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| NO. 1: MARCH 1902 | |
| Editor's Notes. | 2 |
| A Humorous Glass Trick. | 2 |
| Novel Apparatus: The Hilliar Rising Card. | 2 |
| The Magician of the Month: Harry Kellar. | 3 |
| The Great Hindoo Tongue Trick. By Ali Ben Nabob. | 3 |
| Hand Shadows. By Hilliar. | 3 |
| The Great Goldfishing Trick. Its Invention, History and Explanation. | 4 |
| A Card Trick. By Thos. Peters. | 4 |
| New Books: The Magician's Handbook, by Selbit. | 5 |
| A Novel Match Trick. By T. Nelson Downs, "King of Koins." | 5 |
| Novel Sleights: A Pass with Thirty Coins. | 5 |
| The Fairy Coins and Tumbler. | 5 |
| Ching Ling Foo's Paper Tearing Trick. | 6 |
| Magicians Doings: | 6 |
| - Chicago, Kellar at Mc.Vickers Theatre. | 6 |
| - New York. | 7 |
| - Ramblings in the Metropolis. | 7 |
| - Boston. | 8 |
| Our Letter Box. | 8 |
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| NO. 2: APRIL 1902 | 13 |
| Editor's Notes | 14 |
| Novel Apparatus M. Hermann's Spirit Canopy | 14 |
| - A Unique Handkerchief Tube | 15 |
| - A New Vest Servante | 15 |
| - A new Face on an Old Friend Harry Kellar | 15 |
| Chevalier Pinetti-Conjurer by Henry Ridgely Evans | 16 |
| The Magician of the Month Horace Goldin | 17 |
| Hand Shadows by Hilliar | 17 |
| Novel Sleights | 18 |
| - Something New with Cards and Coinsby Fred Dunworth | 18 |
| New Publications | 18 |
| The Art of Juggling by Slygo | 18 |
| Magicians Doings | 19 |
| - New york | 19 |
| - Ramblings in the Metropolis | 19 |
| - Chicago | 19 |
| - Boston | 19 |
| - Gleanings from the Golden west | 20 |
| Our Letter Box | 20 |
| Card Palming with the Fingers Open William J. Hilliar | 21 |
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| NO. 3: MAY 1902 | 25 |
| Editor's Notes | 26 |
| Novel Apparatus The New Flying Lamp | 27 |
| - The New Floating Card | 27 |
| - Vanishing and Producing Apparatus by Walter Werheim | 27 |
| - The Fin De Siecle Ball of Yarn by John H. Moss | 28 |
| New Books | 28 |
| Chevalier Pinetti-Conjurer by Henry Ridgely Evans | 29 |
| Novel Sleights A New Billiard-Ball Move | 30 |
| Hand Shadows by Hilliar | 30 |
| Juggling by Slygo | 31 |
| The Modern Magician's Hand-Book by William J. Hilliar | 31 |
| Magicians Doings New York | 32 |
| - Boston | 33 |
| Our Letter Box | 33 |
| Glass Drilling Fred J. Peters | 33 |
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| NO. 4: JUNE 1902 | 37 |
| Editor's Notes | 38 |
| The Magician of the Month Eugene Laurant | 39 |
| A Simple "Producer" | 39 |
| New Idea for Loading Hat | 39 |
| Juggling by Slygo | 40 |
| Novel Sleights Ziska's Imcomprehensible Card Effect | 40 |
| The Theatre De Martinka | 40 |
| Chevalieer Pinetti-Conjurer by Henry Ridgely Evans | 41 |
| Novel ApparatusZano's Card and Handkerchief Trick | 42 |
| Samuels' Golden-Murphy & Jack's Coronation | 42 |
| Another Large Magical Library | 42 |
| Ching Ling Foo & Family | 42 |
| Houdini Courty-Althoff Circus | 42 |
| Hand Shadows by Hilliar | 43 |
| - The Swan | 43 |
| The Zancigs | 43 |
| Magicians Doings Chicago | 44 |
| - Boston | 44 |
| - New York | 44 |
| - New Zealand | 44 |
| - London | 45 |
| - Philadelphia Mysterious De Biere at Trocadero | 45 |
| Our Letter Box | 45 |
| New Books History of Ventiloquism | 45 |
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| NO. 5: JULY 1902 | 49 |
| Editor's Notes | 50 |
| Magicians and Those Aspiring Chas. J. Carter | 50 |
| The Magician of the Month T. Nelson Downs | 51 |
| The Improved Floating Card Louis N. Miller | 51 |
| The Vernelos | 51 |
