Hutchison, G.A. (editor): The Boy’s Own Book Of Indoor Games And Recreations ©1890 J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA Hardcover, no dj, 528 pages

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Comments: A Popular Encyclopædia for Boys; By Dr. Gordon Stables, R.N., C. Stansfeld Hicks, J. N. Maskelyne, Rev. Harry Jones, M.A., Dr. Stradling, Captain Crawley, Rev. A. N. Malan, M.A., F.G.S., And Many Others. With over 700 illustrations.
Note: there have been multiple editions of this book published through the years, some with slightly differing contents. Also, there is a bit of racist language in the book.

Contents (from book, update with additional detail Mar 2023):

5 Prefatory Note

17 Section I Gymnastics, Indian Clubs, Dumbbells and Juggling With Balls

19 Chapter I Gymnastics (By a Member of the London Athletic Club)
19 I Preliminary Hints as to Dress, Diet and Exercises Without Apparatus
20 II Exercises without Apparatus
21 Leg Movements
21 III Exercises With Apparatus
22 The Horizontal Bar
22 Hanging on the Bar and the Walk
23 Breasting the Bar
23 The Short Circle
24 Getting on to the Bar
24 The Leg Swing - Backwards
25 To Sit on the Bar
26 Sit Swing - Backward
27 Hanging by the Legs
27 The Clear Circle
28 The Muscle Grind
28 Hanging by the Toes
28 The Hock Swing
29 The Upstart
29 The Slow Pull-up
30 Horizontal - Back and Front
30 The Splits
30 The Long Swing
31 Combinations
31 The Parallel Bars
32 Exercises
35 Vaulting Horse
36 Leg Spring
37 Horse Jumping
37 Saddle Vaulting
38 Flying over the Horse
39 The Hand-rings or Stirrups
41 Climbing
42 The Ladder
42 IV How to make Gymnastic Apparatus (Charles Spencer, author of the Modern Gymnast)
43 Horizontal Bar
44 Portable Horizontal Bar
45 Lawn Gymnasium
46 Portable Frame for Trapeze, Rings or Swing
47 Jumping Stands
48 The Pan-Gymnasticon
48 Other Useful Apparatus

50 Chapter II Indian Clubs and How to use them (By a Member of the London Athletic Club)
51 Weight of the Clubs
53 Hints as to Dress, etc.
54 Exercises for Light Clubs
58 Single or Heavy Club Exercise

60 Chapter III Dumbbells and How to use them (W.J. Gordon)

68 Chapter IV Juggling with Balls (By a Practical Gymnast)
69 The Vertical Fall
70 The Inside and Outside Falls
70 The Parallel Fall
70 The Outside and Inside Fall from Right Hand to Left
71 The Horizontal Pass
71 The Double Vertical Fall
71 The Double Inside Fall
72 The Triple Pass
73 The Triple Over and Under Pass
73 The Single Over and Double Under Pass
73 The Shower
74 The Triple Shower
74 The Quadruple Shower
74 The Fountain
74 The Double Fountain
75 The Double Fountain Change

77 Section II Model Making - Moving and Otherwise

79 Chapter V Some Simple Models For Beginners
79 I How To Make A Boat With A Screw Propeller (F. Chasemore)
81 II How To Make A Small Marine Engine For A Boat Four Or Five Feet Long (Frank Chasemore)

94 Chapter VI The American Dancing Nigger (C. Stansfeld-Hicks)

97 Chapter VII Moving Models And How To Make Them; Or Drop A Penny In The Box And The Model Will Work (Frank Chasemore)
97 A Model Windmill
101 A Model Cutter Yacht
104 Dancing ‘Niggers’
106 A Real Water-wheel
109 How to make a Cheap Clock

111 Chapter VIII.—How we Made a Christmas Ship (C. Stansfeld-Hicks, Author of Yacht and Canoe Building)

115 Chapter IX Model Steam-Engines and How to Make them (Paul N. Hasluck, author of Lathe-work)
117 I Principles of the Steam-Engine
120 II A Simple Toy Engine
123 III Small Model Engines
127 IV The Horizontal Engine
131 V The Oscillating Engine
134 VI Model Boilers and their Construction

