Stanyon's Magic Magazine Volume 10 (Oct 1909 - Sep 1910)
by Ellis Stanyon

October 1909 - September 1910

96 pages

1. Magic - Volume X, Number 1 - October 1909 - 8 pages
1. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Illusion "Beau Brocade"
   • The "Visible" Card Frame
3. Advertisement
3. Magic - announcements and offers
3. Editorial
4. Explanatory Programmes
   • Clempert, Siberian Jail Breaker, Tivoli, Barrow-in-Furness, June '09
     • Escape from Siberian Torture Jacket
     • Double Milk Can Escape
4. Queries - questions from readers
5. Replies to Queries
5. The International Society of Conjurers
5. Advertisements & Personal Cards

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9. Magic - Volume X, Number 2 - November 1909 - 8 pages
9. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Water versus Ink
   • Glass of Water Passing through Crown of Borrowed Hat
   • Cleveland's "Presto Fly" Card Trick
11. Fac-simile - Selected from Mr. Margery's portfolio - re: Mr. Magony
11. Explanatory Programmes
    • Dunningarto, Conjurer, Tivoli, Liverpool, December, 1907
      • Card Sleights
      • Ball Passes
      • Dyeing Handkerchiefs
      • Twentieth Century Handkerchief Trick
11. Magic - announcements and offers
12. Fac-simile - Selected from Mr. Margery's portfolio - re: Mr. Moritz
12. Queries - questions from readers
12. Replies to Queries
13. The International Society of Conjurers
13. Advertisements & Personal Cards

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17. Magic - Volume X, Number 3 - December 1909 - 8 pages
17. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
    • Stanyon's Realistic Production of Handkerchief from Candle Flame
    • Passe Passe Billiard Balls
19. Fac-simile - Selected from Mr. Margery's portfolio - re: Mr. David Prince Miller
19. Magic - announcements and offers
19. Advertisement
20. Explanatory Programmes
    • Alfredo Marschall, Juggler, Oxford, London, November 30th, '09
      • A Dangerous Game in a Naval Port
        • Juggling with Carbine, &c.
        • Life Buoys
        • Balancing Sailor
        • Balance of Large Cannon and Sailor
        • Balancing a Small Piece of Tissue Paper on Nose
        • Cannon Ball, Tennis Ball and Piece of Paper
        • With One Polished Cannon Ball
        • Balancing Shell on Pedestal
        • Cannon Balls on See-Saw
        • With Eight Cannon Balls
        • Shell and See-Saw
        • Cannon on Sloping Track
21. Queries - questions from readers
21. Replies to Queries
22. An Appendix to A Bibliography of Conjuring - Ellis Stanyon
24. Advertisements & Personal Cards

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25. Magic - Volume X, Number 4 - January 1910 - 8 pages
25. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
    • Pack of Cards Changing to Bouquet
    • Sensational Spirit Communication on Ordinary Slates
26. The Dove and the Devil - AN Original Magical Problem - Carl Brenan
27. Facsimile - re: M. Henry
27. Magic - announcements and offers
28. Coin and Ball of Wool (New Method) - Prof. Meadows
28. Paper Shavings, Ring and Dove - A New Combination Trick - Thomas Rogers
29. Correspondence
    • Harry Woodstock
    • John A. Knowles
29. Advertisement
30. An Appendix to A Bibliography of Conjuring - Ellis Stanyon - continued
32. Advertisements & Personal Cards

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33. Magic - Volume X, Number 5 - February 1910 - 8 pages
33. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
    • The Indian Cups and Balls
    • Wonderful Disappearance of Selected Card from Pack and its Materialisation in an Envelope
    • New Vanishing Boxwood Cone
35. Fac-simile - Selected from Mr. Margery's portfolio - re: McDonald
35. Notes on New Books - Ellis Stanyon
    • Entertaining - Albertus
    • Some Modern Conjuring
    • Handcuff Secrets - Harry Houdini
    • Unmaking of Robert Houdin and Handcuff Secrets - Harry Houdini
    • The Old and the New Magic - Henry Ridgely Evans
    • Thurston the Thaurmaturgist
    • The Magician's Annual 1909-1910 - Will Goldston
36. Explanatory Programmes
    • Oswald Williams, Conjurer, Kilburn Empire, January, 1909
      • Growth of Plants
      • Magical Production of an Attendant
      • With Handkerchiefs and Candles
      • Umbrella Illusion
      • The Homing Bells
      • Chinese Paper Art
      • The Flying Chest
36. Advertisement
37. Queries - questions from readers
37. Replies to Queries
37. Advertisement
38. A Bibliography of Conjuring - Ellis Stanyon - continued
40. Advertisements & Personal Cards

