Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

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CONTENTS.

MODERN MAGIC.

CHAPTER I. Introduction.

CHAPTER II. General Principles of Sleight-of-Hand applicable to Card Tricks.

CHAPTER III. Card Tricks with Ordinary Cards, and not requiring Sleight-of-Hand.

CHAPTER IV. Tricks involving Sleight-of-Hand or the Use of Specially Prepared Cards.

CHAPTER V. Card Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus.

CHAPTER VI. Principles of Sleight-of-hand more especially applicable to Coin Tricks.

CHAPTER VII. Tricks with Coin without Apparatus.

CHAPTER VIII. Tricks with Coin requiring Special Apparatus.

CHAPTER IX. Tricks with Watches.

CHAPTER X. Tricks with Rings.

CHAPTER XI. Tricks with Handkerchiefs.

CHAPTER XII. Tricks with Dominoes and Dice.

CHAPTER XIII. The Cups and Balls.

CHAPTER XIV. Ball Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus.

CHAPTER XV. Hat Tricks.

CHAPTER XVI. Miscellaneous Tricks.

CHAPTER XVII. Stage Tricks.

CHAPTER XVIII. Concluding Observations.

APPENDIX.

ANCIENT AND MODERN MAGIC.

CHAPTER I. Introduction. (2)

CHAPTER II. Kempelen.

CHAPTER III. Theodin.

CHAPTER IV. Automata: Psycho.

CHAPTER V. Marionettes.

CHAPTER VI. Clairvoyance.

CHAPTER VII. Spiritualism.

CHAPTER VIII. Parlor Magic.

ADVERTISEMENTS THE FLOATING STICK. (A STARTLING EXPERIMENT.)

Transcriber's Notes

A PRACTICAL TREATISE
ON
THE ART OF CONJURING.

BY
PROFESSOR HOFFMANN.

With 318 Illustrations.

WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING EXPLANATIONS OF SOME OF THE BEST KNOWN SPECIALTIES OF MESSRS. MASKELYNE AND COOKE.

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