Art of Magic (eBook)

CHAPTER I. FLOURISHES AND FANCY SLEIGHTTS WITH CARDS. The Card Fan Card Balancing To Tear a Pack of Cards The Fan and Ruffle The Downs Fan Springing the Cards Second Method Third Method The One-Hand Drop Second Method The Cards on the Arm A Series of Fancy Flourishes The Flower of Cards Throwing Cards Cards from the MouthCHAPTER II. CARD TRICKS WITH UNPREPARED CARDS AND NOT REQUIRING SLEIGHT OF HAND. Novel Card Discovery Second Method Third Method Fourth Method New Methods of Concluding Card Tricks Second Method Third Method The Reversed Card The Piano Trick The Transposed CardsCHAPTER III. CARD TRICKS INVOLVING SLEIGHT OF HAND. The Transfixed Pack Second Method Everywhere and Nowhere Everywhere and Nowhere; new method The General Card; T. Nelson Downs' Method The Flying CardCHAPTER IV. SLEIGHT OF HAND WITH CARDS (Continued). The Princess Card Trick Second Method The Prince's Card Trick The Twenty Card Trick A Comedy of Errors The Siamese Aces The Card in the Pocket Houdini's Torn Card Trick Harrington's Torn Card Trick A Card Discovered by Sense of Touch The Flying Cards Second MethodCHAPTER V. SLEIGHT OF HAND WITH CARDS (Continued). The Cards up the Sleeve Second Method The Dissolved Card The Mysterious Card The Card and Hat The Stabbed Card The Great Poker Trick Another Poker Trick The Disappearing Queen The Card Through the Handkerchief Second MethodCHAPTER VI. CARD TRICKS BASED ON A NEW AND ORIGINAL SYSTEM OF LOCATING A CHOSEN CARD. Chosen Card Appears in Any Part of the Deck Second Method Third Method Fourth Method Fifth Method Sixth Method The Ubiquitous Cards Second MethodCHAPTER VII. CLAIRVOYANCE WITH CARDS. First Method Second Method Third MethodCHAPTER VIII. A SERIES OF CARD TRICKS BASED ON A NEW AND ORIGINAL SYSTEM The Irregularities of Scroll Designed Cards Mind-reading with Cards Divination Extraordinary The Transfixed Card The Magician's Will Power Prophecy Down-to-DateCHAPTER IX. THE RISING CARDS. The Tattlings of Toto DeKolta'a Rising Cards DeKolta's New Rising Cards The Rising Cards in Swinging Houlette The Thurston Rising Cards Resurrection of the CardsCHAPTER X. THE FOUR ACE TRICK. First Method Second Method Third Method Fourth Method Fifth Method Sixth Method Seventh MethodCHAPTER XI. CARD TRICKS WITH APPARATUS AND IN COMBINATION WITH OTHER OBJECTS. "Card, Orange, and Candle" The Card in the Frame The Valladon Cards on Glass"CHAPTER XII. FANCY FLOURISHES WITH COINS, USEFUL SLEIGHTS AND ADDITIONS TO THE MISER'S DREAM." An Illusive Coin Pass The Hilliard Pass The Coin Roll The Coin Through the Knee The Traveling Coin "Down's Latest Method for "The Miser's Dream"CHAPTER XIII. COIN TRICKS WITH AND WITHOUT APPARATUS. The Sympathetic Coins The Coin Through the Hat The Expansion of Texture The Bewitched Nickel The Disappearing Dollars The Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver "Coin, Glass and Cone" The Trained Half-Dollar The New Flying Coin The Coin Through the Hat The Transmutation of Metal Subtraction of Money Every Man His Own Mint New Coin Combination The Downs Coin Wand The New Coin Wand A New Coin SpiderCHAPTER XIV. A COIN ACT AND A COIN LADDER A Coin Act and a Coin Ladder The Coin EaselCHAPTER XV. TRICKS OF THE TRADE Tricks of the TradeCHAPTER XVI. TRICKS WITH EGGS. To Balance an Egg on a Table Egg Changed into Confetti A New Idea in the Vanishing of an Egg The Eggs from the Mouth The Conjurer as Chicken Fancier Japanese Egg Trick "The Latest Egg, Handkerchief and Glass Trick" "Eggsample"CHAPTER XVII. TRICKS WITH BALLS "The Four-Ball Trick, with Novel Passes" Passing Four Solid Balls from Hand to Hand Color Change with Four Solid Balls The Traveling BallsCHAPTER XVIII. MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS. The Four Paper Balls and Plates The Flying Salt The Cigarette Paper Trick The Torn Bank Note The Bill and Lemon Trick The Ring on the Wand The Mysterious Match The Inexhaustible Hat The Mysterious Knot The Vanishing Knot The Mystic Tie The Jacoby Rope Tie The Rope Tie par excellence Escape from a Paper Cylinder The Giant Memory The Trance Vision Second Method The Quick or the Dead Don'ts L'Envoi