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41. Magic - Volume X, Number 6 - March 1910 - 8 pages
41. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
    • Handkerchief and Ball "Passe Passe" from Hand to Hand
    • The Egg Bag
42. Advertisement
43. Fac-simile - Selected from Mr. Margery's portfolio - re: Stodare
43. Magic - announcements and offers
44. Explanatory Programmes
    • Oswald Williams, Conjurer, Kilburn Empire, January, 1909 - continued
      • Evanishment of Four Glasses of Water from Tray and Their Reappearance on Another Tray
      • Production of Lady from One Tea Chest Placed Inside Another
      • Lightning Change of Costume
      • Lady Vanishes from Chair Placed in Cabinet
      • Blackboard and Roses in Jar
      • Papers, Ribbons and Flags
44. Advertisement
45. Queries - questions from readers
45. Replies to Queries
45. Advertisement
45. Facsimile: Original in the Ellis Stanyon Collection - letter from J. Bland to E. W. Taylor
46. A Bibliography of Conjuring - Ellis Stanyon - continued
48. Advertisements & Personal Cards

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49. Magic - Volume X, Number 7 - April 1910 - 8 pages
49. Lightning Sketches - Arthur Margery, I.S.C.
50. Advertisement
51. Fac-simile - Selected from Mr. Margery's portfolio - re: Anderson
51. The International Society of Conjurers
51. Advertisement
52. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
    • The New Brass Cap and Vanishing Coin
52. Correspondence
52. Report on the Proceedings of The Magic Castle - Fifth Annual Grand Seance - Ellis Stanyon
    • Henry Hull, M.I.M.C.
      • Juggling with Plates
      • With Balls and Plates, Various
      • Balancing Long Strip of Paper
      • Hat and Umbrella
      • Hat and Cigar
      • China Plate Spins on Stick, opposite end of which is stood on Cerner of Playing Card Spinning on Short Stick held in the Mouth
      • Skeleton Umbrella and Brass Plate
    • Caleb Hilton, M.M.C. (The Magic Mute)
      • Suspended Ball of Paper
      • Production of Handkerchiefs and Eggs
      • Sleights with White Ball in Front of Velvet Screen
      • Dying Handkerchiefs
      • Red, White and Blue Handkerchiefs Change to Union Jack
    • Sydney Gandy, Ventriloquist
      • with "Ebenezer
53. Advertisement
53. Queries - questions from readers
53. Replies to Queries
53. Correspondence
    • Clarence L. Dean
54. An Appendix to A Bibliography of Conjuring - Ellis Stanyon - continued
56. Advertisements & Personal Cards

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57. Magic - Volume X, Number 8 - May 1910 - 8 pages
57. Lightning Sketches - Arthur Margery, I.S.C. - continued
58. Additional Sketches - Ellis Stanyon
58. Advertisement
59. Fac-simile - Selected from Mr. Margery's portfolio - re: Monsiur Evanion
59. The International Society of Conjurers
59. Advertisement
60. Report on the Proceedings of The Magic Castle - Fifth Annual Grand Seance - Ellis Stanyon - continued
    • A Magical Sketch "From the Vasty Deep" - Nevil Maskelyne, M.I.M.C.
    • Nevil Maskelyne - President's Address
    • Gus Fowler, M.I.M.C., B.M.S.
      • manufactured watches by a special process of his own
      • How Clocks are Made
60. Advertisement
61. An Appendix to A Bibliography of Conjuring - Ellis Stanyon - continued
61. Advertisements & Personal Cards

