The art of amusing : being a collection of graceful arts, merry games, odd tricks, curious puzzles, and new charades : together with suggestions for private theatricals, tableaux, and all sorts of parlor and family amusements (1866)
Bellew, Frank, 1828-1888 · New York : Carleton ; London : S. Low · leaf 16
oy: CHAPTER I. ERHAPS one of the great £oci of the American is/that be .does,not amuse himself ertfuglv at -leastin a cheerful, innocent manner.We are never jolly. We are terribly troubled about our dignity.All other nations, the French, theGerman, the Italian, and even thedull English, have their… … 8 THE ART OF AMUSING. orchard, lighted with variegated lamps, ornamentedwith showy booths, he dances the merry hoursaway with Pauline and Josephine, or sips his glassof wine with the chosen of his heart in a canvascabaret, whilst the music of a band and the voices of a a hundred merry laughers…
Amusements · Tricks
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