McBride’s New Dialogues. Especially designed for School and Literary Amateur Entertainments; containing entirely New and Original Dialogues, introducing Irish, Yankee, and other eccentric characters. By H. ELLIOTT MCBRIDE. CONTENTS. _A Happy Woman._ _The Somnambulist._ _Those Thompsons._ _Playing School._ _Tom and Sally._ _Assisting Hezekiah._ _A Visit to the Oil Regions._ _Breaking up the Exhibition._ _Turning Around._ _A Little Boy’s Debate._ _The Silver Lining._ _Restraining Jotham._ _A Shoemaker’s Troubles._ _An Uncomfortable Predicament._ _The Opening Speech._ _The Cucumber Hill Debating Club._ _Married by the New Justice._ _Bread on the Waters._ _An Unsuccessful Advance._ _When Women Have Their Rights._ _Only Another Footprint._ _Rosabella’s Lovers._ _A Smart Boy._ _A Heavy Shower._ _Master of the Situation._ The marked favor with which the four preceding volumes have been received suggested the necessity for an increased variety of new eccentric and characteristic pieces, to form an addition to the repertoire contained in  “McBride’s Comic Dialogues,”  “McBride’s All Kinds of Dialogues,”  “McBride’s Humorous Dialogues,” and  “McBride’s Temperance Dialogues.” They are all written with a view to develop dramatic talent, and abound in quaint humor, Dialect Drolleries, and telling stage  “situations.” 16mo, 178 pages, illuminated paper cover. 30 cts. Bound in boards. 50 cts. Dick’s Book of Toasts, Speeches and Responses. Containing Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Social Occasions, and specimen Speeches with appropriate replies suitable for the following occasions: _Public Dinners_, _Social Dinners_, _Convivial Gatherings_, _Art and Professional Banquets_, _Manufacturers’ Meetings_, _Agricultural and Commercial Festivals_, _Special Toasts for Ladies_, _Christmas, Thanksgiving and other Festivals_, _Friendly Meetings_, _Weddings and their Anniversaries_, _Army and Navy Banquets_, _Patriotic and Political Occasions_, _Trades’ Unions and Dinners_, _Benedicts’ and Bachelors’ Banquets_, _Masonic Celebrations_, _Sporting Coteries_, _All Kinds of Occasions_. This work includes an instructive dissertation on the Art of making amusing After-dinner Speeches, giving hints and directions by the aid of which persons with only ordinary intelligence can make an entertaining and telling speech. Also, Correct Rules and Advice for Presiding at Table. The use of this work will render a poor and diffident speaker fluent and witty—and a good speaker better and wittier, besides affording an immense fund of anecdotes, wit and wisdom, and other serviceable matter to draw upon at will. Paper covers. Price. 30 cts.