The 100 Best Tricks
by J. C. Cannell

From the introduction:

• AUTHOR'S NOTE
• THE PRINCE OF WALES AS A CONJURER
• THOUGHT-READING TRICKS
  • Mind-Reading Magic
  • Seeing Through the Envelopes
  • Reading the News
  • A Remarkable Card Trick
  • Another Code
  • The Domino Trick
  • The Tell-Tale Touch
  • A Six-Fold Test
  • The Zero Hour
  • All Done by the "Joker"
  • Just One Card
  • The Telegraphic Coin
  • Mass Thinking
  • A Cool Encore Trick
  • With Four Handkerchiefs
  • So Simple!
  • With Cigarettes
  • Scaled Letter Reading
• MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
  • The Newspaper Trick
  • A Book Mystery
  • The Thumb Tie
  • The Bangle
  • The Three Boxes
  • The Handkerchief Trick
  • The Postcards
  • The Cord and the Handkerchief
  • Telling the Card
  • The Table-cloth
  • The Pound Note
  • A Secret Code
  • A Slate Trick
  • A Little Pleasantry
  • Two Match Tricks
  • The Banana Mystery
  • Black and Red
  • The Umbrella Trick
  • The Two Pennies
  • An Experiment in Hypnotism
  • A Coin Mystery
  • Stop!
  • A Double - Not Mixed
  • Four Handkerchiefs and a Wand
  • A Trick with a Waist
  • Off with His Head!
  • A Quick One
  • The Master Card
  • A Good Production Trick
  • A Trick with a Figure
  • The Turban Trick
  • A Handkerchief and a Wand
  • A Mysterious Banana
  • Two Handkerchiefs and an Envelope
  • Released!
  • Knots that Untie Themselves
  • A Handkerchief and a Candle
  • A Trick with a Dozen Bangles
  • A Cardboard Tube and a Handkerchief
  • A Ring of Ribbon and a Wand
  • The Card that Changes Colour
  • Magnetic Cards
  • A Trick with a Lighted Cigarette
  • The Captive Smoke
  • Producing a Silk Handkerchief
  • The Rising Cards
  • The Handkerchief in the Decanter
  • The Diviner
  • The Spelling Bee
  • Two Handkerchiefs and a Tea-Caddy
  • Second Sight
  • Wine and Water
  • The Mysterious Shilling
  • A Good Prophet
  • The Vanishing Sixpence
  • Disappearing Tumbler of Wine
  • Cut String Restored
  • The Watch and the Loaf
  • Broken Cotton
  • The Ring on the Cord
  • The Mysterious Coins
  • Ring and String
  • The Magic Knot
• POCKET TRICKS
  • The Magnetic Penny
  • The Magical Match-box
  • The Dissolving Penny
  • The Broken Match
  • The Floating Disc
  • A Die that Changes Colour
  • The Penetrating Thimble
  • A Ring and a Loop of String
  • The Homing Ball
  • Lighting a Lump of Sugar
  • Three Thimbles and a Pea
  • The Torn Cigarette Paper
  • A Feat of Memory
  • The Hypnotized Cigar
  • Burning a Hole in a Handkerchief
  • Passing a Piece of Ribbon Through a Handkerchief
  • The Magnetized Knife
  • A Passing Musical Note
• THE BEST CARD TRICKS
  • The Telephone Trick
  • "Thought-Transference."
  • Some More "Mind-Reading."
  • A Quiet Smoke
  • The Jumping Ace
  • Orders Obeyed
  • Caught Out
  • A Boomerang
  • In the Dark
  • A Fitting End
  • Aces Become Kings
  • The Three Statesmen
  • Boxed
  • A "Nippy" Trick
  • Disappearing Aces
  • Take a Count
  • Shuffle and See
  • Pick and Choose
  • Where are The Aces?
  • A Matter of "Sympathy."
  • It Ends in Smoke
  • Find The "Lady"
  • Lost and Found
  • It Comes to Pass
  • The Mystic Card-Box
  • Watch and See
  • In His Pocket
  • A Black Affair
  • Vanishing Cards Reappear
  • Smaller and Smaller
  • A Corner Clue
  • The Mysterious Couple
  • Blindfolded Heaps
  • Fanning the Cards
  • A Novel Pocket Trick
  • Suspended in the Air
  • Herschell's Envelopes and Cards
  • The Herschell Card-stabbing Trick
  • Almost a "Miracle"
  • The Three Heaps
  • A Friendly Pair
  • The Flying Card
  • Invisible Travelling

1st edition 1930, 250 pages; PDF 99 pages.
word count: 49036 which is equivalent to 196 standard pages of text