Magic & Mentalism: page 43

This ebook contains over 100 routines, effects, ideas and essays from a wide range of top international close up performers, all of whom either lectured or performed at one of the nine Symposiums during its 16 year run.

The list of 69 contributors reads like a Who's Who of close up past and present. Here are the names to drool over....

Jon Allen, Michael Ammar, Paul Andrews, Mike Austin, John Bannon, Steve Bedwell, Stuart Bowie, Sean Carpenter, Janet Clare, Aldo Colombini, Alistair Cook, Rob Cox, Roger Crosthwaite, Roger Curzon, Lee Davis, Dusty, Nicholas Einhorn, Keith Fields, Kevin Gallagher, Dan Garrett, Paul Gordon, Roberto Giobbi, Brian Glover, Paul Hallas, Pit Hartling, Ken Hawes,...

"Showing how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance."

This is one of the first published works on cryptography, secret inks, signalling and secret codes - methods later used in thought reading acts. It is therefore not only of interest to cryptographers and historians of cryptography, but also to people who study silent codes and other related methods in mentalism.

[Toole-Stott 731]

[Please note that this is not a simple scan of an old book. This old book has been typed in and digitized with the utmost care, using an appropriate font with the correct glyphs to make this look exactly as the original. Literally hundreds of hours have been spent to restore and digitize this wonderful work. This sets a new standard for the preservation of very old books.]

1st edition 1641; 2nd edition 1694; PDF based on 2nd edition, 192 pages....

Secret techniques devised by Kevin Parker for remote viewing, reading a person's mind, and inducing false memory.

• Spectator's mental card to spectator's pocket.
• Remote viewing with a photo
• False memory

1st edition 2009; 11 pages.

"I will sum up your Knight's Tour routine as follows, IT IS BRILLIANT!" - David Burmeister

In the late 1980s I developed a method for the Knight's Tour which allows a spectator a truly free choice for the starting square and ending square of opposite color (same color start and end is mathematically impossible).

This manuscript describes in detail this method. The method attempts to minimize memorization and teaches you a system to derive a proper complete tour on the spot. The method is so flexible that you can find several different tours for one pair of start and end points. Of...

The Magazine Memory effect is a highly entertaining, high energy, astounding feat of mental prowess that audiences love. It has been a feature effect for many high profile performers, yet little has been written about the effect until now.

Timothy Hyde has used the routine to close his show for many years. Performing on luxury cruise ships, corporate events and at theatre shows around the world he has explored the routine in great depth.

In the classic form of the effect, pages from a current issue magazine or newspaper are distributed into the audience. Audience members randomly call...

Borrow a coin and show a normal empty glass bottle, then visually pass the coin through the base of the bottle. They don't just see the coin 'appear' in the bottle; they see it 'melt' right through. Then you shake the bottle to conclude the coin is indeed inside the bottle, then give it out as a souvenir. You can even do this with a borrowed bottle. This is Kevin Parker's Passing Thru.

• Normal Bottle
• Normal Coin
• No Slits/Cuts in Bottle
• Everything Examinable

Numbers 253-256

228 pages

1. Vol. 46, Part One, Number 253, [1957] [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
1. editorial comments - George Armstrong
   • Farewell to an Old Friend
   • Magic and Television and News
2. The Three Shell Game - series by Eddie Joseph
   • Routines
     • The Regular Routine
     • The Riler
     • The Boomerang
10. The Card Tricks of Gerry Lee - series by Gerard de Bodt
    • The Four Fours Trick
15. Back-Palm Coin Switch - Mark Weston
16. Salutations to Robert-Houdin: His Life, Magic, and Automata - series by S. H. Sharpe
    • Section Two - Robert-Houdin, The Arch-Conjurer
      • Robert-Houdin's...

