... or the art of entertaining.
Being a volume intended to amuse everybody, and enabling all to amuse everybody else. Home amusements;
Instructions in Acting Proverbs, Charades, Tableaux, Parlor Games, Forfeits, Burlesques, Riddles, Puzzles, Tricks, Sleight-of-Hand, Card Tricks, Scientific Recreations, Parlor Magic - in fact, a regular Encyclopaedia of social evening entertainment.
This is a later partial version of The Art of Amusing. I have not made a word-for-word comparison, but it appears to be simply a subset of chapters from the earlier book.
1st edition 1878; PDF 105 pages.
word count: 33488 which is equivalent to 133 standard pages of text
