Download or read book The Prompter's Hand Book written by J. A. French and published by Philadelphia : O. Ditson Company, [18--]. This book was released on 1893 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Similar to other prompter's books published during the last half of the nineteenth century, French gives instructions for calling the figures of quadrilles including examples of how the calls correlate to the music. The book also covers the calling of contra dances (progressive figure dances performed by a column of men facing a column of women).