880. D. 792:6

Pollock, Walter Herries, and lady Pollock. Amateur theatricals. (Art at home ser.) Lond. 1879. D. 792.1:1 How to make up; a practical guide to the art

of " making-up for amateurs, etc., by

Haresfoot and Rouge. N. Y. 1877. D. 792.1:2

Guide to selecting plays, or Manager's companion: complete description of 1,500 pieces, showing number of characters, acts and scenes, the class of play, costumes, time of representation, an account of the dramatis personæ, the plot or advice connected with each, arr. to the requirements of any company. N. Y. 1881. D.

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all seasons, by Captain Crawley. Lond. [1869]. D. 790:3 Beard, Daniel C. What to do, and how to do it; the american boy's handy book. N. Y. 1882. D. x 790:4 Chadwick, H: The sports and pastimes of american boys; a guide and text-book of games

of the play-ground, the parlor and the field, adapted especially for american youth. Ill. N. Y. [1884]. O. x 790:6

3. In-door amusements.

Rees, Janet E. Ruutz-. Home occupations. (Appletons' home books). N. Y. 1883 [1882].

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D. Household amusements and enjoyments; comprising acting charades, burlesques, conundrums, enigmas, rebuses, and a number of new puzzles in endless variety. Lond. 1866. T. 793:15 Bellew, Frank. The art of amusing; a collection of graceful arts, merry games, odd tricks, curious puzzles and new charades, together with suggestions for private theatricals, tableaux and all sorts of parlor and family amusements; a volume intended to amuse everybody and enable all to amuse everybody else, thus bringing about as near an approximation to the millenium

as

can be conveniently attained in the compass of one small volume. Ill. N. Y. 793:1 1867. S. - The art of amusing; a collection of graceful arts, games, tricks, puzzles and charades, intended to amuse everybody and enable all to amuse everybody else. Ill. Lond. n. d. D. 793: 7 Bellew, Clara, ed. The merry circle; a book of new, graceful and intellectual games and amusements. Lond. n. d. D. 793: 6 Cassell's book of in-door amusements,_card games and fireside fun. 2d ed. Ill. Lond. [1882]. O. 793:4 Elliott, Alfred. Within-doors; a book of games and pastimes for the drawing-room, with a chapter on feathered pets. Lond. 1872. D. 793: 11 Hoffmann, L: Parlor amusements and evening party entertainments. Ill. Lond. n. d. D. 793: 12

Same. Drawing-room amusements. Lond. n. d. D. 793:12 Frickell, G. Hanky panky; a book of conjuring tricks, by the author of "The secret out." New ed. by W. H. Cremer, jr. Lond. 1875. D. 793:8

- The magician's own book, by the author of of "The secret out," etc.; ed. by W. H. Cremer, jr. Lond. n. d. D. 793: 9

- The secret out, or 1,000 tricks in drawingroom or white magic with an endless variety of entertaining experiments. [Anon.]; ed. by W. H. Cremer, jr. Ill. Lond. n. d.

D. 793:10 Rubin, Theodor A. Sphinx americana; räthsel. Milw. 1878. D. 793: Pam Bursill, H: Hand shadows to be thrown upon the wall; consisting of novel and amusing figures formed by the hand, from original designs. 2 ser. in 1 v. N. Y. n. d. Ổ.

x 793:5

D.

Campbell, Helen. The american girl's home book of work and play. Ill. Ñ. Y. 1883. x 793:17 Landells, E. and Alice. The girl's own toymaker and book of recreation. 12th thous. Ill. N. Y. n. d. S. x 793: 14 Dick, W: Brisbane. The american Hoyle, or Gentleman's hand-book of games; containing all the games played in the U. S., with rules, descriptions and technicalities, adapted to the american methods of playing, by Trumps. Appended, A treatise on the doctrine of chances. 13th ed. rev. N. Y. 1883. D. 793:16

