Spayth’s Draughts or Checkers for Beginners. This treatise was written by Henry Spayth, the celebrated player, and is by far the most complete and instructive elementary work on Draughts ever published. It is profusely illustrated with diagrams of ingenious stratagems, curious positions and perplexing problems, and contains a great variety of interesting and instructive Games, progressively arranged and clearly explained with notes, so that the learner may easily comprehend them. With the aid of this Manual a beginner may soon become a proficient in the game. Cloth, gilt side 75 cts. Scattergood’s Game of Draughts, or Checkers, Simplified and Explained. With practical Diagrams and Illustrations, together with a Checker-Board, numbered and printed in red. Containing the Eighteen Standard Games, with over 200 of the best variations, selected from various authors, with some never before published. By D. Scattergood. Bound in cloth, with flexible covers 50 cts. Marache’s Manual of Chess. Containing a description of the Board and Pieces, Chess Notation, Technical Terms, with diagrams illustrating them, Laws of the Game, Relative Value of Pieces, Preliminary Games for Beginners, Fifty Openings of Games, giving all the latest discoveries of Modern Masters, with the best games and copious notes, Twenty Endings of Games, showing easiest ways of effecting Checkmate, Thirty-six ingenious Diagram Problems, and sixteen curious Chess Stratagems, being one of the best Books for Beginners ever published. By N. Marache. Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts. Bound in cloth, gilt side 75 cts. Lola Montez’ Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady’s Toilet. _With hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating._ Lola Montez here explains all the Arts employed by the celebrated beauties and fashionable ladies in Paris and other cities of Europe, for the purpose of preserving their beauty and improving and developing their charms. The recipes are all clearly given, so that any person can understand them, and the work embraces the following subjects: _How to obtain such desirable and indispensable attractions as A Handsome Form_; _A Bright and Smooth Skin_; _A Beautiful Complexion_; _Attractive Eyes, Mouth and Lips_; _A Beautiful Hand, Foot and Ankle_; _A Well-trained Voice_; _A Soft and Abundant Head of Hair_; _Also, How to Remedy Gray Hair_; _And harmless but effectual methods of removing Superfluous Hair and other blemishes, with interesting information on these and kindred matters._ Illuminated paper cover 25 cts. Hillgrove’s Ball-Room Guide and Complete Dancing-Master. Containing a plain treatise on Etiquette and Deportment at Balls and Parties, with valuable hints on Dress and the Toilet, together with _Full Explanations of the Rudiments, Terms, Figures and Steps used in Dancing_;