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quarters in the office of MAGIC,at the handsof “Selbit,” many clever feats that have arisen from the invention of the Back Hand Palm with cards, and have no hesitation in saying thatwe have notseen a betterexposition of this branch of the Magic Art. Making a speciality of Sleight of Hand which he presents in a very pleasing manner, andnotaltogetheriguoringappsratus,afault which many present day performers cultivate to the loss of all that is spectacular in their show, it causes us no astonish-

‘‘ SELBTT. ’ Although but 2 1 years of age, he has made a study of magic in all its branches, and has forseveralyears been before the public as an entertainer of no ordinary merit, as is evidenced by the many flattering press notices and testimoniak of which he is the possessor. We havehad the pleasure of witnessing at close

ment to find that his entertainments are so highly appreciated. Being endowedwith the qualities so necessary for success, we havenohesitationinpredictingabrilliant future for this talented magician, and the best wishes of MAGIC are with him.

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ELLISSTANYON will feel greatly obliged to art becomes known the more it will be appreciated by the anyone who will notify him of any work (Book, Pamphpublic at large, and thus, apart from injuring the interests let, Periodical, Magazine article or the like) on Conjuring of any portion of the magical fraternity, all magicians, &C., not included in his “ Bibliography.” whether Amateur or Professionalperformers, will alike We would draw particular attention to the above Pars. derive benefit. which we feel sure must appeal to all interested in magic. The entertainer, in the sense of the term, provides A few lines will bring your wants before the whole comamusement for hisaudiencewhether or notheyare nlunity of magicians, and, in any event, an interesting acquaintedwith the secrets of certaintricks ; inother and profitable correspondence must result. 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Lessons in Pogic. by Prof. ELLIS STANYON, Azdhor of (‘Co?ls;uri?zgf o r Amateurs,” “ Conjuri7tg wifh Cards,’ ‘ ‘ New Coir2 Tricks, &c. , &c. ) )

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the tips of the fore-fingerand thumb. (See the dotted lines in Fig. 3). The hand is then apparently closed on the coin, and a moment later, on opening the hand,the coin has , disappeared. Inthe act of closing the hand the fore-finger Fig. 3. carries the coin the to right of the thumbwhich grips as it show i nn Fig. 4.

PRACTICAL TIPS ON PALMING. Under this headiug I propose to give my readers the benefit of my experienceinpalminglargeobjectsas Balls, Eggs, Handkerchiefs, &C., &c. PaZming BaZLs.-The ball should be asmallsize billiardballnotmore than I g in.diameter ; the egg should be a small sized hen’s egg. Both the ball and egg N.B.are best turned in light wood and enamelled, the light T h ec o i n wood is the properweightand the enamel has atenshown at the dency to cling to the palm rendering the operation much finger tips in less difficult. Cork, celluloid, or polished wood balls are -m the Fig. has to be avoided ; cork or celluloid is fartoo light, requiring nothing to do amoresensitive palm thanthe majority of conjurers Fig. 4. t h ew i t h possess-the celluloid or polished wood on account of the movement, the blockwas not,originally,intended to smoothsurfaceis apttojump horn the palm atany illustrate this Sleight. moment. Ivew Handkerchief Palm. -. Take handkerchief by one Warm gloves are generally worn by Sleight of Hand corner and throw it over left hand so that the corner you Experts, but these, especially onvery cold nights, are not sufficient tokeepthehandsinproper condition. are holding is now in palm. Screw up this corner into a When the gloves fail, rubbing the palm of the hand vio- little ball and then bring palm of right hand over it and lently for say three minutes with the ball of the opposite make a circular rubbing motion always in same direction. thumb will generallyproduce the necessary moisture ; This will have the effect of twisting handkerchief ropethis,in fact, is a great secretamongst professional wise, and at the same time coiling it up tightly, leaving it in a condition to be palmed without any fear of exposmagicians. ing.a loose end, The movement is graceful andquite Another aid to palming is glycerine. Having mois- n a t ~ ~ r awhile l, the handkerchiefappears to be actually teued the ball of thumb, on the top of the bottle (quite rubbed away between the hands. sufficient), rub well into the palm. Do not use too much. The ContinuousBack and Front Pah.-This Is an The hands prepared in this manner will remain in a fit condition for at least half-an-hour. No mechanical device arrangement by which,toallappearance, anordinary or applications other than those above mentioned are of 15in. silk square is palmed and reversed palmed continuthe slightest use to the expert in Sleight of Hand, ously as in the case of the coin (See Fig. 5. “ NECW COIN TRICKS,” second series). I n effect the sleight is as folPadminq Coins.-Having shown the coin at the tips of the thumb and fingers, the thumb is reu~oved and the lows :-The performer shows a 15in. silk square, which he folds up into thesize of half a playing card, placing it coin is passed, by a movement of the secondand third between the fingers and thumb of the right hand, from fingers, into the palm ; this is generally understood, (see which position it suddenly disappears with lightning rapFig. I ) . idity. The back and front of the hand are now shown in I t is not, however, generally understood that, hav- succession, while the handkerchief is produced, with the ing palmed the coin, the hand left hand, from the back of the left knee, or elsewhere. should beheld as indicated I t isnotthe handkerchief thatis reversed palmed, atFig. 2. Most beginners but an imitation consisting of a piece of flesh coloured are under the inqression that l card, about half the size of a playing card, covered silk if theycankeepthehand arranged to give a good representation of the folded handperfectlyflatand straight, kerchief. The handkerchief is palmed in the left hand Fig. I . like a board, they have ac- while seeming to place it in the right hand(or vice versa) complished a clever ‘ palm,’ the substitnte beingshown in its place, I n conclusion not so however ; the hand in the substitute is carried away under cover of the handsuch a position is unnatural kerchief which is passed into the right hand. and at once attracts attention. Compare it with the position indicated in Fig. 2. A New Reverse Palm for Vanishing a Coin.-The coin is first shown held between Fig. 2!

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nothing more than an entertainingseries of illustrations, in whichScience is madesubservienttoAmusement. (THE ORIGINAL “ W I Z A R D OF THE NORTH.”) But the “ Black Art ” of the olden times was the agent of superstition and cruelty, and rightlydeserved its name. To quote froma popdar author :-“ In the good old Sketches fron2 his Note Book,Anecdotes, Incide?tls,&G. times the magician waslookedupon as being in direct conlmunication withtheEvil One. The more learned N attempting a sketchof the early life and public career was he, the more certain was heof perdition, The scienof JOHN HENRYANDERSON,the “ Wizard of the tific researches of such men as Roger Bacon, Albertus North,” we feel that we are bound to present the Magnus, Paracelsus, and Cornelius Agrippa, were regarded publicwithsomethingverydifferentfrom that which only as so many diabolical spells and infernal enchantthey would very possibly expect. The story of a Soldier, ments. The imagination pictured to itself the Magician a Sailor, a Doctor, Lawyer, Actor, or Artist, must perforceas agloomy, long-beardedman in a robeembroidered with be a ‘‘ twice-told tale;” but the historyof a Wizard would grim cabalistic characters ; a staff, encircled by serpents seem to offer something new, strange, andexciting-some was in his hand, spectacles of magic crystalperched on his revelations of how the Magic Artanditsmysterious nose. He sat cn a tripod in the centreof a circle of zodiainfluences are acquired-some disclosures of how the cal signs traced in blood. H e studied out of books of weird hierophant is introduced to the knowledge of his mystic and mysterious lore. Skulls, phials of poison,. dried lore ; of how Prosper0 obtained the service of his Ariel, toadsandsnakes, wereon histable ; hideous stuffed and subjected the elements to his command. Naturally monsters hung from the ceiling. He waswaitedupon enough it is to be supposed that he who deals in mystery by a demon dwarf. Shrieks and groans were heard from should be himself mysterious, and that he should be as much a Wizard in his origin, boyhood, early life, domes- his dwelling ; hideous bats and spiders flitted about him. H e passed all his time weaving maleficent spells, sticking ticity, and daily habits, as he is when weaving his spells figures of personshe wished to or elaborating his wonders before the public on the stage. corking pins iuto wax injure ; distilling love-philters, watching the simmering The reader might anticipate, perhaps, some thrilling description of a Faust making a bargain with Mephistophiles, of magic cauldrons, and changing men into beasts, and or of a Michael Scott holding a soiree with the “ bogles ” beasts into men. H e attended witches’ sabbaths, whisking through the air on a broomstick ; he appeared unof his native glens. Nothi’ng of the sort, however, have bidden at banquets ; he dropped through roofs, and rose “ Bogles ” nolongeracceptinvitationsto we totell. conversazioni among the Scottish heather ; and in these through floors ; and, some day or other, a gentleman in black, and on a black horse with a long tail, left his card prosaic times, Mepl~istophileswould be afraid to appear with him, and therewas a strong smell of sulphur percepin the streets of Nuremberg or Gottingen, lest he should tible and the magician was seen no more-exclain~ing as be captured by the detective police. The story of the ‘‘ Wizard of the North” is simply he went, like the horseman in Burger’s Leo7rola“Tramp, tramp, across the land we go, the history of a professional gentleman of the nineteenth Tramp, tramp, across the sea ! century. E‘ullof adventure and scenes in varied life,’we Hurrah ! the dead can ride apaceadmit ; but belonging to the ageof express trains, penny Dost fear to ride with me? ” newspapers, and electric telegraphs. But the professor of the mystic art to-day wears a No profession, perhaps, has seen a greater change in white or embroidered waistcoat, pays ratesand taxes, has the character of its representatives than that of Magic. The Soldier still encampson the tented field, and marches a wife and family ; and, instead of mystic adjurations of ‘ c hocuspocus,”and ‘ abracadabra,”and “ mumpo miles to meet his foe, as he did in the days of Alexander jumpo,” issues invitations to his friends to come and see and Xerxes; the Sailor still climbs to the mast head to descry the land afar, as he did when the earliest Phceni- him at a theatre, anassembly room, or a public hall. And yet-quoting the author we have already borrowed from cian vessel steered for the coast of Cornwall,orwhen -“ the magician’s art has in no way deteriorated ; the Columbus saw for the first time the New World rising marvels of magic are as feasible now as they were in the from the waste of waters; the Sculptor still chisels his marble block in his stu iio, as Praxiteles or Phidias did days of the Dioscuri and the magicians of King Pharaoh. Nay,further, we cando evenmore wonderful tl~ings in the days of old ; and Mr. Lance paints his exquisite now-a-days, only we are not bold or impious enough to fruit pieces in his atelier to day just as Apelles executed that wondrous fruit which birds, believing in its reality, ascribe them to supernatural agency. We are content to are said to have swooped down to peck, when the picture hail,shining on our magic, the pure light of science,’ chemistry, and natural philosophy.’’ was drying in the sun outside the house of the painter, Emerson the American entitles those who hold premore than two thousand years ago. But with the Magianyart, science, profession, orcalling, cian, it has been-to use legal phraseology-wtutatis mufan- eminencein ‘‘ Representative men,” by which we understaud him to dis, and the “ Wizard of the North” performing in London, Melbourne, San Francisco, orNew York, is no more mean, that a “representative man ” is he who reflects his full extent like an Egyptian Magus,,a Delphianor Eleusinian priest, department in the heightof its culture, and the a Magician of the Middle Ages, or even a Wizard of the of the development to which it has attained. Considered ANDERSON was professedly and days of Wizard-hating King James, than Ludgate Hill in in this lightJOHN HBNRY of the departmentof Tempora withoutdoubttherepresentative Londonislike theHills of theHimalayas. muta?dur-the “ Black Art ” has become the Brilliant natural magic in Great Britain. H e represented as fairly Art, and the Wizard’s gloomy cave is a theatre glittering and as perfectly the magician of our own day, as Albertus Magnus orCornelius Agrippa representedthe magician of with gas. Atthe presentdaya Magical Eutertainment is the middle ages. ( To be continued.)

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until any one joint may be moved quickly and indepen dentlyofanyother joirit. Thisis necessary forthe instantaneousproduction of alife-likefigure. The Jew (Fig. 5) is an interesting figure for practice. I have found Shadowgraphy a delightfully pleasing is surentertainment alike to children and adults and it prising on this account that so few conjurers practice the art. The introduction of a few laughable Hand Shadows in the course of an hours show will break the monotony of too much magic, and leave the audience duly impressed with the performers ability as an entertainer.

THEEDITOR. The first essential for success in this pleasing pastime is a proper light, and from experiments made I find the main points to be observed in its selection are as under : F
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Items of Interest. We should like to know the date of the publication, past or future, of Mr. William Benjamin’s wonderful new book entitled “Modern Magicians’ Magic,” also why the title of the said workso closely resembles that copyrighted by Mr. H. J. Burlingame as ‘‘ Modern Magical Marvels.” We believe Conjurers as a body are longing to learn the correct secret of the Great Box Trick in connection with the sketch entitled “Will the Witchand the Watchman,” at the Egyptian Hall, with a view to securing the LI,OOO ; also whether the Wonderful Suspension in the sketch entitled “Trapped by Magic,” at the said “Home of Mystery,” is supported by voluntary contributions or otherwise. I t is with profound regret that we inform our readers poor Will Hiam broke a blood vessel on Monday, August 26th, and expired almost immediately. His sad death is made the more sad following as it does so dosely, that of his Father the well known and respected Frank Hiam, who died Boxing Day last from pneumonia after a very short illness. There is no descendant of the family left capable of carrying on the business, whichwill now pass into strange hands, but will, doubtless still, be carried on under the style of Frank Hiam. The magical fraternity have suffered an irreparable loss. Thoughtreading,extraordinary,as introduced by Professorand Madame Steen, has recently been entertaining audiences at the Theatre Royal, Limerick. One of the most astonishing achievements is that of Madame Steen, who, blindfolded, and with her back to two local gentlemen engaged in a game of nap, named the cards dealt to them, and also correctly ordered the play. C I -

Trovollo,anAmericanventriloquist,maniprdates two walking figures that add greatly to the value of his act: also two little boys, one black and one white, whose a continualroar of wittyreparteekeepsthehousein laughter. As a finale, a fine collie runs on the stage with a little figure dressed as a cavalry officer on his back. The dog stands like a statue, while the dummy talks and sings.Trovollo is certainlyclever. Lafayette, thenew American performer, who recently appeared attheHippodrome, is aperfectAdmirable Chichton. He outdoes any quick-change artist yet seen in thiscountry,and concludes hisperformancebydressing as a Chinese juggler, and bringing little boys, dogs, and wild fowl out of all sorts of impossible places.

