CONTENTS
Professor Hoffmann
Portrait of Professor Hoffmann
Frontispiece
PAGE
Preface
vii
Some New Appliances of General Utility
1
Magical Mats
1
Fairy Flower-Pots
5
Patter Introducing the Flower-Pots
8
Adhesive Cards and Tricks Therewith
10
The Missing Card
12
Novel Applications of the “Black Art” Principle
17
Black Art Mats and Black Art Patches
17
A Magical Transposition
23
The Detective Die
26
Dissolving Dice
32
Where is It?
38
Card Tricks
46
Arithmetic by Magic
46
Those Naughty Knaves
49
Magnetic Magic
55
The Telepathic Tape
57
A Card Comedy
60
The Fast and Loose Card-Box
63
A Royal Tug of War
64
Sympathetic Cards
66
Tell-Tale Fingers
68
Divination Doubly Difficult
72
A New Long Card and Tricks Therewith
77
The Mascot Coin Box
83
Miscellaneous Tricks
88
Money-Making Made Easy
88
The Missing Link
92
Culture Extraordinary
97
The Bounding Beans
104
Lost and Found
110
The Riddle of the Pyramids
115
The Miracle of Mumbo Jumbo
123
The Story of the Alkahest
130
The Oracle of Memphis
137
The Mystery of Mahomet
146
The Bewildering Blocks
156
An “Od” Force
162
The Mystery of the Three Seals
170
The Wizard’s Pocket-book
180
Concerning Patter
192
The Use of the Wand
203
A Few Wrinkles
215
L’Envoi
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