Hoffman, Professor (Angelo John Lewis): Drawing Room Amusements and Evening Party Entertainments ©1879 George Routledge and Sons, NY Hardcover, 504 pages ©1885 Reprinted as Parlor Amusements and Evening Party Entertainments George Rutledge & Sons Also published by David McKay, Philadelphia

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Contents (partial contents from book's ToC, missing last page):

1 Introductory
4 Round Games

6 Chapter I Games of Action
6 Blind Man's Buff
7 Buff With the Wand
8 Hot Cackles
9 Shadow Buff
10 The Feather Game
12 Hunt the Slipper
13 Hunt the Ring
14 The Mouse
16 Jack's Alive
17 Twirl the Trencher or My Lady's Toilet
18 The Stage-Coach
24 Muksical Fright
25 Magic Music
26 The Dutch Concert
27 The Comical Chorus — Mary's Lamb

31 Chapter II Games With Pen and Pencil, or Involving Mental Exertion
31 Consequences
34 Cross Questions and Crooked Answers
36 Crambo
37 Bouts Rimes
38 Advice Gratis
39 Retsch's - Wretches? - Outlines
41 The Twenty Questions
44 Russian Gossip
45 How? When? and Where?
47 Throwing Light
50 Proverbs
52 The Hidden Word
53 What is my Thought Like?
54 Spelling Games
56 The Game of Rhymes
57 Definitions

59 Chapter III Catch Games
59 The Cook Who Doesn't Like Peas
60 The Old Soldier
61 The Knight Of The Whistle
64 He Can Do Little Who Can't Do This
65 The Farmyard
66 "Buff Says Baff"
67 The Two Hats

69 Chapter IV Forfeits
69 Crying the Forfeits
71 To Put one hand where the other cannot touch it
71 to laugh in one Corner, Cry in another, Dance in another, and Sing in another
71 To Kiss the Candlestick
71 To Act the Knight of the Rueful Countenance
71 The journey to Rome
72 To Spell Constantinople
72 To Kiss the Lady you Love Best without any One Knowing it
73 To Kiss your own Shadow
73 To Sit upon the Fire
73 To leave the Room with Two Legs, and come in with Six
73 To Perform the Egotist
73 To place Three Chairs in a Row, take off your Shoes, and Jump over them
73 To Bite an inch off the Poker
73 To blow a Candle out Blindfold . .
74 To ask a Question that cannot be Answered in the Negative .
75 The Three Questions
75 To Kiss a Book Inside and Outside without Opening it .
75 To take a Person Upstairs, and bring him Down upon a Feather
75 To place a Straw on the Ground so that no One present can Jump over it
76 To Act Living Statues
77 To Shake a Sixpence off the Forehead
78 The German Band
78 To Imitate a Donkey

80 Chapter V Card Games
80 Vingt-Un
84 "Franch Vingt-Un" or "Albert Smith"
86 Loo
91 Napoleon
94 Speculation
96 Pope Joan
100 Spinado
102 Poker
108 Snip-Snap-Snorum

111 Chapter VI Juvenile Card Games
111 Snap
112 Match and Catch.
113 The Sovereigns of England
115 Picture Pumblechook
117 What d'ye Buy?
120 The most Laughable Thing on Earth; or a Trip to Paris
122 Tombola • • ¦ •
125 Ranter-go-Round
128 Spade the Gardener .
130 Happy Families ....
132 Illustrated Proverbs
133 Mixed Pickles . . .
135 Schimmel; or, Bell and Hammer

138 Chapter VII After-Dinner Accomplishments and Miscellaneous Amusements
139 The Raisin Tortoise
139 The Lemon Pig
140 The Passenger to Boulogne
141 The Enchanted Raisins
144 The Demon Lump of Sugar and the Magic
145 The Mysterious Production
146 Elongation and Compression
152 The Family Giant
153 The Nondescript, or Animated Telescope
158 “The What-do-you-Think?”
160 The Baby Elephant
162 The Giraffe
163 “The Canis Remarkabilis, or Demon Do"
165 The Dwarf
167 The Disappointed Heirs ; or, The Irishman's Wake
171 The Comical Quartette Party
173 The “Art” Exhibition
182 The Talking Hand
190 Punch and Judy
211 The Fantoccini

221 Chapter VIII Amateur Theatricals
221 The Stage Manager
223 Old-Fashioned Classification of Dramatic Artists
233 Stage Construction
247 Scenery
255 Costume and Make-up
274 The Prompter
281 An Awful Toothache - a Drawing-Room Farce in One Act

