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• ... of Magic; Hard and Dry Hands
• Mail Order Magic
• Answers to Correspondents

Number 13 (August 27th, 1913)

• Write your own Patter
• Between Ourselves
• What Others are Doing - Professor Earle
• Practical Magic - A Novel "Twentieth Century" Handkerchief Trick
• More Topical Magic
• Impromptu Pocket Trick
• Professional Movements
• In Open Council
• A tip for holding Loads for Hats
• Cards
• Answers to Correspondents

Number 14 (September 3rd, 1913)

• Possible Programmes
• Between Ourselves
• What Others are Doing - C. H. Charlton
• Practical Magic - How Time Flies
• For Beginners - Another...

For too long, the color-changing knife has lived in the pockets of polite close-up magicians, flicked back and forth like a novelty toy. But in the right hands ... it is something else entirely. In Whispers in Steel Mystic Alexandre unlocks the hidden potential of one of magic's most popular tools, offering three unusual and unique presentations that linger long after the performance is over.

• THE RITUAL OF RELEASE
• THE SIDE WE HIDE
• THE DREAM KNIFE

You will not learn how the knife changes color, you will learn why it matters that it does.

Also included: The Psychology of The Color...

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   • Chicago

57. Volume 20, Number 3, July, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Al Flosso
59. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
60. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • Name Revelation - John Bargoli
61. Card Magic
    • Piet Forton's "Lucky Numbers" - Lewis Ganson
64. Magic for the Pocket
    • Ball-Balance - No Skill Required - Val Andrews
65. Magic with Apparatus
    • Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! - Charles Clifton
66. My Angel - Ken de Courcy
68. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
    • 5 - More Equally Unequal Ropes
73. Close Up Magic
    • Shell-Die Subtleties - Val...

1. ... Shailes
104. Person to Person - Telephone Telepathy - Lewis Jones
     • The Line Up Principle (Duo)
107. Electric-Fantastic Trick - Ian Adair
108. Name Dropping - Edward Stokes
109. advertisement
110. Kennaugh's Kaleidoscope - Alan Kennaugh
     • Jewel Aich Show
113. Another Aich Review - Peter Blanchard
113. The Pocket Tunnel - Vanni Pulé
     • Ringon Clatter
115. String from Playing Card - Joe Hustler
116. The Gospel Column - edited by Henry Smith
     • The Empty Grave-Clothes - Henry Smith
117. Change It Silks - Jack Bridwell
118. Colombini's Rope Melange - Aldo Colombini & Will Ayling
     • Second Cut and...

• ...
• IV.—Simple Tricks With Handkerchiefs
  • The Melting Egg And The Bewitched Handkerchief
  • To Undo A Knotted Handkerchief By A Shake
  • The Handkerchief And Egg Trick
• V.—Simple Tricks With Rings
  • The Penetrative Ring
  • The Ring And Glove Pillar
• VI.—Simple Tricks With Knives
  • The Obedient Knife
• VII.—Fortune Telling Tricks
  • Catches And Quibbles
  • Address On A Letter
  • Algebraic Squaring Of The Circle
  • A Bunch Of Anagrams
  • The Grammatical Word
  • Hanky Panky To His Nieces, With A Set Of Chessmen
  • The Alphabetical Fortune Teller
  • To Guess The Points Thrown With Dice
  • Arithmetical Fortune...

• ...
  • ... / Will Fleet
  • The Passe Passe Silks and Paper Cones / W. J. Atkinson
  • A Suggestion / B. Wayre
  • The Spirit Card and Candle / W. J. Atkinson
  • The Phoenix Bags
  • The "Well I Never!" Card Trick
  • A Bran, Silk and Borrowed Ring Combination / W. J. Atkinson
  • A Novel "Flag" Effect / Wilford Hutchinson
  • The Knife Between the Cards / Arthur Ainslie
  • An Appreciation of the late Maurice Garland / Harry Leat
  • Nursery Rhymes and Magic / W. H. Eyles
  • London's First Society of Magicians / Harry Leat
  • Nursery Rhymes and Magic / W. H. Eyles
  • A Lesson in Magic / Margaret Mackay
• Volume 3
  • The Coin, Postal...