Numbers 249-252

173 pages

1. Vol. 45, Number 249, March, 1956 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
1. Extra photo plate page 1 - Winners of the George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
1. Foreword - George Armstrong
   • The Kalanag Revue
   • The Sorcar Controversy
2. My Magic - series by Bridger Lewis
   • Rope Through Stick
   • Rope Through Leg
   • Silk Transpo
5. The Three Shell Game - series by Eddie Joseph
   • The Twin Principle
   • Preparing the Outfit
   • Defining the Principle
8. The Card Tricks of Jerry [sic] Lee - series by Gerard de Bodt
   • Four Aces and Four Kings
11. Magic for the Concert Platform Magician - series...

Numbers 245-248

285 pages

1. Vol. 44, Number 245, March, 1955 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
1. Foreword - George Armstrong
2. The Zodiac Deck - Vivian St. John
   • A Card Vocabulary
   • Making the Zodiac Deck
   • Any Card Called For
   • The Colour Change Deck
     • To Show the Spot Cards Mixed
     • To Show the Spots All Black
     • To Show the Spots All Red
     • To Show the Backs All Red
     • To Show the Backs All Blue
     • To Show the Backs All Blue with Spots All Black
     • To Show the Backs All Red with Spots All Red
   • The Routine
     • The Brainwave Deck
     • Colour Change Routine
     • Any Card Called...

Numbers 241-244

236 pages

1. Extra photo plate page 1 - The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
1. Vol. 43, Number 241, March, 1954 [48 numbered & 16 unnumbered cover, advertising & Index pages]
1. Foreword - George Armstrong
   • The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
2. The Merlini Card System - series by Jim Merlini - continued from V-42
   • "Name O'Card"
     • The Break Cards
     • The Spelling Cards
     • Special Spellers
   • Variations on a Theme
     • Divined by Spelling
     • The Card is Known
     • Behind the Back
6. For Sleight-of-Hand Enthusiasts - New Four Coin Production - E. Brian MacCarthy
7. The Conjurer's Table Cover...

Numbers 237-240

231 pages

1. Vol. 42, Number 237, March, 1953 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
1. Extra photo plate page - The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
1. Foreword - by the editor
   • comments about the new format
   • The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
2. Excelsior - article by George Johnson
3. The Merlini Card System - series by Jim Merlini
   • Foreword
   • The Counting Down Principle
     • Card of the Zodiac
   • The Key Card Principle - I. The Merlini Key Card
     • Using the Merlini "Key"
     • Normal Location
     • Shuffling Off and Glimpsing
     • The Force
     • Discarding the Key
     • Convocational...

Numbers 233-236

237 pages

1. Vol. 41, Number 233, March, 1952 [48 numbered & 14 unnumbered cover, advertising & Vol. XL Index pages]
1. The King is Dead - Long Live the Queen
2. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Apparatus Trick Competition
     • First Prize - Monkey Trap - Luigi Ruggeri
     • Second Prize - Chinese Tea Caddy - Arthur F. G. Carter
     • Third Prize - Flash Ribbon Restoration - Tom Sellers
   • Keeping the Record Straight
   • In Father's Footsteps?
3. An Experiment with Time - Arthur F. G. Carter
5. The Repeating Fire-Bowl - Will Dexter
8. Where Was It? - A. C. Newitt
9. Cord Through Fingers - Luigi Ruggeri (Italy)
12. Card--Glass and Hat - John...

Numbers 229-232

235 pages

1. Vol. 40, Number 229, March, 1951 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered cover, advertising pages & Vol. XXXIX Index pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Thank You
   • So Here We Are
   • Looking Back
3. Apparatus Trick Competition
   3. Penetrating Pack - R. W. Edwards
   6. "Flash" Ribbon Restoration - Tom Sellers
   8. The Smoked Card - Johnny Geddes
10. Patter in Rhyme - A. C. Newitt
    • For the "All Backs" Effect - Dai Vernon
    • Routine to Accompany "All Backs" Patter in Rhyme
13. Hickory Clock - E. Subkleve (Transvaal)
17. Magically Yours - series by Verrall Wass
    17. Nofors Card in Cigarette
    21. The Spectator Predicts
    27. Purely Co-incidental ...

