Magic & Conjuring: page 38

• Always a Conjurer
• The Tell-Tale Card
• The Cards And Boards Illusion
• The Magic Blow
• The Aladdin Three Card Trick
• The New Changing Card
• The "Newest" Second-Sight Card Case
• The "Sybil" Rising Cards
• A Bad Memory
• The "Spelling Bee" In Various Forms
• The New Spelling Bee
• The Two Travellers
• The Halter Trick
• The Secret Escape
• The Magic Curl
• The Drawing Pin Stunt
• The Hypnotic Sixpence
• Odds And Ends
• A Little Catch
• Balancing A Penny On The Fingers
• The Disappearing Bottle
• The Performing Coin
• The Mesmerised Pencil
• The Three Thimbles And The Pea
• The Floating Needle
• The Torn Strip...

• Facing An Audience
• The Organ Pipes Trick
• The Bowl And Paper Cone
• The Austin Temple Frame And Handkerchief
• The Ruler And The Handkerchief
• The Penny In The Handkerchief
• The Mysterious Clock Dial
• The Pyramid Flag Production
• The Dyed Handkerchiefs
• The Broken Plate
• The Thought-Reading Penny
• The Best Torn And Restored Paper Trick
• The Simplest Rising Card Trick
• The Magic Rose Bushes
• The Thimble And The Handkerchief
• New Sun And Moon Trick
• The Missing Card
• First You See It
• Teaching A Trick
• The Changing Pack Of Cards
• The Three Predictions
• The Aladdin Production Box
• Bertram's Trick...

From the introduction:

From the introduction:

• How to give a Conjuring Entertainment ...

It is a bit odd to teach productions of lighted cigarettes in a book for young conjurers, but perhaps those were the days when smoking was considered good for you.

From the introduction:

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...

As the title suggests, this is a collection of simple magic tricks, stunts, and experiments separated in two parts. The first part teaches tricks which require no special apparatus, the second part teaches tricks which require some gimmick or apparatus.

• Introduction
• Part I: Tricks Without Apparatus
  • The Movable Fetters
  • A String Trick
  • The Paper Loops
  • How To Make A Paper Tree
  • Making A Basket
  • The Magic String
  • The Wonderful Die
  • The Broken Match
  • Picking Up The Ring
  • The Penny And The Paper
  • A Match Trick
  • Balancing The Penny
  • The Revolving Penny
  • Flicking The Card
  • Squeezing The Shilling ...

Contents:

• CARD TRICKS
  • A Forcing Pack which can be Shuffled
  • The Card on Tape
  • A Card Changing Stand
  • A Trick with Giant Cards
• COIN TRICKS
  • A New Coin Box
  • A New Stack of Coins
  • A New Coin Vanish
  • The Travelling Farthings
  • The Chinese Coin Trick
  • The Linked Coins
  • The Newest X-Ray Block
• CLOCK TRICKS
  • The Tell-Tale Clock
  • The Clock Maker
  • The Vanishing Clock
• HANDKERCHIEF TRICKS
  • The Burned and Restored Handkerchief
  • A Handkerchief and a Bottle of Ink
  • Thought Reading with Silk Handkerchiefs
  • The Newest Matter Through Matter
  • Improved Pistol to Vanish a Handkerchief
  • A Mysterious...

This was Goldston's first magic publication, a mix of magic, some juggling, and a bit of other variety arts such as shadowgraphy and chapeaugraphy.

From the Introduction:

• Introduction
• The Wedding Ring passed through a Handkerchief
• The Candle and Handkerchief Illusion
• The Devo Card Trick
• The...

From the introduction by Horace Goldin:

Excerpt from the introduction:

Programmes, ventriloquial dialogues, juggling, cartooning, paper folding, care of animals and birds.

Excerpt from the introduction:

This book is the trick section of Sensational Tales of Mystery Men. Goldston felt that the trick section was the part that magicians would be most interested in and thus made it available as a separate book.

• Introduction
• The Newest Chinese Bat
• The Thought Reader
• Performing Matches
• The Best Penetrating Coin
• A Borrowed Handkerchief Burned
• A Mysterious Match
• Swallowing A Solid Wand
• Which Cigarette?
• The Vanished Egg
• The Expanding Egg
• The Newest Card Changing Box
• The G. W. Hunter Pull
• Cigarettes...