• ...Swindling Storekeepers
• Finding a Diamond
• All About Carnival Games
• Carny Lingo
• Spotting the Spot
• The Famous Silver Arrow
• The Country Store Wheel
• The Devil's Bowling Alley
• The Automatic Bowling Alley
• The Three Marble Roll Down
• Phony Advertisements
• The Game of Hoop Tossing
• Aunt Sarah's Clothes Line
• The Famous Knife Rack
• The Game of Cats on the Rack
• The Tilting Roly-Poly Board
• Mitt Camps
• "Honest John" or "The Drop Case"
• The Deceptive Baseball Rack
• The Shell Game
• The Hurdle Ladder
• Carnival Roulette
• The Cone and Baseball Swindle
• The Cigarette Shooting Gallery
• The Famous Three Pin Game
• Ring a Watch,...

September 1952 - August 1953
Mr. & Mrs. William W. Larsen & Milton Page Larsen, Editors

507 pages (9 double pages)

1. Genii - Volume 17, Number 1 - September 1952 - 44 pages
1. Cover - The Merv Taylor Company
7. Dealer's Directory
9. On With the Show - editorial - Bill Larsen
10. The Editors Problem
    • By Gerald Kosky
11. Easy Does It - H. Fernandes
12. A Novel Coin Bag - Lu Brent
13. The Magical Traveler - Alan Wakeling
    • Scotland
14. The Alcoholic Animal - Johnny Geddes
15. The Artful Dodges of William W. Larsen
16. Your New Act From Genii - Ray Muse
    • Pocket Close-Up Act (No Cards)
    • Impromptu...

The Gen, Volume 15, Lewis Ganson, editor

On the covers are

• Don Lawton
• Bob Lawrence
• Wilfred Tyler
• Murray
• Jac Olten
• John Giordmaine
• Ernest Wethered
• Archie Tear
• Frank Brooker
• Chan Canasta
• Hubert Lambert
• Sam Hughes

1. Volume 15, Number 1, May, 1959, 34 numbered pages - Gala Issue cover picture: Don Lawton
2. Front Page Personality - Don Lawton
7. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
8. Magic for the Pocket
   • Pocket Size Indian Rope - Aenigma (Holland)
11. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • Behind My Blackboard - Dr. Stanley Jaks (USA)
14. New Lamps for Old...

1. ... World - WWL (Jr.)
359. Twenty-Five Years Ago In Genii - Gerrie Larsen-Baker
360. Tricks of the Trade - Ed Mishell
     • Albenise Rising Cards
     • How's This For a Novelty? - Tannen
     • Quick - Fabjance
     • In Sp-Ace - Joseph Zering
     • Milk Bottle Monte - Richard Himber
     • Tie Riffic - Richard Himber
     • No Pocket Egg Bag - Richard Himber
     • The Gold Egg - Chanin
361. Light from the Lamp - A Review of Magical Literature - Lloyd E. Jones
     • Marked Cards and Loaded Dice - Frank Garcia
     • Doves in Magic - Ian Adair
     • Rainbow Dove Routines - Ian Adair
     • Cabaret Dove Act - Ian Adair
     • Doves from Silks -...

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   1. ...6. Match to Cigarette
100. IX. MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
     100. 1. The Three Beads
     101. 2. A Vanishing Pencil
     101. 3. A Difficult Job
     102. 4. A Restored String
     102. 5. The Mystic Propellor
     103. 6. Pin Through the Head
     104. 7. Pin Through Finger
     104. 8. Bottle and Straw
     105. 9. Scissors and String
     105. 10. The Turnover Key
     106. 11. Paper Disks
     106. 12. The Candy Ring
     107. 13. Knife from the Glass
     108. 14. The Vanishing Candle
     108. 15. The Three Marble Trick
     109. 16. The Rubber Cube
111. X. NUMBER TRICKS
     111. 1. Totalling Twenty
     112. 2. Telling the Total
     113. 3. Nine Figures
     114. 4. The Grand Total
     115. 5. Cross Them Out
116. XI. OPTICAL TRICKS
     116. 1. Which is Larger?
     117. 2. The Coin in the Glass
     117. 3. Mystic...