Numbers 225-228

226 pages

1. Vol. 39, Number 225, March, 1950 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered cover, advertising pages & Vol. XXXVIII Index pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • The Piddingtons
   • The Birthday Volume
   • The Competitions
   • N.A.M.S.
   • Roundabout
3. The 'Perfection' Card Rise - John Blunt
6. Pulse-Beat Mentalism - article by Roy Cowl
7. Do You Know? - quiz
8. Miranda Dives - Billie Francis
10. Sellers Magic - series by Tom Sellers
    • The Ballot Box Colour Force
    • The Rising Cigarette
12. The Paper Napkins - Percy Bee
16. The Ring on String Loop - A. C. Newitt
17. Answers - to the quiz on page 7
18. Three Tricks - John K. Bays
    • 1. - Super Silk Penetration ...

Numbers 221-224

245 pages

1. Vol. 38, Number 221, March, 1949 [48 numbered & 16 unnumbered cover, advertising & Vol. XXXVIII Index pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • A Thank You
   • Time for Action
   • Where Does Our Money Go?
3. The Roundabout - series by Claude Chandler
   • A Pleating Tip
   • Statistics
6. Mainly for Mentalists - series by Arthur F. G. Carter
   • The Psychic Ace Prediction
8. Bottle Baffle! - Wilfred H. Tyler
10. Transposition Extraordinaire - Paul Sleight (Belgium)
    • The (Biseautee) Direct Palm
13. Lighting a "Spent" Match - Victor Farelli
    • Effect as Seen by the Audience
    • Origin of the Devices Employed
    • Preparation ...

Numbers 217-220

254 pages

1. Vol. 37, Number 217, March, 1948 [48 numbered & 18 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • A Word of Thanks
   • Resolutions
   • Hotel Entertainment
   • What is Wrong?
   • Opening Effects
   • Reading Matter
   • Three New Series
5. Magical Publications and The General Public - article by Bill Bishop
7. Mainly for Mentalists - A New Series by Arthur F. G. Carter
   • Psychological Forces
8. Tray Trix - A New Series by Verrall Wass
   • Stripe=O!
   • The Laughing Buddha
11. The Roundabout - series by Claude Chandler
14. The Magic Letter Box - correspondence
15. Letters to a Collector -...

Numbers 213-216

261 pages

1. Vol. 36, Number 213, March-May, 1947 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Magic for the Amateur
   • The Dealers
   • Our New Artist
   • Magical Broadcasts
   • Indian Magic
   • The Tribulations of a Publisher
5. Colour Changing Water - P. C. Sorcar (India)
7. The Roundabout - article by Claude Chandler
9. The Princess and The Pirate - Lamonte
12. The Appendix to Robert-Houdin's "Confidences" - translated by S. H. Sharpe
    • General Programme of the Experiments Invented and Performed During the Course of my Representations
    • The Inexhaustible Bottle
15. Mug's Game...

Numbers 209-212

203 pages

1. Vol. 35, Number 209, March-May, 1946 [38 numbered & 4 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. To Friends and Readers of The Magic Wand - George Johnson introducing the new editor
2. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • The Magic Wand Changes Hands
   • What of the Future?
   • A Word of Thanks
   • Change of Address
   • A Competition
   • The Young Magician
3. Fire-Walked to Prove Faith - news
4. The Vanishing Wand - Tom Sellers
   • The Vanishing Wand
   • Magic Welding
   • The Ta. Ta. Cigarettes
6. The Magic Words - Leonard Ashton
8. Snowman in Reverse - Jimmy Pring
9. The Roundabout - article by Claude Chandler
11. For the Egg...

Numbers 205-208

184 pages

1. Vol. 34, Number 205 March-May, 1945 [38 numbered & 6 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • The Book Famine
   • A Tale of Woe
   • Visible Magic
2. H. G. Sparks - obituary (due to enemy action)
3. Up, Lift - J. F. Orrin
5. The Pairing Knots - Milbourne Christopher
6. Cataleptic Calico - Leslie R. King
7. A Drum Tube Effect - Leslie Brown
8. The Exposer - Dr. H. J. Tattersall
10. Deduction - Stanley Davis
11. A Magic Wand Competition
11. Nap Stack - Stanley Davis
12. The Roundabout - article by Claude Chandler
16. The Super Ultra Sympathetic Packs - Len J. Sewell
17. One Teaspoonful in Water Four Times a...

