CATALOGUE of USEFUL and POPULAR BOOKS.
Any of the Books on this List will be mailed postpaid to any address onreceipt of price by J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street,New York.
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=ALBUM WRITER'S FRIEND (THE).=--Compiled by J. S. Ogilvie, 13mo,128 pages. Paper cover, 15 cents; cloth 30 cents.
This is a new and choice selection of gems of Prose and Poetry,comprising over seven hundred selections, suitable for writingin Autograph Albums, Valentines, and for Birthday and Weddingcelebrations. It also contains a new and choice collection of versessuitable for Christmas and New-Year Cards. It contains 128 pages, withpaper cover, price 15 cents: bound in cloth, 30 cents.
=AMATEUR'S GUIDE TO MAGIC AND MYSTERY.=--An entirely new work,containing full and ample instructions on the mysteries of magic,sleight-of-hand tricks, card tricks, etc. The best work on conjuringfor amateurs published. Illustrated. 15 cents.
=ART OF VENTRILOQUISM.=--Contains simple and full directions bywhich any one may acquire the amusing art, with numerous examples forpractice. Also instructions for making the magic whistle, for imitatingbirds, animals, and peculiar sounds of various kinds. Any boy whowishes to obtain an art by which he can develop a wonderful amountof astonishment, mystery, and fun, should learn Ventriloquism, as heeasily can follow the simple secret given in this book. Mailed for 15cents.
=BAD BOY'S DIARY (A).=--This is one of the most successfulhumorous books of the present day, filled with fun and good humor, and"will drive the blues out of a bag of indigo." It is printed from new,large type, and on fine, heavy white paper of a superior finish, andcontains 280 pages. New, full-page illustrations from unique designshave been prepared expressly for this edition. Handsome paper cover, 25cents.
=BATTLE FOR BREAD (THE).=--This book contains a series of Sermonsby Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, the greatest of living preachers. Everyworkingman and those who employ them should read this book, and thus beinformed of the real solution of the question of the relations of Laborand Capital. 12mo, 185 pages. Paper cover, 25 cents; cloth, 75cents.
=BLACK ART EXPOSED (THE).=--This book contains some of the mostmarvelous things in ancient and modern magic, jugglery, etc., everprinted, and has to be seen to be fully appreciated. Suffice it to saythat any boy knowing the secrets it contains will be able to do thingsthat will astonish all. 15 cents.
=BLUNDERS OF A BASHFUL MAN (THE).=--By the popular author of "ABad Boy's Diary." This is one of the most humorous books ever issued,and has been pronounced _better_ than "A Bad Boy's Diary." 12mo, 160pages. Handsomely illustrated from original designs, including also theportrait and autograph of "The Bashful Man." Price, paper cover, 25cents.
=BOILER-MAKER'S ASSISTANT (THE)=, and the Theoretical andPractical Boiler-Maker and Engineer's Reference Book. By SamuelNicholls, Foreman Boiler-Maker. 1 vol. 12mo, extra cloth, $2.50.
=COMPLETE FORTUNE TELLER AND DREAM BOOK.=--This book containsa complete Dictionary of Dreams, alphabetically, with a clearinterpretation of each dream, and the lucky numbers that belong to it.It includes Palmistry, or telling fortunes by the lines of the hand;fortune telling by the grounds in a tea or coffee cup; how to read yourfuture life by the white of an egg; tells how to know who your futurehusband will be, and how soon you will be married; fortune telling bycards; Hymen's lottery; good and bad omens, etc. 25 cents.
=CONCERT EXERCISES FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL.=--5 cents each; 30 centsper dozen; per hundred, by mail, postpaid, $2.00 No. 1, THECHRISTIAN'S JOURNEY. No. 2, THE STORY OF REDEEMING LOVE.(For Christmas.) No. 3, CHRIST IS RISEN. (Appropriate forEaster.) No. 4, WELCOME GREETING. (Appropriate for Children'sDay.) No. 5, GOOD TIDINGS. (Appropriate for anniversaries andcelebrations.)