138 Chapter X The Boy’s Own Model Launch Engine (H.F. Hobden)

144 Chapter XI The Boy’s Own Model Locomotive and How to Build it (H.F. Hobden)

161 Section III Games of Skill, etc.

163 Chapter XII Chess — Single and Double
165 I Chess for Beginners (Herr Meyer)
165 The Universal Notation
171 II A New Chess Game — The Jubilee (Herr Meyer)
172 III Another Jubilee Game
173 IV The Game of Double Chess (the late Captain Crawley and Herbert Mooney)
180 Circular Chess

181 Chapter XIII Draughts (the late Captain Crawley)
181 I All About the Game
190 II The Losing Game
191 III Polish Draughts
192 The Openings

199 Chapter XIV Solitaire (the late Captain Crawley)

202 Chapter XV Fox and Geese (the late Captain Crawley)

204 Chapter XVI Go-ban (Herr Meyer)

208 Chapter XVII The Malagasy Game of Fanòrona (W. Montgomery)

212 Chapter XVIII The American Puzzles

214 Chapter XIX Some Minor Games
214 I A New Indoor Game
215 II Knuckle Bones (Captain A. S. Harrison)

217 Section IV The Magic Lantern and All About It

219 Chapter XX The Magic Lantern and all about It
219 I Pleasant Hours with the Magic Lantern (A. A. Wood)
219 1 All about Lanterns
219 2 Various Kinds of Lanterns
220 3 The Phantasmagoria Lantern
221 4 The Euphaneron Lantern
223 5 Dissolving Views
224 6 The Lime-light
226 7 Oxyhydrogen Jet
227 8 The Gas and Gas-Bags
228 9 Oxygen and Hydrogen
229 10 Slide Painting, etc.
231 II How to make a Cheap Magic Lantern (Frank Chasemore
240 III How to make the Slides for a Magic Lantern
245 IV Revolving Slides for the Magic Lantern without Rack-work (F. Chasemore)
247 V Screen Frame for the Magic Lantern (Frank Chasemore
250 VI Magic Lantern for Opaque Slides (W. J. Gordon

252 Chapter XXI How to make an Aphengescope or Apparatus for exhibiting Photographs, Opaque Pictures, and Living Insects in the Magic Lantern (Frank Chasemore)

257 Chapter XXII Ingenious Adaptations for the Lantern (W. J. Gordon)
257 I Chromatropes and Paper Fireworks
259 II The Lantern and the Kaleidoscope
260 III The Lantern Praxinoscope

263 Section V How to Build Boats, Punts, Canoes, etc.

265 Chapter XXIII The Building of the Swallow; or How to Make a Boat (E. Henry Davies, C.E.)

273 Chapter XXIV How to Make a Canvas Canoe (E. T. Littlewood, M.A.)

277 Chapter XXV Canadian, Indian, Birch-Bark and other Light Canoes (C. Stansfeld-Hicks)
279 I Canadian and Birch-Bark Canoes
283 II Paper and other Typical Canoes

287 Chapter XXVI How to Build a Punt (the Rev. Harry Jones, M.A.)

291 Chapter XXVII Rafts and Catamarans and How to Make them (W. J. Gordon and W. W. L. Alden)

297 Section VI Pleasant and Profitable Occupations for Spare Hours

299 Chapter XXVIII Practical Hints on Taxidermy (Lieut Colonel Cuthell)
299 I Catching and Setting Butterflies
302 II How to Cure and Set up a Bird’s Skin
305 III On Preserving the Skins and Heads of Animals

308 Chapter XXIX Hints on Polishing Horn, Bone, Shells, Stones, Etc. (Gordon Stables, C.M., M.D., R.N.)

312 Chapter XXX British Pebbles (the Rev. A. N. Malan, M.A., F.G.S.)
314 I The Pebbles and How to Find them
320 II The Lapidary’s Bench
322 III How to Polish a Pebble
325 IV How to Cut a Pebble
329 A Postscript

