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ALBC1M VERSES, ODD-FELLOWSHIP,

&c.

Dick's Original Album Verses and Acrostics.

Oonta.illing

&

voluminous

a.nd

varied collection of Origma.l Verses written expressly

For Autograph Albumz;

I

For AlbumDedicatitm&;

,

To Accompany Ho™?uetl;

To Accompany P/1ilopena F<1rf<ill;

F01" Birtltday

.Ann1.vtr1ariu

Ji'or Congralutalion

For Wooden, Tin, Cry•tat, S-itvor and For Vatentints in Gen.rat and

aU

Golden Weddings ;

Trades and Proft.81ions.

It contains also Two Hundred and Eighteen Original Acrostic Verses, the

initial letters of each verse forming a different Lady's Christian name,

the meaningand derivation 'of the name being appended to each. The

primary object of this book is to furnish entirely fresh and unhackneyed

matter for

a.11

who may be called upon to Jill and adorn a page

In

a Lady's

.Album; but it contains also new and appropriate verses to onit Birthday,

Wedding, and all otherAnniversarles and Occaslona to which verses of Com·

pliment or Congratulation are applicable. Paper covers.......... 60

cts,

Bonndin fnllcloth................. . ................ . ......... . ...

76

cts,

Sut Lovingood.

Yarns spun

by

a" Na.t'ral Born Durn'd Fool",

Warped and Wove for Public Wear, by George W. Harrls. Illustrated

with eight fine full page engravings, from designs by Howard.

It

would be

difficult, we think, to cram a larger amount of pungent humor into

800

pages than

will

ba found

in

this really funny book. The Preface and

Dedication

a.re

models of sly simplicity, and the

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Sketchee which follow

are among the best specimens of broad burlesque to which the genius

ot

the ludicrous, for which the Southwest is so distinguished, has yet given

birth. 12mo., cloth . ..................... .......... . ...............el.60

Dick's Mysteries of the Hand; or, Palmistry made Easy.

Translated, Abridged and Arranged from the l!'rench Works of Desbarrollee,

D'Arpentigny and De

Pa.re

. d'Hormes. The various lines

a.nd

mounts on

the palm of the

ba.ud

,

a.nd

tile typical formation of the hand and fingers

are a.11 clearly explained

a.nd

Illustrated by diagrams. The meaning to be

deduced from the greater orless development of these mounts and lines

(ea.ch

of which ha.s Its own signification), also from the length, thickness

and shape of tbe thumb and fingers, and from the mutual bearing they

exercise on

ea.ch

other, is

a.ll

distinctly explained. Complete facility for

instant reference

is

insured

by

means of marginal notes

by

which any

point of- detail may be found

a.nd

coneulted a.t a. glance. By means of

this book the hitherto occult mystery of Palmistry is

ma.de

simple and

ea.sy,

and the whole Art may be acquired witbou t difficulty or delay.

It

is emphatically Palmistry in a nutshell, •md by !t.s use, charn.eter and

disposition ca.n be discerned and probable future destiny foretold with

surprising

a.ccura.cy

. Illuminated pa.per cover....................60

els.

Lola ,Montez' Arts of Beauty ; or, Secrets of a Lady's

Toilet,

With Hint&

to

G•ntlemen an th• Art of Fa&cinating.

LolA. Montez

here explains all the Arts employed by the celebrated beauties and lndiee

in

Paris

a.nd

other cities of Europe, for the purpose of preserving their

beauty and Improving and developing their charms. The recipes are all

clearly given, so that any person can undeNtand them. Paper. . •.

26

eta.

Lander's Revised Work of Odd-Fellowship.

Containing all

· the Lectures, complete, with Regnlations for Opening, Conduoting, and '·

Oloaing a Loclge; together with forms of Initiation, Charges of tbe

Various Officers, etc., with the Complete work In the following degrees:

Initiation; First, or Pink Degree: Second, or Royal Blue Degree; Third,

.or Scarlet Del(l'ee, By EDWIN F . LANDER. This hand-book of the ReVleed

Work of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellowship ha.s been prepared In

et>nformity with tbe amendment&

a.nd

alterations adopted by the

~over~n

Graud Lodifeof Canada., September, 1880. 16mo, pa.per cover...

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