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1. ...Letters on Magic - A Curious Budget from West Africa
38. Easy Magic - Will Goldston Chats about His New Book
39. Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by Len J. Sewell, "Alba", Will Goldston
    39. The Handkerchief and the Empty Glass
    39. The New Rising Card - Invented by Will Goldston
    40. The New Photograph Frame
    41. The Deceptive Half-Crown
    41. Passing a Thimble Through a Borrowed Silk Handkerchief
    42. An Effective Card Drawer - Alba
    43. An Improved Candle Mystery - Len J. Sewell
    44. The Mutilated Umbrella Trick
45. Drawing-Room Tricks with Patter
    45. The Aladdin Matchless Match Trick
    45. The Spiritualistic Sack Feat
    46. Ball of Wool and Nested Nickel...

• ... card effect.
• Libation - Boldly produce a glass of (real) wine.
• Turnabout - Fools magicians.
• The Razor's Edge - Threaded razor blades on thread.
• Location No. 1 - Card location.
• Up Devil! - Card effect using the previous move.
• Me, Too! - New method of the Invisible Pass.
• Pop-Up - Impromptu thimble through handkerchief.
• A Deck Is Born - Produce a full deck of cards from nothing.
• Location No. 2 - Card location.
• Cortini? Frascati? Cremation - No-gimmick torn and restored paper strip.
• In Conclusion
• About the Author

"For me, the author's irreverent style had me hooked after the...

• ... Warlock
• ESP Calling Card / Ray Hafler

• The Cards Tell All! / Oscar Paulson
• Ropes - Blend / Arthur Setterington
• Rapport / Sam Dalal
• Magic Pure and Simple (continued) Peter Warlock
• Early Koran No. 6. The Perfection Do as I Do

• Television Mental Test / Alan Shaxon
• Thimble Through / Peter Warlock
• Another Card ... Another Number / Leslie May
• Sure Sign / Leslie May
• On Location / Arthur Setterington
• Magic, Pure and Simple (continued) / Peter Warlock

• Dai the Spook / Hubert Roberts
• The Merlin Handicap / E. Malcolm Davison
• Magic, Pure and Simple...

• ... / Peter Warlock
• How Ellis Would Have Coped / Peter Warlock
• Cutting a Rope / Warren Stephens
• The Melting Ring / Marconick
• Jacob's Elevator / Hans Trixer
• The Columbus Telescope / Arthur Setterington
• Bernard - the limit in Card Manipulation

• Stamp-Alism / Ian Adair
• Chameleon Thimble / John Alborough
• The Incredible Stab / Bob Driebeek
• The New Intruder / Jack Avis
• Handy Bandy - at the Coliseum

• Ingenious Billet Box / Robert Harbin, Ian Adair
• Annemann Interlude / Gustave Southall
• Math Murder / Phil Goldstein
• Open Intruder / Alex Elmsley
• Boxed / Frank...

• ... / Cliff Osman
• I Love Suzy / Jean Poisson
• William the Conqueror / Ken Robinson (D'Ya Ken)
• William G. Stickland: Some recollections / Donald G. Crombie
• Triple Die-Ception / Arthur Carter
• Dice in Collusion Extraordinary / Paul Flory
• Alternative Salt Pour / Will Ayling

• The Miracle Thimble Production / John Alborough
• Sherlock Holmes Strikes Again / Arthur Setterington
• The Just Chance Polo Mint Trick / Jack Lowen
• The Spider's Touch Divines / Jon Racherbaumer
• Changeable / Francis Haxton
• Rubik-Prediction / Ian Adair
• The Magic Cat / Ron Bishop

• Peter Warlock...

Partial contents:

• Routine: A Tricky Thimble
• French's Clip Pass
• Don't Drop It
• Presto Chango
• Slippery Sphere
• The Flip Pass
• A Surprise Vanish and Color Change
• Another Card Flourish
• French's Card Stabbing Routine
• Paper and Pasteboards
• French's Transpo Balls
• A Novel Card Fan Vanish
• You'll Like It
• Well! Can You Beat That!
• A...

