... familiar jargon terms under a layer of their newly coined terms.
Wrote "London Notes" column for Sphinx since 1930. Wrote Mr. Smith's Guide to Sleight of Hand (1945, 95pp), But Not to Play (1946, 120pp), Conjuring (1950, 96pp), Card Conjuring (1950, 92pp), the last two being reprinted in USA by Dover as Wilfrid Johnson's Magic Tricks (1953, 100pp) and Wilfrid Johnson's Card Tricks (1953, 96pp) that were and finally in combined volume as Magic Tricks and Card Tricks (1954, 100+96pp; repr 1957). Tricks in Magic Wand.