To which is added a Sensible Guide to Etiquette and proper Deportment
in the Ball and Assembly Room, besides seventy pages of dance music
for the piano.
Paper ~50 cts.~
Bound in boards ~75 cts.~
~Hillgrove's Ball-Boom Guide and Complete Dancing-Master.~ Containing
a plain treatise on Etiquette and Deportment at Balls and Parties,
with valuable hints on Dress and the Toilet, together with
_Full Explanations of the Rudiments, Terms, Figures and Steps
used in Dancing_,
_Including Clear and Precise Instructions how to dance all kinds
of Quadrilles, Waltzes, Polkas, Redowas, Reels, Round, Plain and
Fancy Dances, so that any person may learn them without the aid of
a Teacher_,
_To which is added easy directions how to call out the Figures which
belong_ to every dance, and the amount of music required for each.
Illustrated with 176 descriptive engravings. By T. Hillgrove,
Professor of Dancing.
Bound in cloth, with gilt side and back ~$1.00~
Bound in boards ~75 cts.~
~Frank Converse's Complete Banjo Instructor Without a Master.~
Containing a choice collection of Banjo Solos and Hornpipes, Walk
Arounds, Reels and Jigs, Songs and Banjo Stories, progressively
arranged and plainly explained, enabling the learner to become a
proficient banjoist without the aid of a teacher. The necessary
explanations accompany each tune, and are placed under the notes on
each page, plainly showing the string required, the finger to be used
for stopping it, the manner of striking, and the number of times it
must be sounded. The Instructor is illustrated with diagrams and
explanatory symbols.