Howard’s Book of Drawing-Room Theatricals. A collection of short and amusing plays in one act and one scene, especially adapted for private performances; with practical directions for their preparation and management. Some of the plays are adapted for performers of one sex only. CONTENTS. Males. Females. Explanations of stage directions. | | | Hints to Amateurs. | | | The Student’s Frolic | 3 | 2 | A Household Fairy | 1 | 1 | A Kiss in the Dark | 2 | 3 | Mrs. Willis’ Will | | 5 | Jack of all Trades | 6 | | His First Brief | 3 | 2 | A Sudden Arrival | 5 | | A Medical Man | 2 | 1 | A Terrible Secret | 2 | 2 | Poisoned | 4 | | An Eligible Situation | 2 | 6 |  “Wanted a Young Lady” | 2 | 1 | Paper Covers. Price 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts. Tambo’s End-Men’s Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best jokes and repartees of the most celebrated  “burnt cork” performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. Also containing a rich collection of Ballads, humorous and pathetic. Darkey Dialogues, Sketches, Plantation Scenes, Eccentric Doings, Humorous Lectures, Laughable Interludes, Huge Africanisms, Burlesque Stump Speeches. Mirth-provoking Witticisms, Conundrums, Yarns, Plantation Songs and Dances, etc., etc. In short, a complete Hand-Book of Burnt Cork Drollery, which will be found alike useful to the professional and amateur. Everything new and rich. Paper covers. 30 cts. Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts. Tony Denier’s Parlor Tableaus, or Living Pictures. Containing about eighty popular subjects, with plain and explicit directions for arranging the stage, dressing-rooms, lights, full description of costumes, duties of stage manager, properties and scenery required, and all the necessary directions for getting them up. Among the contents there are nine tableaux for _male_ and an equal number for _female_ characters only. A great number of them introduce groups of boys, and many more groups of girls only; others again introducing both; and still more in which entire classes can take part. Everything is stated in a plain, simple manner, so that it will be easily understood; everything like style or unnecessary show has been avoided. For public or private entertainment, there is nothing which is so interesting as the tableau. Price 25 cts.