Excerpt from the preface:
The primary aim of this additional contribution to the already existing fund of Home Amusements is to provide materials rather more pretentious than the well-worn routine of Dialogues, Charades, Impromptu-Charades, etc., and, by the introduction of Stage effects and other embellishments, to afford increased gratification to the sense of hearing by appealing at the same time to the sense of sight.
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- PARLOR TABLEAUX VIVANTS
- Preparing the Stage
- Simple Tableaux Vivants, and Frame Pictures
- Faith, Peace and Glory
- Milton at the Age of Ten
- The Pride of the Market
- Rebecca at the Well
- Love’s Disguises
- Catawba, Little Nell and her Grandfather
- The Roman Girls at the Shrine of St. Agnes
- Yes, or No
- Ignorance is Bliss in Three Scenes
- The Angels’ Whisper
- Charity
- LIVING PORTRAITS
- Art and Artifice
- The Magic Mirror
- ELABORATE TABLEAUX VIVANTS
- Directions for a Hall Entertainment
- How to Organize a Company
- Stage, Scenery, Costumes, etc.
- How to Make a Boat
- THE TABLEAUX
- The Progress of Music
- By the Waters of Babylon
- The Bridal of the Sea
- Hagar
- Too Late for the Stage
- The Family Jewels
- Hermione, or the Living Statue
- The Washing Day
- The Return from the Harvest
- The Triumph of Agriculture
- Behind, the Scenes
- Scenes in the Life of Marie Stuart
- The Lily Maid of Astolat
- Cleopatra on Her Way to Meet Marc Antony
- Cordelia and King Lear
- LIVING STATUARY
- Monumental Group
- The Angel of Sleep
- Caractacus
- Justice, Mercy and Peace
- Maud Muller
- DAME HISTORY’S PEEP SHOW
- Scenes from Life of Joan of Arc
- John Smith
- Three Scenes in the Life of Beatrice Cenci
- VISIONS OF SHAKSPEARE’S HEROINES
- ILLUSTRATED BALLADS
- Auld Robin Gray
- The Mistletoe Bough
- Villikins and His Diniah
- CHARADES
- Jewels. A Charade in Three Scenes
- Norma. A Charade in Three Scenes
- Conundrums. A Charade in Four Scenes
- Indolent. A Charade in Four Scenes
- Dramatic. A Charade in Three Scenes
- Tell-Tale. A Charade in Three Scenes
- PANTOMIMIC CHARADES
- Knighthood. A Pantomimic Charade in Three Scenes
- THE SECRET OF SECOND-SIGHT
- PARLOR PANTOMIMES
- Love in Ambush
- The Miser’s Supper
- The Sleeping Beauty
- Jack’s Triumph; OR, LOVE UNDER OBSTACLES
- THE ART EXHIBITION
- Catalogue of Works of Art
- LITERARY ENIGMAS
- PUNCH AND JUDY
- The Drama of Punch and Judy
- SHADOW PANTOMIMES
- The Feejee Islanders at Home
- Ah Sin in Search of a Meal
1st edition 1882, PDF 154 pages.
word count: 58945 which is equivalent to 235 standard pages of text
