Excerpt from the preface:
It is to be supposed (and profoundly hoped) that something good may be found herein: a quantity of sketches of more or less merit; certain idioms straight from the American; strange words in italic with wriggly accents; and, possibly, one or two typographical errors (the light is so bad in my attic and the gas has been cut off for many months past).
- Argument
- A Conjuring Comedy with a Cone
- A Pound Note Problem
- "Rainbow Waves"
- "Cut and Come Again"
- The "Eureka" Mechanical Four-Ace Stand
- "An Unusual Opening"
- A Coin Gathering Idea
- "Making a Candle Light"
- "Odds and Ends"
- "Curtain"
- "Good Evening"
- "An Impudent Imposition"
- A Novel Method of Restoring a Cut Ribbon
- A 'Spontaneous' Effect
- The Eclipse of the Spirits
- "An Uncanny Levitation"
1st edition 1923, 92 pages; PDF 48 pages.
word count: 18124 which is equivalent to 72 standard pages of text