Just Published, "THE SECRET OUT; or, 1000 Tricks with Cards and other
Recreations." Illustrated with over 300 Engravings. 12mo. Cloth. Price
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THE CONSPIRATOR'S VICTIM
BY NED BUNTLINE, AUTHOR OF "MYSTERIES AND MISERIES OF NEW
YORK," "B'HOYS OF NEW YORK," "THREE YEARS AFTER," "LIFE YARN," "THE JEW'S DAUGHTER,"
"THE WHITE CRUISER," "LIFE IN THE PRAIRIES," "THE RED RIGHT HAND," "THE BUCCANNER'S
DAUGHTER," &c.
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DICK & FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS.
Just Published, "INQUIRE WITHIN; or, 3,700 Facts for the People." Large
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- INQUIRE WITHIN for Anything you want to Know; or, Over 3,500 Facts for the People. Illustrated, 12mo., 436 large pages, price $1 00 "Inquire Within" is one of the most valuable and extraordinary volumes over presented to the American public, and embodies nearly four thousand Facts, in most of which any person living will find instruction, aid, and entertainment. "Inquire Within" is sold at the low price of one dollar, and yet it contains 436 pages of closely printed matter, and is handsomely and strongly bound. It is a Doctor, a Gardener, a Schoolmaster, a Dancing Master, an Artist, a Naturalist, a Modeler, a Cook, a Lawyer, a Surgeon, a Chess-Player, a Chemist, a Cosmetician, a Brewer, an Acountant Accountant , an Architect, a "Letter Writer," a "Hoyle," and a Universal Guide to all kinds of Useful and Fancy Employment, Amusement, and Money-making. Besides all this information—and we have not room to give an idea of a hundredth part of it—it contains so many valuable and useful recipes, that an enumeration of them requires seventy-two columns of fine type for the index.
- THE SOCIABLE; or, One Thousand and One Home Amusements. Containing Acting Proverbs, Dramatic Charades, Acting Charades, or Drawing-room Pantomimes, Musical Burlesques, Tableaux Vivants, Parlor Games, Games of Action, Forfeits, Science in Sport, and Parlor Magic, and a choice collection of curious Mental and Mechanical Puzzles, &c. Illustrated with nearly 300 engravings and diagrams, the whole being a fund of never-ending entertainment. By the author of "The Magician's Own Book." Nearly 400 pages, 12mo., cloth, gilt side stamp, price 1 00
- THE REASON WHY. A careful collection of some thousands of reasons for things, which, though generally known, are imperfectly understood. A book of condensed scientific knowledge for the million. By the author of "Inquire Within." It is a handsome 12mo. volume of 356 pages, printed on fine paper, bound in cloth, gilt, and embellished with a large number of wood-cuts, illustrating the various subjects treated of price 1 00. It contains a collection and solution of THIRTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO FACTS IN SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY, some of which, on their first discovery, puzzled the most learned and apt scholars. Some idea may be formed of its vast usefulness, when we inform the reader that it has an Index of contents requiring 40 columns of fine type.
- THE MAGICIAN'S OWN BOOK. A complete Guide to the Art of Conjuring, being a Hand-Book of Parlor Magic, and containing several hundred amusing Magical, Magnetical, electrical, and Chemical Experiments, Astonishing Transmutations, Wonderful Sleight of Hand and Card Tricks, Curious and Perplexing Puzzles. Quaint and Entertaining Tricks and Questions in Numbers, Secret Writing Explained, Sleights and Subtleties in Legerdemain, &c., together with all the most noted Tricks of Modern Performers. Illustrated with over 500 wood engravings, 12mo., cloth, gilt side and back stamp, 400 pages, price 1 00
- EVERY WOMAN HER OWN LAWYER. A private Guide in all matters of Law, of essential interest to women, and by the aid of which every female may, in whatever situation, understand her legal course and redress, and be her own Legal Adviser; containing the laws of the different States relative to Marriage and Divorce, Property in Marriage, Guardians and Wards, Rights in Property of a Wife, Rights of Widows, False Pretenses in Courtship, &c. By GEORGE BISHOP price 1 00
- THE BORDEAUX WINE & LIQUOR DEALERS' GUIDE. A Treatise on the Manufacture and Adulteration of Liquors. By a practical Liquor Manufacturer. 12mo., cloth price 1 50. In this work not one article in the smallest degree approximating to a poison is recommended, and yet the book teaches how Cognac Brandy, Scotch and Irish Whisky, Foreign and Domestic Rum, all kinds of Wines, Cordials, &c., from the choicest to the commonest, can be to that perfection, that the best judges cannot detect the method of manufacture, even by chemical tests of the character! The author, after telling what such liquid is composed of, furnishes a formula for making its exact counterpart—exact in everything! Each formula is comprehensive—no one can misunderstand it. The ingredients are specifically named, and the quantity of each distinctly set forth. With this book in his hand say dealer can manufacture his own liquor, at a saving of from 500 to 600 per cent.