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The Editor’s Iretter-Bog. To the Editor of “Magic.” DEARSIR, South Africa, June, 6th,

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I must thank you for your kindness in wishing me safe through my perilous time in Ladysmith during the siege, but I can assure you it was an awful experience for me. I took active part in all the assaults on Ladysmith, and in two sorties from it, I assisted to drive the Boers away from their trenches at Observation Hill on November gth, 1899, and in the attack and blowing up of their big gun on Surprise Hill on the night of December Ioth, and on January 6th, when the Boers at tacked Waggon Hill in force ; it was an awful day, I often wonder I was not killed, but I must have been in luck. Nothing will give tile more pleasure than tovisit you in London when I return to England, and to have a chat I canle acrossa lot of Chinese with you on conjuring, Conjurers whilstI was at Hong Kong and Singapore some of them were very clever at productions, they could produce almost anything from a shawl. I notice that one of them “ Ching ling Foo,” whom I saw give his performance at Singapore,StraitSettlements,istouringthe Western World, he is clever at productions. I also had a friend at Singapore, a Doctor “ Eugen von Krudgey,” he was a German, but a clever manipulator of cards, he had about 5,000 dollars worthof apparatus, I got some splendid secrets from him of some tricksof his own invention which I intend to prodtlce on my arrival home, also some splendid billiard ball ideas. I went with him several times to see some Hindoo Conjurers whowere very clever, but only did it for a hobby. I got the secret of the Mango Trick and the Native Indian Basket Trick fromthemwithabout a dozon other good secretsnot known. I havegiven performances at followingplaces abroad :-Hong Kong,Singapore,Bombay, Colombo, Penang, Port Said, Malta, Omdurman, Cairo, Alexandra, Candia,Canea,Gibralta,andAden, so you see I have performed at nearly all the English Settlements. I have not given a performance of any note since I left Canea I conducteda 2 % hours pereightmonthsago,when

formance of Conjuring, Second Sight, Dark and Light S6ances and Memory Feats, before His Royal Highness Prince George of Greece and his suite, and several Constds of the Foreign Powers there, where I scored a great success. I have not donea great deal of conjuriugin is a England. I was a long time with Prof. Actou, who splendidperformer,very clever atSleight ot Hand,in fact, I haveseen him astonish De Vere of Manchester and Hartz, and several other leading men at cards, he is in Liverpool now, having retiredfrompubliclife, he invents and makes all his own Tricks, one of his best is a WindwillTrick,withwatches,handkerchiefs, &c. I have not seen anything like it, as it does not require an assistant to workit, hedid offerlf;Iooto anyonewho could produce its duplicate. BERT POWELL, The Military Mystic,

T o the Edifov of “Magic.” TORNCARD RESTORED(combination).-Thecard used is mechanical consisting of a flap combination of the Queen of Spades and Knave of Diamonds, with flap corner to turn down. Have mechanical card on top of pack and a genuine Knaveof Diamonds and a Queenof Spades of these on two persons respecat bottom.Forceeach tively,andhavethem replaced anywhereinthepack. Take out any indifferent card, show it, and ask each perton if it is his; on a negative reply, change it for the top card (the mechanical one). Show it first as the Queen of Spades, then say you would like to mark it so as to know it again. Pretend to cut off a corner with a pair of scissors or a penknife, at the same time doubling back the mechanicalflapcorner. Having previously palmed a piece resembling the cut off coruer, which you show as thebit just removed,say that on second thoughtsit seems a pity to mutilate the card aud so spoil the pack, and that youmusttryto mend it.Throw(palm)the piece at the card. and at thesame instant release the flap which has been detained by the forefinger of the left hand when the card will appear whole and perfect. Now wave it about a little and release the other flap. Say you will change it to the card selected by the other person-then show it as the Knaveof Diamonds. Worked in this way makes a very effective trick. G. R. REEVES, Australia. -

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MR. R. A. ROBERTS, Egyptian Hall: On the evening of October 4th I called at the Palace Theatre.for the.purpose of obtaining, if possible, a few particularson-the.Art- of Chapeaugraphy;From Mr. Roberts ! ! ! ? Yes, fro’m:Mr. R. A. Roberts, probably the greatest artiste in Facial Portraiture the world has ever known. I was privileged to ask any question I pleased, andquickly discovered thatMr.Roberts was aseager as myself tointerestreaders of MAGIC. Buttothe poiut :-

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of what is,in my opinion, wronglycalled Chapeaugraphy. The Hat is-and should be-secondary to the face, and that is why I called my performance Facial Portraiture ; though originally I entitled it Ma?z,zipulafeur. du ,Chapeau, chiefly for the sake of its Euphonious sound?’ David Devant (during a chatIvhen we %ere.together in 1891,) in :Harrogate)beingstruck, I suppose,with certain Facial imitations I was then ,presenting. without other accessory,than my Own Hair, asked l i e why I didn’t t.ake up.what was thenknownastheTrewey Business, I replied that I had:never. seen it.Devant gave me a rough idea. “That it was a brim of afelt hat, and thefacial expression -beneaththe various shapes that ,made it. wonderful.” This ‘conversation occurred on a Sunday.The following day I left Harrogate for Ambleside.. I .was working small fit-ups then with my Drawing Room Recitals. After my arrival at the Hall, and having prepared for the night, I strolled along the village, thinking of the chat I had had with Devant. Well, I passed a small tailor’s shop-I am by nature,

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spontaneous, impulsive, quick-I walked in, and asked if he had a remnant of black cloth about 5 yard square, he had. I thensaid, “ Do youmind cutting it into a circle and place a hole in the middle.” H e prepared to comply, but asked, suddenly, ( ’ What size is the circle to be, and what size the hole in the centre? ” I was wearing a straw hat at the time, with an unusually large brim to suit my rather long hair, so, without thinking, I took it off, placed it upon the square of cloth, and said, ‘ ( Cut it the size of this.” He did, and I put it in my pocket, walked over to my dressing-room, and that night, after two hours practice, I presented the following faces :Napoleon, An Old Miser, A Coquette,Mephisto, A Clown, Bonne Bouche, “ A Good Story,” and A Nun, (thelastwithoutthewhitetie which I introduced afterwards).This was in August, I 891, I donotuse felt, only a piece of ordinary tailor’s overcoating.” Q. ‘‘ I also believe that, in your own entertainment, youdiscardaltogethersuch accessories asclips,false moustaches, and the like. ”

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Lightning Sketches. By ELLIS STANYON. ~

In attempting to give my readers some idea of how to become skilfulLightningSketchArtistes I willfirst candidly admit I am writing with but theoretical knowledge. In the absence, however, so far as I can learn, of any work on thissubject I hope that the several suggestions embodied in this article will be useful to those whodesiretoadd this form of entertainmenttotheir repertoire. A Lightning Sketch, as I have always understood it, is a plain outline drawing ; all ineffective lines are dispensed with and but little shading is employed. Perhaps I can the better convey the idea by stating that the signature of anyperson, especially the scroll that is generally appended, is . ineverysensea Lightning Sketch. (See fig. I ) Quite so ! that is my A. My idea was that if I could present a great deal with own signature, but then nothing it would be clever. I never used clips, false moustaches and wigs in this performance, and I strongly advise that where you see, I could not give these adjuncts areused, or necessary, that itwould be better for the the illustration with anperformer to dispense with the item altogether.” other persons signature Q. (‘Then, tell me Mr. Roberts, how many figures youconsider Fig. I. for the simple reason sufficient to form an effective chapeaugraphy show in connection with, say, a Magical Entertainment.” that I have never Practised flie drawing. A. (‘About one dozen, after that it is mere repetition, but let Note that the linesin the abovesketch, fig. I , may them be pictures, notwhat is ternledfacial expressionsthat amount is made, i.e. no two signatures out of a vary each time it so many contortions or ugly twistings of the mouth. , Squinting, dozen will be alike in measurement of parts. The efective blowing out the cheeks, and so on. Don’t, please don’t, do that. It is inartistic and is not facial expression. It is vulgarity in a f o m , however, will in each case be the same, the double frame that is not entertaining.” scroll inthe fig. Q. May I ask you to describe briefly the culture of the hair will illustrate th&. and face as best suited to chapeaugraphy.” A. ‘(You will see in the small photo of myself, taken one day To encourage the after I had been sitting for some twellty different facial expressions, beginner I will add the effect U on the facial muscles. I possess naturally very fine, pliable, curry hair, I have it singed pretty’ often-the small hairs thit the outline of only--1 do not use any preparation for the hair excepta little cocoa the face is a much nut oil.” ‘(I have to a great extent cultivated the “ expression ’) to such less difficult SCYOZZ thanthatin fig. I , -, a degree that with theaid of the replex action of the musclesof the face, I can tell you exactly how m y face is cast. I ?zeve?.pmctzy and may be firmly in front of n mirror, and I have only seen n ~ yhat performance In drawn with but photos, and those have rarely been successful, chiefly owing to my little practise. With being ‘-conscious ”--this is what mirrors produce ; also briefly I the exception of feel it-and in sad, sardonic or sweet faces I only require to feel. My early Shakespearean training as an actor helps me here.” the eye, whichre“ I n faces like Gladstone, The lllonks, and the Miser, I bring quires some little ( ‘ lines ” by muscular power as well as thought, you must think ; study, the lines of otherwise it is in vulgar parlance only mugging, or clowning. A any particular head round fat face is not advisable. When the face is thin, do not be readily blow the cheeks out, thataction dilates theeyes and at the cot~clu- may sion of the face ’) the audience will see you have been winded. memorized. The Rub the cheeks witha rough towel, until it hurts, every morning, double (reversible) after which, touch yourtoes twenty tinleswithoutbending the head representing knees. This will circulake t h e blood and warm the face, and apart an Indian Prince in from facial expression it will make you graceful, keep you slim, and give ease in walking on the stage. ” a bath, and reverse “ You will observe in my photo of the Nun my face is quite free the head of a Turk, from wrinkles. I wash once a day with warm water and after that will I am sure form I put cocoa nut oil on before making up, and take off ” with the an interesting subsame material, always rubbing well with a rough towel. Now and then, after the theatre, I have washed with warm water and Sunject for practise in light soap, I prefer this severity to having my pores clogged with conjunction W i t h layers of grease paint, and two shows a day fill upa lot of crevices.” the above suggesFig. 2. What little I have been able to tell I hope will interest, and at tions,while at the any time it will afford me pleasure to answer, through the medium same time it will, doubtless, prove a novelty for skilful of MAGIC, thequeries of younggentlemen who would liketo increase their knowledge of facial expression. I n conclusion, do lightning sketch aztistes. as I did,.study the great Zavater, if you can obtain a good unT o be co&inued. abridged copy. He is thefinest writer on Physiognomy, and when ~

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IMPROVED“ SPIDER VANISHERS.-After considerable trouble I have succeeded in producing a “ Spider ’ ’ withcompressionable (spring) clipswhichenables the performer, whether possessing a large or a small hand, to keep the fingers quite close together throughout the manipulation, thusmaking detection impossible. This improved “ Spider ” is complete in itself for vanishing any particular object as under. The form of the l ‘ Spider ” andmethod of fixing it to the hand, is shown in fig. 5. The plate that carriesthe various accessories revolves freelyon the wires and is passed tothe back of the hand by a movement of the two middle fingers, as in the case of the coin in A New Reverse PaZm (see ‘ ‘ New Coin Tricks,” by Ellis Stanyon, first series). This work Fig. 5 . also contains a full andclear description of the great coin act entitled, “ The Miser’s Dream,” performedwithout the aid of apparatus. When required to vanish a handkerchiefapparatus the the takes a form of “A” in Fig. 6., one end of the half roundboxbeingfitted with an immovable end, if required to change one handkerchief for another the same form of box is used but in this case it is fitted at the centre with ablack silk bag, which, atthe will of performer, formsabottom common to either end,: its use will be obvious. I n the case of a single coin the coin itself is attachedtoandrevolves freely on the wire (see ‘ ‘B’’ Fig. in 6. A novel form of “ Spider ” for a single coin is that In shown at “ D ” intheFig. thiscaseonewireonly is used, and this is provided with a skeleton ring made to fit the forefingerof performer. This is a very practical piece. .In the case of a number of coins the ‘ ‘ Spider is fitted witha roundboxconstructedafter the style of sovereign a purse. For plan of box see “ C in Fig. 6. A CandZe Lzghfer mayalsobe attached to this form of ‘‘ Spider ’ l dvantage. with ‘6. ~

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In my last article I touched on the formation of the hands, and the objects of practise. This month as an incentive to practise, 1.have had three special blocks made one handed illustrating figures. The Deer, fig. 6; The Fox,fig. 7 ; a Rabbit, fig. 8.

Items of .. IntePest. A new article “The Psychology of Conjuring Deceptions,’’ by Norman Triplett, appeared in the American Journal of Psychology for July, IF. Vol. XI., No. 4, pp. 439-510. Published by Louis N. Wilson, Worcester, Mass, U.S.A. The Music HaZZ, September 7th, and Sketch, September 12th, contain portraits of Lafayette.

