This is a classic on card magic covering sleights, routines, special cards, and apparatus. It is very likely that already S.W. Erdnase read this book.
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I: PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT OF HAND
- The Pass
- To Force a Card
- The Change
- To Palm a Card
- The False Shuffle
- To Slip a Card
- The Ruffle
- To Throw a Card
- To Spring the Cards from One Hand to the Other
- CHAPTER II: SLEIGHT OF HAND TRICKS
- The Cards Passing up the Sleeve
- The Card and Cigarette
- To Pass a Card Through a Handkerchief
- To Pass any Number of Cards along the Sleeve, and Produce them from the Breast Pocket
- Card, Coin, and Candle
- The Card in the Candle
- A New Method of Discovering a Chosen Card
- To Precipitate a Number of Cards
- CHAPTER III: TRICKS PERFORMED WITHOUT THE AID OF SLEIGHT OF HAND
- To Cause Two Cards Placed in the Centre of the Pack to Appear on the Top
- To Instantly Name a Chosen Card
- Foretelling Thought with Cards
- To Discover a Chosen Card by Its Weight
- To Name Cards in a Pack Previously Shuffled, without Seeing Them
- Artificial Clairvoyance
- Long Distance Second Sight with Cards
- The Diminishing Cards (New Method)
- Notes on the Above Trick
- CHAPTER IV: TRICKS WITH SPECIAL CARDS AND APPARATUS
- The Long Card
- Longs and Shorts
- Tricks with the Long Card
- Tricks with Long and Short Packs
- Changing Cards
- The Fairy Star
- To Fire a Selected Card into either of Two Candles Burning on the Table
- Card Cricket
- The Cards and Boards
- The Card and Bottle
- The Rising Cards
- The Cascade of Cards
- The Dissected Card Box
- CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION
1st edition 1900, 129 pages; PDF 59 pages.
word count: 27199 which is equivalent to 108 standard pages of text
