Reed, Frank M. (Publisher): How to Entertain a Social Party ©1874 Frank M. Reed, NY Softcover, perfect-bound, 58 pages plus ads

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Comments: This was later re-printed along with additional material under the title, How to Entertain a Social Party by Nellie Greenway, 1890, published by J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Co., NY.

Contents (from book):

5 The Blue Beard Tableau

7 Tableau Vivant for Acting
8 - Scene I
10 - Scene II
13 - Scene III
14 - Scene IV
15 - Scene V

16 Modern Popular Conjuring
16 To Determine the Article Selected by the Company, the Performer Being Absent from the Room at the Time of the Selection
17 To Knock a Tumbler Through a Table
17 To Drive one Tumbler Through Another
18 The Restored Handkerchief
19 A Swindle: bet to cut a string and the object won't fall
19 To Make a Cane or Poker Stand in the Middle of the Room
19 The Dancing Skeleton: black art
20 To Guess the Two Ends of a Line of Dominoes
20 Dominoes Seen and Counted Through All Obstacles
21 To Make a Dime Pass Through a Table

21 The Play Room
21 Blindman's Buff
22 One Old Ox Opening Oysters
23 How Do You Like It? When Do You Like It? and Where Do You Like It?
23 Twirling the Plate
23 Cross Questions and Crooked Answers
24 Cupid's Coming
24 Proverbs
25 Buff
25 Earth, Air and Water
26 My Ladies' Toilet
26 Yes and No
26 Copenhagen
26 Hunt the Hare
27 Transpositions
28 The Interrupted Reply

28 Games for the Little Ones
28 King of the Crows
29 Pussy's Peccadilloes
31 Bobbing Around, or the Game of Families
33 Loto
34 Fox and Geese
35 Dominoes

38 Diversions: Quick Stunts and More Magic
38 The Kentucky Giant
39 The Elephant
39 The Old Man's Face
39 The Decapitation
40 Hat Measurement
41 The Lost Ring Found: a lost ring is found in a lemon
42 Magic Milk: chemical experiment
42 To Light a Candle Without Touching the Wick

42 Nuts to Crack: Riddles

44 Amusing Experiments
44 Artificial Lightning
44 Miniature Earthquake and Volcano
44 Luminous Writing
45 Colored Flames
45 The Magic Picture: making a frame that only shows the picture when heated

46 Magic
46 To Make Water Freeze by the Fireside
46 To Suspend a Quart Pot from the Ceiling and cut the String in the Middle, Without the Measure Falling to the Ground
46 How to lift Up a Flint Glass Bottle with a Straw
46 To Change Bird-seed into a Living Bird
46 A Curious Method of Restoring a Fly to Life in Two Minutes that has been Dead Twenty-four hours
46 To Make a Loaf of Bread Dance on the Table

47 Card Tricks
47 To Show Cards Drawn by Different Parties, fter they have been Thoroughly Shuffled, as Exhibited by Hermann
48 Professional Pack of Cards
49 The Three Cards Called
49 Metamorphosis
50 To Produce a Particular Card Without Seeing the Pack
50 To Call for Any Card in the Pack
51 To Tell the Number of Cards by the Weight
51 To Tell the Card That a Person Has Touched With His Finger
51 To Discover any Card in the Pack by its Weight or Smell
51 Guessing a Card Thought Of
52 To Tell how Many Cards a Person Takes out of a Pack, and to Specify Each Card
53 To Let Twenty Persons Draw Twenty Cards, And Make Each Draw The Same
53 To Make A Card Jump Out Of The Pack And Run On The Table
54 To Burn a Card, and Afterwards Find it in a Watch
54 To Send a Card Through a Table
55 To Produce a Mouse From a Pack of Cards
55 To Make a Card Spring Up In the Air From the Pack Without Being Touched
56 To Turn a Card Into a Bird
56 To Make the Court Cards Always Come Together
56 To Hold Four Kings Or Four Knaves In Your Hand, And To Change Them Suddenly Into Blank Cards, And Then Into Four Aces
56 To Bring A Card Which Has Been Thrown Out Of The Window Into The Pack Again
57 To Find in the Pack and Through a Handkerchief Whatever Card a Person has Drawn
57 To Conjure a Certain Card Into Your Pocket
57 To Change Five Kings Into Five Queens
58 To Tell Through a Wine Glass What Cards Have been Turned

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