Welsh Miller, King of Coins, aftervisitingParis,Leipsig, These figures are doubly MOSCOW,and St. Petersburg, is in town again, looking very fit and interesting inasmuch as wellafterhistravels.Hehasbroughtback some handsome they form, in once, simple, presentsfromContinentaladmirers. Mr. Millergoes to Berlin but effective pictures on this month. the sheet, and collectively afford excellent practise in We understand that an enterprising individual has purchased -a the acquisition of the knack the entire stock in trade of the late well-known and respected Frank Hiam, for themunificent sum of A25. Underthesecirof moving theseveral joints cumstances we surmisethatthe goodwill of the businesshas Fig. 6.-DEER. quickly independently and vanished, and that the name of Frank Hiam as a Conjuring Trick of each other. Maker, has ceased to exist, The genial and hard working Prank deserved These figures may be considered simple-they are, but better. to show their value forpractise in the production of lifeThe points of the compass may be determilied by the aid of an like pictures, I will go so far as to say that it will take a ordinary watch. I t is simply necessary to bring the watch in a skilled shadowist to put up these three positions rapidly position ‘so that the hour hand is directed towards the sun. The south then lies exactly midway between whatever hour it may and foZZom*ng each happen to be and the numeral XII. on the dial. other in p i c k successiua ; and of coum with either A number of Indianjugglersand acrobatsmade their first appearance in this country at theCyrstal Palace last month, They hand. Try it. are nearly all from the North of India, and theirperformance conWhenthe positains most of. those feats peculiar to Indian jugglery, but which tionscan be quickly are very seldom seen here, such as the growing of mango trees from seeds, the famous basket trick, and the like. .Some of their put up .with either sleight-of-hand tricks are extremely clever, hand, fig. 6 , will give a Deer and Fawn on sheet, the After considerable trouble and at not a little expense we have hand nearest . the secured some relics of Prof. Anderson Wizard of the North,” Fig. FO FOX. sheet g i v i n g a also some authentic information respecting the latter days of the smaller-shadow-and representing the Fawn. A movement great man. Among the relics to hand are his watch (the duplicate) used by him in his entertainment ; a round German silver of the top joint of the thumb indicates smeGZ’ng (don’t tray ; his cap that he was wont to perform in ; a trick book and move the fore-finger if you can help it), fore and little duplicate used for a bird trick ;and last, but-byno means the least , ngers ear movements :a movement of the wrist, in the important, his death card. case of theFawn, The articles were obtained from Mr. James McAllen, 12 Gresse will indicate PZayfd Street,Rathbone Place, W.,whoselatewife attendedto Prof, antics-in the case of Anderson just prior to his decease. They may be viewed by anyone interested, at this office. We intend, tohave the objects, also the Deer, anxiety. an excellent cabinet photo of Anderson, reproduced it1 connection I n the case of the with his biography now running inMAGIC. Fox, fig. 7, a movetop ment of the joint of the thumb We have received from Bert Powell, Military Mystic, a Dutch indicates artfulness ; Bible signed anddatedLyndenberg, S. Africa ; a Kruger twotop joints of middle shilling piece, a piece of Boer shell, and aset of Transvaal stamps, fingers - smeZGing ; surcharged V.R.I. MI‘. Powell is attached to oneof the Brigades whose luck it has Fig. %-RABBIT. little finger-eating. been to experience the brunt of the fighting in S. Africa, notably With both hands a during the Seize of Ladysmith and at Xachadodorp, on the way representation of twofoxes fighting may be given on to in his possession a Lyndenburg. We understand that he has sheet,the one bites theother,and so on. The rnove- copy of “ New Handkerchief Tricks ” (by Mr. Ellis Stanyon) the ments above described must also be carefully studied for said work being pierced with a Boer bullet while in his haversack on his person. We hope eventually to photograph this work for effect. reproduction in thesepages.Meanwhile we most heartilywish In the case of the Rabbit, fig. 8, the combined move- Mr. Powell a continuance of his extreme good luck and a speedy return home. ment of the wrist and two middle fingers (ears) indicate pZ‘yfaZ antics. Whileshowingtworabbitsonsheet one suddenly changes to a PQX,fig. 7, and commences to Can any reader inform us as to whether Mr. Wm. Manning, the THEEDITOR. author eat other. of the little brochure ‘*Recollections of Robert Hotldin,” ‘l

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We have touched a sore spot, many sorespots in fact. In the majority of cases we are gratified to learn our application hasbeen of a healing nature. It other cases, regretably, it has only aggravated the sore. In a word we have met with success ; that, beyond tendering our sincere thanks to allthose who, by their timely confidence have materially assisted in establishing MAGIC,is all we need say. We would,however, particularly requestaperusal of the following extracts from correspondence, etc. Those who have so kindly seut us endorsenlents which do not appear below will please note that they are none theless esteemed on that account, but are omittedsolely for want of space.

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Professor Albert,Conjurer andVentriloquist,hasjustleft Cape Town for the north on a trip. I hear he is shortly to meet a Company at Port Elizabeth, with whom he will tour the Eastern provinces. It is rumoured that De Caston aud BOSCO, Junr., Conjurers, have purchased from Professor Albert his illusion, “ ’l‘he Human Spider,’’ which they will show in Cape Town. We hope their enterprise will be rewarded with good success. Frank De Grnchy has been filling private engagements with his ‘‘ Drawing Room ” magic. Professor Fez0 is now showing at Dawes, New Palace of Varieties, Cape Town. Mr. Heyer recently gave a concert at Woodstock, near Cape Town, followed by “a short magic d a n c e entertainment, entitled, “A Midnight Tragedy,” during which the sensational “ Decapitated Head ’) trick will be shown, which is Mr. Heyers own invention.”--- Vive Press. A laterpress noticesays of this Seance : ‘‘ The magicseancebeingboth amusingand mystical.” Mr. Heyer has left for Worcester, Cape Colony, T.HAYES, Magician.

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F Continued from page z2). His parents christened him John Henry Anderson, and gave him all that theycould give him of fortune in thename. They were of humble rank, and life, in its sternestaspect of unremitting labour greeted the youngWizard at the thresholdof his career. Very little of his early character and juvenile disposition have we been able to ascertain ; but all our informants agree in stating that he was distinguished by precocity of talent, by a constant and ardent desirefor information, by unrelaxingenergy,and by a resolute, determined, alld decided character. His story, from the commencement, hasbeen onenot uncommon in biography-a story of difficulties overcome and obstacles surmounted, until merit is recognised, after a career of urifaltering perseverance in the path chosen for the pursuit of fortune. The eminence he attainedcould have been reached by no other means thanby the almost continual exercise of those qualities withwhich Nature endowed him for the sucessful prosecution of the peculiar profession in which hewas so acknowledged a master. The first introduction of the youthful aspirant to public lifewas in connection with a company of travelling theatricals,well known to those whoremember entertainments as they were in Scotland seventy years ago. The bias of his mind led him to he anxiousfor a life of excitement, and thevarious itinerant shows and theatrical booths which then traversed the country seemed to present to him the field on which he should win his earliest laurels. We have had pointed out the very wall in Dundee against which heposted bills for the booth withwhich he was connected in those days of hardship and ambition-not doubting that, at some future time, he would be an actor equal to the best representative of HamZet or Macbeth that he had seen-no very high aspiration either ; but it was yet reserved for him to find “ how hard itis to climb The steep where Fame’sproud temple shines from far.”

here that his mindwas first struck with the resources of the magic art, and that herecognised in it themeans of raising himself to a position in the world. He immediatly determined to become amagician, and set his brains to discover the various tricks. The whole of that mechanical knowledge which he had acquired in his youth was brought to bear on this new study, and it is scarcely necessary to say that he pursued his investigations with all his characteristic energy and determination. ( To be continued).

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4 2 6 NIGHT ~ ~ I N LONDON. “ VENI, VIDI, VICI.” on this.”I praycame, I saw, 1conquered,’’Caesarsaid, ‘‘ Look on that picture, then The mighty ’‘ WIZARD Of the NORTH ” When fresh-earned laurals grac’d the survey ! [too. warrior’s head, He “comes, and sees, and conquers,”swlftly AsHistoqwroteupon herpage, his name-As Rome’s great hero once was wont to do; Hiscountry’s glory and,Pharnaces’shame!But Caesar’s prowess vainly would essay The feats at which the Wizard is aufait ! But, ah!no conquest valour gai,ltd Not man alonehe bends beneath his willBYhumanwoeandhumaubloodunstain’d Makingboth friendandfoeapplaudhisskill; He seems to laugh awayeffect and causeNorcould he e’erextend his graspingsway “conle to seeto conquer” Nature’slaws! Beyond mankind--the bubbles o f a day ! To Norarehi&riumbhstingedwithsorrow’sdye Nature’s strange mysteries he ne’er He hears no widow’scurse,no orphan’ssigh: assail’dWithin his palace, pleasure’s frults abound-! ’Gainst manalone his potency prevail’d ! TherelaughingMomushath atemple found

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In thecpurse of time he became a member of the various strolling compames. About the first connection of thisnature which he formed was with a travelling company of equestrians from Aberdeen under the management of Betijamin Candler, who visited various parts of the north of Scotland. When in Huntly he formed an acquailltance with a theatrical manager, celebrated in that district. P R O G R A M M E for called Mullilldar ; under whose auspices he donned the sock and l buskin, and entered into an engagement with him, performing CUTTIN6 k MEADIAG what. is called “ general utility ’) business. In connection with this I The Invisible Changes of the cornpally he made his way to Aberdeen, and on several occasions With the Invisible changing MAIMED HANDKERCHIEFS, andthe appeared 011 the stage there, in the subordinate characters which FOWL and GUINEA PIG. fell to his lot. Leaving that place, he made his way to Liverpool, MIQACULOUS UMBRELLA I where he had an engagementfrom a manager, then of some celebTHE DISSOLVING DICE. The Flying Wedding Ring. rity, named Holloway ; and he also travelled for a considerable time with theonce famousParish. I n theseengagementshe The First Mechanical Delusion, A MOST BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENT. uuderwent all the vicissitudes which usually attend the lot of the THE MODEL MILL. AND THE strolling player. After remaining for some time, thus employed, THREE OBEDIENT CARDS. in the northof England, he proceeded southwards to the StaffordTHE shire district ; aud there, in connection with a company under THE LEARNED COINS : MIRACULOUS the management of one Manley, he sought toraise himself in the LAUNDRY profession by the representation of characters of a higher class than AND PRODUCTION OF THE T I M E F L Y I N G , those hehadhithertoattempted. At Hanley,oneevening,the OR TEIE Fairy Washer-woman M A G X C TARGETyoung aspirant to histrionic honours made his first appearance in the part of “ Romeo,” and played it in such a manner as to give great satisfaction-at least to hinlself. The manager, Manley,was a wag and an Irishman ; and after the playwas finished, he came behind the scenes, and, addressing the young tragedian,said“ I congratulateye, sur,-I congratulateyeonyer perfect BRINGYOUR O W N GUN. stlccess ! Ye havesucceeded, sur, beyond anything that ever I Conclusion of PART FIRST, an interval of FIFTEEN MINUTES. saw! ” Of course, Mr. Anderson ‘was delighted at having, as he thought, PART SECOND Conclusion of the WIZARD’S Extraordinary Performances. given so much satisfaction to his manager, and he replied, “ I am highly delighted, sir, atyour great opinion of my performance.” or, the “ Great opinion, sur ! ’) said the manager : *‘be mysowl, sur, but L X U X N G ORANCiESCbe I have no great opinion. Ye’ve brought bad acting, sur, to the THE FABLE OF THE PHENIX greatest height of perfection.” PRACTICALLY ILLUSTATED I Nothingdaunted by this unfavourablecommencement to his theatrical career, the youngplayer persevered in hisefforts, and in DIVINATION OR SECOND SIGHT. WATER versus WINE I time became a great favourite with the public. It was in this part of England that Mr. Anderson first saw the clever magical performances of th.e celebrated Signor Blitz ; it was

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edgesblackedandoneside be attached, bymeans of the hook,to any part of the attire, tobe produced as required. by Prof. ELLIS STAHYON, I The New Vest Dropper.-This is aboxconstructed to hold say a dozen coins. The coins are kept in position Authur clf c ( Conjuring for Amateurs, ’) Coujuring with by ahingedplate which is in turn Cayds,” N e w Coin Tricks,” &C., &c, secured by the spring clip, (see Fig. g). The box is further provided ;MECHANICAL DEVICES FOR PALMING, &C., Continued. with a safety pin for fixing it to the Coin Dropper for Hat.-This takes theform of a round underside of the bottom of the waistbox on the principle of a sovereign purse, differing only coat on the left side. in point of size, and the fact that the closed end is proHaving vanished a numberof coins vided with a strong, sharp hook. I n depth it will take from the hands (really palming them some eight or nine coins,while its in the right hand) performer, with the diameter is such as to admit a penny, empty left hand, presses the clip when florin orhalf-crown towork freely the concealed coins fall into the hand, from one end to the other (see Fig. the inferencebeing that thosevan7). Howevermany coins thebox Fig. 9. ished have been produced from the may contain the action of the spiral vest. The coins produced are now transferredto the spring in its interiorkeeps the upper- right hand, and the ‘( palm ” is concealed. most always flush with the top and ‘6 Spider ” Coins.-Other adaptations of the Spider ” in a position to bedislodgedby the principle(see MAGIC for Nov.) are fingers. The col~structionof the box shown in Figs.. I O , 11, 1 2 , and 13. in other respects admits of one coin Fig. 10.-This is reallytwocoins Fig. 7. onlybeing removed at onetime. soldered together, a space beingfirst I n use the box dulyloaded with coinsis secretly palmed cut across theirdiametertoadmita in the left hand. A borrowed hat is next received in the small india-rubberbandto which is righthandand shown to be empty. (The performer attached the two cat-gutloops for passmay here ask if he may do as he likes with the hat and ing over the fingers. This band forms upon receiving a reply in the affirmative may exclaim, a spring which admitsof much freedam ‘ Then I will k e q i t . ” ) T h e h a t is next taken in the in manipulation. left hand which movement affords the opportunityof fixA Fig. I 1.-This . ing the box by means of the hook just inside, near the again, is two coins top, o n 09LC side or’ the hat. soldered together. pig. Io. The box is covered by the hand holding the hat, and Before fixing, one side of each coin is the coins are in a position to be pushed out one by one turned down, to reduce thickness ; a as required in the Money Catching Act, entitled, ‘ ( The groove is then made across their diaMiser’s Dream. ’ ’ See ( ‘ New Coin Tricks ’ ’ (first series). meter,inwhichthewire,provided The chief use of the apparatus is to admit of the hat with a crutch at each end, may work. being placed on the table and the hand, sometimes susF i g . 12.pected of holding the coins, being shown empty at any This is an ordinmoment. ary coin with a The Best Hooked Coin.-A coin provided with a minpiece of wire ute hook is a valuable adjunct to the stock-in-tradeof the Fig. 11. through driven e r magician, The best method of preparing such a coin is it near the edge,leaving a dull po&t Fig. 12. shown in Fig. 8. I t will be seen that the coin is drilled projecting about one-sixteenth of an from a point on the outside edge, diagonally to a inchoneitherside.Thesepointsare grippedbetween point on the surface, the direction and size of the the tips of the first and second fingers, which admits of hole being such as to admit of a needle point being the coin being swung to back or front of hand asrequired. hammered tightly into it and to project about Fig. 13.-This isanordinary coin of an inch, and at an angleof about 20’ from the provided withtwodullpointsabout surface of the coin. Fig. 8 gives a sectional view in. long soldered on its edge. of a coin provided with such a hook. I append a I n place of these points the edges of couple of examples for the use of such a coin. the coin may be drilled as in the hooked In connection with the “ Money Catching Act,” coin (Fig. 8 ) , and a piece of flesh performer apparently sees acoin sticking on wing, coloured silk attached, with loops for or on screen, and while seeming to take it off , his passing over the fore and little fingers. assistant (behind wing) secretly attaches it to his ( To be continued). (performer’s) back. Performer proceeds to catch Fig. 13. Fig. 8. two or three morecoins, then suddenly turning N.B.-The several pieces of apparatus illustrated above have been round to catch one in the rear, he is quickly apprised of designed with a view to enable conjurers, not having the time or the fact that there is one on his back. Appearing sur- inclination for long practice, to give a mechanical representation of the “ Mizer’s Dream.” For a full, clear, and correct descriptioll prised, performex while attempting tofind said coin (with the‘said Act, performed by sleight of hand, alone, the reader is hand containing one palmed) attaches it to @nother part of referred to (‘New Coin Tricks ” (First series) to be obtained from of his attire then suddenly appearingto hit upon it, pro- this office. The instructions.contained in the work referred to duces palmed coin ; the surprise can now be repeated. will not appear in thesepages-Ed.