=LEISURE HOUR WORK FOR LADIES.=--Containing instructions forflower and shell work; Antique, Grecian and Theorem painting; Botanicalspecimens; Cone work; Anglo Japanese work; Decalcomanie; Diaphame;Leather work; Modeling in clay; Transferring; Crayon drawing;Photograph coloring, etc., etc. A very complete book, and one that noyoung lady having spare time can afford to be without. 15 cents.
=LOVER'S GUIDE (THE).=--A book no lover should be without. Itgives handkerchief, parasol, glove, and fan flirtations; also windowand dining-room signaling; the language of flowers; how to kissdeliciously; love-letters, and how to write them, with specimens;bashfulness and timidity, and how to overcome them, etc., etc. 15cents.
=COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE=; or, The Mysteries of Making Love FullyExplained.--This is an entirely new work on a most interesting subject.CONTENTS: First steps in courtship; Advice to both parties atthe outset; Introduction to the lady's family; Restrictions imposed byetiquette; What the lady should observe in early courtship; What thesuitor should observe; Etiquette as to presents; The proposal; Modeof refusal when not approved; Conduct to be observed by a rejectedsuitor; Refusal by the lady's parents or guardians; Etiquette of anengagement; Demeanor of the betrothed pair; Should a courtship be longor short; Preliminary etiquette of a wedding; Fixing the day; How tobe married; The trousseau; Duties to be attended to by the bridegroom;Who should be asked to the wedding; Duties of the bridesmaids andgroomsmen; Etiquette of a wedding; Costume of bride, bridesmaids, andbridegroom; Arrival at the church; The marriage ceremonial; Registryof the marriage; Return home, and wedding breakfast; Departure for thehoneymoon; Wedding cards; Modern practice of "No cards;" Reception andreturn of wedding visits; Practical advice to a newly marriedcouple. Price, 15 cents.
="DON'T MARRY"=--At least, until you have read our new bookentitled "Don't Marry." Some marry too soon, others wait too long. Thisbook will tell you how, when, and whom to marry; besides giving youvaluable hints and helps not found in any other book. It contains 112pages, paper cover, and is worth $10 to any one. Price, 25 cents.
=DIARY OF A MINISTER'S WIFE.=--By Almedia M. Brown. Completeedition, 12mo, 544 pages. Handsomely bound in cloth, with finefull-page illustrations, including portraits of Mrs. MinnieHardscrabble, the minister's wife, from the facts and incidents inwhose life the story was written; also Rev. John Hardscrabble, withthree other characteristic engravings, which will amuse and interestevery reader. Price, $1.50.
This popular book is also issued complete in two volumes in papercovers. Price, per volume, 25 cents.
=DIARY OF A VILLAGE GOSSIP.=--By Almedia M. Brown, author of"Diary of a Minister's Wife," etc., etc. 12mo, 293 pages. Paper cover,25 cents; handsomely bound in cloth, $1.00.
=MAGIC DIAL (THE).=--By the use of which secret correspondence maybe carried on without fear of detection. No one (even if provided withone of these dials) can decipher it. It is entirely new, and nothinglike it has ever appeared. It is simple and reliable and can be used byany person. It will be mailed for 15 cents.
=EDUCATING THE HORSE.=--A new and improved system of Educating theHorse. Also a Treatise on Shoeing, with new and valuable Receipts forDiseases of Horses. CONTENTS: The great secret of Horse-Taming; How tothrow a horse; the wild colts to halter; break a colt; hitching coltin stall; how to handle a colt's feet; breaking and driving colts toharness; objects of fear; to train a horse to stand when getting intoa carriage; balking horses; pulling at halter; to break horses fromjumping; pawing in stall and kicking in harness; the runaway horse;shoeing; corns; to teach a horse to appear intelligent; to teach ahorse how to dance, waltz, kiss you, shake hands, etc., etc.; cure ofsore breasts, big head, big leg, fullness of blood, catarrh; loosebowels, corns, cough, inflammation of eye, brittle feet, sand crackin foot, founder (a sure cure), galled back, grease, inflammation ofkidneys, worms, itch, nasal, gleet, over-reaching, staggers, botts,etc., etc.; concluding with rules and regulations for the government oftrotting and racing. --> No man who owns a horse can afford to dowithout this book. It is very thorough, complete and reliable, and wellworth a dozen times the price asked for it. It contains matter not tobe found in any other horse book. Price, 15 cents.
