This Collection contains, in addition to new and original pieces, all the very best Recitations in the Irish dialect that can be gathered from a whole library of  “Recitation” books. It is full of sparkling witticisms and it furnishes also a fund of entertaining matter for perusal in leisure moments. 170 pages, paper cover 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts. Beecher’s Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic. Designed for Public and Private Exhibitions. Contents: Miss Maloney at the Dentist’s Lost and Found Mygel Snyder’s Barty Magdalena Jim Wolfe and the Cats The Woolen Doll The Charity Dinner Go-Morrow; or, Lots Wife The Wind and the Moon Dyin’ Words of Isaac Maude Muller in Dutch Moses the Sassy Yarn of the  “Nancy Bell” Paddy the Piper Schneider sees  “Leah” Caldwell of Springfield Artemus Ward’s Panorama Tale of a Servant Girl How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull Tiamondts on der Prain King Robert of Sicily Gloverson the Mormon De Pint wid Ole Pete Pat and the Pig The Widow Bedott’s Letter The Cry of the Children The Dutchman and the Small-pox Sculpin Rats [TN: possibly Bats]—Descriptive Recitation A Reader Introduces Himself to an Audience A Dutchman’s Dolly Varden  “Rock of Ages” Feeding the Black Fillies The Hornet The Glove and the Lions I Vant to Fly That Dog of Jim Smiley’s The Faithful Soul  “My New Pittayatees” Mary Ann’s Wedding An Inquiring Yankee The Three Bells Love in a Balloon Mrs. Brown on the Streets Shoo Flies Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Bosan Without the Children Signor Billsmethi’s Dancing Academy Der Goot Lookin Shnow The Jumping Frog The Lost Chord The Tale of a Leg That West-side Dog How Dennis Took the Pledge The Fisherman’s Summons Badger’s Debut as Hamlet Hezekiah Stole the Spoons Paddy’s Dream Victuals and Drink How Jake Schneider Went Blind Aurelia’s Young Man Mrs. Brown on Modern Houses Farm Yard Song Murphy’s Pork Barrel The Prayer Seeker An Extraordinary Phenomenon The Case of Young Bangs A Mule Ride in Florida Dhree Shkaders Paper covers. Price 30 cts. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts. Dick’s Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches. Containing the following Rich Collection of Negro Dialogues, Scenes, Farces, End-men’s Jokes, Gags, Rollicking Stories, Excruciating Conundrums, Questions and Answers for Bones, Tambo and Interlocutor, etc. Contents: