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. Elocution Without a Master. — A Self-Instructor in the Art of Reading 

 and Speaking well. A work for teaching not only the beginner, but for 

 perfecting every one in this most desirable of all accomplishments. For 

 youth, this book is both interesting and valuable ; and for the adult, 

 whether professionally or socially, it is one they cannot dispense with. 



Price, 15 Cents. 



Endless Amusement. — A choice collection of Riddles, Charades. Enig- 

 mas, Rebuses, Labyrinths, Decapitations, Puzzles. Anagrams, Conun- 

 drums, Acrostics, Names of Places Enigmatically Expressed, etc., etc., 

 with a hieroglyphic preface, and over one hundred illustrations. 



Price, 30 Cents. 



Every Boy his own Manufacturer.— Containing instructions in Car- 



E entry, Turning, Boat Building and Glass Blowing, with full instructions 

 ow to make Steam Engines, Locomotive Engines, Electric Telegraphs, 

 Steamboats, Dioramas, Clocks, Brackets, Telescopes, etc., etc. Pro- 

 fusely Illustrated. Five parts. Price, Each Part, 25 Cents. 



Contents of Each Part. 



PART I. — Carpentry, 33 Illustrations. Turning in Wood and Ivory, 18 Illustra- 

 tions. How to make a Steam Engine, 2 Illustrations. 



PART II. — How to make a Locomotive Engine, 18 Illustrations. How to 

 make a Model Steamboat, 4 Illustrations. How to make a Steam Cylinder, 6 

 Illustrations. How to make a Cheap Rowing Boat, 5 Illustrations. 



PART III. — How to make Paddle Wheels for a small boat, 5 Illustrations. How 

 to make a Screw Propeller for a small boat, 3 Illustrations. How to make a Hydrau- 

 lic Propeller for a small boat, 7 Illustrations. How to build a cheap Canoe, 5 Illustra- 

 tions. How to make and work an Electric Telegraph, 6 Illustrations. How to 

 make a cheap Vertical Drilling Machine, 2 Illustrations. How to make a Simple 

 Galvanic Battery. How to make a Diorama, 2 Illustrations. How to make a Clock 

 for twenty-five cents, 4 Illustrations. Home-make Brackets, 6 Illustrations. 

 Hanging Portfolio, 1 Illustration. Parisian What-not, 1 Illustration. How to make 

 Balloons. Gilding on Glass. 



PART IV. — How to make a Calcium Light, 2 Illustrations. Art of making 

 Fireworks, 8 Illustrations. How to make a Magic Lantern, and paint the slides. 

 How to make an Aquarium, 3 Illustrations. How to make an Achromatic Tele- 

 scope, 2 Illustrations. Glass Blowing for Boys, 2 Illustrations. 



PART V. — Electro typing— Electricity ; simple, cheap apparatus ; Moulds ; Solu- 

 tions ; to make a Medallion ; Zinc ; Copper ; Circuits ; Our Experiment ; Positive ; 

 Negative; Action of the Acids ; Various Batteries ; Weights Deposited ; the Lead 

 Tree; Quantity; Intensity; Arrangement of Cells; Uses of Electricity ; Elastic 

 Moulds ; Copying of Busts or Statuettes ; to prepare the Moulds ; the Soluble Mould ; 

 a Better Plan ; a Case in plaster ; a Cast in Wax ; to prepare the Figure ; the Cop- 

 per Mould ; divided Moulds ; Electro Deposits for Natural Objects — 21 Illustrations. 



Everybody's Friend ; or, The Universal Hand-Book ; containing 

 information on almost every subject : The Parlor Magician ; Lady's 

 Guide to Beauty ; Parlor Theatricals ; A Grand Expose of Gambling ; 

 Spiritualism Exposed ; Proverbs and Salutations of all Nations ; Poeti- 

 cal Quotations ; Language of Flowers ; Useful Recipes for the House- 

 keeper; Rarey's Secret of Horse Taming; How to make all kinds of 

 Liquors without the use of poisonous articles. How to make all kinds 

 of Powders, Rouges, Curling Fluids, Hair Dyes, etc., Historical Facts ; 

 Golden Maxims ; Wit and Humor, etc., etc. Price, 25 Cents. 



