Bartlett, George B: New Games for Parlor and Lawn With a Few Old Friends in a New Dress ©1882 Harper & Brothers, NY Hardcover, 227 pages

Inside Title page (cover is plain)

Comments: This is mostly a book of games, with a small section of magic tricks & gags starting at page 191.

Contents:

1 Memorizing Proverbs
2 Parallels
7 Proverbs in Action
7 - Rolling Stone Gathers no Moss: In Two Scenes
10 - The Going Foot is aye Getting: In Two Scenes
12 - Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds: Pantomime, in One Scene
13 - All is Not Gold that Glitters
14 The Game of Geography
17 Myths
20 Improvisatore
38 Bipeds or Quadrupeds
31 Observation
32 Throwing Light
34 Literati
41 Predicaments
44 Alliteration
45 Letter Sequences
46 - Specimen Story: examples
47 Natural History Jingles
48 Rhyming Games
49 - Ode to May
51 - Constance
52 - Whispering Rushes
54 - In the Library
55 - A Beheaded Rhyme
57 Enigma Game
60 Machine Sonnets
61 The Game of Adjectives
62 Pin-Drawings
63 The Artist
65 Mental Index
66 Distinction
67 Initials
69 boquetaire
73 Character
74 Twenty Questions
76 - Illustration
78 Four and Twenty Blackbirds
84 Pygmalion: A Charade in Three Scenes
89 Illustrated Poems
89 - The Sculptor Boy
91 - The Three Fishers
93 - King Coplietua and the Beggar-maid
94 A Nonsense Charade
101 The Wonderful Drawing Lesson
106 The Automatic Warblers
112 The Magic Clock or The Reward of Industry: A Trick Pantomime for Children
122 - Costumes
125 - Properties
127 The Comical Broom-Drill
132 The Wonderful Christmas-tree
136 Departed Dreams: An illustrated Recitation for Sunday and High School Exhibitions
140 Mary's Lamb: A Ballad in Action for Little Folks
145 The Brownies: An Operatic Pantomime in Three Scenes
154 Directions for a Mother Goose Party
162 Oriental Tableaux: with Hagar, Miriam, Rebecca, etc.
168 Masquerade Costumes
171 The Whirlwind: game with chairs
172 Who Knows that Nose?
173 The Christmas Pudding
174 Seen or Unseen
177 Silver Circulation
178 Personation: game for any room or on the Lawn
180 Cat and Mouse: Lawn
182 Round Game
183 Spoons: a new game from the Germans
184 Tip
186 Grandpa Longlegs' Candy Game
191 Mirthful Magic: introduction & satisfaction warm up
192 - Mesmeric Trick
192 - New Fifteen Puzzle
193 - Mind-reading
195 - How to Place an Egg So it Cannot be Broken by a Tin Pan
195 - How to Make Money Without Work: stunts
197 - Numeration
198 - Electric Trick
200 - Blazing Snow-ball
203 Great-grandfather of Croquet: Lawn
208 The Game of Boggia: Lawn
210 The Pendulutm: Lawn
212 The Potato Race: Lawn
216 Fast Runners: A New Out-Of-Door Game
220 The Tug of War: Lawn
223 The Catapult: Lawn
226 V.P.K. Goslings: a Maypole Game