• ... Stunner"
• The "Timil" Card Trick
• The "Red Demon" Card Mystery
• Twelve Novel Manipulations
• Chris Van Bern's "Pearl Mystery" Card Trick
• The Egg and Handkerchief Mystery
• The Butterfly
• The "Tunnel" Colour Change
• A Novel Changer, Vanisher or Loader
• A Lesson in Magic - and Some Eggs
• An Unique Thimble Sleight
• An "Ink-red-u-lous" Trick
• The Drawing-pin Mystery
• "The Waiter's Dream"
• Chris Van Bern 16 Card Trick
• The Brass Card Box
• The Mysterious Light
• The Affinity of Color

Berland and friends bring you sixteen beautiful effects using silks, balls, cards, canes, watches, cigarettes, liquid, and more in this updated and expanded edition. Long out of print, this manuscript contains a pair of mysteries by Tenkai, as well as several baffling effects by Berland, as well as some choice bits by his friends.

Partial contents:

• The Homing Cup of Lemonade
• Popping Silk
• Challenge Quadruple Cigarette Vanish
• Samson Cane Trick
• Vanishing and Reappearing Thimble
• Watch and Chain to Handkerchief
• Double Color Change
• Flash Cigarette Package to Box of Matches
• Tenkai Figure...

• ... CLUB EFFECTS
  • A Flash Production
  • Visible Production Cage
  • A Modern Miser's Dream
  • A Handy Little Switching Cabinet
  • Bang! Off Goes A Bunny
  • A Self-Lighting Cigarette
  • The Artistic Touch
  • The Spirit Bottle
• CHAPTER II COMEDY EFFECT
  • A Novel Tearing Effect
  • Foxy Felix Sucker Effect
  • A Sucker Thimble Effect
  • Just a Little Fun
  • When Stronger Methods Must Be Used
  • A Comedy Watch Effect, Forrest Version
  • Burning a Borrowed Necktie
• CHAPTER III MENTAL EFFECTS
  • The Prophecy of Enaj
  • Mental Selection
  • A Suggested Routine
  • A Whisper from Hades
  • The Ghostly Hand
  • The Buzzer of Mystery
  • The...

• ...
  • ... Knotted Silk Trick
• Trick with Cigarettes
• New Egg Bag
• Three Coin Divination
• Coin Box Routine
• Stage Effects
  • Cleopatra and the Egyptian Vase Illusion
  • The Houdini Series of Magical Escapes / Clayton Lowell Jacobsen
  • Nest of Boxes Illusion
  • The Double Sawing Trick
  • Book Case Production
  • Thimble Divining
• Manipulative Magic
  • The Smoker's Dream
  • Expanding Dollar Bill
  • Houdini's Magic
• Five Pocket Tricks
• Mental Telepathy
• The Jumping Pencil
• Effective Card Tricks
  • 3 Card Monte
  • Card In Memorandum
  • Card In Envelope
• Around the Ice-Box with Dom
• Magical Gossip / Harry Kaye ...

From the Preface:

• Preface
• The Torn And Restored Paper
• Glido - The Thimble That Glides
• The Vanishing Cigarette
• The Cut Tape And Match Box
• Another Cut Ribbon Effect
• A Deceptive Card Trick
• The Twin Aces
• An Easy Spelling Trick
• The Psychic Tissues
• Rollo
• The Phantom Domino
• The Phantom Ring
• An Advertisement Trick
• A Numeral Mystery
• A Surprise Slate Trick ...

• An Opening Effect
• Predetermined Thought
• A Different Die-Box
• Organ Pipe Flower Growth
• Stretching A Rope
• Stretching A Rope
• Ring And Loop
• Die And Rope
• Unique Cut Rope
• Practical Living And Dead Test
• Thimble Through Hat
• Simple Cigarette Catching
• Ropes And Ring
• Duplex Fish-Bowl Production
• A Sum Prediction
• A Production Box Idea
• A Broken Match
• The T.S. Production Box
• Glass Penetration
• A Magazine Test