317 Chapter IX Tableaux Vivants
317 Stage Arrangement
320 Lighting
321 Costume
323 Tableaux Vivants
323 - Dignity and Imprudence
324 - The Fortune-Teller
325 - Faith
326 - Hope
327 - Charity
328 - Single Life
330 - The Wooing O't
331 - Wooed and Married and A'
332 - The Tar's Farewell
334 - Home Again!
335 - The Gamester
335 -- The Victim
337 -- Foul Play
339 -- The Duel
341 Other Effective Subjects for Tableaux

345 Chapter X The Living Waxworkx Exhibition
345 Plan of the Exhibition
348 Mrs. Jarley's Opening Speech
349 The Figures
349 - The Chinese Giant
350 - The Two-Headed Girl
351 - The Sewing Woman
352 - Mrs. Winslow - Inventress of the Soothing Syrup
353 - Captain Kidd and His Victim
355 - The Siamese Twins
356 - The Welsh Dwarf
357 - The Vocalist
359 - The Yankee
360 - The Cannibal
362 - The Babes In the Wood
363 - Little Red Riding Hood
364 - The Fair Wone With Golden Locks
365 Mrs. Jarley's Closing Speech

366 Chapter XI Shadow Pantomime
366 The Screen
367 The Light
369 Scenery
370 Entrances And Exits
372 Properties
374 Shadow Pantomime - The Cannibal Islanders at Home
385 Multiplying Shadows

389 Chapter XII Drawing Room Magic - Card Tricks
389 Card Sleights
389 - To Make the Pass
394 - To Force a Card
396 - To Palm a Card
397 - To Slip a Card
399 Cautions
400 Card Tricks
400 To Make a Card Vanish From the Pack And Be Found In a person's pokcet
402 To Place The Four Kings In Different Parts Of The Pack And To Bring Them Together By A Simple Cut
404 The Four Kings Being Placed Under The Hand Of One Person And The Four Sevens Under The Hand Of Another To Make Them Change Places At Command
405 Four Packets Of Cards Having Been Formed Face Downwards On The Table To Discover The Total Value Of The Undermost Cards
406 To Name All The Cards In The Pack In Succession
408 The Cards Being Cut To Tell Whether The Number Cut Is Odd Or Even
409 To Allow A Person To Think Of A Card And To Make That Card Appear At Such Number In The Pack As Another Person Shall Name
412 The Cards Revealed By The Looking Glass
413 To Guess Four Cards Thought Of By Different Persons
414 The Pairs Re-Paired
415 The Magic Triplets
416 Another Mode Of Discovering A Card Thought Of
418 To Guess By The Aid Of A Passage Of Poetry Or Prose Such One Of Sixteen Cards As In Your Absence Has Been Touched Or Selected By The Company
420 To Detect Without Confederacy Which Of Four Cards Has Been Turned Round In Your Absence
421 To Arrange Twelve Cards In Rows In Such A Manner That They Will Count Four In Any Direction
421 To Place The Aces And Court Card In Four Rows In Such A Manner That Neither Horizontally Nor Verticall Shall There Be In Either Row Two Cards Alike Either In Suit Or Value
423 The Congress Of Court Cards
424 The Alternate Card Trick
425 The Spelling Bee Trick
425 To Distinguish The Court Cards By Touch
427 To Name Any Number Of Cards In Succession Without Seeing Them
427 To Nail A Chosen Card To The Wall
429 The Inseparable Sevens
431 A Card Having Been Though Of, To Make Such Card Vanish From The Pack And Be Discovered Whereever The Performer Pleases

436 Chapter XIII Drawing Room Magic - Coin Tricks
436 Coin Slights
436 - Pass 1
438 - Pass 2
439 - Pass 3
441 Coin Tricks
441 A Florin Being Spun Upon The Table To Tell Blindfold Whether It Falls Head Or Tail Upwards

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443 The Mysterious Addition
444 One Into Three
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447 The Vanishing Halfpence
450 Box
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452 Vanishing Money
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460 Chapter XIV - Magic - Miscellaneous Tricks
460 To Tell From a Watch the Hour Secretly Thought Of
461 Pocket-Handkerchief
463 Table
465 Not Be Tied In a Knot
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475 Chapter XV Charades
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482 Chapter XVI Riddles, Enigmas, Etc.
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