1. ... Candle’ - Mystico
98. Focus on Magic – series by George Blake
    • Sure Guess
101. Unbelievable – A Card Test - Roxy
102. The Temple of Flames – Lenz, the “White Yogi”
104. Hat Hoax - Mystico
105. The Great Levante
105. Silk Slip-Up – Johnny Geddes
106. Madame Elisabeth Van Dyk – Suzy Wandas
106. Wot, No Pocket? – Alex McKeown
107. advertisements

Volume 3, Number 5, August, 1954, 28 numbered pages without covers

113. advertisements
115. Meet –- Cyro
115. Contents
116. Editor’s Page – George Blake
116. News from Kalanag
118. B.M.S. [British Magical Society] Golden Jubilee Congress - announcement
118. Sawn in Half
119. A Penetrating Rope Effect – The first of a new series by Edward Victor
120. Focus on Magic – series by George Blake
     • Further Down...

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  • ...
    • ... Reconstructed Evidence
    • (3) The Whispering Buddha
  • PART THREE: SOUND READING
    • (1) Written Information discovered by Sound Reading
    • (2) Sound Reading Applied to Action - Not Writing
    • TRICKS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE ART OF SOUND READING
    • (1) Tapping Card Location
    • (2) Paranormal Precognition
    • (3) A Pocket Trick
    • (4) Clean Cut Card Trick
  • PART FOUR: TOUCH READING
    • TRICKS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE ART OF TOUCH READING
    • (1) Sujan Location
    • (2) With a Pinch of Salt!
    • (3) Marked Playing Cards
    • (4) Psychic Sorting
    • (5) Colour Conscious
    • (6) Another Version of The Princess Card Trick
    • (7) Another Application...

• ... Eckl
• Behavioural Bluff / Fred Robinson
• Odd Optic
• A Fansee Blind Shuffle / Peter Duffie

• The Wishing Envelope / Jack Avis
• An overhand shuffle retaining the whole pack in the same order / Keith Bennett
• The Page boy speaks ...
• Blank Faces / Phil Wye
• Business for Knife Through Coat / Bob Read
• Impromptu Coin Dropper / Peter Stammers
• The Ascanio Spread / Fred Robinson
• Past Help / Roy Walton

• The Perpetual Elevator Routine / Walt Lees
• Coinjuring
• Pontification
• The Winning Hand
• The Page boy speaks ...

Rub Location: The performer causes an indifferent card to change to a selected card by rubbing it on his knee, no double lift or top change.

Three-Way Card Stab: Three cards selected and returned to deck. Anyone stabs a knife into the deck and the two cards on both sides of knife are the selected cards. Performer reaches into his pocket and removes the third selected card. No sleights or palming.

Sloane Sucker Napkin Tear: A new version of the sucker torn and restored napkin.

Zenith Nest Of Boxes: A borrowed...

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   • Henry Banderbob
   • Wilfred Johnson [Jonson?]
   • A. G. Hylent's daughter dies
   • Walter Adrian
   • The Counts of Conjuring
   • Magicdotes - Robert Orben
   • Comedy Caravan - Robert Orben
   • I.B.M. Convention - New Orleans
   • Hit The Jackpot 29
397. Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
     • Card in Pocket Discovery
     • Novelty Card Trick
     • Mysterious Mental Selection
     • The Magic Thrust
398. The Gag Bag
398. Puzzle Corner
399. Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
     • another presentation for Melt-Away Card Vanish
     • August selection - Muir's Laugh Lines
     • Jackpot moved to Keeping TAB
     • to balance a newspaper...

• ...CHAPTER III Simple Coin Tricks
  1. A Simple Coin Vanish
  2. Vanishing Coin and Match-Box
  3. The Coin Fold
  4. The Improved Coin Fold
  5. The Coin in the Goblet
  6. The Coin in the Match-Box
  7. The Coin in the Lemon
  8. The Coin in the Roll
  9. The Coin Through the Hat
  10. Coins Through the Hat
  11. Coin, Hat and Glass
  12. The Balanced Coin
  13. Coin Balanced on Knife
  14. Always Heads
  15. The Coin in the Box
  16. The Vanishing Dime
  17. The Hang Ping Chien Coin Trick
• CHAPTER IV Sorcery with String
  1. The String Through the Buttonhole
  2. The Knot on the String
  3. The Loop and the Finger
  4. The Disappearing Loop
  5. String on the Fingers
  6. The Tied Thumbs
• CHAPTER V. Easy Card...

