Magic Up To Date
by William Henry James Shaw

W. H. J. Shaw was a magic dealer and apparatus manufacturer in Chicago. Like his magic dealer competitor August Roterberg he decided to write a magic book almost at the same time.

• Preface
• The Mystic Percolator
• Water Into Ice
• The National Ball Transformation
• New Spirit Ghost Seance
• Spirit Bell On Glass Top Table
• The Spiritual Ring Test
• The Extinguished Cigar
• The Charmed Organ Pipes
• D’Alvini’s Album Trick
• Lightning, Slate And Blackboard Test
• The Egyptian Cremation
• New Hat Fake
• The Diamond Mystery
• The Spirit Scribe
• A Live Hat
• Changing Decapitation
• The Wonderful Lager-Beer Glass And Paper Cones
• The Dice House
• The Devil’s Rod Or Stick Of Enchantment
• Improved Torn Card Trick
• New Tape Trick
• Newest Wine And Water Trick
• Colored Sands Of Enchantment
• New Sensational Card Trick
• Eclipse Coin, Card, And Candle Trick
• New Programme, Ring, And Envelopes Trick
• New Method Of Getting Flowers Into Cone
• The Ornithological Labyrinth
• The Flight Through Crystals
• Mephisto’s Glass Cylinders
• New Spirit Pictures
• Kellar’s New Karmos
• The Chameleon Handkerchiefs
• The Mystery Of L’hasa
• Shrine Of Koomra Sami
• The Glass Bowl And Golden Stand
• The Crystal Chest Of The Geni
• New Umbrella And Handkerchiefs Trick
• Mysterious Transmission Of Thought
• The Casket Cremation
• Water On The Brain
• Excelsior Second Sight
• Airy Voyage Of Performer From A Chair
• The Queen Of Knives
• The Magic Decanter
• India’s Wand Of Wonders
• Magnetic Second Sight
• The Traveling Flame
• The Mysterious Hat And Balls
• New Coffee, Sugar And Milk Trick
• Edgar Poe’s Raven In The Garland Of Thebes
• Our Spelling Bee
• Wonder Kraut
• The Vanishing Bride
• Cartomanic Floral Charm
• The Marvelous Writing Hand
• The Mystic Sour Drops
• The Magic Wine Tassels
• The Floral Globe Or Total Eclipse
• New Glass Card Frame
• The Bloodstone Wonder
• The Magic Squeezers
• The Creation, Or Earth, Air, Fire And Water
• The Mystic Peaches
• Omega
• Tussah
• The Golden Flash Of Light
• The Ne Plus Ultra Coin Trick
• The Dissolving Half Dollar
• The Wonderful Turnover With Coins
• Electrical Coin Transportation
• Disappearing Stack Of Coins
• The Baldwin Act
• The Annie Eva Fay Cotton Bandage Test
• The Mysterious Coin
• Extraordinary Flight Of Coins
• Marvelous Vanishing And Re-Appearing Coin
• The Very Latest Aerial Treasury
• Cagliostro’s Spirit Slate
• After The Ball
• The Mystic Card
• Photographie Mysterieuse
• La Cremation
• The Crystal Coffin
• The Iron Cage Test
• New Dancing Cards
• Clairvoyant Card Trick
• The Oriental Barrel Mystery
• Spirit Slate Mystery
• Spirit Pull Test
• The Mahatma Miracles
• The Phantom Knots
• Spirit Circle, Under Test Conditions
• Electrical Coin Shuffle
• The Balancing Coins, Hat & Wand
• Clairvoyant Figure Reading
• Multiplying And Disappearing Coins
• "Oh," Or The Daughter Of The Caliph Of Bagdad
• The Disappearing Handkerchief
• The Bungalow Illusion
• The Spirit Answer

1st edition 1896, 104 pages; PDF 87 pages.
word count: 36822 which is equivalent to 147 standard pages of text