Magicians' Tricks

This book was rated one of the ten basic books for a working library of conjuring by H. Adrian Smith, historian, collector and owner of the largest private magic library in his time. It is a magnificent book featuring tricks from Germain, Conradi, Goldston, Okito, Elliott, and others. It is very difficult to get a hardcopy these days. Other books in this top 10 list are

The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase
The Art of Magic by T. Nelson Downs
Modern Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
More Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
Later Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
The Modern Conjurer by C. Lang Neil
Our Magic by Maskelyne and Devant
Tarbell Course by Harlan Tarbell
Greater Magic by John Northern Hilliard

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I: WITH CARDS The Pass The Clip The "Diagonal" or "Dovetail" Pass The Card Palm The Bottom Palm The Change The Top Change The Bottom Change A New Top Change A Single Change False Shuffles To Leave a Prearranged Pack Undisturbed While Seeming to Shuffle It Thoroughly Another Method of Shuffling a Pack Without Changing Its Order To Shuffle the Pack so as Not to Disturb the Position of the Top or the Bottom Card or of Both Cards To Force a Card The Second Deal The False Count The "Ruffle" To Spring the Cards From One Hand to the Other The Slide The Forcing Die The Prearranged Pack The Color Change To Make a Card Disappear From a Glass The Transformation of the Jack of Clubs The Prediction To Discover a Card Drawn From the Pack A Flying Card A Greek Cross A Selected Card Appears at Any Desired Number From the Top of the Pack A Card Apparently Placed at the Bottom of the Pack, Appears at the Top A Question of Sympathy The Card in the Pocketbook The Disappearing Queen The Changing Card A Wonderful Change With a String - A Reminiscence The Obedient Cards The Rising Cards in a Case The Rising Cards, as Exhibited by Buatier de Kolta One More Version of the Rising Cards The Seven Heap The Sympathetic Kings and Queens Correcting a Mistake Thought Anticipated The Spots on a Freely Selected Card Will Indicate the Number of Cards Secretly Removed From the Pack The Ace of Diamonds Changes to a Trey The Four Aces From Pocket to Pocket The Vanishing Card The Cards in the Envelopes A Missing Card Found A Feat of Divination To Tell in succession all the Cards in a Shuffled Pack To Call Out the Names of the Cards While the Pack is Behind the Back Another Method of Discovering Every Card in a Shuffled Pack To Call Out Cards While the Pack, With the Faces of the Cards Toward the Audience, is Pressed Against the Forehead The Choice of a Card The Reversed Cards A Subtile Touch The Sense of Touch A Mathematical Problem The Reunion Dr. Elliot's Variation in the Rising Cards To Tear a Pack of Cards in Two II: WITH COINS Palming The Miser The Peripatetic Coins The Walking Coin The Wandering Coins The Disappearing Coin How Money Attracts		To Pass Five Coins From One Tumbler to Another The Penetrating Coin A Coin and a String To Pass a Coin Through a Hat A Coin, a Card, and a Candle III: WITH BALLS AND EGGS To Pass an Egg From a Tumbler Into a Hat To Pass a Billiard Ball From One Goblet to Another The Changing Ball and Flag Novel Effect with Billiard Balls The Changing Billiard Balls The Patriotic Billiard Balls A Sperical Paradox, Not so Clear as it Seems IV: WITH HANDKERCHIEFS To Make a Handkerchief Disappear From the Hands The Stretched Handkerchief The Handkerchief with Seven Corners The Mysterious Knots The Transit of Old Glory A Succession of Surprises by Le Professeur Magicus (Adolphe Blind) The Three Handkerchiefs A Silk Handkerchief Placed in a Cornucopia Disappears, and is Found Tied Around a Candle V: SOME AFTER-DINNER TRICKS An Adhesive Nut An Elusive Ring A Borrowed Bank Note that is Destroyed by Tearing or Burning is Found Imbedded in a Lemon A Disappearing Knife A Match Trick The Moving Ears The Talking Glass The Suspended Glass The Tilting Goblet A Broken Match VI: MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS Paper Tearing The Torn and Restored Strip of Paper The Cigarette-Paper Trick A Japanese Trick The Disappearance of a Glass of Water, by Okito (Theo. Bamberg) A Temperance Trick The Chinese Rice Bowls (With Variations by Conradi) Firing a Girl From a Cannon Into a Trunk A Fruitful Experiment Something From Nothing The Adhesive Dice The Antispiritualistic Cigarette Papers The Spirit table (by Germain) The Needle Trick (by Clement de Lion) The Vanishing Glass of Water Phantasma (by Félicien Trewey) A Traveling Wand A Mysterious Flight The New Die and Hat Trick (by Will Goldston, London) A Girl Produced From Empty Boxes (by Will Goldston) The Nest of Boxes A Floral Tribute A Curious Omelet The Coffee Trick The Growth of Flowers The Secret of Rope Tying A Knotty Problem The Knot of Mystery The Afghan Bands Mnemonics as Applied to Conjuring Memorizing at One Reading a Long List of Words Suggested by the Audience Kellar's Cube Root Trick With Apologies to the Audience The Clock Wine or Water The Blackboard Test A Water Trick Appendix

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