=GRAND WONDER COLLECTION.=--A wonderful offer. $3.00 worth ofgoods for only 50 cents!
Everything is now very cheap, and people geta good deal more for their money than they used to, but we have nohesitation in saying that never before was so much offered for themoney as is offered in this GRAND WONDER COLLECTION. It could not bedone, only that we expect to sell thousands of them and are fullysatisfied that each one sold will sell a dozen more.
The contents of the GRAND WONDER COLLECTION--comprising seven completebooks in one--1. Old Secrets and New Discoveries. 2. Secrets forFarmers. 3. Laughing Gas. 4. The Swindlers of America. 5. Preservingand Manufacturing Secrets. 6. The Housewife's Treasure. 7. FourteenPopular Songs, Words and Music.
--> Any person ordering this collection and not fully satisfied, themoney will be cheerfully refunded. Price, 50 cents.
=MAGIC TRICK CARDS.=--The Magician's Own Cards, for performingwonderful tricks. Every boy a magician! Every man a conjurer! Everygirl a witch! Every one astonished! They are the most superior trickcards ever offered for sale, and with them you can perform some of themost remarkable illusions ever discovered.
Complete illustrated directions accompany each pack. They will bemailed, postpaid, sealed as a letter, for 15 cents a pack.
=HEALTH HINTS.=--A new book showing how to Acquire and RetainBodily Symmetry, Health, Vigor, and Beauty. Its contents are asfollows: Laws of Beauty--Air, Sunshine, Water, and Food--Work andRest--Dress and Ornament--The Hair and its Management--Skin andComplexion--The Mouth--The Eyes, Ears, and Nose--The Neck, Hands andFeet--Growth and Marks that are Enemies of Beauty--Cosmetics andPerfumery.
=Fat People.=--It gives ample rules how Corpulency may becured--the Fat made Lean, Comely and Active.
=Lean People.=--It also give directions, the following of whichwill enable Lean, Angular, Bony or Sharp Visaged People, to be Plumpand Rosy Skinned.
=Gray Hair.=--It tells how Gray Hair may be Restored to itsnatural color without the aid of Dyes, Restorers or Pomades.
=Baldness.=--It gives ample directions for Restoring Hair on BaldHeads, as well as how to stop Falling of the Hair, how to Curl theHair, etc.
=Beard and Mustache.=--It tells what Young Men should do toacquire a Fine, Silky and Handsome Beard and Mustache.
=Freckles and Pimples.=--It gives full directions for the Cure ofSunburn, Freckles, Pimples, Wrinkles, Warts, etc., so that they can beentirely removed.
=Cosmetics.=--This chapter, among other things, gives an Analysisof Perry's Moth and Freckle Lotion, Balm of White Lilies, Hagan'sMagnolia Balm, Laird's Bloom of Youth, Phalon's Enamel, Clark'sRestorative for the Hair, Chevalier's Life for the Hair, Ayer's HairVigor, Professor Wood's Hair Restorative, Hair Restorer America,Gray's Hair Restorative, Phalon's Vitalia, Ring's Vegetable Ambrosia,Mrs. Allen's World's Hair Restorer, Hall's Vegetable Sicilian HairRenewer, Martha Washington Hair Restorative, etc., etc. (no room formore), showing how the lead, etc., in these mixtures causes disease andoftentimes premature death. Price, 25 cents.
=LOVE AND COURTSHIP CARDS.=--Sparking, courting, and lovemakingall made easy by the use of these cards. They are arranged with suchapt conversation that you will be able to ask the momentous questionin such a delicate manner that the girl will not suspect what you areat. They may be used by two persons only, or they will make lots of funfor an evening party of young people. There are sixty cards in all, andeach answer will respond differently to every one of the questions.Price, 30 cents.
