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What an excellent book. The quality of the material is outstanding. What makes this book particularly rare is a chapter on juggling and how to fake great juggle skills. I have yet to see another book on magic with such an extensive chapter on juggling. You will also find the obligatory chapter on shadowgraphy, a good write up of black art, and large sections on cards, coins, and tricks with many other props. You will find billiard ball manipulation as well as stage tricks with large apparatus.

1st edition, 1902, Frederick J. Drake & Co, Chicago; 440 pages; PDF 325 pages.

IntroductionCHAPTER I: Preliminary ObservationsThe Magic WandThe Magician’s TableThe Magician’s DressCHAPTER II: General Principles of Sleight-of-hand Applicable to Card TricksThe CardsTo Make the Pass (Sauter la Coupe)To Force a CardTo Make a “False Shuffle”To “Palm” a CardThe Continuous Back and Front Palm with CardsTo “Change” a Card (Filer la Carte)The “Color” ChangeTo “Slip” a CardTo Spring the Cards from One Hand to the OtherTo Throw a CardThe BridgeCHAPTER III: Card Tricks with Ordinary Cards, and not Requiring Sleight-of-handSimple Modes of Discovering a Given CardThe Four Kings Being Placed Under the Hand of One Person and the Four Sevens Under the Hand of Another, to Make Them Change Places at WillTo Name Cards Without Seeing ThemNew Thought Card SleightsThe Lost AceTo Name All the Cards in the Pack in SuccessionCHAPTER IV: Tricks Involving Sleight-of-hand or the Use of Specially Prepared CardsTo Distinguish the Suit of Any Given Card by WeightThe “Three-Card” TrickThe Penetrating CardThe Long CardThe Ladies’ Looking GlassTorn Corner Card TrickCHAPTER V: Card Tricks Requiring Special ApparatusThe Cards Rising Through the AirChanging Card-Boxes, and Tricks Performed With ThemMechanical Changing CardsThe Crystal FrameThe Cabalistic Star for the Production of CardsCHAPTER VI: Principles of Sleight-of-hand More Especially Applicable to Coin TricksTo Secretly Change a CoinThe Continuous Back and Front Coin PalmTo Palm a Coin and Yet Show Both Sides of the Hand EmptyCHAPTER VII: Coin Tricks Without ApparatusTo Pull Four Half-dollars Through a HandkerchiefTo Extract a Coin from a Folded PaperCHAPTER VIII: Tricks with Coin Requiring Special ApparatusThe Rattle-Box. To Make a Coin Vanish from the Box, Though Still Heard to Rattle Within ItThe Demon Handkerchief (Le Mouchoir du Diable)The Half-dollar WandThe Shower of MoneyNew Coin CatchingTo Produce Coins from a Lighted CandleCHAPTER IX: Tricks with Watches and RingsA Smashed WatchA New Watch TrickThe Coin, Handkerchief, and Ring TrickThe Watch BoxVerbeck’s Wedding Ring TrickThe Wandering RingCHAPTER X: Tricks with HandkerchiefsThe Handkerchief That Cannot Be Tied in a KnotTo Exchange a Borrowed Handkerchief for a SubstituteThe Locked and Corded BoxThe Burning GlobeThe Dissolving HandkerchiefsRed, White and BlueThe Balanced HandkerchiefMultiplication of Handkerchief (A silk handkerchief made into two or more)New Handkerchief SleightsNew Handkerchief and Egg TrickThe Egg and Handkerchief ShotHandkerchief Production with the Aid of a False FingerThe Spirit HandkerchiefThe Handkerchief Which Changes ColorCHAPTER XI: The Cups and Balls1. To Palm the Ball2. To Reproduce the Palmed Ball at the End of the Fingers3. To Secretly Introduce the Palmed Ball Under the Cup4. To Simulate the Action of Placing a Ball Under a CupTo Produce a Ball from the WandTo Return a Ball Into the WandTo Pass One Cup Through AnotherPass I. Having Placed a Ball Under Each Cup, to Draw it Out Again Without Lifting the CupPass II. To Make a