PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

I. PRETENDERS

FAMOUS IMPOSTORS

II. PRACTITIONERS OF MAGIC

III. THE WANDERING JEW

IV. JOHN LAW THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME AND ITS ANTECEDENTS

V. WITCHCRAFT AND CLAIRVOYANCE

VI. ARTHUR ORTON (The Tichborne Claimant.)

VII. WOMEN AS MEN

VIII. HOAXES, ETC.

IX. THE CHEVALIER D'EON

X. THE BISLEY BOY

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

FAMOUS IMPOSTORS

BY

BRAM STOKER
AUTHOR OF “DRACULA,” “PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF
HENRY IRVING,” ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

New York
STURGIS & WALTON
COMPANY
1910
All rights reserved

Copyright 1910
By BRAM STOKER

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1910