=MISS SLIMMENS' BOARDING-HOUSE.=--By the author of "A Bad Boy'sDiary." 16mo, 188 pages, with nine illustrations. Complete edition.Paper cover, 25 cents.
=HOUSEWIFE'S TREASURE (THE).=--A manual of information of everythingthat relates to household economies. It gives the method of makingJackson's Universal Washing Compound, which can clean the dirtiestcotton, linen or woolen clothes in twenty minutes without rubbing orharming the material. This recipe is being constantly peddled throughthe country at $5.00 each, and is certainly worth it. It also tellsall about soap-making at home, so as to make it cost about one-quarterof what bar soap costs; it tells how to make candles by molding ordipping; it gives seven methods for destroying rats and mice; how tomake healthy bread without flour (something entirely new); to preserveclothes and furs from moths; a sure plan for destroying house-flies,cockroaches, beetles, ants, bedbugs and fleas; all about housecleaning, papering, etc., and hundreds of other valuable hints justsuch as housekeepers are wanting to know. 25 cents.
=HOW TO ENTERTAIN A SOCIAL PARTY.=--A complete selection of HomeRecreations. Profusely illustrated with fine wood-cuts, containing:Round Games and Forfeit Games; Parlor Magic and Curious Puzzles; ComicDiversions and Parlor Tricks; Scientific Recreations and EveningAmusements; The Blue Beard tableaux; Tableaux-vivant for acting; Theplay-room; Blind-man's buff; One old ox opening oysters; How do youlike it? when do you like it? and where do you like it? Cross questionsand crooked answers; Cupid's coming; Proverbs; Earth, air and water;Yes and no; Copenhagen; Hunt the hare, and a thousand other games.
Here is family amusement for the million. Here is parlor ordrawing-room entertainment, night after night, for a whole winter. Ayoung man with this volume may render himself the _beau ideal_ of adelightful companion to every party. Price, 25 cents.
=HOW TO WOO AND HOW TO WIN.=--This interesting work contains fulland interesting rules for the etiquette of courtship, with directionsshowing how to win the favor of the ladies; how to begin and end acourtship; and how love-letters should be written. It not only tellshow to win the favor of the ladies, but how to address a lady; Conducta courtship; "Pop the Question;" Write love-letters; All about themarriage ceremony; Bridal chamber; After marriage, etc. Price, 15 cents.
=ODELL'S SYSTEM OF SHORTHAND.=--By which the taking down ofsermons, lectures, trials, speeches, etc., may be easily acquired,without the aid of a master. By this plan the difficulties of masteringthis useful art are very much lessened, and the time required to attainproficiency reduced to the least possible limits. Price 15 cents.
=HOW TO TALK AND DEBATE.=--Contents: Introduction; Lawsof Conversation; Listening; Self-possession; Appreciativeness;Conversation, when confidential; The matter and the manner; Propersubjects; Trifles; Objectionable subjects; Politics; Rights of women;Wit and humor; Questions and negatives; Our own hobbies; The voice, howto improve; Speaking one's mind; Public speaking; How to make a speech;Opening a debate; Division of the subject; The affirmative; The reply,etc., etc. A really valuable book, and one that every man and woman,boy and girl should possess. 15 cents.
=LIFE IN THE BACKWOODS.=--A Guide to the successful Huntingand Trapping of all kinds of Animals. It gives the right season fortrapping; how to make, set and bait all kinds of traps, traps forminks, weasels, skunks, hawks, owls, gophers, birds, squirrels,musk-rats, foxes, rabbits, raccoons, etc.; how to make and use birdlime. It gives the English secrets for catching alive all kinds ofbirds; it tells how to know the true value of skins, as well as howto skin all animals; deodorize, stretch, and cure them; to dress andtan skins, furs and leather; to tan with or without the wool or hair;to skin and stuff birds; baits and hooks for fishing; how to fishsuccessfully without nets, lines, spears, snares, "bobs," or bait (agreat secret), how to choose and clean guns; how to breed minks fortheir skins (hundreds of dollars can be made by any boy or young manwho knows how to breed minks), etc.
