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
The Art of Amusing is an 1866 American parlor-entertainment manual by Frank Bellew, offering games, tricks, puzzles and charades for family and private theatricals. The pictures are small crosshatched wood engravings of comic costumed figures, such as a man in a dog-like disguise, a face under a frilled bonnet, and a head seen through a tube, showing how humour can be built from dressed-up characters and optical play.
