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Conjuring for Amateurs
by Ellis Stanyon

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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