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Read more about Home Fun by Cecil H. Bullivant

This book presents a large compilation of home entertainment, including conjuring and illusions, but also theatre, dance, puzzles, scientific experiments, shadowgraphy, marionettes, paper folding, and even how to build your own telephone, and many other activities. This paragraph from the prefatory note sums it up:

While in no sense does it claim to be an exhaustive guide to home amusements, it represents a serious effort to bring within the scope of one volume almost every form of popular home diversion.

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  • PREFATORY NOTE
  • PART I
    • CHAPTER I: AMATEUR THEATRICALS
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Read more about The Drawing Room Entertainer by Cecil H. Bullivant

Ventriloquism, conjuring, shadowgraphy, mimicry, comedy, reciting.

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  • PART I. VENTRILOQUISM
    • CHAPTER I. The Practical Ventriloquist
      • No New Thing
      • Practice makes Perfect
      • There is Hope for All
      • A Useful Accomplishment
      • How to Begin
    • CHAPTER II. Breathing and Use of Figures
      • Methods of Breathing
      • Vocalisation
      • How to speak without moving the Lips
      • Ventriloquial Figures
      • Estimate of Outlay
      • A Few Practical Hints
    • CHAPTER III. Voice Illusions
      • Near and Distant Voices
      • The Drone
      • The Basis of the "Near" Ventriloquial Voices
      • Different Kinds of "Distant" Voices
      • Voices...
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