Forbes, Duncan. The history of chess, from the time of the early invention of the game in India, till the period of its establishment in western and central Europe. Lond. 1860. O. 794+8 Chess handbook, The; teaching the rudiments of the game and giving an analysis of all the recognized openings, exemplified by appropriate games actually played by Morphy, Harrwitz, Anderssen, Staunton, Paulsen, Montgomery, Meek and many others, by an amateur. [Based on Staunton, H.. Chess-player's handbook.]_Phila. 1859. S. 794:3 Gossip, G. H. D. The chess-player's manual; containing the laws of the game according to the revised code laid down by the British chess association in 1862. 2d ed. Lond. 1883. O. 794+7 Cook, W: Synopsis of the chess openings; a tabulated analysis. 3d ed. with add. and emendations. Lond. 1882. O. 794:6 Staunton, Howard. The chess tournament; a collection of the games played at this celebrated assemblage, ill. by diagrams and notes, critical and explanatory. Lond. 1852. D. 794:5 Fiske, Daniel Willard. The book of the first american chess congress; containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, held in N. Y. in 1857, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay, together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds. N. Y. 1859. D 794:2

Lange, Max. Paul Morphy; a sketch from the chess world. Tr. by permission, with add. notes and games by Ernest Falkbeer. Lond. 1860. D. 794:4 Dubuque chess journal; v. 8, jan.-dec. 1875. T. p. w. [Dubuque. 1875]. D. 705.9: M Goold, Joseph. The game of draughts; problems, critical positions and games, containing sections by dr. Brown, messrs. Drinkwater, Fred. Allen, F. Dunne, Kear, Robertson, Gourlay, Hedley, Smith, Leggett, Gilbert, Richards, Whitney and Wyllie, with special contributions from messrs. McCall, Parker, Willie Gardner, Ritchie, etc., selections from the works of the best authors and composers, and notes on the positions. Lond. 1884. S. 795:9

Card games.

795:1

Drayson, A. W. The art of practical whist; a series of letters descriptive of every part of the game, and the best method of becoming a skilful player, embodying the rules adopted by the Arlington and Portland clubs. Lond. and N. Y. 1880. D. Hayward, Abraham. Whist and whist-players. In his Selected essays. 824.2: 46 v2 Jones, H:, (Cavendish). The laws and principles of whist stated and explained, and its practice illustrated on an original system, by means of hands played completely through, by Cavendish. 14th ed. Lond. 1884. S. 795: 7 - Card essays, Clay's decisions, and Card-table talk by Cavendish. Amer. ed. with index. (Leisure hour ser.) N. Y. 1880. S. 795:2 Pembridge, pseud. Whist or bumblepuppy?

ten lectures addressed to children. From the 2d Lond. ed. Bost. 1883. S. 795:5 Pettes, G: W: American or standard whist, by G. W. P. Bost. 1880. D. 795:3

Pole, W: The theory of the modern scientific game of whist. 11th ed. Lond. 1879. S. 795:4

The philosophy of whist; an essay on the scientific and intellectual aspects of the modern game, in 2 pts: pt. 1, The philosophy of whist play; pt. 2, The philosophy of whist probabilities. 3d ed. Lond. 1884. 795:8 S. Proctor, R: Anthony. How to play whist; with the laws and etiquette of whist, whistwhittlings, and forty fully- annotated games; by "Five of clubs". (Knowledge library). Lond. 1885. D. 795: 10 795:10

Same.

N. Y. 1885. S.

Walker, Arthur Campbell-. The correct card, or How to play at whist; a whist catechism. N. Y. 1876. S. 795:11 Linderfelt, Klas A: The game of preference or swedish whist; with a bibliography of english whist. Milw. 1885. S. 795:12 Dick, W: Brisbane, ed. Games of patience, or Solitaire with cards; containing 44 games. Ill. N. Y. 1883. D. 795: 6

4. Out-door sports.

Depping, Guillaume. Wonders of bodily strength and skill in all ages and all countries. Tr. and enl. from the french by C: Russell. [Ill. lib. of wonders.] N. Y. 1873. D. 796:4

Spirit of the times; a chronicle of the turf, field sports, aquatics, agriculture and the stage; v. 107, 108, feb. 1884-jan. 1885. N. Y. 1884 -85. F. 705.9: RM Blaine, Delabere Pritchett. An encyclopædia of rural sports, or Complete account, historical, practical and descriptive, of hunting, shooting, fishing, racing, etc. New ed., rev. and corr. Lond. 1858. O.

