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John Northern Hilliard

John Northern Hilliard

(Palmyra, New York: 18th August 1872 - 14th March 1935)

Reporter to amateur magician to advance man for Howard Thurston (by 1929). Invented the large ring in 1897 and the Telephone Trick in 1905. Ghosted T. Nelson Downs' The Art of Magic (1909, 334pp), wrote Greater Magic (1938, 993pp; reprinted 1956 in 5 vols as The Greater Magic Library; the card section being reprinted as Card Magic, 1944, 580pp), both classics, and 1 booklet. Also wrote Leaves from My Notebook (1935, 47pp). Note that at 993pp, Greater Magic is the largest magic book published. Tricks in Magic (1905). Coined the term "finger-flinger".

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The Bear's Claws by Grace Sartwell Mason & John Northern Hilliard

An exciting adventure and game of espionage featuring among others Judy Gray from New York, a typist who writes imaginary adventure novels in her spare time, John Savidge from Chicago, employed by the Eastern Securities Company to secretly survey and plan a trans-Persian railway, Serge Wolkonsky an agent of the Russian Secret Service, and Tom Jaggard from America, a magician who travels the Middle East under "The Great Jaggard, the World's Master Mage of Magic".

The backdrop is Persia at the beginning of the 20th century. All the powerful nations, first and foremost Russia, want to build...

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John Northern Hilliard
Leaves From My Notebook by John Northern Hilliard

This is a compilation of Hilliard's contributions to Floyd Thayer's magazine The Magical Bulletin.

A few sporadic contributions to magical journals here and abroad followed The Art of Magic. The most important of these stray papers was the first account, in The Sphinx, of a thought-reading card trick of my own invention that has since enjoyed considerable popularity. I refer to the experiment commonly known as "The Telephone Trick." No one was more surprised than myself at the immediate and widespread popularity of this trick. That its success was not ephemeral, I judge from the fact that Mr. Thayer still keeps it in stock, and that many writers,...

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