330 Chapter XXXI Graphs and Graph-making (Theodore Wood)

333 Chapter XXXII Cryptograph or Cipher (a Naval Surgeon)

335 Chapter XXXIII Hammock-making and Netting
337 I Hammocks and Hammock-making
339 II Netting and How to Net

342 Chapter XXXIV A Perpetual Calendar (Herr H. F. L. Meyer)

245 Chapter XXXV How to make a Sundial (F. Chasemore)
347 I The Horizontal Dial
349 II The Equatorial Dial
354 Table of Minutes

355 Chapter XXXVI The Camera Obscura: How to make and use it (Gordon Stables, C.M., M.D., R.N.)

359 Section VII The Boy’s Own Workshop.

361 Chapter XXXVII Cardboard-Modelling and Wood Modelling.
361 I How the Reedham Boys make their Cardboard Models (the Head Master)
374 II A Home-Made Humming-Top

375 Chapter XXXVIII Artificial Wood: How to Make it and what to make of it (the late Dr. Scoffern)

380 Chapter XXXIX How to Make an Astronomical Telescope (Frank Chasemore)

385 Chapter XL The Kaleidoscope and How to Make it (W. J. Gordon)

388 Chapter XLI How to Make a Portable Stage and Figures for the Living Marionettes (F. Chasemore)

391 Chapter XLII How to Make a Pantagraph

393 Chapter XLIII My Flagstaff and How I Rigged it

396 Chapter XLIV How to Make a Pocket Compass and Timepiece (F. Chasemore)

398 Chapter XLV Wood-Working and Carving; or Walking-Sticks and how to treat them

401 Chapter XLVI Cages and Hutches: and How to Make them (Gordon Stables, C.M., M.D., R.N.)
403 I The Tools and Materials—Useful Hints
405 II Canary Breeding-cages German and English
408 III Nests and Nest-Boxes—The German method of Breeding—Hutches for Rabbits, Guinea-Pigs, Rats, and Squirrels

410 Chapter XLVII How to Make a Cage for White Mice (W. G. Campbell)

415 Section VIII Music and Musical Instruments and Toys, How to Make Them and How to Play Them

417 Chapter XLVIII Musical Glasses and the Wood Harmonicon.
417 I The Glass Harmonicon
419 II Musical Tumblers
420 III A Wood Harmonicon

422 Chapter XLIX Æolian Harps and How to Make Them

425 Chapter L The Penny Whistle and How to Play it (W. J. Gordon)

429 Section IX Electricity and How to Use it in Play and Earnest

431 Chapter LI Curiosities of Electricity (Dr. Arthur Stradling)

434 Chapter LII The Leyden Jar and How to Make it

437 Chapter LIII The Electrical Machine and How to Make it

443 Chapter LIV A Storm in a Teacup

447 Section X Conjurers and Conjuring—Ventriloquism and Spiritualism, etc.

449 Chapter LV Mystery and Mummery; or Houdin and the Arabs (John Nevil Maskelyne of the Egyptian Hall): essay of Robert Houdin and a few effects exposed

454 Chapter LVI Ventriloquism and How to Acquire the Art (William Crompton)

457 Chapter LVII Second Sight: and a two person code
466 Two Other Systems
467 Unconscious Counting

470 Chapter LVIII Spiritualism at Home (Dr. Stradling)

479 Section XI Diversified Diversions

481 Chapter LIX Fire-Balloons and Gas-Balloons: How to Make and Use them (the late Dr. Scoffern)
481 I The Principle of Ballooning
483 II Fire-Balloons and their Construction
491 III On Gases and Gas-Balloons
492 IV How to prepare Hydrogen Gas
493 V The Construction of the Balloon

497 Chapter LX Model Balloons and all about them (by a Professional Aëronaut and Balloon Maker)
503 How to make a Model Balloon
506 The Netting
507 The Gas
508 Cost

509 Chapter LXI Smudgeography; or How to Tell the Character by Handwriting

512 Chapter LXII The Ludion (the late Dr. Scoffern

515 Chapter LXIII Mechanical and other Puzzles
515 I Some Mechanical Puzzles (F. Chasemore)
516 II Thought-Guessing
517 III An Improved Ring-Puzzle (Herr Meyer)
518 IV Aërial Rings
520 V Bubble Blowing
521 VI Marionettes
522 VII Model Wrestlers

524 Chapter LXIV Keeping the Balance (Rev. T.S. Millington, M.A.)