Magicians' Tricks

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

• The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase
• The Art of Magic by T. Nelson Downs
• Modern Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• More Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• Later Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• The Modern Conjurer by C. Lang Neil
• Our Magic by Maskelyne and Devant
• Tarbell Course by Harlan Tarbell
• Greater Magic by John Northern Hilliard

1st edition, 1910, The Century Co., New York; later printing, 1917, The Century Co., New York; 344 pages.

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I: WITH CARDS
7. The Pass
10. The Clip
11. The "Diagonal" or "Dovetail" Pass
14. The Card Palm
15. The Bottom Palm
16. The Change
16. The Top Change
17. The Bottom Change
18. A New Top Change
19. A Single Change
20. False Shuffles
21. To Leave a Prearranged Pack Undisturbed While Seeming to Shuffle It Thoroughly
22. Another Method of Shuffling a Pack Without Changing Its Order
23. To Shuffle the Pack so as Not to Disturb the Position of the Top or the Bottom Card or of Both Cards
24. To Force a Card
25. The Second Deal
26. The False Count
28. The "Ruffle"
28. To Spring the Cards From One Hand to the Other
30. The Slide
31. The Forcing Die
32. The Prearranged Pack
40. The Color Change
47. To Make a Card Disappear From a Glass
49. The Transformation of the Jack of Clubs
52. The Prediction
54. To Discover a Card Drawn From the Pack
58. A Flying Card
59. A Greek Cross
61. A Selected Card Appears at Any Desired Number From the Top of the Pack
63. A Card Apparently Placed at the Bottom of the Pack, Appears at the Top
64. A Question of Sympathy
64. The Card in the Pocketbook
67. The Disappearing Queen
69. The Changing Card
72. A Wonderful Change
73. With a String - A Reminiscence
74. The Obedient Cards
86. The Rising Cards in a Case
87. The Rising Cards, as Exhibited by Buatier de Kolta
89. One More Version of the Rising Cards
90. The Seven Heap
91. The Sympathetic Kings and Queens
93. Correcting a Mistake
95. Thought Anticipated
97. The Spots on a Freely Selected Card Will Indicate the Number of Cards Secretly Removed From the Pack
98. The Ace of Diamonds Changes to a Trey
100. The Four Aces
101. From Pocket to Pocket
108. The Vanishing Card
110. The Cards in the Envelopes
112. A Missing Card Found
113. A Feat of Divination
114. To Tell in succession all the Cards in a Shuffled Pack
115. To Call Out the Names of the Cards While the Pack is Behind the Back
116. Another Method of Discovering Every Card in a Shuffled Pack
116. To Call Out Cards While the Pack, With the Faces of the Cards Toward the Audience, is Pressed Against the Forehead
117. The Choice of a Card
119. The Reversed Cards
120. A Subtile Touch
121. The Sense of Touch
124. A Mathematical Problem
128. The Reunion
129. Dr. Elliot's Variation in the Rising Cards
131. To Tear a Pack of Cards in Two

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     II: WITH COINS
133. Palming
138. The Miser
141. The Peripatetic Coins
144. The Walking Coin
145. The Wandering Coins
146. The Disappearing Coin
147. How Money Attracts
148. To Pass Five Coins From One Tumbler to Another
149. The Penetrating Coin
150. A Coin and a String
154. To Pass a Coin Through a Hat
155. A Coin, a Card, and a Candle

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     III: WITH BALLS AND EGGS
161. To Pass an Egg From a Tumbler Into a Hat
162. To Pass a Billiard Ball From One Goblet to Another
163. The Changing Ball and Flag
165. Novel Effect with Billiard Balls
168. The Changing Billiard Balls
169. The Patriotic Billiard Balls
175. A Sperical Paradox, Not so Clear as it Seems

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     IV: WITH HANDKERCHIEFS
182. To Make a Handkerchief Disappear From the Hands
182. The Stretched Handkerchief
183. The Handkerchief with Seven Corners
185. The Mysterious Knots
187. The Transit of Old Glory
192. A Succession of Surprises by Le Professeur Magicus (Adolphe Blind)
194. The Three Handkerchiefs
196. A Silk Handkerchief Placed in a Cornucopia Disappears, and is Found Tied Around a Candle

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     V: SOME AFTER-DINNER TRICKS
204. An Adhesive Nut
205. An Elusive Ring
206. A Borrowed Bank Note that is Destroyed by Tearing or Burning is Found Imbedded in a Lemon
208. A Disappearing Knife
209. A Match Trick
211. The Moving Ears
212. The Talking Glass
212. The Suspended Glass
213. The Tilting Goblet
213. A Broken Match

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     VI: MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
214. Paper Tearing
215. The Torn and Restored Strip of Paper
223. The Cigarette-Paper Trick
223. A Japanese Trick
225. The Disappearance of a Glass of Water, by Okito (Theo. Bamberg)
229. A Temperance Trick
230. The Chinese Rice Bowls (With Variations by Conradi)
236. Firing a Girl From a Cannon Into a Trunk
237. A Fruitful Experiment
239. Something From Nothing
242. The Adhesive Dice
242. The Antispiritualistic Cigarette Papers
244. The Spirit table (by Germain)
248. The Needle Trick (by Clement de Lion)
249. The Vanishing Glass of Water
253. Phantasma (by Félicien Trewey)
254. A Traveling Wand
255. A Mysterious Flight
259. The New Die and Hat Trick (by Will Goldston, London)
261. A Girl Produced From Empty Boxes (by Will Goldston)
264. The Nest of Boxes
273. A Floral Tribute
276. A Curious Omelet
281. The Coffee Trick
288. The Growth of Flowers
292. The Secret of Rope Tying
300. A Knotty Problem
303. The Knot of Mystery
306. The Afghan Bands
309. Mnemonics as Applied to Conjuring
316. Memorizing at One Reading a Long List of Words Suggested by the Audience
316. Kellar's Cube Root Trick
321. With Apologies to the Audience
323. The Clock
326. Wine or Water
330. The Blackboard Test
338. A Water Trick
     
341. Appendix

word count: 87321 which is equivalent to 349 standard pages of text