This book is by an old trapper, for many years engaged in trapping inthe Northwest, who has finally consented to publish and disclose thesesecrets. Persons living where wild animals exist, with some traps andthe information contained in this book, can make money faster throughthe trapping season by giving their time and energies to the businessthan they can by seeking their fortunes in the gold regions or in oilspeculations. This is at once the most complete and practical book nowin the market. Price, 15 cents.
=MODEL LETTER-WRITER (THE).=--A comprehensive and completeguide and assistant for those who desire to carry on epistolarycorrespondence--containing instructions for writing letters ofintroduction; Letters of business; Letters of recommendation;Applications for employment; Letters of congratulation; Lette
rs ofcondolence; Letters of friendship and relationship; Love-letters; Notesof invitation; Letters of favor, of advice, and of excuse, etc., etc.,together with appropriate answers to each. This is an invaluable bookfor those persons who have not had sufficient practice to enable themto write letters without great effort. 15 cents.
=NAPOLEON'S COMPLETE BOOK= of Fate and Complete FortuneTeller.--This is the celebrated Oracle of Human Destiny consulted byNapoleon the First previous to any of his undertakings, and by which hewas so successful in war, business, and love. It is the only authenticand complete copy extant, being translated into English from a Germantranslation of an ancient Egyptian manuscript found in the year 1801by M. Sonini, in one of the royal tombs near Mount Libycus, in UpperEgypt. This Oraculum is so arranged that any question on business,love, wealth, losses, hidden treasures, no matter what its nature, theOraculum has an answer for it. It also shows how to learn of one's fateby consulting the planets. Price 15 cents.
=OGILVIE'S HOUSE PLANS; OR HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE.=--A neat newbook, containing over thirty finely executed engravings of dwellings ofall sizes, from two rooms up; also churches, barns, and out-houses ingreat variety.
This handy, compact, and very useful volume contains, in addition tothe foregoing, plans for each floor in each and every dwelling of whichan engraving is given. It has, also, valuable information relativeto building, such as number of shingles required in a roof, quantityof plaster for a house, quantity of materials required for buildinga house, etc., etc., and much other information of permanent andpractical value.
Any one of the plans is alone worth very much more than the price askedfor the book. It is invaluable to every architect, builder, mason, orcarpenter, and particularly do we urge all who anticipate erecting anew or remodeling an old dwelling to send for a copy, as its fortunatepossessor may save hundred of dollars by following the suggestions itcontains. 25 cents.
=HOW TO BEHAVE.=--Hand-book of Etiquette and Guide to TruePoliteness. CONTENTS: Etiquette and its uses; Introductions; Cuttingacquaintances; Letters of introduction; Street etiquette; Domesticetiquette and duties; Visiting; Receiving company; Evening parties;The lady's toilet; The gentleman's toilet; Invitations; Etiquette ofthe ball-room; General rules of conversation; Bashfulness and howto overcome it; Dinner parties; Table etiquette; Carving; Servants;Traveling; Visiting cards; Letter writing; Conclusion. This is thebest book of the kind yet published, and every person wishing to beconsidered well-bred, who wishes to understand the customs of goodsociety, and to avoid incorrect and vulgar habits, should send for acopy. 15 cents.
=MISS SLIMMENS' WINDOW.=--Complete edition in one volumenow ready. 16mo, 150 pages. Bound in heavy paper covers, with 13illustrations. 25 cents.
=OGILVIE'S HANDY MONITOR AND UNIVERSAL ASSISTANT=, containingStatistical Tables of Practical Value for Mechanics, Merchants,Editors, Lawyers, Printers, Doctors, Farmers, Lumbermen, Bankers,Bookkeepers, Politicians and all classes of workers in every departmentof human effort, and containing a compilation of facts for reference onvarious subjects, being an epitome of matters Historical, Statistical,Biographical, Political, Geographical and general interest. 192 pagesbound in paper, 25 cents.
No more valuable book has ever been offered containing so muchinformation of practical value in everyday life.
