Essence: 30 Magical Experiments

From the introduction:

It has been said that the art of magic is dying; that wireless, the cinema, and now the "Talkies" are killing it. Perhaps so, but the fault lies mainly with us in not supplying the public demand for originality and entertainment. Do not forget that entertainment is the essential factor. So long as the audience is pleased, and the show is well produced, that is all that matters.

1st edition 1931; PDF 56 pages

Table of Contents

6. Introduction

   Section One: Novelties

8. Tea
10. From Thin Air
10. Catching The Candle
12. The Bathing-Box
13. They Fell In Love
15. Window-Box Wizardry

    Section Two: The Organ Pipes Again!

17. Eat More Fruit
19. A Floral Fraud
20. The Organ Pipes
20. Winter Wonders
22. A Salturn

    Section Three: Card Curiosities

24. Change "Chosen" Card Discovery
25. Sympathetic Envelopes
27. Clip!
28. Swindled!
30. She Made Some Tarts

    Section Four: Eight Effects

33. The Zodiac
35. A Record Success
37. Trained Toothbrushes
38. A New Production Box
39. The Jolly Roger
41. Shadows
43. The Wooden Crystal Casket
44. A Draughty Passage

    Section Five: Contributed

48. The Firefly (Joan Rutland)
49. Experiment In Second Thought
50. The Spider
51. The New Die And Hat
54. A New Use For The Ghost Tube
54. The Ashes

56. Au Revoir

word count: 18624 which is equivalent to 74 standard pages of text