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. How Boggins Was Cured. An intensely ludicrous sketch, pictorially expressed; showing how Mr. Boggins, who had been reduced to a despairingly crippled state by rheumatism and a complication of other causes, was induced to submit to the wonderful effects of a course of dynamo-electro magnetic therapeutics, tracing the magical and potent effects of the treatment, and the heroic efforts he made while submitting to the doctor’s system of pathology; until, crowned with complete success, he is able to throw aside his crutches and is restored to perfect health and pristine agility. An entirely new and original series of sketches. Funny! is no name for it. Small quarto. Illustrated 10 cts.