Gems of Mental Magic
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 03 May, 2026)
This book is from 1935, so you need to update a few things here and there. For example, carbon paper is used in one trick, but you don't see it around much today, but rest assured there is a very good type in art supply stores for transferring a drawing to the canvas for a painting...in fact it looks like it was drawn with a pencil, so is useful to mentalists, and there are more modern papers to make a copy with no visible method, etc. But in general the book outlines some very good mental feats using some very good mentalism principles, explained very well. There are codes and systems that must be learned, and in fact a whole system for memory taught. Bear in mind that these feats require a real show, and a stage, and at least one assistant required for most of the "experiments". But if doing a big show of a mental nature is for you, you really need to have this download. Arthur Buckley is known for his thinking and explaining, and Mr. Cook brings his own expertise to the mix. Remember...not for walk-around strolling, or close-up, or small groups. Stage-size mentalism.