| Wand and Billiard Ball Trick | 51 |
| Novel Sleights Samuels' Swallowed Knife | 52 |
| - New Vanishing Handkerchief | 52 |
| Concerning Vaudeville Magicians by William J. Hilliar | 52 |
| Card Palming with Open Fingers | 52 |
| Chevalier Pinetti-Conjurer by Henry Ridgely Evans | 53 |
| Jack Burch, Comedy Magician Picture | 53 |
| Juggling by Slygo | 54 |
| Hand Shadows by Hilliar | 54 |
| Cartoons of Celebrities- No. 1 Alexander's Shoes | 55 |
| Magicians Doings Chicago | 56 |
| - Paris | 56 |
| - New Zealand | 56 |
| Our Letter Box | 57 |
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| NO. 6: AUGUST 1902 | 61 |
| Editor's Notes | 62 |
| The Magician of the Month John Neville Maskelyne | 62 |
| Novel Sleights A New Disappearance | 62 |
| Novel Apparatus Billard Ball Zig-zag | 63 |
| The Society of American magicians | 63 |
| The Man Fish by Xavier | 63 |
| The Great Kauffman Says Ellison Collecton | 63 |
| Supernatural Perception Second Sight | 64 |
| Juggling by Slygo | 65 |
| Our Letter Box | 66 |
| A Couple of Tricks Henry Hardin | 66 |
| Cartoon of Celebrities No. 2 Contracts Goldin | 67 |
| Magicians Doings Chicago | 68 |
| - Boston | 68 |
| - New York | 68 |
| - Milwaukee | 68 |
| - Paris | 69 |
| - Germany | 69 |
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| NO. 7: SEPTEMBER 1902 | 73 |
| Editor's Notes | 74 |
| Our Letter Box | 74 |
| The Magician of the Month Leon Herrmann | 75 |
| A Flat Trick Without Patter by Xavier | 75 |
| A New Magician | 75 |
| Novel SleightsThe Glass Billiard Ball Improved | 76 |
| - 1902 Coin Trick by the "Only" Valeusin | 76 |
| New Spirit Hand Three Tricks for Spiritualist by F. W. Cady | 76 |
| A Game of Eucher for Second Sight by Theo. Haskell | 76 |
| Obituary Luther R. Marsh | 77 |
| Juggling by Slygo | 77 |
| Progress in Germany | 77 |
| The Society of American Magicians | 78 |
| Cartoon Celebrities No. 3 Keller | 79 |
| Magicians Doings Chicago | 80 |
| - New York | 80 |
| - Boston | 80 |
| - Australia | 80 |
| - Victoria | 81 |
| En Route | 81 |
| Nature's Water Cure | 81 |
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| NO. 8: OCTOBER 1902 | 85 |
| Chicago, Oct. 15, 1902 | 86 |
| The Magician of the Month Saram R. Ellison, M.D. | 86 |
| Our Letter Box | 87 |
| Magicians Doings Chicago | 88 |
| - Boston | 88 |
| - New York | 88 |
| The Society of American Magicians | 89 |
| Items | 89 |
| Coin Jugglery-Aerial Treasury by The Only Valensin | 89 |
| Novel Sleights An Addition to the Ink and Water Trick | 90 |
| - Prismatic Ashes Knaus, Wizard | 90 |
| - Pool Ball Through Handkerchief Arthur Ball | 90 |
| - An Original Coin Trick Louis Miller | 90 |
| Bautier De Kolta | 90 |
| Spiritualism Three Tricks for Spiritualist | 91 |
| - Mahatma Miracles | 91 |
| - New Chair Mystery | 91 |
| - Kellar's New Spirit Post | 91 |
| The Swing Illusion | 91 |
| Squibs | 91 |
| Novel Apparatus Improved Larger Trick-Closson | 92 |
| New Coin Trick G.A. Marble | 92 |
| Carl HerrmannProgram (German) | 92 |
| En Route | 93 |
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| NO. 9: NOVEMBER 1902 | 97 |
| Chicago, Nov. 15, 1902 | 98 |
| The Magician of the Month Jack Burch | 98 |
| Moving Picture Monopoly | 98 |
| A Bit of Patter | 98 |
| Magicians Doings Chicago | 99 |
| - New York | 99 |
| - Boston | 99 |
| - Here and There | 99 |
| - A New Arrival from India | 99 |
| Our Letter Box | 100 |
| Book Notes | 100 |
| Hilliarisms | 101 |
| Leon Herrmann's Big Ovation | 101 |
| Yo-Ko-Yo Or the Chinese Immigration Mystery by Clarence Irwin | 102 |
| Barrel Mystery | 102 |