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A new and interesting book on Shadow Entertainments is that entitled “ Les Pupazzi Noirs. (Ombres Anim6e) History, Construction,Working, &c. Edited by Chas. Mendel, 118 Rue d’Assas, 1900, Paper, quarto, 304 pages, 10g illustrations. Paris.Paris, The work is similar in size and style and is an admirable companion to “ Les Silhouettes Animee ” published in 1893 by the same firm. These works are invaluable to Entertainers giving as they do full particulars of the light, screen, &C., also full size diagrams of the accessories used in the production of the various shadows. No collection of magical literature can be considered complete without them. Either may be obtained from this office. (see advt). “ T h e Phantom Guards,” the illnsion at the Empire, is an ollapodrida of sword drill, opticalillusions, and comic songs. The rehearsal having made such favourable progress, the nlanagement announcedthe first production of the novelty on Monday, November 26tl1, much earlier than had been expected. Powell, the man of mystery, early in November, concluded a six weeks engagement at the Eden Musee, New York, where he showed for the first time the Wonderful Fish Catching Trick. He used a jointed bamboo fishing rod ; attaching a line about IO feet long, he threw it on the stage and caught a live gold fish. The third time he threw it on thefloor in front of the stage andcaught afish. The three live fish were placedina bowl of water and displayed anlougst the audience. The rod hadareel arid theline a float ’l‘lle apparatus was made by Martinka & Co. We should like to kuow how loug a paper, whether devoted to the iuterestsof magicians, or any other community, must run before it may be considered established. We presume, however. that if a paper shows agradual improvement from the date of its birth, withoutJuctuation of any kind, itmay after the first few issues, be considered worthy of the patronage of all aud sundry of the communityit would benefit. If MAGIC can accomplish this,asit promises to do, it will be the first and only paper in the English language, i.e. the onlypaper in the Ellglishlanguagedevoted solely to the interests of Magicians, Jugglers, and Ventriloquists that has ever achieved so much. MAGICalready has the supportof Magicians in every corner of the earth, Proof of this, were such needed, exists in the fact that Annual Subscriptiom were to hand from all partsof the Continent, China, Japan, East African Protectorate, E‘ield Force (Transvaal), The Cape, India, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, United States, North and SouthAmerica, and other and moreremoteparts, before thejirst copy was oflthepress ;and evidence of other kinds respecting the popularity and phenominal success of MAGIC and on the “New Coin Tricks ” (by Ellis Stanyon) is not wanting, contrary, it stands out glarmg in large and small type, affording one of the finest possible, at the same time, gratuitous advertisements. In a word, everybody has MAGIC011 the brain, some from community one cause, some from another : it matters not to the the cause. MAGIC is undoubtedly established for all time.

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“He seemed surprised, and asked further if I had ever thought of becoming a professional gymnast. On my replying in the negative, he talked for a few moments A place of real importance is accorded to M. Paul Cin- longer, and then, asking my father’s name and address, quevalli on the variety stage of the present day ; and no left me.” intelligentobserverhasyetwitnessedhismarvellous ‘ l On reaching home I found that he had preceded me performances without being impressed with the fact that he and insisted on leaving tickets to one of the theatres for is veritably a genius among jugglers. the entire family. We went that evening, and my friend People who have only seen M. Cinquevalli on the stage of the afternoon appeared, and performed some aerial feats haveyettolearnotherphases of thisextraordinary on the flying trapeze that appeared to me little short of man’spowers. In person, he is not tall, but well propormiraculous.’’ To cut the story short, theboy was enticed tioned ; his deportment is natural and engaging. Born by the showman to run away from home. a t Lissa.Poland, M. Paul Cinquevalliwentto school A week later,” resumed the renowned juggler, l ‘ I in Berlin. From a scholastic point of view, he was by no means a precocious child ; but at .the gymnasium attached was en youie, with my new acquaintance, for Odessa.” l ‘ On reaching there, I wrote home, and shortly after, to the establishment he was quite a different being, and was generally found whirling around the horizontal bar, received a letter from my father, giving me two months or trapeze whenever his presence was required to atolle to return, or, failing todo so, to consider the fanlily circle THE INCOMPARABLE JUGGLER.

; he for any misdeed. This wentonforseveralyears learned little in the schoolroom, but very much. in the gymnasium. Besides keeping himself off theearthas much and as often as possible, he contracted a desire to do the same with inanimate objects, and could balance almost anything on the tip of his nose, at the same time keeping several balls in the air. At the end of the session the scholars gave a display before their parents and friends, in which young Paul figured conspicuously asthestar of the occasion. H e would do hair-raising feats on bar, ring, and rope, and took prize after prize. It was a proud moment after it wasallover, and everyone,including my family, had gonehome,” observed M. Cinquevalli ; I was still lingeringaround the playground, wh.en agentleman came up, and, after complimentingme on my skill, asked me who had taught me some of my hardest tricks. ” I told him I had taught myself.”

complete without me. I was only a boy of twelve at the time, and my new life fascinated me.” l ‘ I did not return.” After performing in all the principal cities in Russia, he returned, at length, to Germany, and, aftertwo years, reached Berlin, where his father still resided. One night, by request, the company gave a performance before the Emperor,andthenextmorningthe newspapersspoke inthe mosteulogisticterms of the performances of the younggymnast. His mother,met him with open arms ; not so, however, with the father, who considered that the son had forfeited paternal affection ; nothing at first could persuade him to invite Paul to return home. ‘ I At last I met my father at one of the large cafes, ’) said M. Cinquevalli, and a moment after we were seated at atable,friendsoncemore ; the pastforgottenand forgiven. ’ ’

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I ‘ Yes ; I am proud of my profession. The question is often asked me, how to go to workto become a juggler. There is only one way, and one rule. I t applies toeverything else equally well, and that is : whatever you make

up your mind to do, stick to it until it is done. I have found it work very well.’’ ‘ I Do you practise every day ? ” I asked, at length. I generally practise several hours a day, ” said M. Cinquevalli ; ‘ l particularly ,when I have. a new trick to give. Pardonthe word hick, as .it..scarcely.expresses. what I mean ; for juggling as you know, is distinct from ,conjuring. The onecan be learned in a few days,at most ina few months ; whilst oftena single act in juggling

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requires years of application and assiduous perseverance before it is perfect, and even then it does not permit of a holiday. For instance, I rehearse my billiardballsand wine glass act every day most rigorously for a quarter of

an hour in the dressing room, before I attempt to perform it in front of the audience.” He holds a wine glass in his mouth, and puts a billiard ball in the cup of it. Then he places two other balls on the bukt end of a cue, and balances that on the ball in the glass ; next, by an almost imperceptible movement of the neck, he displaces the uppermost ball without dislodging its fellow, and receives it.in his right-hand, throws it back to hit the other, and catches both, one in either hand, leaving the cue in perfect balance. (To be Continued.)

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He has lately added much to the effect o f his act by introducing a small curtained enclosure on19 just large enough to conceal himself in a crouching .position, thus HOUDINI,(Alhambra) showing that a cabinet is of no ‘consideration beyond a The King of Ha?~dct@. cover to conceal his methods ; this is demonstrated by will at any time consent‘ to handcuffed be The HandcuE Trick, where known a patter11 the fact that he (hands behind) then to kneel inside the tiny enclosure, cuff ” and duplicate keys are used, has for many years with front open, and while in fullview will release himbeen a favouritewith SO called spiritmediumsand duplicate magicians would who self in a few seconds. performances, their under but a The handcuffsproare always different r6le. way any in perly not opened and To ensure the necesHoudini, Mr. Harry now fillinjured. inkengagement a return forthcoming at.beingirons saryat the a after Alhambra more than maintain to and each show, t and Germany, successful in tour offers our topresent whosewe portrait any LIOOto who person shall asmonth,thisreaders eclipsed succeed in ‘ l fixing ” him-at yet anything produced this in present the nloney not has been line, by either mediums or magiclaimed. Heforward also puts cians ; had the niediums known .. a $5000 challenge tothe world, his secret before he produced his and will forfeit the same to any under act of the who person magician r61e a shall duplicate his theyhad would,have doubtless, release from Cuffs, and Irons diniflutter.’’another starkstrip to is That free undertakes to himself ditions. from iron,’ regulationany besearched, thoroughly the several andat onemouth time,same sewed and sealed up, ably he and it succeeds making in impossible to conceal doing so in less timethan it takes keys,springs,or lock pickers, to bind him. and in that state escape from all I have Mr. seen that fetters with Houdini be may locked or legs arms, or body. His pairs three on of irons strange laced on to ability connectedwith hisothers, wrists, is accomplish this all equally strange,feet on his ; and endorsed by the Chiefs of Police on another inoccasion two whenGermany, and U.S.A.,the by sailorsfrom H.M.S. Inspector “Powerful,” Melville of Scotland all keeninterest before Yard, who a evidently took of whom has he in their task, screwed their ship submitted to the above test. MR.HARRY HOUDINI. on irons the atHoudini same concludes show his time “trussing ” him with a broom handle in such a with an exceptionally smart Box Trick in which he is position that he could not even roll into his cabinet but ably assisted by Mrs. Houdini, whose untiring efforts to had to be carried there by the sailors who dropped him secure the maximum of effect are very apparent. Houdini, in a heap on the floor. I n each of these cases Houdini wearing a borrowed coat, and with hands tied behind, succeeded in liberating himself in less time than it took stepsintoanexaminedsack,which,duly tiecl and to fix ” him. sealed, is placed in one of those beautiful large trunks, I Y I

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bag. These-strips keep the mouthof the bag closed until pressure be applied at their ends,when the bag will open, receive the object, and, on the pressure being removed, will close again, keeping all secure. Coin through Hat, (Improved).-The performer shows a coin and forthwith proceeds to pass it into the hat by way of the crown. That there may be no doubt as to the actualpassing of the coin it is left sticking half way through the hat ; a final push andit is heard to fall inside. The coin used is a trick one constructed as follows.-A groove is first turned round its extreme edge deep enough toconceal a small india-rubber band. I t is next cutin half across its diameter. A hole is drilledin the Fig. 15. centre of one half in which is inserted a needle point. In the other half a slot is cut to admit the needle. The two halves are now placed together and kept in position by passing the band round the groove afore mentioned (see Fig. 15). This coin has a distinct advantage over the older form in which the one half only was used, in so far that it may at the outset be shown as anordinarycoin.Whengivingthe final push it is, of course, withdrawn and palmed.

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Japanese Bird Vanish.-The old Mouchoir du Diable, or Devil’s Handkerchief, for vanishing small objectswill be known to the majority of my readers : at the best it wasbut aclumsyexpedientforproducinga magical disappearance, and on that account was very little, if ever used. The New Devil’sHmldkerchief, as usedby Japanese Conj nrers to cause the disappearance of a bird, will, on the contl-a-y, I feel sure, 1)efound of practical utility to the nlagical fraternity. In practise it is merely heldby the four corners, ostensibly in the most careless manner possible, and any object as Egg, Ball, Orange, Bird, etc., droppedillto the bag thus formed instantlydisappears, the llandkercllief b3ng immediately sllalten out and both sides shown. /* 1llis seenling prodigy is thus explained.-Two handkercl~iefs,preferably of soft silk and rather large (neck handkerchiefs for instance), are sewn together all round theiredges,with the exception of a portion at one Fig. 14. corner as shown by the dotted lines in The handkerchiefs are -- L alsosewn together from I i the said corner to the centre as further indicated by the dotted lines in the fig. A bag is thus formed into which the object actually is dropped. The introduction of the object into the bag is facilitated by the insertion of a couile of whalebone stripsinthe Fig. 14. silk at the mouth of the

