Excerpt from the preface:
Where illustrations taken from actual photographs could tell the story more concisely than would pages of print, the former have been included, the latter excluded. Quality rather than quantity has been the standard to which the writers have tried to attain. Most of the following tricks are original but one or two are only original adaptations of old principles; all however will be found practicable.
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I. Tricks with Thimbles and Coins
- Thimbles
- An Improved Thumb-Palm
- The Melting Thimbles
- Tricks With Coins
- A New Handkerchief Fold For A Coin
- A Matchbox Change
- The Rising Coin
- CHAPTER II. Tricks with Cards
- CHAPTER III. Miscellaneous Mechanical Tricks
- The Magical Salad
- An Effective Rope Release
- The Simultaneous Production Of Three Billiard Balls At The Finger Tips
- The Appearing, Travelling Chameleon Ball
- First Effect. The Sudden Appearance Of The Ball
- The Travelling Ball
- The Chameleon Travelling Ball
- The Spiritualistic Blackboard
- A New Black-Art Illusion
- CHAPTER IV. Modern Telepathy
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- No. 2.
- No. 3.
- No. 4.
- No. 5.
- No. 6.
- No. 7.
1st edition 1906, 50 pages; PDF 28 pages.
word count: 9898 which is equivalent to 39 standard pages of text