=OLD SECRETS AND NEW DISCOVERIES.=--Containing Information of RareValue for all Classes, in all Conditions of Society.
=It Tells= all about _Electrical Psychology_, showing how you canbiologize any person, and, while under the influence, he will doanything you may wish him, no matter how ridiculous it may be, and hecannot help doing it.
=It Tells= how to _Mesmerize_. Knowing this, you can place any personin a mesmeric sleep, and then be able to do with him as you will. Thissecret has been sold over and over again for $10.
=It Tells= how to make persons at a distance think of you--somethingall lovers should know.
=It Tells= how you can charm those you meet and make them love you,whether they will or not.
=It Tells= how Spiritualists and others can make writing appear on thearm in blood characters, as performed by Foster and all noted magicians.
=It Tells= how to make a cheap Galvanic Battery; how to plate and gildwithout a battery; how to make a candle burn all night; how to makea clock for 25 cents; how to detect counterfeit money; how to banishand prevent mosquitoes from biting; how to make yellow butter inwinter; Circassian curling fluid; Sympathetic or Secret Writing Ink;Cologne Water; Artificial honey; Stammering; how to make large nosessmall; to cure drunkenness; to copy letters without a press; to obtainfresh-blown flowers in winter; to make good burning candles from lard.
=It Tells= how to make a horse appear as though he was badly foundered;to make a horse temporarily lame; how to make him stand by his foodand not eat it; how to cure a horse from the crib or sucking wind;how to put a young countenance on the horse; how to cover up theheaves; how to make him appear as if he had the glanders; how to makea true-pulling horse balk; how to nerve a horse that is lame, etc.,etc.--These horse secrets are being continually sold at one dollareach.
=It Tells= how to make the Eggs of Pharo's Serpents, which whenlighted, though but the size of a pea, there issues from it a coiling,hissing serpent, wonderful in length and similarity to a genuineserpent.
=It Tells= how to make gold and silver from block tin (the least saidabout which the better). Also how to take impressions from coins. Alsohow to imitate gold and silver.
=It Tells= of a simple and ingenious method of copying any kind ofdrawing or picture. Also, more wonderful still, how to print picturesfrom the print itself.
=It Tells= how to perform the Davenport Brothers' "Spirit Mysteries."So that any person can astonish an audience, as they have done. Alsoscores of other wonderful things which there is no room to mention.
=Old Secrets and New Discoveries= is worth $5 to any person; butit will be mailed to any address on receipt of only 25 cents.
=OUT IN THE STREETS.=--By S. N. Cook. Price, 15 cents.
We take pleasure in offering the strictly moral and very amusingtemperance drama entitled, "Out in the Streets," to all entertainmentcommittees as one that will give entire satisfaction. The parts aretaken by six male and six female characters.
=PHUNNY PHELLOW'S GRAB BAG=; or, Jolly Tid-Bits for MirthfulMortals.--Josh Billings, Danbury News Man and Bret Harte rolledinto one. It is not too much to say that the book contains thechoicest humor in the English language. Its size is mammoth,containing more than one thousand of the raciest jests, comical hits,exhilarating stories, flowers of wit, excruciating jokes, uproariouspoems, laughable sketches, darky comicalities, clowns' efforts,button-bursting conundrums, endmen's jokes, plantation humors, funnycaricatures, hifalutin dialogues, curious scenes, cute sayings,ludicrous drolleries, peculiar repartees, and nearly 500 illustrations.25 cents.
=SCIENCE OF A NEW LIFE (THE).=--By John Cowan, M.D. A handsome8vo, containing over 400 pages, with more than 100 illustrations, andsold at the following prices: English cloth, beveled boards, gilt sideand back, $3.00; leather, sprinkled edges, $3.50; half turkey morocco,marbled edges, gilt back, $4.00.
=SOME FUNNY THINGS= said by Clever Children. Who is not interestedin children? We are satisfied that this book will give genuinesatisfaction to all who are interested in listening to the happy voicesof children. This will show that humor is not confined to adult mindsby any means. 64 pages, 10 cents.