Popular pastimes for amusement and instruction : being a standard work on games, plays, magic, and natural phenomena suitable for all occasions : containing parlor games, charming tableaux, tricks of magic, charades and conundrums, curious puzzles, phrenology and mind reading, palmistry or how to read the hand, humorous and pathetic recitations, dialogues, etc., etc. : including the delightful art of entertaining, the whole forming a charming treasury of pastimes for the home, public schools and academies, lodges, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., etc.
A compendium of parlour games, tableaux, magic tricks, charades, puzzles, palmistry and recitations compiled by Henry Davenport Northrop and issued by the National Publishing Co. in Philadelphia in 1901 for family, school and lodge entertainments. Plates are magenta-ink halftones of crowded costume scenes and games, interspersed with pen-drawn scrolled tailpieces and small diagrams of hands, cards and gestures.