796: R1 Walsh, J: H:, (Stonehenge). British rural sports; comprising shooting, hunting, coursing, fishing, hawking, racing, boating and pedestrianism, with all rural games and

amusements, by Stonehenge. 15th ed., ill.
re-ed. with add. by the "Field" staff.
Lond. [1881]. O.
796: R13
829.1+1

Appleton's summer book.

Contents, see under English literature, Miscellany. Elliott, Alfred. Out-of-doors; a handbook of games for the play ground. Lond. 1872. D. 796:11 Miller, T: The boy's summer book; descriptive of the season, scenery, rural life and country amusements. Ill. N. Y. 1847. D. 796:7 Gould, J: M. Hints for camping and walking: How to camp out. N. Y. 1880. S. 796:9 Pratt, C: E. The american bicycler; a manual for the observer, the learner and the ex796:3 pert. Ill. Bost. 1879. S. Thompson, Maurice. The witchery of archery; a complete manual of archery, with many chapters of adventures by field and flood, with an app. containing practical directions for the manufacture and use of archery implements. New ed., with a chapter on english archery practice. Ill. N. Y. 1879. S. 796:5 Taylor, James. Curling; the ancient scottish game. Ill. Edinb. 1884. O. 796:17 Swift, Frank, and Marvin R. Clark. The skater's text-book. N. Y. [1868]. D.

796:12 Greenwood, James. Wild sports of the world; a boy's book of natural history and adventure. Ill. Lond. 1862. O. 796: 10 Lloyd, Llewellyn. Field sports of the north of Europe; comprised in a personal narrative of a residence in Sweden and Norway in 1827-28. 2d ed., with add. Lond. 1831. 2 v. O. 796: 14 Gerstäcker, F: Wild sports in the far west. Tr. from the german. Phila. 1881. D. 796:16 Sears, G: W. (Nessmuk). Woodcraft. (Forest and stream ser.) Ill. N. Y. [1884]. S. 796:15 Northrup, A. Judd. 'Sconset cottage life; a summer on Nantucket Island. N. Y. 1881. S. 796:8

General field sports.

Hallock, C: The sportsman's gazetteer and general guide; the game animals, birds and fishes of North America, their habits, and various methods of capture; also instructions in shooting, fishing, taxidermy, woodcraft, etc., together with a glossary. Rev., enl. and brought down to date by the author. Ill., maps and portrait. N. Y., 1883. D. 799:7

Cross, D. W. Fifty years with gun and rod; incl. tables showing the velocity, distance, penetration or effect of shot, calculated by Leonard Case, gun trials by the Chicago field, how and where to "hold," etc. Cleveland, O. 1880. D. 799:6 Mayer, Alfred Marshall, ed. Sport with gun and rod in american woods and waters. Ill. N. Y. [1883]. 2 v. Q. 799: R8 Jefferies, R: The amateur poacher, by the author of "The gamekeeper at home" and Wild life in a southern country." Bost. 1879. D. 799:5 Herbert, H: W: Frank Forester's fugitive sporting sketches; miscellaneous articles upon sport and sporting, originally pub. in the early american magazines and periodicals, ed., with a memoir of Herbert and numerous explanatory notes, by Will Wildwood [F: Eugene Pond]. Westfield, Wis. 1879. 0.

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Contents. Memoir.-The game of North America.Among the mountains.-A blaze at Barnegat.-The american bittern.-The death of the stag.-The red fox.-A trip to Chateau Richer, or Snipe shooting on the St. Lawrence.-Spring snipe.-Domestication of game-birds. Northrup, A. Judd. Camps and tramps in the

Adirondacks, and grayling fishing in northern Michigan; a record of summer vacations in the wilderness. Syracuse, N. Y. 1880. S. 799:2 Davies, G. Christopher. The Swan and her crew, or The adventures of three young naturalists and sportsmen on the broads and rivers of Norfolk. 4th ed. with postscript and ill. Lond. [1880]. D. 799:4

Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell.-Continued.

Superior fishing, or The striped bass, trout and black bass of the northern states; embracing full directions for dressing artificial flies with the feathers of american birds, an account of a sporting visit to Lake Superior, etc. N. Y. 1865. D.

799.1:4 Stevens, C: Woodbury. Fly-fishing in Maine lakes, or Camp-life in the wilderness. [New ed.] Bost. 1881. Ill. Sq. D.

