$6(2 customer ratings) ★★★★★
Latest Magic is the last book in Hoffmann's series Modern Magic, More Magic and Later Magic. Hoffmann had quite some problem finding a publisher for this book. The reason being the quality of the contents. When Modern Magic came out it explained new tricks and tricks which were performed at the time. Thus it was indeed 'modern'. It is also without a doubt the best book in the series. Latest Magic describes Hoffmann's own creations and dealt with a magic which was already considered old fashioned. From a historical perspective it still makes quite an interesting read.
1st edition, 1918, Spon & Chamberlain, New York; 2nd edition, 1919; 222 pages.
- PORTRAIT OF PROFESSOR HOFFMANN
- PREFACE
- SOME NEW APPLIANCES OF GENERAL UTILITY
- Magical Mats
- Fairy Flower-Pots
- Patter Introducing the Flower-Pots
- Adhesive Cards and Tricks Therewith
- The Missing Card
- NOVEL APPLICATIONS OF THE "BLACK ART" PRINCIPLE
- Black Art Mats and Black Art Patches
- A Magical Transposition
- The Detective Die
- Dissolving Dice
- Where is It?
- CARD TRICKS
- Arithmetic by Magic
- Those Naughty Knaves
- Magnetic Magic
- The Telepathic Tape
- A Card Comedy
- The Fast and Loose Card-Box
- A Royal Tug of War
- Sympathetic Cards
- Tell-Tale Fingers
- Divination Doubly Difficult
- A New Long Card and Tricks Therewith
- The Mascot Coin Box
- MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
- Money-Making Made Easy
- The Missing Link
- Culture Extraordinary
- The Bounding Beans
- Lost and Found
- The Riddle of the Pyramids
- The Miracle of Mumbo Jumbo
- The Story of the Alkahest
- The Oracle of Memphis
- The Mystery of Mahomet
- The Bewildering Blocks
- An "Od" Force
- The Mystery of the Three Seals
- The Wizard's Pocketbook
- CONCERNING PATTER
- THE USE OF THE WAND
- A FEW WRINKLES
- L'ENVOI
word count: 52385 which is equivalent to 209 standard pages of text 
