Magic at Home
by Arthur Good & Professor Hoffmann

A wonderfully illustrated collection of 100 interesting and easy-to-replicate science experiments, tricks, puzzles, and the like.

Excerpt from the preface:

Translated and edited from the French Science Amusante by Professor Hoffmann.

• PREFACE
• A Plate Balanced on a Needle
• To Balance a Pencil on its Point
• To Balance an Egg on the Neck of a Bottle
• The Divided Pear
• To Drill a Hole with a Needle through a Pin
• A Startler for a Careful Housekeeper
• To Drive a Needle through a Halfpenny
• The Self-Balanced Ladle
• The Self-Balanced Ladle
• A Self-Balancing Plate
• An Acrobatic Bottle
• Pencils Balanced in Mid-Air
• The Shovel and the Tongs
• A Bottle in Danger
• A Miniature Diving-Bell
• Red, White, and Blue
• The Cask and Bottle Puzzle
• A Miniature Vesuvius
• Water Changed to Wine
• The Devil and the Glass of Champagne
• The Performing Fish
• A Queer Kind of Candlestick
• How to Weigh a Letter with a Broomstick
• Bewitched Soap-Bubbles
• The Camphor Scorpion
• A Novel Water Engine
• The Hydraulic Tourniquet in Straw
• The Syphon Tourniquet
• A Miniature Steamboat
• Artillery on the Dinner-Table
• A Paper Fish made to Swim at Pleasure
• Magic Figures
• The Force of the Breath
• The Obstinate Cork
• A Curious Coin Trick
• The Magic Butterfly
• An Illustration of Centrifugal Force
• The Dancing Egg
• Effects of Atmospheric Pressure
• A Singular Pendulum
• To Lift a Tumbler with the Open Hand
• To Pass a Nail into a Corked Bottle
• The Climbing Lamp-Chimney
• To Empty a Full Glass by means of a Full Bottle
• Bubble-blowing Extraordinary
• Hanging without a Cord
• To Dip the Hand in Water without Wetting it
• Needles and Pins made to Float on Water
• An Economical Magnetic Compass
• The Rival Iron-clads
• The Rotation of the Globe
• To make a Number of Corks Float Upright in the Water
• A Life-sized Dancing Doll
• Eyes Behind You
• Shadows on the Wall
• A Play Acted in a Looking-Glass
• An Animated Shadow
• A Novel Laryngoscope
• The Shilling and the Syringe
• Complementary Colours
  • I. - THE DEVIL IN GREEN
  • II. - THE TRI-COLOURED STAR
• A Wonderful Pin
• A Game of Chance for the Home Circle
• A Curious Optical Illusion
• Another Optical Illusion
• The Broken Mirror
• The Tight-Rope Dancer
• Electric Attraction
• A Lamp-Chimney Transformed into an Electric Machine
• An Experiment in Electro-Magnetism
• A Modern Tantalus
• Candle Lighting under Difficulties
• A Problem in Gymnastics
• Another Gymnastic Puzzle
• The Three Lucifer Matches
• The Five-Straw Puzzle
• A Bridge of Lucifer Matches
• Transmission of Force to a Distance
• Fifteen Lucifer Matches Lifted with One
• A New Way of Playing Backgammon
• The Coin in the Bottle
• A Miniature Infernal Machine
• To Spin a Penny upon the Point of a Needle
• The Magic Dart
• A Cigarette-Smoking Lamp-Chimney
• Pyramids in Crystal
• A Trio of Champagne-Glasses
• The Bottle and the Keys
• An Impromptu Soup-Tureen Stand
• The Latest Weighing-Machine
• The Kitchen Steel-yard
• Everybody's Own Level
• A Level of Another Kind
• A Combined Candlestick and Watch-stand
• Robinson Crusoe's Pen
• A Necklace of Nuts
• The Japanese Ball Trick in a New Form
• A New Vaporiser
• The Candle Extinguished and Re-Lighted
• To pass a Person's Body through a Playing Card
• Unconscious Movement
• Shadows on the Wall
• L'Envoi

1st edition 1891, 240 pages; PDF 169 pages.
word count: 40660 which is equivalent to 162 standard pages of text