Ball Travel Invisibly from Cup to CupPass III. Having Placed a Ball Under Each of the End Cups, to Make Them Pass Successively Under the Middle CupPass IV. Having Placed Two Balls Under the Middle Cup, to Make Them Pass Under the Two Outer Ones.Pass V. To Pass Three Balls in Succession Under One CupPass VI. To Place Three Balls One After the Other Upon the Top of One of the Cups and to Make Them FallPass VII. To Pass Three Balls in Succession Upwards Through the Table Into One of the CupsPass VIII. To Pass Two Balls in Succession From One Cup to Another Without Touching ThemPass IX. To Make Three Balls in Succession Pass Under the Middle CupPass X. The “Multiplication” PassPass XI. To Transform the Small Balls to Larger OnesPass XII. To Again Transform the Balls to Still Larger OnesCHAPTER XII: Ball Tricks Requiring Special ApparatusThe Ball BoxThe Red and Black Ball VasesMorison’s Pill-BoxThe Ball Which Changes to a RoseThe Obedient BallThe New Billiard Ball ProductionThe Tube and BallCHAPTER XIII: Tricks with HatsThe Cannon-balls in the HatA Dozen Babies from a HatThe Magic ReticulesThe Drums from the HatThe Birdcages from the HatThe Cake (or Pudding) in the HatThe Welsh RabbitThe Bundle of FirewoodA Flower-Garden from a HatThe Animated CigarThe Wand Passed Through the HatThe Magnetized HatCHAPTER XIV: Second-Sight TricksReading BlindfoldedDr. Lynn’s Second-Sight TrickThe ThinkophoneThe Box of NumbersCHAPTER XV: Miscellaneous TricksThe Vanishing GlovesThe Rice and Orange TrickThe Drawer-BoxThe Changing LadleThe Inexhaustible BottleThe Bottle and RibbonsThe Mysterious FunnelThe Box of Bran Transformed to a Bottle of WineThe Bran BottleThe Bran GlassTo Fire Borrowed Rings from a Pistol, and Make Them Pass Into a Goblet Filled with Bran and Covered with a Handkerchief, the Bran Disappearing, and Being Found ElsewhereThe Butterfly TrickThe Wizard’s Omelet (Borrowed Rings and Live Doves Produced from an Omelet)The Chinese RingsThe Cannon-Ball GlobeTo Balance an Egg on the End of a StrawThe Obedient CandleThe Bran PlateBran Disappearing from a Glass, and Reappearing Under a PlateThe “Coffee Trick” – ImprovedThe Mysterious Coffe-CupsThe Enchanted Colored SandsThe Famous Egg and Bag TrickThe Wine and Water TransformationThe Tambourine and Ribbon TrickThe Transformation of Paper Shavings into Coffee and MilkThe Bewitched FanThe Vanishing Canary Bird and CageThe Floating CoinThe Mystic Afghan BandsThe Cross of the OrientThe Latest Cigarette EvanishmentStage Tricks1. The Plain Trap2. The “Wrist” or “Pressure” Trap3. The “Rabbit” or “Dove” Trap4. “Changing” TrapsPistonsThe Rabbit TrickThe Fairy StarThe Card BouquetThe Demon’s HeadThe Magic Picture FrameThe Flying Watches and the Broken PlateThe Cabinet of ProteusThe Broken MirrorThe Bewitched Skull and Talking HandThe Mystic FlightThe New Half-Lady Illusion”Oh! Where Am I?”Black Art Up To DateThe Art of JugglingThe Balanced CoinsThe Centre of GravityStick BreakingRemarkable SwordsmanshipThe Balancing Billiard Ball and CueEgg-Spinning ExtraordinaryBlindfold JuggleryThe Spinning HatBall SpinningAn Egg-and-Stick BalanceThe Sword and CoinThe Whirling Hoop and Glass of WaterThe Spinning HandkerchiefThe Traveling Billiard BallsNovel Hat ManipulationA Complicated BalanceThe Card, Candlestick and Cigar BalanceHand ShadowgraphyDog and RabbitA “New” RabbitFrench Chef and Frying PanThe Man and the BottlePresident McKinleyMr. GladstoneNapoleonThe GiraffeThe PreacherWoman and SpoonThe SwanMan with PipeThe Conductor and Lady VocalistThe HorseThe DentistThe Snuff-TakerThe FowlThe DancerA French AdvocateThe Woman at Her ToiletMr. and Mrs. CaudleA Good Story