While these impressions and pieces of information about the world of conjuring were gathered before, during, and shortly after WWII, many are true today as they were almost a century ago.
- Who is Frances Ireland?
- CHAPTER 1 In the Beginning
- CHAPTER 2 Conventions!
- CHAPTER 3 Impressions
- CHAPTER 4 Who are They and Why do They do it?
- CHAPTER 5 'Taint Necessarily Tricks!
- CHAPTER 6 "Catching" Shows
- CHAPTER 7 Do it for Love
- CHAPTER 8 Magical Dimensions
- CHAPTER 9 You Can't Take it With You
- CHAPTER 10 Magic Bandits
- CHAPTER 11 Your Child Will Not be a Magician
- CHAPTER 12 Magic - the Theatre's Little Brother
- CHAPTER 13 Stop, Thief!
- CHAPTER 14 Randolph Street - The Graveyard of Hope
- CHAPTER 15 So You'd Like to be a Magic Dealer
- CHAPTER 16 The Horatio Alger Touch
- CHAPTER 17 The Little Guys in Fur and Feathers
- CHAPTER 18 Magic and the War
- CHAPTER 19 Magic Medicine
- CHAPTER 20 Magic's Past Performances
- CHAPTER 21 Questions and Answers
- CHAPTER 22 Hotsam and Jetsam
- THANK YOU!
1st edition 1946, 202 pages; PDF 113.
word count: 52165 which is equivalent to 208 standard pages of text