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Entersarenainhis automobile, alighting, reaches stage by steps incentre,withoutspeaking proceeds tomake sixlightningsketches. on as manyprepared boards (about Ift. square) with coloured chalks ; as each sketch is made it is throw11 to an attendant in.a careless manner ; the subjects up to this point are not apparent, six boards’ and butin conclusion Lafayettetakesthe stacks them in rows of two, one above the other on an easle when the whole are seen to form one large finished picture, the subject of which is quite apparent. Lafayette next gives an excellent imitation of Bandmaster “ Sousa,” at conclusion of which he step; off the stage (wings) ; attendant enters to put things straight ; it is Lafayette, not attendant. At the conclusion of this last change Lafayette retires to rear corner of stage where await him two attendants one inKhaki, andoneina dark uniform, Lafayette apparently takes a seat on a chair at the rear of a low screen, adjoining wings, leavingotlly his head visible ; i n reality he goes right off the stage while the attendants push upa dummy on chair. Theynext envelope this dummy(presumablyLafayette)inacloak;then the khaki attendant retires to fetch a scarf to complete the attire of the dummy. The khaki attendant (redly: Lafayette who has had time to don khaki attire) returns with scarf which he places round neck of dummy ; he’ next leads the dummy forward tofootlights; the dummy, who upto this pointistaken for Lafayette, suddenly collapses, and the khaki clad attendant, smiles blandly on the audience. An imitation of Ching Ling Foo (Chinese Magician). Dressed as a Chinaman, in which garb one could produce almost anything from a doll’s house to a castle, he produces from a cloth a dog (a full-grown spaniel), a fullgrown turkey and two dozen pigeons in a large bowl ; also a real live piccaniny about 2 ft. bin. high. I t must not be overlooked that the cloth from which the above livestockis produced isnotsmaller than afull-sized counterpane.Lafayette next fashionsatube out of a large sheet of cartridge paper with which he covers the piccaninyproduced from cloth, and which wewill call No. I . On lifting the tube the child has vanished, but is a few seconds later shaken out of the paper. (The child simply clung to the hand lifting the tube). The paper is next openedandshown to be empty,then once more wrapped round piccaniny No. I ,while this is being done, piccaniny No. 2 contrives to runfrom skirts of performer, into tube which now contains “ twins.’’ The tubeis next lifted from No. I and placed on a chair ; when removed No. 2 is seen standing on chair. (No. 2 simply clung to the hand lifting tube on chair). Variation of above.-Having produced Piccaniny No, I he is left standing in full view. The tube isnow made and set aside presumably empty ; really No. 2 has contrived to run in secretly asabove. No. I is now lifted into tube over the top : tube is next lifted SO that audience see the legs, as they thinkof No. I , hut really of No. 2 who is nursing No. r : tube is lowered, the impression being that it containsone child only, on removing it a moment later two piccaninies arediscovered. A large bowl of fire probably 18 in. diameter is next produced from the cloth. In conclusion, the performer as Chinaman creeps under the cloth, and immerges changed to a charming damsel in appropriate robes,hair &c. The cloth used in the aboveact is covered with a dozenor so coloured incandescent electric lamps. The stage isone mass of drapery and light, which detracts much from the magic element ; but on the whole the show is extrenlely novel, and judging from the continued applause,well appreciated.

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AndersonreturnedtoAberdeenandtheregavehis first entertainments in Magic, in the Hall thenknown as Morrison’s. The successwhich attendedtheserepresentations was much beyond his expectations, and afforded him sufficient encouragement to hold on in the course he had begun. Every performanceaddedto the stock of his experience, and the confidence which he felt in his o m n ability ; and he soon began to sketch out the outlines of that magnificent plan which in after years he so ably completed, by placing himself at the very top of his profession, and gaining for himself that celebrity and renown which everywhere are associated with the honoured name of (‘ The Wizard of the North.” After remaining for some time in Aberdeen, he made a short of Scotland,and tourthroughthenortherndistricts then returned to the point from which he had started. It was at this time that he came in contact with a person who afterwards, ullder the designation of M. Philippe became celebrated in France as a magician. Philipee, so named in Scotland, was originally a cook in the service of thelate Lord Pannlure.Leavingthatemployment, he settled down and remained for a nulnher of years in Aberdeen. H e heard of the fame of the youthful magician, was induced to visit his “ temple, ” and was struck with his performances ; and having made the acquaintance of Mr.Anderson, he obtained a11 insightintohis profession, and fac-st’nziZesof his then humble apparatus. Philippe improved to such a degree upon the knowledge he thus acquired, that, leaving England for France, he earned the reputation of being one of the mostaccomplished magicians ever seen in that country. Time passed on and John Hellry Anderson became a better magician daily, working diligently to secure the apparatus his means would allow, and devoting his inventive powers to the discovery of new modes of pleasing the public. He continuedfor aconsiderabletimeto ammethe citizens of Aberdeen,andhaving concluded his season there, he wended his way southwards. Arrived at Brechin,hewasmuchgratified at receiving an order from the late Lord Panmure to call upon his lordship at BrechinCastle. Here an incident occurred, the description of which we extract from the ‘ ( Wizard’sNote Book. ’ ’ PROFESSOR AND.EI<SON DINING WITH A LORD. I called at the town of Brechrn, where I engaged the Farmer’s Hall, for the purpose ofgivinc my entertainment. When here, I rook up my quarters at he we!l-knowll Swan I n n , which was then kept by Mr. “Bean, a bit of a wag, and quite a character it1 his way. After the first night’s performance I was honoured by a message from Brechin Castle, to the effect that Lord Panmure desired a n interview with me. previous to my giving a private exhibition Castle. I had often before a company then staying with his lordship at the heard of Lords, Dukes. and Earls. and hadeven seen Kinp;s and Queens in the Theatre, but the idea of coming in contact with the genuine article in the way of business had never once crossed m faucy. Burn’s description of his feelings 011 being invited to dine with LorJDaer conveys something of what were miue on that occasion. It was“A ne’er-to-be-forgotten day . Sae far I sprauchled up the’brae I dinner’d wi’ a 1brd.l1 But, as old M‘Beau remarked, there was no help for it, so I mustered a sufficient stock of courage, and went down to the Castle, where, 011 telling my errand, I was at once ushered into the presence of1,ord Panmure, whom I ouud to be just an ordinary mortal likemyself-for ’ The fleut a nride, nae pride had he, Nor sauce nor state, thatI could see. Mair than anhonest ploughman.’’ His lordship received me most graciously told me that he was that night to have a large party, and desired to know’ if it would suit my convenience to givemysleight-of-handexhibitionbeforethem I managedinreplyto stammer out, ‘‘ Y-e-s, my lord,” when he remarkid that l had ’better mhke

my pre arations immediately, and showed me into the library, which he said he woupd reserve for my use. Having bowed my acknowledgments, I was making my way into the hall, when I encountered Lady Panmure, to whom his lordship called as I was passing along-“Lady Panmure, tell the conjurer to come and take dinner wlth us today ’’ . U on which her ladyship, in the most courteous manner intimated to me his Pordship’s wish. I thanked her lad ship and made my’way out of the great house in the best manner I could ancfhuriied back to the Swan in a state of fear aud anxiety, such as I had never previously experlenced. “Bean, the landlord, observing my agitation, and bem anxious to ascertain my reception at the Castle, eagerly Inquired what hacftaken place, when I informed him that his lordship had summoned me to give my entertainment that night to a large party, and, what was worse, I had been invited in the afternoon to dine there, and never having seen a real living lord, much lesfL dined with one, I was quite a t a loss what to “ there’s nothing do or how to conduct myself. Hoot, man.” said “Bean, sae easy, you maun just keep oure’e onilka body, and dee as ye see ilk other folks deeing, and if there arezfty dishes on the table ye maun taste of them all, and see that ye leave nothing on your plate.” He further instructed me that ‘‘ if my lord or my lady should ask you to tak’ a glass 0’wine wi’ them be sure to say ‘Wee1 my lord y’er guid health ’ . aud if there should be a heal; 0’leddies in the dra&inj-room,and ye see yin wkitin’ without a gentleman, ye mauna tak’ haud 0’ her arm, but iust march on before her into the ,dinin’ room, for fear her guid nlan may be angry wi’ you ; for,”headded,these and great folk, ye ken, are awful jealous 0’their better halves.” With these. a few such hlnts and advices anxiously adtninistered by my friend “Bean, whose true character at that time I was in ignorance of, I set about preparinm my apparatus for theevening. I got the wholecompleted in a short time”, I made my and returned to dress for dinner. Haviug completed my toilet, appearance before “Bean, who again rehearsed hiscode of instructions, at he close of which he suddenly exclaimed, with an airof astonishnletlt-“Preserve u s man, ye’er no gaun in that coat ? ”-(I had on a plain dress coat)-.”fhat’s ndt a coat tae gang to a lord’s,:able in.” I said. “ Is it not the fashion? *’ ‘‘ Fashion ! ” exclaimed “Bean, wha ever heard 0’a body gaun to a lord’s table in a dresscoat ? Ye maun getafrockcoat to bein the fashion.” I I hadnotsuchathingabout me. informed“Beanthat,unfortunately, I thanked him kmdly for the Never mind,” said he *‘I’ll lend ye ain.” offer, and he immediat&y sent up stairs for his Sunday frock coat, which was a veryexcellent black one. I may inform the reader that “Heat1 was rather a corpulent, stalwart person and I was not then full grown and rather lanky. However, I made a fan- excdange, and donned his frock coat, observing that I thought it rather largefor me, but he declared with reat seriousness that it fitted llke a glove. Bemg fully accoutred tohis satisf%tion, off I startedfor the Castle, where I arrived half a n hour before dinner. I once more took a look at my apparatus, to see that all was right, aud was then shown into a A s I entered, all eyes were room where there was a large party in waiting. I took a seat directed against me, as If I had been the lion of the eveuiu~, and Upon looklng round the room i n a corner of the room to avoid observation. I was somewhat surprised to fiud that every gentleman present wore that kind of coat my friend had advised me to put off, and that I alone had on a large frock coat. I consoled myself with the reflection, however, that “Bean, inhis anxiety for my welfare,hadcommittedsomemistake. By and by after we had waited a short time, severa1,pf the gentleme11 approached me: I suppose 011 intend to and havingintroducedthemselves,said,Well,Sir, astonish us to-uight ? ’’ to which I answered, * ’ Yes, I will i r I can.” At last a servaut announced that dinnerwas on the table, when the whole party stood upaud proceeded tothediuing-room. I, of course,remaineduntil werein the room. Faithfulto towards the last,when I andaladyalone M’Bequ’s advice, I didnot offer hermyarm,and westoodlooking at each other for a few secouds. At last the lady said “ Mr. Andersou, I’ll take your arm,” which she did in a momeut and led me to dinner. I do not kuow when I felt or looked so sheepish. No sooller had I got to the table than I seated myself down on R chair. aud inorder to keep pace with “Bean’s views of thecustoms of the great, I leftmypartner to do the same. At first I trembled lest I should commit some gross mistake at dinner,but after the two first courses I made myself quite at home, aud most religiously followed the advice of my friend the innkeeper, as to leaving uothing on my plate, uutil I found that “Bean’s coat was not too large for me. Most assuredly I nstottzslzed them. There was not a person at the table with so good an appetite. While dit~nerwas going on, my Lord Panmure said, ‘’ Mr. Audersou, I will take a glass of wine with you,” to which I promptly replied, ” Well your very good health, my lord.” The whole psrty looked at me, and the; smiled at each other They evideutly soon discovered that it was tn first appearance at the table bf a lord and uo doubt thought I was fair game ?or their waggery. They all drauk wide with me, and still followiug the directions of “Bean, I drank “good health ’’ to everoue round, until I beganto feel the effects of the generous liquor iu my l e a d . Diuner ended, the ladies rose to retire, when not forgetting M‘Bean’s good couusel, I got up and went along with them’ admidst a burst of laughter, which I was then somewhat at a loss to under: staud. Lady Panmure and her female friendsproceeded tothe drawing-room and observing me rather at a loss how to act, her ladyship, doubtless wit& the view of keeping up the joke beckoned me to go aloug with them -a signal which I promptly obeyed. Here I seated myself down, but on looding round felt a good deal surpnsed that the other gentlemen did not follow my example. Being a little elevated with the wine, I asked Lady Panmure for an explanation, when she observed that there was nothitlg wrong, and that she hoped I would make myself quite at home. The request was made in such a courteous aud familiar tone of address that I found no difficulty iu obeying Lady her.Here,surrounded by a bevy of beauties, I wasinducedtogive Panmure an acconnt of my birth, parentage. and education, in the midst of which a messenger from Lord Patimure announced that Mr. Anderson was 011 this I went to the library requested to prepare for his entertainment. put my necromantic apparatus in order, and it1 a few minutes afterwards had the houour of appearing before Lord Panmure and his party, whom I was fortunate enough to surprise anddeli h t by a few of my magical ex eriments. All expressed themselves pleaseda n 3 astouished and at theend o?my entertainment I was invited to supper. In the intervil, 1,ord Panmure’s steward who was in atteudance at table, and seeing me youug and inexperienced V,$ kiudly took me aside and having ascertained that I had been following the burlesque directions df M‘Beau, gave mea few hints, by which I was enabled I took my leave of the to cut a more creditable figure at the supper table. Castle that eveningmuchbetterpleasedwith myself than I wasatthe beginning, and still more so when next morning I received from his lordship an envelope containing a ten-pound bank note ( t h e first which I had ever seen), anda letter, of which the followiug is a copy:BRECHIN CASTLE, 12th March, 1831. SIR,-Your performance last night at Brechin Castle much delighted myselt I ever saw either at and party. You far excel any other necromancer that home or abroad,-I am, Sir, yours &C., PANMUKB.

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(‘ The aspirant whois to attain any success,” observes M. Cinquevalli, in answer to the inevitable question-for it is surprising how interesting it becomes, eventoa modest .interviewer, to fathom the mysteries of juggling‘ (The aspirant who is to attain any success in this profession must, of necessity, possess perfect steadiness of nerve, a great deal of patience, and a quick and accurate eye. ’ ’ Anything that comes to hand, from a pin to acrowhat-, a scrap of paper to a cannon ball weighing forty-eight

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Don’t you consider it a dangerous feat ? ” I queried, as I wondered to myself what kind of a soldier he would make. ( ‘ Well, I must admit I do,” said he. ( I You see, the shot descends in an exact line until within a few inches ((

I dart my headforewardand of my forehead,when receive the ball on the incline of the back of my neck. ” An error of judgement would, of course, prove fatal ; even to this dayI feel goose-fleshy as theiron strikesme. Some day I will exclude it from my rejevtoire, asit affects my nerves,andcauses me some anxiety. I varythis feat sometimes by tossing the cannon ball in the air and receiving it on an ordinary plate, without the slightest damage to the latter.” Infront of pounds,all is thesame to M. Cinquevalli. Another very clever business of M. Cinquevalli is to the footlights he seems to operate in opposition to the laws juggle with a cigar, a hat, a walking stick, and a halfairwithhim,”as of gravity. (‘All is skittlesinthe crown piece. The half-crown,after pirouettingsomeMrs. Brown would likely remark. He tosses them aloft, time in the air, dropson to his toe, at the same time that as he confessed he was wont to do with his mother’s the hat falls on to his head, the cigar into his mouth, and cooking eggs,in the initial stage of his training. The the stick into his hand. Then he will kick the coin and eggs sometimes broke.Well ! thatisnot surprising. catch it as a monocle in his eye. The wonder to me is that the cannonball, which crashes He will take a cigar and holder, throw them up at diffthrough a deal table in front of the audience, does.not Two more break something else, when he throws it up some twenty erent angles,andcatchtheminhismouth. cigars and holders are placed, one on his chin and the feet or more in the air, and arrests its f a l l - o h , so easy !on the nape of his neck, and sends it rolling up anddown other on his forehead : keeping them both balanced, he his arms, shoulders, and back, as though the missilewere will take the cigar out of the first holder and place it on top of the cigar on his forehead, throw them off with a really endowed with life, and enjoying a romp with him.

