- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I: THE TRUE SECRETS OF CONJURING
- PART II: TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS
- Section I: CARD TRICKS
- Palming Cards - Improved Method
- Naming a Card that has been removed from a Pack
- Improved Method of finding a Card in a selected Position in the Pack
- An invisible Flight of a Card
- Rising Card without Apparatus
- Card Photography
- The Four Ace Trick - A New Method
- Two Cards placed in Envelopes Made to Change Places
- The "Foreman and Miners" Trick
- Magical Disappearance of Three Cards
- A New Card Frame
- Section II: MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS
- The Drawer Box
- The Travelling Wooden Cone
- Tumbler of Bran and Disappearing Balls
- New Hat and Die Trick
- Novel Slate Trick
- The Thumb Palm
- Application of the Thumb Palm to the "Pass"
- A New Method of Producing Coins from the Air
- Hat and Tumbler of Water Illusion
- PART III: INDIAN CONJURING
- Section I: A SHORT STUDY OF THE NATIVE CONJURER AND HIS METHODS
- Section II: A SELECTION OF THE FAVOURITE TRICKS OF NATIVE JUGGLERS
- With Bamboo and String
- Indian Link Trick
- The Sand Trick
- With Marbles and Leaden Balls
- The Indian "Cups and Balls" Trick
- Broken Cotton Restored - Improved Method
- The Mango Tree Trick
- PART IV: A FEW TRICKS FOR ALL OCCASIONS
- Disappearing a Small Coin from a Handkerchief
- The Magic Numbers
- Broken Match Restored
- An Easy Thought Reading Trick
- Disappearance of Coin from under Glass
- Flying Halfpence
- Rapid Addition - Very!
- Lighted Match put out by Blowing Through Coat Sleeve
- The Bouncing Handkerchief
- A Good Card Catch
1st edition 1917, 200 pages; digital edition 2017, 90 pages.
word count: 32243 which is equivalent to 128 standard pages of text