• The Flying Coins
• Ball Production For Club Workers
• Thimble Production
• Choice Restored
• The Web Handkerchief Production
• Black Art Milk Vanish
• A "Stag" Party Pack
• Tele - Refreshment Bar
• The Hoop Un-Looped
• The Surp-Rising Cigarette
• Which End?
• Finding A Card At Any Number
• The Girl Behind The Door
• Silk Sympathy
• Bar And Chains Escape
• Sleight For Gloved Workers
• The T.S. Sack Escape
• Date Plus Your Age
• Lay-Out Speller
• A Mental Tip
• Entertaining With Words
  • (1) Marriage And Divorce
  • (2) Lazy Bones
  • (3) Backwards And Forwards
• Effective Four Ace Trick
• Leap Year Card Trick

• Introduction
• Ireland's New Okito Coin Box Routine
• Ireland's Comedy Bullet Catching Trick
• Cups And Dollar Bills
• Ireland's Four Ace Trick
• Just A Little Different Thimble Pass
• Burlesque Explanation Of The De Muth Glass Penetration
• Ireland's Three Sponge Ball Trick
• Annie Oakley Outdone!
• Super Billiard Ball Pass
• The Opium Peddler And His Three Dream Pipes

• ... is very effective, including the separation of the halves. Devious method.
• Improved Torn and Restored Signed Card - A free selection of a card, signed by a spectator and torn into pieces, is restored.
• Haunted Cigarette Pack - A novelty effect in which a silk and cigarettes transpose themselves.
• Thimble Jumbo - A manipulative novelty that can be done anywhere.
• Ultra Prediction - An unbelievable effect, very convincing. Just add showmanship.
• Malini Outdone - A simplified version of a trick made famous by Malini.

"Sam Berland is one of our most original magicians when it comes to originating...

• Introduction by Bobby Bernard
• Tunnel Change
• Chanin Drop Vanish
• Himber Vanish
• Ramsay Vanish
• Pick Up Vanish
• Mystery of the Golden Snuff Box
• The Great Sponge Robbery
• Sponge from Hand to Hand
• Four Thimble Vanish
• Cups and Balls
• Wand Spin
• Dice Stacking
• Knife Changes
• Hot Aces
• Two False Cuts
• Nelson Downs Coin Star

Here's a look at the contents:

• Introduction
• Capper Card Deal
• My Sucker Handkerchief Trick
• Mental Coincidence
• Bananas, Please
• That's the Way (Weigh)
• The Ace Is Still on Top
• Wade's Whisper Knot
• Thimble to Silk
• Triple Color Change
• You Won't Believe It's So!
• With a Thornton Reel
• Transposition Extraordinary
• About the Author
• Thank You
• Recommended Titles

"A series of clever effects by up-to-date performers." - Leo Rullman

1st edition 1934, PDF 37 pages.

• Introduction
• Tying And Untying Knots In A Cord Without Letting Go Of The Ends
• The New And Improved Ink Handkerchief And Turnip Trick
• A Checker Mystery
• Carlton King's Rabbit Box
• Ice Cream Cone Production
• A Dollar Bill In Candle Effect
• Nelson's Candle Trick
• Bossie Cow
• The Shrinking Glass Of Milk
• Words And Music
• The Jack Yeager Thumb Tie Trick
• The N. E. Book Test
• Three Linked Discoveries
• Triple Climax To Cups & Balls
• The Stripper Combine
• Glendi's Mental Photography - The Dream Photograph
• Magic In Milk Containers
• Thimble Box
• Clock Dial Card Prediction

• ... Idea / Ed Bagshawe
• Tricks and Tips &c.
• Here and There

Volume 1, Number 7, April 1924

• Monthly Chat
• A Borrowed Ring and Nest of Envelopes / C.H. Tickell
• Some Ancient Magic Made Modern: The Japanese Handkerchief Box / S.H. Sharpe
• Correspondence
• The Paper Ball Trick
• A Novel Finish to Thimble Production / Harry Kaye
• Improvements and Suggestions
• With Our Contemporaries
• A New Vanishing Tumbler
• Here and There

Volume 1, Number 8, May 1924

• Monthly Chat
• Silent Hand Reading / C.H. Tickell
• A Liquid Vanish / Harry Kaye
• Some Ancient Magic Made Modern: Angling Extraordinary...