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MODERN MAGICIANS’ METHODS. DEAR SIR.--.Will youpermitmeto offer aprotestthrough MAGICon the modern methods of producing magical (?) effects. I have had the pleasure of witnessing the performances of several very expert pros. and amatenrs, and I find their effects follow so rapidly upon one another that it is impossible to tell whether any Magic has been presented : in plain language it is Juggling not Magic. Compare the unique and finished style of De Kolta and others with that of the “ ram-it-down-your-throat ” performers. I admit one mustbe nu fait with the game to workB la De Kolta, but what prettier magical effect can be imagill’ed than the Billiard Balls worked at South EasternRailwayspeedinstead of at the velocity of Marconi Telegraphy? I an1 invariably met with the remark “ that’s all very well but modern effects must he worked quickly” ; nothing of the sort. Take the reverse palm with a coin, when the coin is on the back of hand it is onlynecessary to put the third finger over it, bringing !it to the otherside, at the same time turning hand over. This sleight can be worked as slowly as you please and right under the most acute of proboscides without detection. I submit the great goal to aspire to is Magical Effect, there is obviously no Magical Effect in vanishing a ball before the audience realize that the ball is inexistence. 1 sawa gentlemanintheNorth of England vanish a ball by palming in right hand and pretending to takeit with that hand from vest, really leavingit there ; he then worked

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Prof. Albert is still touring the townsof our Eastern Provinces and Press Notices show he is making a big hit with his Handcuff Trick. Mr. Heyer was in Cape Town again I believe he - recently, but leaves shortly. Frank De Gruchy is preparing an ‘ Eye Opener ’ for his big encagement at the “ Good HoDe Hall ” for Christmas and New Ye&, He gives both afternoo1;and evening turns I hear. Bosco, Jnnior, is continually in evidence. I hear of him here, there, and everywhere, he is coming - to the fore. H e had quite an ovation recently. Prof. De Caston has many dates booked ahead. He is acceDting. engagements for garden paities, etc.,as well as his evening s60wc He isnow adding to his programme the ‘‘ Indian Sack Trick” in combination with “ Handcuffs ” a novelty which takeswell. T. HAYES, Magician.

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AUSTRALIAN NOTES. Clive O’Hara has now made a fair start as a rofessional magician. He finishedhisAdelaide engagement, a n 8 starts in Melbourne next Saturday night (17th November) at the Bijou Theatre for a run of six weeks, doing a fifteen to twenty minutesturn each evening.-G. R. REEVES.

MANCHESTER NOTES. “ The Marvellous Steens,” in an actconsisting of Second Sight and similar mental phenomena, concluded a successful fortnight’s stay at the Grand Theatre, on the22nd December. They drew big houses. Two excellent ventriloquial turns were presented hereduring the week ending December rgth, Professor Dunning appearing at the Tivoli Theatre, and Gillin at the Grand. At the Tivoli Theatre, on December Ioth, Kahn & Kahn presentedtheirbrilliant magicalperformance,concludingwith a Thelatter featis clever exhibition of lightning paperfolding. worked in a somewhat novel manner by these artists ; each performer is provided with a separate sheet of paper, and both go throu h exactly the same movements-after the manner of lightning frillartists-forming each shapesimultaneously. PROF. OAKDEN.

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ARTHUR MARGERY. The artiste whose portrait graces our title page this month is the descendent of stage-lovingparents,his father before him, being a devoted student of Magic and the kindred arts, and a clever performer to boot. Mr. A Margery was born in London in 1871. It was in hisearly school days,after witnessing the performance of a simple trick, that he first became fascinated with an art that he now candidly admits proved his first incentive to the study of the various sciences, while at thesame timeit made those studies, which are more often than not found irksome to a degree, a source of infinite pleasureandenjoyment ; small wollder it isthenthat.the chief item in so many of our bestdrawing-roomentertainments, where the audience is invariably composed largely of children, is a conjuring show; such an entertainment serves a double purpose-it combines amusement with instruction. To-day finds Mr. Margery a zealous devoteeof Part nzysteriezce-to use his own words, I am married to magic and never wish for a divorce. ” He is the fortunate possessor MR. ARTHUR offertile hand brain a aand which, according to Mons. Robert Houdinin his“ Secrets of Conjuringand Magic,” pp. 37-4.1, denotesdexterity. He is an expert all round manipulator of the various small accessories so ifldispensable to the modern magician-in his hands inanimate objects seem to becolne imbuded with life and to have a personality of their own ; this is not surprising where a “

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performer adopts as his watchword, as Mr. Margery has adopted ” Originality,” and will not on any account be induced to copy, or even imitate partially, otherperform’ers in their work. If only this axiom had been carried out more generally by magicians, what would not conjuring have been like to-day ? The Continuous Back and Front ‘ Pahz ’ would long ago have been a thing of the past. No professional busi,ness requires closer study than that of legerdemain. A natural aptitude for the art must be bornina man--hemust be alert both in body and mind, cool andcalculatingtothe movement of a muscle under the most trying.circnmstances, and a close observer of human nature-an i n s t ~ ~ n c: ehe must recognise,at a glance the obliging individual whowill, unconciously, take the ‘ forced ’ card, or the aggravatiug youngman who will persist in his endeav; ours to take the wrong one. The greatest pleasure in the study of an art is undoubtedly obtained where thestudent makesuphis mindtowork out ideas for himself, and generally work tosinglehanded. Thesubject of our sketchis of thistype, he is passionately fond of, and quite thoroughinhiswork, well conversant in every branch of magic, andalwaysready to impart informationtothose lessinstructedthanhimself. MARGERY. H e revelsand large in a valuablecollection, of books onmagic,buteventhisdoesnotsatisfyhisgreedfor mysticlore as heisknownto be an ardent reader in theLibrary of the B. M., doubtless wi.th a view to compilingsomething of interestto magicians. If it is true that success rewards thepainstakingthen MI-. Margery deservesno small measure of that commodity.

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The Aerial Handkerchief.-Under this heading I shall describe a very subtle and pleasing trick having the appearlng in ‘‘ The True Briton (Nolumus Leges A n g l i a following effect. Mutari), Wednesday, February llth, 1796. The performershowsanordinary15in.silksquare, rolls it up into a ball and passes it into the left hand ; to prove that he has really placed it in the left hand he FOR ONE WEEK MORE. GRAND &XHIBITION. pulls out (from the top of the fist) some 4 or 5 inches IN AN ELEGANT GREAT ROOM, ON THE FIRST FLOOR, of one corner. Having thus satisfied the spectators that ATNo. 28, HAYMARKET, thereis no deceptionhe tucks back thecorner,using THIS PRESENT EVENING, WEDNESDAY,Feb.11th) 011againopening the lefthand the onefingeronly. And every Evening This Week only, T H E SIEUR COMUS willdisplay his astonishing handkerchiefhasentirelydisappearedandbothhands may be minutely examined. Performances : The secret consists of a small cone of thin spun brass PART I. He will exhibit in the grandest manner, with JAPANNED CASKETS LETTERS NUMBERS exactly resembling a thimble in size, and made in imitaNGS WATCHBS THANDIS tion of the end of the first or second finger, also a small SILVER CUP SWORDS MEDALS Thesmall piece of silkto match the handkerchief. &c. &c. &c. POCKET PIECES EAR RINGS piece of silk is cut and hemmed in imitation of a corner Also a variety of uncommon Experiments with THAUMATURGIC MACHINERIES, of the handkerchief and one end is then glued into the PART 11. Mr. COMUSwillexhibit, in the most extraordinary apex of the metal cone, when dry the remaining portion manner, as follows, viz. is tucked in and all is ready. I. He will tell several Ladies and Gentlemen the Cards or numThe thimble ready for use is placed in the right hand ber which they think of, without asking any questions, and (howtrousers pocket. The performer shows the handkerchief ever impossible it may appear) will communicate the thoughts of one person to another, without speech or writing, by means of a andwhenseemingtoplace it in theleft handreally wonderful, curious, and grand APPARATUS, palms it in the right handwhich he forthwith thrusts Which is not to be equalled in thisKingdom ! into the pocket leaving handkerchief behind, and bringing PART 111. Mr. COMUSwill discover to all theCompany, experithetipof, say middle finger. Atthis mentally, some of the most occultOperationsin Nature, and exhibits, outthimbleon FIRST-His enchanted Sciatericon, which tells the Thoughts of stagehemay, or may not, be accused of havingput any Person in compally ! handkerchief in pocket, in any case he inserts the finger, SECOND-His Operation Pallengenesia, or Regeneration ! carrying thimble, into top of left hand, leaving it behind ’I‘HIRD-His Pixldees Literarum, which proves a knowledge of and pulling out corner which appears to be a portion of future Events! on Steganography, by anInvisible FOURTH-AnOperation the original handkerchief. When tucking back the Agent ! handkerchief the thimbleis removed unseen on tip of FIFTH-His Uuparallelled Sympathetical Experiments, too finger. The right hand being, unmistakedly, empty, all wonderful to be believed till seen ! attention is centred on the left hand. Under. these cirSIXTH-His Magical Deceptio Ovorum, with Eggs, &c. SEVENTH-His Operation of Capiromancy, without Writing or cunlstances it would hardly require a conjurer to secretly Speaking ! dispose of the thimble, and when this has been done the EIGHTH-HiscuriousMechanicalFisheswill swim inthe silk may be shown to be non est, and both hands may be Water, and discover the real Thoughts of the Company, i n a minutely examined. most extraordinary manner.

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PART IV,-A Variety of Chartomantic Experiments, andvarious operations with Magi2al Watches and Sympathetic Clocks. PART V. -His unparallelled Sympathetic Figures, whereby the great Power of Sympathy is displayed, by the operation of two Boxes, containing an equal Number of Figures, capable of being varied different ways. The whole to conclude with T H E GRAND COUP DE MAIN: Of, Pyramidical Glass Machineries, An Operation never attempted by any other Man living, and will astonish every beholder. Doors to be opened at Six o’Clock, and begin exactly at Seven --Tickets to be had of Sieur Comus, at thePlace of Exhibition-The Room will be elegantly illuminated, and commodiously prepared, so that every person may have a view of the performance. Admittance Half-a-crown each person.

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The Finger Shell.-With the aid of this ingenious, but insignificant piece of apparatus the following effect ismade possible. The performer comes forwardwith his arms out-stretched and bared to the elbow, showing his hands on all sides, thus proving beyond doubt that they are empty. Still keeping his arms out-stretched he closes the right hand. A slight up and down motion now takes place, after which the hand is opened and a colored silk handkerchief found therein. The secret lies in the use of the finger shell (see Fig. 16). This shell,usually modelled in thin brassand painted flesh color, fits the inside of the middle finger,

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when the hand is in a natural position with the Angers slightly curved (see t h e Fig.). It nr~st. be “ liued ” on the front to represent as nearly as..p&k its mxtuwd prototype. Immediatelybsforeintroducingtheexperimentthe handkerchief is inserted in the shell which inis turn adjusted to the fin- , ger, the performer then steps on the stageinthe manner already described. To produce the desired effect the shell d is allowed tofallfrom F the finger under cover Fig. 16. ofclosing thehand, the handkerchief being pushed out with the thumb. By reversing the modus ojevandi the handkerchief maybe caused to disappearinanequallymysterious manner. If the performer has been thoughtfulenough to place a duplicate handkerchief behind his collar, or in some otherout of-the-way-place, an additional effect may now be obtained. For obvious reason this trick must be the first on the programme.

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rise-the hand is lowered and mYh it the fhread which, under cover of tapping the cards coaxingly, is secretly p& &., the hooks of the one at the rear. The right band-is.tqg&~M&.aIaft. and this time, as soon as the left h&&, the card will rise,. being drawn up hand releases ,+ts to the extended hand by the greater weight of the several cards on the free end of the thread. Severalthreadsarranged as above explains how the performer is able to work the trick on any part of the stage.

An improvement on the above. This method does awayentirelywiththetrouble of arranging the thread as in the foregoing. The effect is exactlythesameandthetrickcanbedoneanywhere independent of time and space. In this case the ‘ trick ’ cards are prepared by cutting a fine slot in one end as Fix. 17 shown at B in One endof the thread (about 3 ft. long) isattached to the lowermost button of the waistcoat, knot a being made at theopposite end for the purpose of catching in the slot cut in thecard. To properly adjust the length of the thread, note that it should be just long enough to preventthe card attached to it, in case it isaccidently dropped, frqm dangling ignominiously in mid-air. The working of the trick is as follows :-The pack with the three slotted cards duly on top is held in theleft hand. Thethumb of the righthand is now passed under the thread, (hanging Fig. 17. from thebutton) which, under cover of a m-aceful sweep of the arm, is carried over the top of tge cards entering the slot afore mentioned (See B in Fig. I 7 ) . The right hand is now held aloft, the fore-finger being under the thread at C in the Fig. The thumb of the left hand holding pack isnow passed behind the thread at D in the Fig., when it will be found that a slight downward movement of the left hand will cause the card to rise as already explained. The movement of the left hand will pass unnoticedif the performer remembers to attract the attention of the audience to the right hand bylooking fixedly at ithimself.

