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Customer rank: +5 This is my favorite magic book. The reason for this is that it was a ground breaking book at the time it appeared and its contents is excellent. It was the first magic book which had photos instead of drawings or engravings throughout. And the contents is fantastic. It is one of the few books with a large chapter on chapeaugraphy. Add to this great chapters on shadowgraphy, plate spinning and paper folding. A large part is devoted to card magic, magic with coins, balls, and handkerchiefs, and much much more. If I would have to select one book this would be it. It is a book not many people know about. But you will not be disappointed.
"The Modern Conjurer," by C. Lang Neil, explaining the tricks of such masters of conjuring as Maskelyne, Trewey, Bertram, Patrice, Kennard, and others is published by the J. B. Lippincott Company. Four hundred pictures from photographs of actual tricks are included in the book. The same firm publishes "Romance of Modern Invention," and account of airships, submarines, sun-motors, dirigible torpedoes, mono railways, telautographs, together with many anecdotes, by Archibald Williams, illustrated.
From the Notes and News section of the "New York Times", Nov. 22, 1902.
This book was rated one of the ten basic books for a working library of conjuring by H. Adrian Smith, historian, collector and owner of the largest private magic library in his time. Other books in this top 10 list are
1st edition, 1902, Lippincott; reprint, 1937, David Kemp & Company, New York; 386 pages.
SLEIGHTS USED IN CARD TRICKS
- Two-handed Pass
- One-handed Pass
- To Palm Cards
- To Palm Cards from Bottom of Pack
- Continuous Back and Front Palm
- False Shuffle
- To Force Cards
- The Change
- Dealing Seconds
- Dealing Seconds from Bottom of Pack
- To Change Front Card
SIMPLE CARD TRICKS
- Telling Cards Cut by Audience
- Catching a Chosen Card from Pack in the Air
- Novel Discovery of a Chosen Card
- To Shake a Card through a Handkerchief
ADVANCED CARD TRICKS
- Manipulations with Cards
- Passing Twelve Cards up Sleeve
- The Diminishing Cards
- Back Palming and Recovery of Four Cards
- Discovering a Chosen Card Blindfolded
- The Three Card Trick (a new method)
- The Rising Cards
- The "Thurston" Rising Cards
- The Four-Ace Trick
- Passing Cards from Pocket to Pocket
SLEIGHTS USED IN COIN TRICKS
- To Palm
- To Pass
- The Continuous Back and Front Palm
- The French Drop
- To Change a Coin
TRICKS WITH COINS
- To Extract a Coin from a Pocket-handkerchief
- The Cap and Pence
- Disappearance of a Coin Wrapped in Paper
- Ten Coins Passed from Left Hand to Glass in Right
- The Aerial Mint
TRICKS WITH BALLS
- The Cups and Balls
- The Billiard-ball Trick
HANDKERCHIEF TRICKS
- Production of Hen's Eggs from a Handkerchief
- The Sun and Moon Trick
- The Handkerchiefs and Soup Plate
- Handkerchief, Watch, and Glass
- The Changing Handkerchiefs
- The Mysteriously Joined Handkerchiefs
MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
- The Chinese Rings
- Coin, Card, and Paper
- The Mutilated Parasol
- The Flag Trick
- The Ring on Stick
- The Flower Trick
- The Tambourine Trick
PARLOUR TRICKS
- Two Corks
- Suspended Knife
- Safety Reading Lamp
- To Balance Plate on Needle
- Bottle Cannon
- Shark in Fish-pond
- Novel Soup Tureen Stand
- Simple Handkerchief Trick
- Dodge with a Sixpence
- Experiment with Corks
- Pins into Glass Full of Water
- Magnetised Paper
- A Simple Coin Trick
- To Pick up Floating Ball
- Home-made Cinematograph
- Egg and Bottle Trick
- Wineglass Puzzle
- To Pass Yourself through a Playing Card
- Perpetual Motion
- Housekeeper's Weighing Machine
- A Dangerous Trick
- Atmospheric Pressure
- To Lift Three Matches with One
- Cup of Tea on Knife
- To Balance a Pencil
- Brute Force Useless
- New Umbrella Stand
- Electricity on the Spot
- "Try-your-Lung Power"
- A Cheap Sprayer
- Cardboard Figure Blows Out and Lights Candle
- Superior to Spirit-level
- Objects Suspended without Support
- To Lift Four Straws with a Fifth
- A Ludicrous Experiment
- A Similar Feat
- Burnt Thread
- Dancing Bubbles
- Boring Hole through Halfpenny
- How Water Deceives
- Novel Way to Slice a Pear
- Japanese Ball Trick
- Magnetised Marionettes
- Bridge of Matches
- To Empty Glass of Water with Bottle
- Boring Hole through a Pin
- Egg Spinning
- Suspending Glass of Water
- A Scissors Puzzle
- The Travelling Egg
- Plate Spinning
- Chapeaugraphy
- Paper Folding
- Shadowgraphy
word count: 70794 which is equivalent to 283 standard pages of text
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