| Science Refutes Hypnotism | 102 |
| Ellison Collection | 102 |
| Spiritualism Spirit Slate Writing-F.W.Cady | 103 |
| - Mental or Quick Addition | 103 |
| - Or Long Distance Second Sight | 103 |
| Juggling by Slygo | 104 |
| Robertus and Wilfredus | 104 |
| A Wonderful Memory | 104 |
| The Society of American Magicians | 105 |
| En Route | 105 |
| The Great Lafayette | 105 |
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| NO. 10: DECEMBER 1902 | 109 |
| Chicago, Dec. 15, 1902 | 110 |
| The Magician of the Month M. Buatier DeKolta | 111 |
| Chicago | 111 |
| New York | 111 |
| Boston | 111 |
| Pittsburg | 111 |
| Here and There | 111 |
| The Art of Magic by Leon Herrmann | 112 |
| Stry Bits | 112 |
| Book Notes | 112 |
| Magic and Magicians Ellison Library | 113 |
| Jansen Picture | 113 |
| Houdini in England | 114 |
| A Letter from Downs | 114 |
| Allen Shaw in South Africa | 114 |
| Novel Apparatus A Novel Fish Trick | 150 |
| The Ascending Globe Closson | 115 |
| A Great Flower Trick | 115 |
| The Rapid Transit Illusion | 115 |
| Some Old Time Conjurers and Their Tricks by Henry Ridgely Evans | 116 |
| Novel Sleights Single Handed Diminishing Card Illusion | 117 |
| - A New Color Change | 117 |
| - Handkeerchief and Billiard Ball Sleight | 117 |
| - Another Wrinkle in Card Palming | 117 |
| How Kellar Began his Stage Career | 117 |
| Caught in the Act | 117 |
| Inventors Needed | 118 |
| Hypnotism is a Science That Can Stand Test | 118 |
| A Magicians Visit to ther King of Burmah by Harry Kellar | 119 |
| Golden Performs before King Edward VII | 119 |
| Prof. E. Musel Picture | 119 |
| Miss Bessie Gilmore Picture | 120 |
| Hillarisms | 120 |
| The Society of American Magicians | 121 |
| En Route | 121 |
| A New Vaudeville Theatre | 121 |
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| NO. 11: JANUARY 1903 | 125 |
| Chicago, Jan. 15, 1903 | 126 |
| Novel Sleights Walsh's Wonderful Handkerchiefs | 127 |
| A New Billiard Ball Production M.S. Day | 127 |
| Slygo's New Card Pass | 127 |
| An Almanac for 1903 | 127 |
| Lafayette Attacked by Vicious Lion | 127 |
| The Enchanted Finger Ring by Leon Herrmann | 128 |
| Stories retold One on Herrmann | 128 |
| New Vaudeville Theatres | 128 |
| Magic and Magicians Ellison Library | 129 |
| An Interesting Letter | 130 |
| News from South Africa Allen Shaw | 130 |
| The Unexpected Xavier | 130 |
| Magicians Doings Chicago | 131 |
| - Pittsburg | 131 |
| - Boston | 131 |
| - New York | 131 |
| - New Zealand and Australian Notes | 131 |
| - Here and There | 131 |
| Book Notes | 132 |
| Novel Entertainment Occult Lore of the Far East | 132 |
| The Society of American Magicians | 133 |
| Imro Fox's New Act | 133 |
| En Route | 133 |
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| NO. 12: FEBRUARY 1903 | 137 |
| Chicago, Feb. 15, 1903 | 138 |
| The Magician of the Month H.A. Jansen | 139 |
| Book Notes | 139 |
| Vandalism by Leon Herrmann | 139 |
| Magicians Doings Chicago | 140 |
| - New York | 140 |
| - Detroit | 140 |
| - St. Paul | 140 |
| - Pittsburg | 140 |
| - Here and There | 140 |
| Magic and Magicians Ellison Library | 141 |
| Novel Sleights Modern Thimbal Manipulation-Lee Stewart | 142 |
| Original Card and Hat Trick Loiis N. Miller | 142 |
| From Kings to Aces H.E. Van der Koor | 142 |
| Our Letter Box | 143 |
| The Society of American Magicians | 143 |
| Mystery of Fire Walking Explained The Ceremony as Performed by Members of the Nga Ngalita Tribe | 144 |
| The Magical Trust F.W.King | 144 |
| Wife is Hypnotised | 144 |
| En Route | 145 |