799.1:7 Walton, I: The complete angler, or The contemplative man's recreation, and Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream, by C: Cotton; with copious notes, for the most part original, a bibliographical preface, giving an account of fishing and fishing-books from the earliest antiquity to the time of Walton, and a notice of Cotton and his writings by the amer. ed. Added, an app. incl. ill. ballads, music, papers on amer. fishing and a catalogue of books on angling, also general index. N. Y. 1847. D. 799.1: 6

Cotton, C: The complete angler, or The contemplative man's recreation, pt. 2: Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream. N. Y. 1847. D. In Walton, I: The complete angler. 799.1:6 Davy, Sir Humphrey. Salmonia, or Days of fly-fishing, in a series of conversations; with some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus salmo, by an angler. 1st amer. from the 2d Lond. ed. Phila. 1832. S. 799.1: 5

Blakey, Robert, (Palmer Hackle). Hints on angling, with suggestions for angling excursions in France and Belgium; app., some brief notices of the english, scottish and irish waters. Lond. 1846. O. 799.1: 1 Newland, H: Garrett. Forest scenes in Norway and Sweden. T. p. w. S. 799.1:2

Hunting, shooting and trapping. Riesenthal, O. v. Jagd-lexikon; handbuch für jäger und jagdfreunde, mit besonderer berücksichtigung der naturgeschichte und hege des wildes. Ill. Leipz. 1882. D. 799.2: R10 Lewis, Elisha J. The american sportsman, containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds and wild fowl of America. New rev. ed. Ill. Phil. 1885 1884]. O. 799: 9 Barber, E: C. The crack shot, or Young rifleman's complete guide; a treatise on the use of the rifle, with rudimentary and finishing lessons, incl. a full description of the latest improved breech-loading weapons, ill. with numerous engr., rules and regulations for target practice, directions for hunting game found in the U. S. and british provinces, etc. N. Y. 1868. S. 799.3:1

Adams, W: H: Davenport. Scenes with the hunter and trapper in many lands. [Anon.]

Batty, Joseph H. How to hunt and trap, together with chapters upon outfits, guns, etc., abounding in information generally for sportsmen. N. Y. 1882. D. 799:3 Newhouse, S., and others. The trapper's guide;

a manual of instructions for capturing all kinds of fur-bearing animals and curing their skins, with observations on the fur trade, hints on life in the woods and narratives of trapping and hunting excursions. 2d ed., ed. by J. H. Noyes and T. L. Pitt. Ill. Wallingford, Ct. 1867. O. 639:2 Gibson, W: Hamilton Camp-life in the woods; and the tricks of trapping and trap-making. Ill. by the author. [New ed.] N. Y. 1881. D. Cartwright, D: W. Natural history of western wild animals, and guide for hunters, trap

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pers and sportsmen... 2d ed., written by Mary F. Bailey. Toledo. 1875. D. 639:1 Gillmore, Parker. Prairie and forest; a description of the game of North America, with personal adventures in their pursuit. N. Y. 1874. D. 799.2:4 Herbert, H: W: Frank Forester's field sports of the U. S. and british provinces of North America. N. Y. 1849. 2 v. O. 799.2:5 Murphy, J: Mortimer. Sporting adventures in the far west. Ill. N. Y. 1880. D.

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Shakespear, H: The wild sports of India, with remarks on the breeding and rearing of horses and the formation of light, irregular cavalry. Bost. 1860. D. 799.2:7 Jefferies, R: The game keeper at home; sketches of natural history and rural life. 3d ed. Bost. 1879. D. 799.2:3 Tongue, Cornelius, (Cecil).

Records of the chase and memoirs of celebrated sportsmen, ill. some of the usages of olden times and comparing them with prevailing customs, together with an introd. to most of the fashionable hunting countries, and comments by Cecil. Lond. 1854. S. 799.2:2 Carlton, J: W: (Craven). Recreations in shooting; with some account of the game of the British Islands. Lond. 1846. S. T. p.

20.

799.2:1 Adams, W: H: Davenport. The forest, the jungle and the prairie, or Tales of adventure and enterprise in pursuit of wild animals. Ill. Lond. 1882. S. 799.2:9

Gérard, Cécile Jules Basile. Life and adventures; comprising his ten years' campaigns among the lions of northern Africa. Lond. [1856]. S. 799.2:8