This is a wonderful account of a traveling showman's trials and tribulations in England and Scotland during the middle of the 19th century. Among other things, he was a conjurer. While this is not a book of tricks, one coin trick is explained as part of one story of his life. But much more interesting are the descriptions of various scams and the modus operandi of various ways to defraud the public by traveling hucksters the author encountered. The operation of the thimble rig is explained in detail. It is an account of how traveling showmen struggled essentially their entire life to make...

• ...
  • ... Trick (new method.
  • Long-distance Second Sight
• CHAPTER VIII: MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
  • Flash Paper
  • A New Fire Flash
  • Conjurer's Ammunition
  • Smoke from Two Empty Pipes
  • A New Fire-eating Trick
  • Exploding Soap-bubbles
  • Walnut Shells and Pea
  • The Garter Trick
  • The Tube and Ball
  • The Ubiquitous Thimble
  • The Multiplying Wand
  • The Restored Cut
  • The Mysterious Tambourine
  • The Bran and Dove Plates
  • The Wandering Beer
  • A Crystal Water Mystery
  • The Wizard's Breakfast
  • The Hydrostatic Tube
  • The Hydrostatic Tumbler
  • Watch, Glass, and Handkerchief
  • Paper Cone, Watch, Rabbit, and Boxes
• CHAPTER...

• ... Effects All Designed for Close-Up Performing
  • JIM-DANDY VANISHER [Jim Shannon]
  • POP-OFF [W. Bowman]
  • A TWIST THROUGH THE WRIST [John Boyko]
  • NICKEL-PLATED [Derek Vernon]
  • PURSE [Bill Nord]
  • RISE [H. G. Frank]
  • REUNION [Don Tanner
  • VARIANT [John P. Hamilton]
  • ANOTHER RISE [Carlo Rossetti]
  • GHOST THIMBLE [John A. M. Howie]
  • BOLT AND FRAME [G. Legman]
  • THE LOTUS [G. Legman]
  • LOTUS AND BOW-TIE [G. Legman]
• CHAPTER 2 Conjuring with Coins and Paper Money
  • PENNY-TRATION [Harry Baker]
  • WRAPAROUND VANISH
  • FADEAWAY
  • SITTING VANISH [Bill Simon]
  • BACK PALM SWITCH [Charles Eastman
  • SILVER-COPPER [Dr. Theodore Sack]
  • HANK DROPPER [E. Brian MacCarthy]
  • REWARD [John A. M. Howie]
  • THE HARD WAY [Stewart Judah
  • NECROMANCY [Derek Vernon]
  • THE RIP
  • THE FOLD-AROUND
  • PERFECTION [H. P. Graham]
• CHAPTER 3 The Magician Performs with Rings, Ropes, and Silks
  • BAGUETTE [Paquette]
  • THUMB...

• A Victory for Originality
• Between Ourselves
• What Others are Doing - Henri Bekker
• Practical Magic - "Ceeanbee" Matchbox
• Impromptu - The Paper Balls
• Honest Swindles - A New Style for Patter
• Whereabouts this Week
• Those Exclusive (!) Secrets
• In Open Council
• A Simple Thimble Holder
• Magical Societies

Number 5 (July 2nd, 1913)

• A Talk on Showmanship
• Between Ourselves
• What Others are Doing - Bernard
• Practical Magic - The World in a Nutshell
• Impromptu - The Evanescent Coin, by Chung Ling Soo
• Cards - The "Brush" Change
• Professional Movements this Week ...

• ... Change Routine
• Telescope of Imagination
• Pendulum Power
• A No Sting Bank Nite
• Stage Size Ring Flight
• Ring and String Routine String
• Increasing a Prop's Fascination
• The Severed Finger of Death
• Flame Through Handkerchief
• Death's Hand
• Hyper Card
• Jar of Mystery
• Poor Man's Sleeve Bouquet
• Thimble Magic
• Color Changing Shoelace
• Ball Nose Balance
• The Perfect Pea
• Kids' Costumes
• Professional Pickpocket Practice Prop
• Sponge Clown Noses
• The Cork Trick
• Spirit Slate Writing 1
• Spirit Slate Writing 2
• Add-A-Number
• The Lowly Elastic
• A Most Unusual Object

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