This is an early publication by Will Goldston. It is a kind of smorgasbord of tricks, illusions, apparatus, hand shadows, plays, and advertisements for his Gamage Ltd.
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I
- Latest Method For Performing Soup Plate And Handkerchief Trick
- The Egg, Card, And Wand Balance
- A Novel Trick
- A Good Slate Trick
- The Wine Bottle And Card Trick
- The Latest Pip Card Trick
- A Neat Handkerchief Trick
- Mystic Canteen And Birdcage
- The Egg And Straw Balance
- Handkerchief Spinning Trick
- The Table Lifting
- A New Slate Trick
- Slate Writing
- Twenty-Five Balloons Produced From A Hat
- Rifle And Handkerchief Trick
- An Effective Handkerchief Trick
- Vanished Handkerchief Produced Dry From A Glass Of Wine
- The Improved Servante Tray
- The Hypnotised Wand
- Gamage's Improved Thumb Tie
- The Gamage Card And Die Illusion
- The Vanishing Canaries And Cage Trick
- Another Canary Cage
- Wonderful Walking Egg
- New Handkerchiefs Produced From Glass
- The "Gamage" Duck Cylinder
- Tao-Li-Tao
- The Gamage Candle And Mystic Bouquet
- Marvellous Production From An Empty Hat
- The Vest Servante
- The Wonderful Vanishing Die Box
- Improved Vanishing Glass Tumbler
- Lifting A Bowl Of Water
- The Celebrated Chinese Egg Bag Trick
- Card And Bouquet Illusion
- Billiard Balls And Cue
- A Good Glass Bowl Trick
- The Secret Of Paper Tearing Trick
- CHAPTER II
- The Improved Goldfish Illusion
- The Goldston-Downs Bottle Illusion
- The Talking Skull
- The Stroubeika Illusion
- Famous Ducks And Tub Illusion
- The Wonderful Lady And Scale Illusion
- Improved Vanishing Lady And Cage Illusion
- The "Gamage" Flower Table
- The Sudden Appearance Of A Lady In An Empty Box
- The Mysterious Head Illusion
- An Instantaneous Exchange
- The "Gamage" Cage Illusion
- The Laurie Cabinet Illusion
- The Hewes Levitation
- A Great Levitation
- The Marvellous Clock Dial
- Silent Second-Sight Act
- The Ball And Plank Mystery
- The Pillory Illusion
- CHAPTER III
- All About The Magic Kettle
- The Great Magic Kettle Act
- The Magic Kettle To Hold Liquor
- The Mystic Kettle
- CHAPTER IV
- A Handcuff Trick For Test Work
- Sack Trick
- The Mokana Shoe
- Latest And Best Fakes To Open Regulation Handcuffs And Leg-Irons
- The Celebrated Trick Collar And Bolt
- The Rope Trick
- How To Fake Ordinary Handcuffs
- The Goldston Packing Case
- The Escape From A Tin Or Iron Trunk
- The Barrel Illusion
- Improved Iron Cage
- The Improved Packing Case Mystery
- The Fairy Handcuff King
- CHAPTER V
- Hand Shadows And How To Work Them
- The Nulite Shadow Gas Lamp And Stand
- The Nulite Acetylene Shadow Lamp
- Newest Shadow Apparatus
- Shadows Without Apparatus
- Shadows With Apparatus
- A Laughable Picture
- Ally Sloper Having A Shirker
- Mr. And Mrs. Lockshen
- Farmer Hayseed With Pipe
- Woman Tasting Soup
- Chef And Frying Pan
- CHAPTER VI
1st edition 1905, 148 pages; PDF 108 pages.word count: 26338 which is equivalent to 105 standard pages of text