Three cards are ‘ forced ’ on as many members of the audience who afterwards return them to the pack, shufflingthecards themselves.Performer now returnsto stage and holding the cards, squared well together in the left hand, raises therighthand well abovehishead commanding a card to rise : suddenly one of the chosen cards is seen to jump frum the pack to the hand held aloft-this card is returned to the front of the pack and the effect is repeated with the two remaining cards. The secret depends mainly upon a new application of the black silk thread ; the cards are forced in the ordinary way, i.e.-there is nothing extraordinary in the ‘ force ’ employed. The actual cardsto rise are specially prepared and are added to the top of the pack under cover of the body during the return to stage. They are prepared as follows :-Two U shaped cuts are made near one end of the card (see ‘A’ in fig. 17) the bottom of the U in each case being pushed up to form a hook. The face of each card thus maltreated is gummed to the back of another card, duplicate of the one to be forced, and the “ trick ” cards are ready. The thread is carried right across the stage about 18in. above the head of the performer, one end being fixed to N.B.-Other new Card Sleights, Tricks, &C.,including the Continuous Back and Front Palm, and tricks therewith, now being one of the “ wings,’’ while the other end passes over a performed at the Palace Theatre will be ‘found clearly described stout smooth pin, driven into the opposite wing and is numerous original illustrations in New Card Tricks,” by weighted with 4 or 5 cards, i.e. just sufficient to keep the with Ellis Stanyon. (SeeAdvt). thread always taut: Having taken up his position under thethreadtheperformer passeshisdisengaged By an oversight the knot on the end of the thread in Fig. 17 is hand completelyround the packseveraltimes thus, casually, showing there is no connection ; he then raises shown on the face of the card--it should really be on the back. EDITOR. the hand and commands a card to rise. The card does not

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After he left Brechin Castle,'Mr.Andersonwent to Edinburgh, and gave his first magical entertainments in the great Scottish metropolis. .The.story of how one of 11is great transformation tricks was brought 'about must here be told., His professiotial soubriq.uei inhis.early career wvas'that of " The Caledoniatjl 'Necromancer. ;" but this was destined to bemetanIorphosed into " THE GREAT WIZARDOF TRE NORTH;" and the mdainorphosis came about i n the following mantler :-The young magician was performing in E d i ~ ~ b u r g where h, his success was so great,thatSir Walter Scotthearing of him requested

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Wizard." in the northern districts.of:the country ; while in Glasgow and its neighbourhood his name was.almost a " household word." H e erected on Glasgow Green-the scene of-hany of his early: triumphs-the largest> theatre in Scotland, incurring in its 'erection an experiditure of manythousandpounds. The househadnotbeenopen threemonths, when, during therehearsalof DerFreischutz, it caught fire,and was entirely destroyed,; the Wizard losing by this disaster nearly every penny of the fortune hisindustry had accumulated. Maddenedby the sense

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of the calanlity .with which he was thus suddenly 'over-, whelmed, it is said that he endeavoured to rush through the crowd intotheburningbuilding,wherehe would inevitablyhaveperished.Prevented, ' h o w ~ v e r :from , doing so, he nlade his way to'Glasgow Bridge, and there watched the progress of the flames, the'fhlling -in of the roof, hnd the last cloud of sp+rl+ whi,ch'.announced the entire destruction of his property,: I t hadbeen his ambition to be the manager of a the:ltrir:ll establishme~~tin Scotland.; butthat- hope scrmcd to be consumed in the flames before.hi1p. Nothing tl:l1tlltetl, I~owever,he started for Hull, in Yorkshire, and tllere recommenced his magical perforniailces. Thence he pl-occedctl to Hamburg, and oil to Sweden, Norway,. allcl Dennlark.Aftcr+siting the various town's ' o f the B-ilt-ic, he rkaclled St. Peterqbarg, and obtaining the patronage of the Emperor Nicholas, remained :somemouths it1 the Russian capital, where he acquired a considerable amount of money. Thence, proceeding to .the interior of Russia, lie erected his magic .temple in most.of the chief towns of that extensive empire. . He returned'to England . . . . Atrfo,rrmpkcdphofoo j Prof. Am'erson (abozd 2854). by way of Vienna . and 'Berlin. . .. Sho;tly after his return to Great Britain,.he had the that he would .perform at Ahbotsford on the occasion'. of great 11ylour:of being specially: summcmed to Balmoral the son of the great novelist attaining his majority. The Castle; by eommand,qf'Her Majesty t h e , Queen,' to .give cleverness of the young nlagician'was such;that at;theCoq- a.performancethere, 011 the occasion of 'His '.Royal elusion of the performatl'ce Sir Walter'made the remarlt;iri HigJyess Prince Albert's birthday .beink' kept there in a very complimentary manner," They.call,sle,'.The Wiza$d royal..state, an the'26th:oI.AUgust, '1846. , A flatterhg of the North,'. hut they have made a mistake-it' .is.you,, note from. Her Majesty;' fijrwarded .to, the.'.WizardEy not I, who. best deserve the title." . M r . ~.Anderson Colonel Anson, expressed tfie gratification wqich ,royalti accepted the compliment, and entitled himselfaccordingly. had received from the magica! entertainment.' ' ' A successful tour in Scotlaud was followed, .bp a -&it TO co+i.n?cea ). to the northern and midland counties of England, where '

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The Edifov invites contributionsdeaZing with matters IikeZy to be o j interest to readers of this paper. He w i N be pleased to receive news relating to sfieciai shows. alsoapparatus books catahgwes .&c f o r review. The fiditor h e s not hold himselfrespokkble fo; the views&fir&ed by his correspondents.

Ano’therinterestingfigureforpractiseinconnection with our former article on this subject is that illustrated inFig. 3. This figure is also reversible representinga To the Editor, sailor and his lass MODERN MAGICIANS’ METHODS. according to the way DEARSIR,-I am pleased to note the very just criticism of your in which the finished correspondent, Samuel Blake, on the excessive pace at which too many of our wizards think it isdesirable to producetheir illusions. drawing is held. Thesefigures will Some o f the most accomplished prestidigitators of the day lose half the effect of their tricks by rattling them off as if they were delivof coursehaveto be ering a patter song. As well migllt a reciter ‘‘ speak his piece ) ’ enlarged to make them at such a rate that the audiellce can harely tell what he is talking about. effective for presentaRobert Houdin’s definition of R conjtlrer is “an actor playing tion toan audience. the part of a magician.” Such performers as I have referred to T h e best way ofdoing have mistaken their vocation, they should have taken up juggling, thisistodraw lines uot conjuring. Another fault I note among performers of the present day is a around Fig. 3 enclosingit in an oblong tedency to make a parade of their dexterity-to show how neatly they call palm sotne fabu.lo1w llnmber of coins, or tlle like. ’I‘his space, and, this done,, may be gratifying to thevanity of the exhibitor, but it isextrewely to draw horizontal and bad art. .A performer might almost as well call attention to the ingenious arrallgemellt of hispodteLtes, or tnrtl rountl l ~ i stable to perpendicular lines over the surface of the exhibitthe servatlte.Dexterity in a magiciallshould be one of secret weapons-a matter to be concealed, rilther than paraded. figure toform small his He should aim to.send away hisaudiencerefleclilg, not-how squares of about g in. quickly or how cleverly he did so and so, but, how 011 earth did Nextdraw a similar he do it at all. Mere ornan~e~atal displays, such as card-throwing or springing oblong space, sayfour the cards from hand to hand, arepermissible, inasmuch as they do times the size,and cover not tend to give away the secret of any trick, but it is doubtful Fig. 3.-A Sailor and his Lass. it with a dike number whether even these do not lessen the nrtrgid effect of a performof dines to form the same number of squares as infaithfully, the Yoursance. 1,ouIs HOPFMANN. smaller design, but four times the size. Now note what To the Editor, What is more b e w i l d e k g than the speed of the South Eastern portion of the lines of the small sketch ~ c c u p ya certain Railway ? .If you worked egg passes at that pace I am sure the square and thenfill in the same linesin thecorresponding eggs would be incubated before you got very far, alld irl the case square of the larger design, and so on, until the large of the billiard balls, we should all be ill the sere before we could drawing is completed ; by the time this is done the lines pocket the red. What a delightful prospect ! Mr. Blake’s letter contains much food for thought and I for one will be pretty well memorized.

should like to seethis subject thorollgllly discussed, but I do not think he puts thecase sufficiently clear. with In my opinion it is lack of patter that is the great fault many of our up-to-date performers and this without doubt causes experiments to be worked much more quickly than is desirable for good effect. I am a great admirer of De Kolta and can appreciate the subtle wit of our friend in comparing that gentleman’smethods with such an unknown quantity as thespeed of the S.E.R.-AUSTRALIAN.

To MR. ELLISSTANYON. Wasllillgton D.C., Oct. 12th, 19. DEARSIR,-Your latest work ‘‘ New Card Tricks ” is very good indeed ;one of the best I have seen.-Sincerely yours, H. R. EVANS. TO ELLISSTANYON, Highbury, N., October 3rd, 1900. DEARSIR.-Many thanks for your prompt dispatch of “ New Card Tricks ” ; your instructions for performing the Front and Back Card Palm are exceedingly clear and withal, concise, Yours truly, A. H. WALKBR-CREES.

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London, Illustratedwithllunterousspeciallypreparedblocks.Post great feature of the programme, and has caused quite a sensation free, 3/-. (75 cts. ). here. N.B.-For the new “ Rising” Card Trick (Palace Theatre) see Clemart, the well-known vetltriloq uist, appeared at the Palace I ‘ MAGIC ” for February, rgor. Atmual Sub. 5/6 ($1.50). Theatre twelve nights, commencing January 14th. No. x.-“ NewCoin Tricks”(FirstSeries). Containing “ ’fhe Mr. S. E. Fox, who has been making a study of magic for some Miser, s Dream ” as performed at the Palace Theatre ( 1899) time past, made his debiit on Saturday, January 19tl1, at St. Paul’s Illustrated. Post free, 3/- (75 cts. ). Schools.His p e r k m a n c e was very creditable, and was enjoyed No. 2.-“A Bibliography of Conjuring.” Particulars of 300 works by all present. 011 ,magic. I/I (25 cts). OAKDEN. PROFESSOR No. 3.-‘I New Coin Tricks ” (SecorldSeries).Illustrated. Post free, 3/- (75 cts.). No.4.-“New Handkerchief ’I‘ricks.” Illustrated. 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An original and interestiug article explaining six of the most Write for oup-celebP&d Cat-a-logwith .which is effective Box Tricks and illustrated with twelve excellent -photocombined that intepesting litt!,e brochure entitled “ Re,graphs appeared in the “ Strand Magazine ” for July, I F , pp. 71 I collections of Robert Houdin. Illustpated, and with -714 ; the same article also appeared in the I ‘ New York Bvening excellent portrait ‘of Houdin. Price l/-, by post, 1/2, World ” for July 17th, 1900. Mammoth list of surplus stook and nouelties, free. English Stamps and P.O. received Anent the origin of the Reverse Card Palm see page 37 of this Chrr. L. B U R L I N G A M E 6 C O .P.O. ~ Box 861, Chicago, U.S.A vol., second. column, fourth paragraph. l

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Monday next, Empire, Cardiff Such is the card that appearsweekly in the ERA,and monthlyin MAGIC; in MAGIC the Hall is omitted, it being a monthly magazine. A glance at the accompanyingphotographs will make the cardmoreinteresting.

nms.

MR. R.

K. DUNNING.

Dunning, the ventriloquist, is Kahn, the conjurer, ant1 he is as clever in ‘‘ making-up ” as he is in magic, the photos will show this : the time occupied in making the change is barely two minutes. Miss Kahn is his wife.

DUNNING (MISS K A H N ) .

sucll a ser~sationat the Theatre Royal and at Newsome’s Circus in Glasgowduring 1887-88. The company including band, was about forty strong, and Azo0 a week was givenawayinpresentstotheaudience, as’ no doubt many of the Scottish readers of MAGICwill remehlber. Miss Kahn & Kahn afterwardsaccepted an engagement forSouthAfrica,and opened at the DrillHall, Cape Town, in April 1891 with “ Lauck’s All Star” company. They played three times in four ~ n ~ n t l lby s , special com-

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mand, before Sir Henry (and Lady) Loch, the governor of Cape Colony, and are the only variety artistes who have done so. Thev remained two vears in Africa. running their own show, and doing all their journeysb;, road with their own horsesandcapecarts. 0.1 their return to England they again added-magic to their act.

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20,139 of t h e Inhabitants of Leeds h a v e SURRENDERED t o Marshal Professor Anderson during the past Fortnight.

LAST 111 NIGHTS. OF

T h e G r e a t Wizard. E X C I T E M E N TE X T R A O R D I N A R Y

ALL LEEDS MORE ASTONISHED THAN T H E

RUSSIANS __

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In order to avoid being incommoded, Visitors to the Front Seats are respectfully requested to secure places at the Hall during the day.

PROFESSOR ANDERSON, Begs respectfully to inform the Inhnbitantsof Leeds, thnt in con~equenceof having mnde.~arrungements to perfami in St. Georgc'q Hall, Bradford. on Jlondny, Octobcr %%d. he cnnnot possibly appear i n Leeds after Saturday,October a1st.-The following will be the order of

The

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Last Eleven

Wonders.

Thls Evening MONDAYOct

9th 1854 LAST NIGHTbut IO. TUESDAY dCTOBER loth NIGiiT BUT 9. W E D N E S ~ A Y OCTOBER , l i t h , LAST NIGHT BUT S. THURSDAY, OCTOBER lath, LAST NIGHT BUT 7. FRIDAY OCTOBER 13th LAST NIGHT BUT 6 SATURdAY, OCTOBER i4th, LAST NIGHT BU'T 5. . , MONDAYOCTOBER 16th LASTNIGHT BUT 4 T U E S D A ~ OCTOBER 17th LASTNIGHT BUT 3' (WedneAday, October 18t.h. No Performance, the' Hall being pre-engaged.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER .19th, LASTNIGHT BUT 2. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20th. LASTNIGHT BUT 1. And SATURDAY, OCTOBER 216t.THELAST GRAND AND FINAL FAREWELLNIGHT ! ~

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REMEMBER you look upon hislikeagain . . ~ -.cannot .

