Conjuring for Amateurs
by Ellis Stanyon

• PREFACE
• CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
  • The Dress
  • The Table
  • The Servante
• CHAPTER II. PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT OF HAND APPLICABLE TO SMALL OBJECTS
  • Palming
  • Le Tourniquet
  • The Finger Palm
  • The Reverse Palm
  • To Change a Coin
• CHAPTER III. TRICKS WITH COINS
  • Magical Production of a Coin
  • The Wandering Coin
  • A New Coin Fold
  • Coin and Candle
  • An Artful Conjurer
  • The Invisible Flight
  • Vanish for Duplicate
  • To Pass a Coin Through the Body
  • Swallowing Illusions
  • Coin and Lemons
  • The Pocket Vanish
  • Florin v. Sixpence
  • To Pass a Coin into an Ordinary Matchbox held by One of the Spectators
  • Coin, Wine-glass, and Paper Cone
  • Coins, Hat, and Plate
  • To Vanish a Marked Coin from a Tumbler and Cause it to appear in a Small Box, wrapped in Paper, in the Centre of a Large Ball of Wool
  • To Vanish a Number of Coins from a Plate in a Sheet of Flame
  • Programme and Coin
• CHAPTER IV. TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS
  • Peregrinations of a Handkerchief
  • Handkerchief and Candle
  • To Vanish a Handkerchief and Produce it from your Collar
  • To Pass a Handkerchief into the Pocket of a Spectator
  • To Fire a Handkerchief into a Gentleman’s Hair
  • The Handkerchief Cabinet
  • The Handkerchief Vanisher
  • Magical Production of Handkerchiefs
  • Colour-changing Handkerchiefs
  • Mechanical "Pull" for Vanishing a Handkerchief
  • The Flying Handkerchief
  • Brass Tube to Produce, Vanish, or Change a Handkerchief
• CHAPTER V. TRICKS WITH BALLS
  • Creation, Manipulation, Multiplication, and Annihilation of Billiard Balls
  • Billiard Balls and Basins
  • Colour-Changing Billiard Balls
  • The Diminishing Billiard Balls
  • The Handkerchief Ball
  • The Dissolving Billiard Ball
  • Fancy Sleight with a Small Ball
  • Rouge et Noir
  • Ball, Handkerchief, and Tumbler
• CHAPTER VI. HAT TRICKS
  • Loading
  • The Magnetized Hat
  • To Produce a number of Eggs from a Hat held Crown upwards
  • The Hat Incubator
• CHAPTER VII. ANTI-SPIRITUALISTIC TRICKS
  • The Climbing Ring
  • The Mysterious Name
  • The Spirit Calculator
  • A New Postal Trick
  • New Slate Tricks
  • The Spirit Handkerchief
  • The Mysterious Communication
  • The Great Dictionary Trick (new method)
  • Long-distance Second Sight
• CHAPTER VIII. MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
  • Flash Paper
  • A New Fire Flash
  • Conjurer’s Ammunition
  • Smoke from Two Empty Pipes
  • A New Fire-eating Trick
  • Exploding Soap-bubbles
  • Walnut Shells and Pea
  • The Garter Trick
  • The Tube and Ball
  • The Ubiquitous Thimble
  • The Multiplying Wand
  • The Restored Cut
  • The Mysterious Tambourine
  • The Bran and Dove Plates
  • The Wandering Stout
  • A Crystal Water Mystery
  • The Wizard’s Breakfast
  • The Hydrostatic Tube
  • The Hydrostatic Tumbler
  • Watch, Glass, and Handkerchief
  • Paper Cone, Watch, Rabbit, and Boxes
• CHAPTER IX. PAPER-FOLDING
• CHAPTER X. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS

1st edition 1901, p 122; PDF 80 pages.
word count: 34623 which is equivalent to 138 standard pages of text