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An original blurb read: Tragic Magic containing original magical sketches, tricks, some humour, and many interesting items that will grip you.

From The Sphinx: And here is another one that awakens my cereberzation – Harry Leat’s Tragic Magic. Here is a book of 122 pages of the queerest conglomeration of sense and non-sense, good magic and irrelative matter – yet relating to magic – that has yet crossed my rugged editorial path. The table of contents lists 42 items, and I advise the purchaser of the book not to skip a single one of them. I do not know why the book is named Tragic Magic, for the magic it contains is far from tragic; it is live and wholesome. “The Vanishing Pail of Water” out Hovens Van Hoven, and would be a scream in his hands…. All of Harry Leat’s books are worth possession and reading, and Tragic Magic is not the least by any means.

1st edition, 1925, Harry Leat, London; 122 pages.

“Walk up! Walk up!”Introduction.”What is tragic in Magic.””My Hat.”Farewell.His Start.The Lunar Rays.Magic at St. George’s Hall.Gathering Laurels.The Electric Lady.The Academy of Makeshifts.The Falling Table.Swine or Saint.Tragic Blots on Magic.The Sacrifice.Dicky-Lagger.Almost Magic.Extracts.An appearing Silk.Magical Curs.The Hypnotized Rooster.Oh!”Chocolates on the brain.”A Ventriloquial Suggestion.Dancing.The Miser.Light.”Up, cowards, and at ’em.”The Vanishing Pail of Water.In Olden Days.Treasured Testimonials.it is Tragic Magic when.The Magic Circle.The Magic Circle Council.Impressive.More Circles.The Indian Rope Trick.East is East.Temperament.New Books.Battersea.The End.