Magical Titbits

After writing Later Magic, Professor Hoffmann intended to follow it with a fourth book. However, advancing age and other engagements compelled him to abandon it. Nevertheless he wrote this volume, which is not really a part of his trilogy, but functioned as a place to put the material he already collected. A few Hartz items in this book have been already dealt with in Later Magic. Otherwise the contents is new. It is interesting to note that although Hoffmann writes in the preface to Magical Titbits that he abandoned the book which should have followed Later Magic, he authored in 1918 a book called Latest Magic which according to the chosen title is this fourth book initially abandoned.

1st edition, 1911, George Routledge & Sons, New York; 221 pages.

Table of Contents

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Preface PART I. - MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS The Rice and Water Trick The Vanishing Rice Tao Li Tao, The Chinese Mystery Balloons from a Hat To Discover and Pocket (Before Asking any Question) the Card Thought of by a Spectator A New Purse Trick A Silk Handkerchief Changed into a Flag The Changing Handkerchief Boxes The Demon Digits The Acrobatic Cards The Ball of Wool Trick. (Improved) The New Card Frame Outwitting the Conjurer The Great Book Mystery The Crystal Balls. (Improved Method) PART II. - RECOLLECTIONS OF HARTZ Biographical Notice A Devil of a Hat The Inexhaustible Handkerchief		The Improved Money Column The Multiplication of Money The Mysterious Addition The Inverted Glass of Water The Multiplying Billiard Ball The Dematerialised Glass of Water Card, Coin, and Candle The Wine and Water Trick The Witches' Kettle and Magic Punchbowl The Automatic Rising Cards The Portfolio Trick The Second-Sight Trick The Pocket-Picking Trick The Aerial Walking-Cane The Egg and Rings Trick Contrivances for "Passing Off" The Hartz "Hook", for Working Mechanical Pieces of Apparatus The Magic Bell The Crystal Cashbox Hartz's Bird-Cage Trick The Mystic Glove and Rings L'envoi

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