This is an interesting compilation of material - a mix of short portraits and Goldston's personal recollections of various magicians - some famous, some not, as well as some of their tricks and secrets. The result is a fairly extensive collection of tricks of all kinds and denominations. Includes many illustrations and photos of the contributors.

The first edition was issued in the same style as Goldston's famous Locked Books series, but without the clasp.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Excerpt from the Preface:

• Preface
• Live 1,000 Years!
• Tape Recording Tips
• Goldstrike
• Cash Match
• Inflation...

From the introduction:

This ebook is almost an encyclopedia of Indian, Chinese and Japanese magic. It consists of two parts. The first part is an index, reference and bibliography compiled by Sam Sharpe. The second part, researched and written by Will Ayling, describes all 101 effects from Sharpe's index.

You will learn about fantastic effects such as buried alive, sword swallowing, pulse stopping and snake charming. But it is not all about geek magic. There is also a lot of close up magic, stage magic and illusions. The 101 effects described are:

1. The Psychology of the Indian Conjurer
2. The Bamboo Rods and Strings...

From the preface:

• Fabians Sympathetic Ropes
• The Three Ropes
• Aye
• Chinese Coin
• Trio
• Cards And Ropes
• Fabian's Book...

There is quite some confusion about this book, because there are American editions and British editions, some only with card magic, others with additional chapters on cups and balls and other non-card magic effects. The book we have reproduced was printed in London and it does include non-card items. We are reproducing the complete table of contents below.

This book was edited by W. H. Cremer as noted in the preface of Hanky Panky.

PRELIMINARY

PART I. - GENERAL TRICKS

• The Landlord and the Merrymakers
• To Show that an Egg contains a
• To Tell beforehand what Cards will be Chosen ...

This is a substantial collection of magic tricks in a wide variety of categories, including puzzles, stunts, and science experiments.

• Preliminary
• I.—Simple Tricks
  • Fly Away, Jack!
  • Dance, Boatman, Dance!
  • Buy A Bird
  • Little Watchman
  • To Add Five To Six And Yet Make But Nine
  • To Carry Hot Coals In The Hand
• II.—Simple Tricks With Coins
  • The Coin Trick, From An Hibernian Point Of View
  • The New Trick Of Melting Money
  • To Reduce A Shilling To A Sixpence
  • The Uncrushable Flower
  • The Flying Cotton Reel
  • The Obedient Sixpence
  • The Invisible Transit
  • The Die And Dove Trick
  • The Coin Wand ...

Conjuring tricks with cards balls, and dice; magic writing, performing animals, etc.

This is a surprisingly interesting book edited by W. H. Cremer. It includes an early precursor of the Chop Cup. (See The Magic Dutch Balls.) It has interesting information on gambling, cheating, and scams. The chapter on 'Magic Writing' is a wonderful history of cryptography and steganography. The chapter on animal training is one of the most detailed I have encountered. It also includes a wealth of magic tricks, science experiments, and effects based on apparatus.

• Part I. Modern Magic By Sleight Of Hand...

100 tricks for the drawing room.

Containing an extensive and miscellaneous collection of conjuring and legerdemain; sleights with dice, dominoes, cards, ribbons, rings, fruit, coins, balls, handkerchiefs, etc. All of which may be performed in the parlor or drawing room. Without the aid of any apparatus; also embracing a choice variety of curious deceptions which may be performed with the aid of simple apparatus.

• PART I. TRICKS OF LEGERDEMAIN, CONJURING, SLEIGHT OF HAND, AND OTHER FANCIES, COMMONLY CALLED "WHITE MAGIC"
  • Preliminary Observation
  • Palming Coin
  • The Magic Coin
  • To Untie a...

This guide is written in an unusual style, a conversational style, where each lesson starts with "Dear Mr. Smith", like a letter to a fictional student. This feature makes it a very readable and valuable course. In the introduction Jonson writes:

A collection of conjuring secrets for magicians who entertain when surrounded by spectators.

Excerpt from the preface:

• Preface
• Publisher's Note
• Preparation For The Hands
• A Table Tip
• The Guinea-Pig
• Card Change
• Flap Disposal-Single Slate
• Cap And Pence
  • I. The Load ...