Professor Hoffmann
Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664633217
Table of Contents
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 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 XVI. Miscellaneous Tricks.
CHAPTER XVIII. Concluding Observations.
THE FLOATING STICK. (A STARTLING EXPERIMENT.)
THE CRYSTAL CASE AND MAGIC BALL.
THE DISSOLVING FLAG AND CANDLE.
THE DIMINISHING PACK OF CARDS.
MODERN MAGIC.
CHAPTER I.
Introduction.
Considering the great antiquity and the unfading popularity of the magic art, it seems at first sight a matter of wonder that its literature should be so extremely scanty. In England, in particular, is this the case. Until within the last few years it would have been difficult to name a single book worth reading upon this subject, the whole literature of the art consisting of single chapters in books written for the amusement of youth (which were chiefly remarkable for the unanimity with which each copied, without acknowledgment, from its predecessors), and handbooks sold at the entertainments of various public performers, who took care not to reveal therein any trick which they deemed worthy of performance by themselves. Upon a little consideration, however, the