- LIVE AND LEARN. A Guide for all who wish to speak and write correctly; particularly intended as a book of reference for the solution of difficulties connected with Grammar, Composition, Punctuation, etc., etc., with explanations of Latin and French words and phrases of frequent occurrence in newspapers, reviews, periodicals, and books in general, containing examples of One Thousand Mistakes, of daily occurrence, in speaking, writing, and pronunciation, 216 pages, cloth, 12mo., price 50. "Live and Learn" is a most useful book, designed as a guide to grammar, composition, and punctuation. So few people speak or write really good grammar, and fewer still punctuate decently, that a book that informs them how to do so—and not only that indicates their faults, but shows them how they are to be corrected—cannot fail to be popular; there is not a person, indeed, who might not learn something from it.
- THE LADY'S MANUAL OF FANCY WORK. A complete instructor in every variety of Ornamental Needle-Work; including Applique, Bead-Work, Berlin-Work, Braiding, Bobbin-Work, Crochet, Embroidery, Golden Tapestry, Knitting, Knotting, Lace-Work, Muslin-Work. French Embroidery, Netting, Orne-Work, Patch-Work, Point-Lace, Potichomanie, Taps'o D'Auxerre, Tape-Work, Tatting, Transferring, Velvet Balls, Wire-Work, Shading and Coloring, Printers' Marks. Explanatory Terms, etc., etc. With a list of materials and hints for their selection; advice on making up and trimming; a catalogue of articles suitable for Wedding. Birthday, and New Year Gifts; and a glossary of French and German terms used in needle-work, not to be found in any dictionary. The whole being a complete Lexicon of Fancy Needle-Work. By Mrs. PULLAN. Editor of the London and Paris Gazette of Fashion, and Director of the Work-table of Frank Leslie's Magazine, Illustrated Magazine, &c., &c. Illustrated with over 300 engravings by the best artists, with eight large pattern plates. Elegantly printed in colors on tinted paper. Large octavo, beautifully bound in fine cloth, with gilt side and back stamp, price 1 00. There is no imaginable species of fancy needle-work, knotting, knitting, netting, lace-work, embroidery, crochet, &c., &c., which may not be found fully illustrated in this volume, and here are complete instructions for the inexperienced, from the pen of one of the ablest of needle-women of the present age.
- ANECDOTES OF LOVE. Being a true account of the most remarkable events connected with the History of Love in all Ages and among all Nations. By LOLA MONTEZ, Countess of Landsfeldt. Large 12mo, cloth, price 1 00. These romantic and surprising anecdotes really contain all of the most tragic and comic events connected with the history of the tender passion among all nations and in all ages of the world. It is precisely the kind of book which a man will find it impossible to relinquish until he has read it through from the first to the last chapter. And besides the exciting love histories embraced in this volume, it really contains a great deal of valuable historic lore, which is not to be found except by reading through interminable volumes.
- ARTS OF BEAUTY; or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet. With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating. By Madame LOLA MONTEZ, Countess of Landsfeldt. Cloth, gilt side, price 50. This book contains an account, in detail, of all the arts employed by the fashionable ladies of all the chief cities of Europe, for the purpose of developing and preserving their charms. Independent of its rare and really useful matter, the book is a curiosity as a piece of art, itself, for the most delicate subjects are handled with a skill, and an unexceptional propriety of language, which is really surprising. This work is also full of the curious and useful recipes, used by the beauties of Europe, and will enable our ladies to supply their toilets, at a trifling cost, with what cannot be purchased at the perfumer's at any cost.
- THE FAMILY AQUARIUM. A new pleasure for the Domestic Circle. Being a familiar and complete instructor upon the subject of the construction, fitting up, stocking, and maintenance of the Marine and Fresh Water Aquaria, or River and Ocean Gardens. By H. D. BUTLER, Esq. 12mo., cloth, gilt side stamp, price 50. This work is a complete adaptation to American peculiarities of every species of useful information upon Marine and Fresh Water Aquariums, to be met with in the elaborate volumes of European authority; together with a careful concentration of all the practical results of the author's great experience in the structure and management of Aquaria.
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THE CONVICT: OR THE CONSPIRATORS' VICTIM A NOVEL, WRITTEN IN PRISON.
BYNED BUNTLINE.
NEW YORK:
DICK & FITZGERALD,
18 ANN STREET.
1863.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863. BY THOMAS BAKER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York
Preface and Dedication.
THE author dedicates this work to all Americans who love their country; to all men, who loving justice and scorning oppression and wrong, despise the oppressor. He sends it forth for the PEOPLE's perusal, well aware of its imperfections, but hoping that though in itself it may fail to work the great good which he desires, it may arouse the People to thought, and induce ultimate action upon matters which deeply concern the welfare of the Nation. It is not written to make money, for he values money as little as he does the smile of an aristocrat; it is not written to gain for its author literary fame, else would he have chosen a more congenial subject—have launched his bark upon his old home, the ocean, and wandered away among the lovely maidens, and luscious fruits, and beautiful flowers of the Southern Isles; or, mounting his blooded steed, as of yore, have dashed out upon the lake-like prairie, through the grand forests, or over the wild hills of the glowing West. It is written to stir up a hornet's nest—it is written to show Americans that they are nursing serpents in their bosoms; it is written to illustrate the destiny of those who, forgetting themselves in their sympathy for the wrongs of the human family, dare to come out and battle against vice and error, for the RIGHT. To the MEN and WOMEN of America I offer it; I ask its perusal at their hands, for there are truths in it which must be heard.
