$8(1 customer rating) ★★★★★
Being a simple description of some good tricks and how to do them, with patter.
This ebook is very thorough and teaches routines from a full cross-section of conjuring including routines with and without apparatus, with and without skill, mentalism, big stage illusions, a good amount of performing advice, and other tips and resources necessary for the magician. It even provides a glossary in the back to define special words and phrases. It shows that Mr. Collins is an experienced author of textbooks.
- A WORD TO YOU
- CHAPTER I MAGIC WITHOUT APPARATUS AND WITHOUT SKILL
- The Enchanted Cones
- Smoking from the Air
- The Pitcher of Omar
- Lightning Crayon Sketches
- CHAPTER II MAGIC WITH APPARATUS AND WITHOUT SKILL
- The Multiplying Wand
- The Electric Pack of Cards
- Sharp Shooting Extraordinary
- Wireless Eggs
- Ariel's Flying Cage
- CHAPTER III MAGIC WITH APPARATUS AND WITH SKILL
- The Magnetic Wand
- Moheni's Flying Handkerchiefs
- Mysterious Flag and Candle
- The Fairy Flowers
- CHAPTER IV MAGIC WITH SKILL ONLY
- Sleights with Coins
- Card Manipulation
- Handkerchief Sleights
- The Flag and Candle Trick
- Old Glory - The Red, White and Blue
- CHAPTER V HOW TO DO MAGIC
- What to Wear
- The Personal Equation
- The Mode of Working
- Patter
- Tables
- Assistants
- Programs
- CHAPTER VI SECOND SIGHT EXPERIMENTS
- Heller's Second Sight
- Heller's Silent Second Sight
- Kellar's Silent Second Sight
- CHAPTER VII FEATS OF MIND READING
- CHAPTER VIII SPIRITUALISTIC TRICKS
- Slate Writing à la Slade
- Table and Bowl Lifting
- Table Rapping Extraordinary
- Cabinet Manifestations
- Physical Tests
- Action Without Physical Contact
- A Fourth Dimensional Test
- Materializations
- Patter for Cabinet Manifestations and Materializations
- CHAPER IX THE ART OF BLACK ART
- The Magician Who Came Out of the East
- The Precipitated Wand and Tables
- The Mystery of the Mango Tree
- The Waters of the Ganges
- The Glad Skeleton
- The Magician Who Came Out of the East
- The Precipitated Wand and Tables
- The Mystery of the Mango Tree
- The Waters of the Ganges
- The Glad Skeleton
- CHAPTER X SHADOWGRAPHS AND SILHOUETTES
- Hand Shadowgraphs
- The Black Swan
- Gamboge, the Cat
- Pat and His Pipe of Peace
- At the Races
- Lovers' Lane
- CHAPTER XI SOME GOOD STAGE ILLUSIONS
- Ya-ko-yo
- Out of Sight
- Walking Through a Brick Wall
- The Great Milk Can Escape
- CHAPTER XII HELPFUL INFORMATION
- The Society of American Magicians
- APPENDICES
- Useful Articles for the Magician
- Eggs
- Dummy Jewelry
- Other Dummies
- Paper Goods
- Chemicals
- Paint
- Silk Thread and Other Things
- The Pantograph
- DEFINITIONS OF SOME WORDS AND TERMS USED IN THIS BOOK
1st edition 1915, 177 pages; PDF 127 pages.
word count: 39440 which is equivalent to 157 standard pages of text