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      • ... To have a person, who is quite far from you, think of a card, and to have a card drawn from the deck by another person be precisely the same one that was freely thought of.
      • SECTION XVIII: To have a card freely drawn, hand the deck over for the card to be shuffled in, have the deck placed in a pocket, and then pull out the drawn and shuffled card.
      • SECTION XIX: To announce in advance that a card which is about to be thought of is on top of the deck, and to produce it after having it named.
      • SECTION XX: To show a card, place it on the table, and change it without touching it, having no other...

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  • ... One Card
  • The False Cut
  • The Double Lift
  • The Top Change
• PART THREE Magic with Cards
  • A Gambler's Trick
  • Quicker Than The Eye
  • With A One-Way Deck
  • The Educated Card
  • The Card And The Hair
  • A Four-Ace Trick
  • Striking The Deck
  • Through The Hand
  • The Shadow
  • The Perplexing Pack
  • Strange Affair
  • Knife It
  • Getting The Deck In Order
  • Beneath The Foot
• PART FOUR Coin Magic
  • The Palm
  • Rotation Vanish
  • The Thumb Palm
  • The Traveling Coin
  • The Coin In The Lap
  • The Finger Palm
  • The Secret Coin Fold
  • Vanish From Below
  • The Automatic Vanish
  • Up The Sleeve
  • Again The Sleeve
  • The Coin Roll
  • The Coin...

1. ... - Caryl S. Fleming
16. Trick Reviews - The Editor
    • Magic Art's Spirit Cane
    • Davenport's Rabbit and Hat Silk
    • Thayer's Improved Ball Through Glass
    • Cut Yourself a Piece of Rope - Caryl Fleming
    • The Magic Chef - Loyd
    • Abbott's Policy
    • Davenport's Card Silks
    • Kanter's Chameleon Knife
17. Paging the Ladies - Geraldine Conrad
    • The Diary of a Magician's Wife
18. Your Opinions and Mine - T. J. Crawford
19. Club Reports
    • Los Magicos Report - Fred Kapp
    • The Society of American Magicians [Assembly No. 22] - Gerald Kosky
    • The Spokane Mystic Club - E. V. Klein
    • Oakland Magic Circle News - Earl Wheeler ...

• ... Page Wright
• The Fairies' Slate and Sum / Prof. Wareing
• Z-Rays / Ben R. Hart
• Answers, Suggestions and Tips
• Topical Magic
• A "Wand" Tip
• The Wonderful Weave / T. Page Wright
• Another Opening Effect / C.H. Turner
• Some Ancient Magic Made Modern: Smoke Clouds and Cigarettes / S.H. Sharpe
• The New Knife and Selected Cards / Max Holden
• Borrowed Bits
• Mr. Eric P. Wilson
• Here and There

Volume 2, Number 11, August 1925

• Monthly Chat
• "Z-Rays" / Ben R. Hart
• Correspondence
• Some Ancient Magic Made Modern: Points for Alfresco Workers / S.H. Sharpe
• An Effective Card Trick / Gerald Brooks ...

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  • ... (Cards And Envelopes)
  • Gravatt's Double Match
  • Unique Card Coincidence
  • The Windmill
  • Rope A Card
  • New X-Ray
  • Thought Anticipated
• Chapter Ten: More Card Miracles
  • The George Dean Force
  • Card Caper
  • Strange Coincidence
  • Kings Become Aces
  • Passe Passe Cards
  • Double Surprise
  • New Card From Pocket
  • Easy Card From Pocket
  • A Horse Of Another Color
• Chapter Eleven: Card Tricks Using Steel Cards
  • Steel Playing Cards Their Use In Magic
  • Unique Card Revelation
  • Traveling Cards
  • Diminishing Card
  • Magic Fishing
  • Steel Card Sucker Trick
  • Novel Card Revelation
  • Controlled Selection
  • The Lazy...