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65. Magic - Volume X, Number 9 - June 1910 - 8 pages
65. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
    • A New Method of Showing the Hands Empty while containing a Ball or Similar Object
    • Handkerchief Passing from One Trousers Pocket to the Other and Back Again
    • The Penetrable Match
    • The Broken Match Restored
67. Magic - announcements and offers
67. To Find Day of Month for any Given Date - H. G. Cleveland
68. Explanatory Programmes
    • Rameses, The Egyptian Mystic, Kilburn Empire, April, 191-
      • Appearance of Performer in Cabinet
      • Handkerchief from Glass Tube to Decanter
      • Confetti to Water
      • Production of a Lady with a goose from the large cabinet aforementioned
      • Water, boiled in Cauldron, changes to Three Doves
      • Production of Flowers
      • Performer puts on disguise, hood and cloak, completely enveloping himself
      • Production of another lady from cabinet
      • Illusion "She"
      • Another lady enters the cabinet and is changed to an old man, who forthwith retires
68. Advertisement
69. Magic - Features in Vol. 9
69. Magic - Features in Vol. 10
69. Advertisements & Personal Cards

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73. Magic - Volume X, Number 10 - July 1910 - 8 pages
73. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
    • A Broken Match
    • Blowing Out a Match
    • Apparent Dexterity in Lighting a Match
    • The Travelling Match
    • The Travelling Cigarette
    • The Climbing Cigarette
74. Advertisement
75. Fac-simile - Selected from Mr. Margery's portfolio - re: Thiodon
75. Magic - announcements and offers
75. A Lightning Calculation Feat - R. H. Townshend
76. Explanatory Programmes
    • Amasis, The Original Egyptian Man of Mystery, The Wizard of the Nile, Bedford Palace, Camden Town, June, 1910
      • Colour Change of Three Handkerchiefs
      • Bird Vanished from Paper Bag appears in Cage
      • Wizard's Breakfast
      • Combination Trick with Four Borrowed Rings
      • Chinese Rings
      • Chinese Pagoda Bowl
      • Four Pigeons from Pot on Tripod
      • Box and Golliwog Illusion
      • Cage Illusion
      • Flag Trick
77. Another Ace Trick - A. Rowbotham
77. Queries - questions from readers
77. Correspondence
    • Harry G. Cleveland [more on To Find Day of Month for any Given Date]
    • P. H. Cannon
    • Clarence L. Dean
78. Advertisement
79. An Appendix to A Bibliography of Conjuring - Ellis Stanyon - continued
80. Advertisements & Personal Cards

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81. Magic - Volume X, Number 11 - August 1910 - 8 pages
81. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
    • Vanishing and Appearing Cards
    • The "Eureka" Card Clip
    • Pencil versus Piece of Silk
83. Fac-simile - Selected from Mr. Margery's portfolio - re: Freidrich Kornman
83. Magic - announcements and offers
84. Some Novel Conjuring Tricks - T. La Frenais
    • Novel Method of Using the Sand Card Frame
    • Lemon, Egg, Handkerchief and Ring Combination
    • Cones and Balls "Passe Passe"
84. A Spiritualistic Forecast - Frederick Wood
85. Cremation and Restoration with Cards - F. Sandford
85. Advertisement
85. Notes on New Books on Conjuring
    • Expert Billiard Ball Manipulation - Burling Hull
    • Chemistry in Magic - William M. Linnet, Junr.
85. Fac-simile - Selected from Mr. Margery's portfolio - re: Moodaya
86. An Appendix to A Bibliography of Conjuring - Ellis Stanyon - continued
87. Queries - questions from readers
87. Replies to Queries
87. Advertisements & Personal Cards

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89. Magic - Volume X, Number 12 - September 1910 - 8 pages
89. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
    • The Four Ace Trick [eight methods]
91. Correspondence
91. Advertisement
91. Magic - announcements and offers
92. Original Effects by Percy Naldsett
    • The Lemon and the Melon
    • "Transit" - a Convincing Thought Reading Test
92. Rice, Ink and Water Combination - H. G. Cleveland
92. Northern Magical Society
92. Advertisement
93. An Appendix to A Bibliography of Conjuring - Ellis Stanyon - continued
94. Advertisements & Personal Cards

word count: 106837 which is equivalent to 427 standard pages of text