Wizard (Selbit) in Magazines & Journals

This periodical ran for 5 volumes and 60 numbers, from September 1905 to August 1910. With volume 1 number 9, it became the official organ of the Magic Circle. For the last two numbers in 1910, P. T. Selbit handed the editorship to George Munro. It was succeeded by the Magic Wand.

This PDF holds an index for the first four volumes each. The indices are grouped into the following categories (not all categories appear in all volume indices):

• Articles
• Ball Tricks
• Card Tricks
• Coin Tricks
• Correspondence
• Conversations
• Current Programmes
• Flower Tricks
• Gossip
• Handkerchief Tricks
• Hat Tricks
• Illustrations
• Jokes
• Magic Circle
• Obituary
• Our Monthly Telephone
• Poetry
• Popular Patter
• Portraits
• Practical Magic
• Programmes
• Recollections of Hartz
• Sketches
• Thimble Tricks
• Tricks

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1. The Wizard – Volume I – September, 1905 – August, 1906 ...

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For the last two numbers, George Munro took over the editorship from P. T. Selbit.

773. The Wizard - Volume V, Number 49 - September, 1909 - 16 pages
773. Cover - Imro Fox
774. Ornum's advertisement
775. Notices
775. Gossip
776. Advertisements
777. A Protean Wand
777. The Magic Circle
777. Advertisements
778. Conjuring a Cake
     • Two New Methods of Performing a Popular Problem
       • The Preparation of the Cake
       • The Culinary Operation
       • The Cutting Part
       • Another Method
       • The Bran Box Again
       • A Fiery Dish
779. Nikola Breaks Out Again
     • A Half-Minute Perplexity Pickle ...

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581. The Wizard - Volume IV, Number 37 - September, 1908 - 16 pages
581. Cover - Chung Ling Soo
582. Hambley's advertisement
583. Notices
583. Gossip
585. Indian Conjurers at the Franco-British Exhibition
586. Correspondence
586. British Magical Society
     • Ideas Competition
587. Recollections of Hartz by Professor Hoffmann - continued
     • The Automatic Rising Cards
588. Marionettes - continued
     • The Figures
       • Chapter V - A Living Skeleton and the Donkey and Cart
589. The Northern Magical Society
590. The Master Mystery - A Puzzling Performance
     • Amusing Opinions
591. Advertisements ...

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389. The Wizard - Volume III, Number 25 - September, 1907 - 16 pages
389. Cover - Leon Herrmann
390. Hambley's advertisement
391. Notices
391. Gossip
392. The Carl Lebert Fund
393. Magic with Water Vases - J. W. Dewhurst
393. Thought Reading - New Book Advertisement
394. Recollections of Hartz by Professor Hoffmann - continued
     • The Mysterious Addition
395. The Magic Circle
395. Death of Bruno Walters
396. More Confetti Magic - N. P. Alvaro, India
397. The Egg and Confetti Trick - Another Way of Working It - J. W. Dewhurst
397. Correspondence
     • Derivations and meaning of Magical Expressions - humor
398. A Man of...

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197. The Wizard - Volume II, Number 13 - September, 1906 - 16 pages
197. Cover - Le Roy, Talma and Bosco
198. Hambley's advertisement
199. Notices
199. Gossip
200. The Magic Circle
201. Oldest Conjurer in England - A Chat with Prof. Devono
201. Correspondence
202. Hartz and His Hat Trick - Professor Hoffmann - continued
204. The Melting Billiard Ball - effect
204. "A Black Art Handkerchief Producer" in the last issue was from Fullam McGlade
205. A Lively Drum - E. Cooper
205. To Tear a Pack of Cards in Two
206. Conjuring Tricks - by a Grown-up Infant
207. re: Tipping Stage Hands
207. A Sympathetic Ode - poem
207. re: Chapeaugraphy
208. The Instantaneous...

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1. The Wizard - Volume I, Number 1 - September, 1905 - 16 pages
1. Cover - Poster for Maskelyne & Devant's Mascot Moth
2. Hambley's advertisement
3. Notices
3. Introduction
3. Gossip
6. Maskelyne & Devant's Mysteries
7. A Card and Egg Trick
7. Editorial
8. Practical Prestigiation
   • The Incubator Canister
10. note - Maskelyne & Devant in the "Topical Times"
10. The Magic Circle
11. Professional Announcements
12. In London City
12. Correspondence
13. Scissors and Paste
13. The Funny Electric Pencil - Ornum's advertisement
14. Conjuring - Past and Present
14. Pars. From the Provinces
14. A North British Magician's...