Numbers 201-204

193 pages

1. Vol. 33, Number 201 March-May, 1944 [42 numbered & 6 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Aid
   • Card Miracles
   • The Expert
   • Squaring the Circle
3. A Change-Over Palm with Four Coins - E. Brian MacCarthy
4. Ignus - V. A. Menzies
5. A Subtle Changing Card - Sydney de Hempsey
6. What is a Good Trick? - article by Dr. H. J. Tattersall
10. The Dissolving Sugar Trick Improved - Victor Farelli
11. Disc and Rope - Allan Lambie
12. The Shilling and the Snake - Wilfrid Jonson
13. Try This Strange Puzzle - Sydney de Hempsey
14. A Little Different - Alfred Frangleton
15. A Novel Doll Production - Eric...

The Magic Wand and Magical Review, Volume 32, George Johnson, editor
Quarterly format

1. Vol. 32, Number 197 March-May, 1943 [38 numbered & 6 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Condensed
   • How It's Done
   • Cups and Balls
   • A Boys' Own Book
   • A Card Trick in Bed
3. Tom Sellers' Magic
   • Bombay Blocks
   • Prediction Mysterio
   • Vanishing Bottle
   • Invisible Ink
   • A Block and Cord Release
   • Six Card Control
8. Are You a Good Magician - article by Sikandra
10. Card Conjuring for Conjurers - Arthur H. Eydmann
11. Flashes from the Forge - H. G. Sparks
    • Proclamations
14. Wedding Rings and Ribbon...

Numbers 193-196

256 pages

1. Vol. 31, Number 193 March-May, 1942 [56 numbered & 8 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • The Magic Circle
   • Fortunes and Misfortunes
   • Zodiastar
   • A Strange Book
   • Magical News
   • Professional Help
   • To Our Friends
5. A New Clock Dial - with Ratchet and Pawl Control - Tom Sellers
7. Hypnotic Influence - Max Andrews
9. Spots Before Your Eyes - Wilfred H. Tyler
11. Tricks, Notes and Notions - Alfred Frangleton
13. Slightly Different - Alf's Button
14. A New Ball Sleight
15. Levitation Extraordinary - by "One of the Boys"
16. Slow Motion Card Vanish - Allan Lambie
17. Thimble Work - E. Brian...

Numbers 189-192

247 pages

1. Vol. 30, Number 189 March-May, 1941 [50 numbered & 10 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • On Active Service
   • Designs for Magic
   • Aunt Kate
   • Old Ideas
   • Marketable Magic
   • Chemicals
   • Diachylon Deceptions
   • Harking Back
6. Just Cheek - Lavilette
7. Getting the Bird - J. F. Orrin
11. The Tumble Pass - Dr. H. J. Tattersall
    • The Shuffled Set-Up
15. Doublo and Treblo - C. W. Collier
17. Lighted Cigarette Production - Allan Lambie
18. Patriotic Silks - Cyril H. Dewey
20. The Card in the Balloon - Claude Chandler
21. Council Meeting - Tierra Del Fuego Magical Society - humor by...

Numbers 185-188

236 pages

1. Vol. 29, Number 185 March-May, 1940 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Newspaper News
   • "You Never Vary"
   • What's in a Name?
   • Scale and Price -- Again
   • The Sense of Humor
   • December Memories
4. Cigarette Mentality - Cyril H. Dewey
5. Shifting Sands - H. W. Ray
6. Wine Production - comments
7. The Ball Through Glass - H. W. Brehaut
8. Tricks of Olden Days - by 'Eav' or W.W.
   • A Coin Move
   • Tissue in Water
   • Bertram's Ring and Handkerchief
10. Smilestones - reminiscences by Herbert J. Collings
    • Prologue
    • Another Scene
12. Memories of [Charles] Morritt...