Customer rank: +1 This book was rated one of the ten basic books for a working library of conjuring by H. Adrian Smith, historian, collector and owner of the largest private magic library in his time. It is a magnificent book featuring tricks from Germain, Conradi, Goldston, Okito, Elliott, and others. It is very difficult to get a hardcopy these days. Other books in this top 10 list are
1st edition, 1910, The Century Co., New York; later printing, 1917, The Century Co., New York; 344 pages.
I: WITH CARDS
- The Pass
- The Clip
- The "Diagonal" or "Dovetail" Pass
- The Card Palm
- The Bottom Palm
- The Change
- The Top Change
- The Bottom Change
- A New Top Change
- A Single Change
- False Shuffles
- To Leave a Prearranged Pack Undisturbed While Seeming to Shuffle It Thoroughly
- Another Method of Shuffling a Pack Without Changing Its Order
- To Shuffle the Pack so as Not to Disturb the Position of the Top or the Bottom Card or of Both Cards
- To Force a Card
- The Second Deal
- The False Count
- The "Ruffle"
- To Spring the Cards From One Hand to the Other
- The Slide
- The Forcing Die
- The Prearranged Pack
- The Color Change
- To Make a Card Disappear From a Glass
- The Transformation of the Jack of Clubs
- The Prediction
- To Discover a Card Drawn From the Pack
- A Flying Card
- A Greek Cross
- A Selected Card Appears at Any Desired Number From the Top of the Pack
- A Card Apparently Placed at the Bottom of the Pack, Appears at the Top
- A Question of Sympathy
- The Card in the Pocketbook
- The Disappearing Queen
- The Changing Card
- A Wonderful Change
- With a String - A Reminiscence
- The Obedient Cards
- The Rising Cards in a Case
- The Rising Cards, as Exhibited by Buatier de Kolta
- One More Version of the Rising Cards
- The Seven Heap
- The Sympathetic Kings and Queens
- Correcting a Mistake
- Thought Anticipated
- The Spots on a Freely Selected Card Will Indicate the Number of Cards Secretly Removed From the Pack
- The Ace of Diamonds Changes to a Trey
- The Four Aces
- From Pocket to Pocket
- The Vanishing Card
- The Cards in the Envelopes
- A Missing Card Found
- A Feat of Divination
- To Tell in succession all the Cards in a Shuffled Pack
- To Call Out the Names of the Cards While the Pack is Behind the Back
- Another Method of Discovering Every Card in a Shuffled Pack
- To Call Out Cards While the Pack, With the Faces of the Cards Toward the Audience, is Pressed Against the Forehead
- The Choice of a Card
- The Reversed Cards
- A Subtile Touch
- The Sense of Touch
- A Mathematical Problem
- The Reunion
- Dr. Elliot's Variation in the Rising Cards
- To Tear a Pack of Cards in Two
II: WITH COINS
- Palming
- The Miser
- The Peripatetic Coins
- The Walking Coin
- The Wandering Coins
- The Disappearing Coin
- How Money Attracts
- To Pass Five Coins From One Tumbler to Another
- The Penetrating Coin
- A Coin and a String
- To Pass a Coin Through a Hat
- A Coin, a Card, and a Candle
III: WITH BALLS AND EGGS
- To Pass an Egg From a Tumbler Into a Hat
- To Pass a Billiard Ball From One Goblet to Another
- The Changing Ball and Flag
- Novel Effect with Billiard Balls
- The Changing Billiard Balls
- The Patriotic Billiard Balls
- A Sperical Paradox, Not so Clear as it Seems
IV: WITH HANDKERCHIEFS
- To Make a Handkerchief Disappear From the Hands
- The Stretched Handkerchief
- The Handkerchief with Seven Corners
- The Mysterious Knots
- The Transit of Old Glory
- A Succession of Surprises by Le Professeur Magicus (Adolphe Blind)
- The Three Handkerchiefs
- A Silk Handkerchief Placed in a Cornucopia Disappears, and is Found Tied Around a Candle
V: SOME AFTER-DINNER TRICKS
- An Adhesive Nut
- An Elusive Ring
- A Borrowed Bank Note that is Destroyed by Tearing or Burning is Found Imbedded in a Lemon
- A Disappearing Knife
- A Match Trick
- The Moving Ears
- The Talking Glass
- The Suspended Glass
- The Tilting Goblet
- A Broken Match
VI: MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
- Paper Tearing
- The Torn and Restored Strip of Paper
- The Cigarette-Paper Trick
- A Japanese Trick
- The Disappearance of a Glass of Water, by Okito (Theo. Bamberg)
- A Temperance Trick
- The Chinese Rice Bowls (With Variations by Conradi)
- Firing a Girl From a Cannon Into a Trunk
- A Fruitful Experiment
- Something From Nothing
- The Adhesive Dice
- The Antispiritualistic Cigarette Papers
- The Spirit table (by Germain)
- The Needle Trick (by Clement de Lion)
- The Vanishing Glass of Water
- Phantasma (by Félicien Trewey)
- A Traveling Wand
- A Mysterious Flight
- The New Die and Hat Trick (by Will Goldston, London)
- A Girl Produced From Empty Boxes (by Will Goldston)
- The Nest of Boxes
- A Floral Tribute
- A Curious Omelet
- The Coffee Trick
- The Growth of Flowers
- The Secret of Rope Tying
- A Knotty Problem
- The Knot of Mystery
- The Afghan Bands
- Mnemonics as Applied to Conjuring
- Memorizing at One Reading a Long List of Words Suggested by the Audience
- Kellar's Cube Root Trick
- With Apologies to the Audience
- The Clock
- Wine or Water
- The Blackboard Test
- A Water Trick
- Appendix
word count: 87321 which is equivalent to 349 standard pages of text
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