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Latest Sleights and Illusions
by Hercat

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Latest Sleights and Illusions by Hercat

From the preface:

Although only three years have elapsed since Latest Sleights was published, Magic has made such rapid strides in that short time, and so many new tricks have come into existence, that I cannot allow another edition to go to press without thoroughly revising this book and making many most important additions.

  • PREFACE TO NEW EDITION
  • INTRODUCTION
    • The Wizard's Table
    • The Wizard's Dress
  • THE LATEST SLEIGHTS
    • The Latest Methods employed in the Money Trick, explaining the Improved System of Palming, the Bamboo Stick, and other New Inventions.
    • A Dozen Half-Crowns Produced from the Flame of a Candle
    • Lamp Chimneys and Knotted Handkerchiefs
    • A Chameleon Handkerchief
    • Aerial Angling
    • Production of Flags
    • A New Handkerchief-holding Finger
    • The Magic Kettles
    • Another Liquor-distributing Trick
    • A Disappearing Lighted Lamp
    • Air Balloons produced from an Opera Hat
    • The Thumb Tie
    • Torn Paper Restored
    • The Magic Glass Dial
    • Improved Vanishing Die and Box
    • To Reproduce a Vanished Bouquet from a Candle
  • MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
    • The Flying Bird-Cage
    • The Enchanted Target and Cages
    • The Ping-Pong Billiard Ball Trick
    • Borrowed Ring Mysteriously Appears on a Wand, or Disappears from a Glass Tumbler
    • The Inexhaustible Hat - The Latest Methods Explained
    • Another Method of "Loading" the Hat
    • A Changing Bag
    • The Candle, the Coin, and the Card
    • Trick with Four Coins
  • STAGE ILLUSIONS
    • The Vanishing Lady
    • The Mystery of She
    • Rebecca Precipitated
    • Le Cocoon
    • Black Magic
    • Strobeika
    • The Cheval Glass Illusion
    • A Young Lady Transformed into an Orange Tree
    • The Aerial Suspension
    • The New Levitation
    • The "Goldston Agra" Levitation
    • "Well I'm - !"
    • The Walker Illusion
    • Flyto
    • "Dronza," the Talking Head
  • MIND READING - CLAIRVOYANCE
  • TRICKS OF "SPIRIT MEDIUMS" EXPOSED
    • The Dark Séance
    • Table Lifting
    • The Locked and Corded Box
    • To Escape from a Double Box
    • The Handcuff Trick
    • A Trick Packing Case
    • The Bass's Ale Bottle Trick
    • The "Indian Sack"
  • NEW CARD EFFECTS
    • The New Method of Palming Cards
    • The Latest Methods for Rising Cards
    • To Pass several Selected Cards up your Sleeve
    • Diminishing Cards
    • A Selected Card Shaken from the Pack through a Handkerchief
    • A Bored Queen
    • The Torn Card Restored
    • Rising Cards - A New Effect
    • A New Changing Card
    • A New Feke for "Back Palming" an Entire Pack of Cards
  • HERCAT IN A NEW ROLE: AN ADVENTURE IN INDIA TOLD BY HIMSELF IN THE "ERA ANNUAL"
1st edition 1907, 157 pages; PDF 91 pages.
word count: 37547 which is equivalent to 150 standard pages of text