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Professor Anderson begs to inform his Patrons that his Pcrformnnces are not Superhuman,as Supposed, but thc result of Saicnce npplied in n now lvny to prodnce the dclusive results in coy nection with his Ambidcstcrolo~ic~l Powers, whioll make the ' Eyos thc fools 0' the otheisenses, and will this cvcning be the " Hcnd and frontof his allending."

The

Annihilation

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Recuperation

HYDRAULIC EXPEIIIMENT,

OR GRAND

T HWithE SCRAP BOOK, Original nnd Yankee Scraps showing the Economy of Space, SECOND SIGHT,

OR CLAIRVOYANCE,

With the Crystal Casket, vulgnrlycalled tileDevil's BOX.

a b e Great abemfcat ZnaIgele

W I TEHY A P O R A T I NHGA N D K E R C H I E F S .

0.H ! M Y HinAtbeT 18agfc !

(Brat Pot Bourrl 3Hanbkercbfefs of M R . & MRS. DUNNING A S KAHN & KAHN.

In November, 1898, they returned toAfrica and played for nearly fivk months under canvas with Wirth& Friedman's Wonder Show, openingat the Exhibition, Grahamstown ; they left this show in Pretoria, owing to a disagreement with o m of the partners. A week later they opened at the Empire Theatre, Johannesberg, where the combined acts made such a success that after the first show they were engaged for eight weeks, and on leaving were accorded one of the biggest benefits knownforyears. They are the only artistes who ever played opposition in Africa and then opened at theEmpire for eight weeks. Miss Kahn is a clever sleight-of-hand performer, very pleasing, and stages her act in a very high-class style. Kahn & Kahn are alwaysfound working thebest halls, andare booked solidaheadfortwoyears. The great secret of their success is that while both are very clever, their manners are pleasing and attractive, and absolutely devoid of that egotistical and proud bearing not infrequentlymetwithamong professional magicians, They are at all times pleased to purchase a new " move " and are always willing to pay good a price for the same if only toassist in building upthefascinatingart of magic. Their motto is " Give satisfaction and so ensure repeat contracts." The bestwishes of MAGIC are withthese capable artistes.

THAT

Zaunbrp,

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Assistants. Phe Nisard will asain enter his

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PSYCHOMANTEUM," and commence Part Two with his Great

Autornatom,

Meahanical

Or FORTUNETELLER, in conuection with the

Bell andTable

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\Ithough the Wkard is not a great Orator or Lectnrcr, will he deliver a few remarks on Nhat ia called

SPIRITUALISM T

)r Humbug of the FirstWater--proving that thereare still cater humbugs in England t h ~ h i m s e l f 'or which he is very sorry, he thinking that he was the f e Plus Ultra in that particulsr, line oi business.

ANIMALMAGNETISM

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T H EG R E A TW A T C HW O N D E R , 'roving the thickness of some skulls with the Astounding Miracle "Anderson's" (not Pandora'sl Box. The whole of this Thparalelled Entertninment Nili conclude with the

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Granb $aebionabIe-%ap lPerformancee

TUESDAY, Oat. 10th. and TUESDAY, Oct. 17th. at Two o'olock. Doors open _ _a t Half-past Ono. Doors open a t Half.yast Seren, theWonders to commence a t 8 o'clock. ~

Front Seats as.;

Second Seats, 1 s :

Gallery, 6d.

Phe Box Plan ma? be seen and Places securcd utthe 3Insic Hali, every Dayfrom Eleven tlll Three. T, LEEDS, SANUEL YOXON, P R I N T E l ~ U ~ E ~ S - C O U l lBRIGGATE,

Selecfed from the Povtfolio of

MY.

ARTHUR MARGERY.

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by Prof. ELLIS STANYON, Author of Coy’uringf o r A m a f e w s ,” Co?+-ing with Cards,” ‘(N e w Coin Tricks,” &C., &c. ( (

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PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, &c.

The WonderfulProduction of Ribbons at the Finger Tips (and subsequent productions).-This isan excellent little trick and one very suitable as an introduction to a complete ‘ (production ” trick, where objects of ever-increasing size, ina compressed condition, are produced under cover of similar objects, of a smallersize, but displayed tothe best advantage. The trick of the tisszde Pafiey, ribbons, andJZag (see ‘ NewHandkerchief Tricks,)’ p. I S, by Ellis Stanyon) is of this type, and the trick innnetliately underconsideration could beintroduced with telliug effect at the close of the burning of thetissue paper. The performerhaving, wewill suppose, lighted thethree pieces of paper allows themto burn dowrl quite close, or as near as convenient, to his fingers, w h e ~ in ~ ,spite of the fact that both hands have been sllown unmistakeably empty, he commences to pull yard after yard of real coloured silk ribbon from the extreme tips of the fingers. The secret depends upon the little accessory illustrated

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A New Card Balancing Trick. By J. A.

Fig. 18.

in Fig. 18. This is a shield made to fit the second fitlger of the right hand in an exactly similiar maimer to the handkerchief shield described at page 35 of the present volume, with the addition that it is provided with a lid to keep the four coils in position, also with a corresponding nulnber of slots on the front through which the ribbon may be withdrawn.Each piece of ribboushould be about two yards long and of a width to readily pass the slot. Ribbon drawn from the apparatus when in position (see Fig. 18) will seem to cmne from the finger tips. This ribbon, some eight or nine yards, is generally employed by the performer as cover for the production of a largerroll of ribbon which is quicklyshotoutover audience, and this larger quantity, when gathered together roughly in the hands, as cover for the produc tion of a case containing the FZags of aZZ Nations, properly arranged for effective production. Each successive load ’ is of course secured and placed in position some minutes before it is actuallyrequired (under cover of making a display of the previous production), that the preoise moment of its arrival may not be suspected.

The various ‘ loads ’ are carried about the performer’s person-the smaller ones in the bend of the elbow, under the armpit, etc., and the larger ‘ loads ’ inthe breast pockets and in the vest, and still larger, or rather longer loads ” arepushed down the leg of the trousers, to which access is obtained by way of the opening in the vest. I n my own Entertainment, when having produced a largequantity of ribbon, some 5 or 6 “ loads, ’.’ each larger in every way than its predecessor, and while holding the whole displayed well in front of the body, I take up a Chinese cracker and place it in the hand holding I nextlightupthecracker,thesparks the ribbon. from which, in combination with the brilliant colors of the ribbons give the idea of a volcano in miniature. The cracker cracks, smokes, nnd finally explodes, when immediately thereappearsin my hands, open toits full extent, a Japanese sunshade. The sunshade, which when open is 3-ft. across is concealed partly in the vest and partly in the trousers leg, closed up of course. I t isbroughtforthandcarefully placed in readiness behind the ribbon while all attention is centred on theburning cracker, The sunshadeis quickly pushed up and opened under cover of the confusion caused by the explosion and smoke of the cracker; it may be made to appear still more bulky by draping its ribs artistically with bright coloured ribbons. The next thing you hear is someone saying, Is’nt it wonderful.’’Well, it is.

JACKSON.

Have pack examined and shuffled andshow both hands(backandfront) prior to performingsleight. This is most necessary to prove to audience that no mechanical device exists. Take cards, show left hand (both sides)first, and A of transferring inact cards toleft hand insert little finger of that handundera few of the top cards ,(number immaterial). Show right hand i n same - manner.Placccards on tips of fingers of right hand at back (see .Fig. a ) in doing whic&’the cards above the little finger Fig. 5. of the hand are left back palmed into position between 1st and 2nd fingers(see b Fig. 5 ) . This movement will be entirely covered .by the left hand and the remainder of the cards. Take some littletime in pretence of balancing, remove left hand slowly and cards will remain upright on end “without visible means of support. ’ ) Do not leave in this position more than a few secouds, putup lefthand tore-takecards,relax pressure on the cards which are back-palmed, push rest of cards (at a ) down towards back of hand on to other cards, picking up the lot immediately and hallding them once more to the audience to examine.

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A Necromancer of the XVIII Century. BY HENRYRIDGEL!EVANS.

according to the Inquisition biographer, he was-intrusted to the careof the Father-General of the Benfratelli, ‘who carried’him to the convent of that order at Caltagirone.

tosupwiththeshades of the illustriousdeparted. 0 ai the ’deception practised ‘upon him, the l~cklessgoldlate years attention has been attracted to this antiquate( smith vowed to assassinate the pretended sorcerer, mansion by articles which have appeared from time timcto Balsamo, but that ingenious youth gotsafely to Messina, inFrenchand American journals.But first asto thc wherehe fell inwith strolling a alchemistnamed great Cagliostro, the mostremarkablecharlatan, thc Althotas or Altotas, who spoke a variety of languages. is his career oj They travelled toAlexandriainEgypt,.and world has ever seen. Particularly finally interest tomodern magicians, whoare alwayson the alerl brought up at the island of Malta. There they remained toexpose the pretensions of pretenders to genuine

M E M 0 I R E P O U R

LE COMTE DE CAGLIOSTRB, A C C U S k ; CONTRE

M.L.E PRQCUREUR-GgNiRAL, A C C U S A T E U R ;

En prdfence de M. le Cardinal D E R O H A N , de la ComteKe D E LA MOTTE, et autres CO-Accusbs.

CAGLIOSTRO

(JOSEPH BALSAMO).

Fvonr a #airrti?rg- in the IYwsaiffes Historical Gallery.

sorcery. Cagliostro made use of hypnotism, optical illusions with .mirrors,and chemical tricks in his seances. H e waspastmaster of theart of deception. Modern sleight-of-hand performers are fond of using his name for allsorts of magicalfeats, suchas,the “ Mask of 13alsan10,” “ Cagliostro Casket and Cards,” Cagliostro’s Cabinet, ’’ etc. Joseph Balsamo, (Cagliostro) the son of Peter Balsamo and FeliciaBraconieri,both of, mean extraction,was born at Palermo, on the8thday of June, 1843. H e received the rudiments of an education at ‘the Seminary of St. Roche, Palermo. At the age of thirteen,

1786. Tilfe nrge of the Dtfeuse of Gzggliostro.

or. some time,. working in the laboratory of the, Grand &aster of the Knights of Malta. Althotas’having died, 3alsamo wentto Naples. Afterthat hevisited Rome, .nd marriedabeautiful girl of the people, Lorenza ’eliciani. In companywith aswindler ,calling himself .he Marchese d’Agliata, he had a series of disreputable Idventures in Italy, Spain and Portugal. .

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cards and vanishes' it by means of the Reverse Palm. H e next takes a second card from the stand, with the right PUBLISHED ON THE FIRST OF EVERY MONTff. hand, and under cover of placing it (with the left hand) in position for the reverse the card on the back of the Proprietors.ELLISSTANYON & Co. Editor,ELLIS STANYON. right hand is brought round and placed at the rear of the Ofice : 76, Solent Road, West Hampstead, London, N.W. second card. Both cards (supposed to be one only) are now veversedjalmed together ; and so on with the remainSUBSCRIPTION.--rz Monthsby post, 5/6 ($1.50);.SingleCopy, 6sd.( 1 5 ~ ) ing two cards. The fourcardsarefinallyproduced at the finger tips, one by one, and dropped on the stage. ADVERTISEMENT RATES. The card tricks conclude with the N e w ' Rising " Cards MISCELLANEOUS :Under this heading ConjuringApparatus, as explained in MAGIC for February, with the addition Books, etc., For Sale," and " Wanted," will be inserted at a that, after having placed the three prepared cards on the charge of 4d. per dozen word ; every additional three words,. Id. PROFESSIONAL CARDS :Per insertion, I/- ; yearly, 816 ($a ). top of pack, performer executes the " Waterfall or Far6 DISPLAYEDADVERTISEMBNT: Space of oneinch, 51- ; Shuffle '' (see " New Card Tricks ") in front of audience. Quarter Page, 211- ; Half Page, 3716 ; Full Page, 63/- ; Front This particularshu.ffle,whileapparently moving every Page, with photo block supplied by artiste, 42/- ($10) :or we can card in the pack, need not of necessity displace the three supply from any photo, finest quality half-tone block (4in. x 3in.), top cards. which afterwards beconles the property of the advertiser, at an Performer here leaves stage and loads rabbit into l& extra nominal cost of 1d6,($2.50). HALFPAGE (Column) : For Interview;or, HalfPagefor breast pocket-returning he takes up the white billiard Circular, 30/= ($7.50). ballandsimultaneouslywithcausing its disappearance A deduction of 2 0 per cent. is allowed on all Advertisemento, (as before explained) and with left side to audience,prowhen paid three months in advance. Further special reductions duces rabbit which he places on a sheet of newspaper on will be made for longer periods. chair, covering it (the rabbit) with a glassshade. He Cheques and Bstal Orders should be d r a w n in f a v o u r of MY. Ellis Stanyon. next borrows a gentleman's watch which disappears by Money Ovders should &emade payable at MilZ Lane, West Hampstead, N. W." sleight of hand intoleft Profode. The rabbitis now, UNITED STATES STAMPS & NOTES MAY S E S E N T I N PAYMENT. apparently, wrapped in the paper ; it really disappears through trap in chair. A boxwhichhas been hanging now overhead of performerthroughouttheshow,is lowered ; this box is found to contain another, and so on, until six boxes are produced. The last box contains the rabbitwiththe borrowed watchtiedround its neck. HERR VALADON. This rabbit is a duplicate, with ribbon and swivel hook Programme, Egyptian Hall, February 5th, 1 9 1 . in position to receive the watch ; the watch is obtained That portion of the programme, at the above home of from profoonde in time to be inserted in the last box and attached to hook in the act of removing the rabbit. The mystery, announcing Herr Valadon's Act, reads :'' A series of Magical Problemsby Herr Valadon, performer stands with right side to audience during the whdse remarkable performance will conclude with a New unpacking of the boxes. Tuppenny Tubes---I was somewhatdisappointed to " TuppennyTubes, " andOriginalMystery,entitled, demonstrating the fact that one tube alone may be find that this was nothing more than the old Organ Pzpe Production Trick. The articlesproducedwere,with the innpcent,but if tubes are multiplied toanunlimited of extent, placed in juxta-position, and permitted to vibrate exception of a glass bowl of fish and two rabbits, all sufficiently, it is possible for them to swallow up all the the collapsible pattern and consisted .of Bonnets, Silks, Reticules,LightedChinese Lanterns, Clocks,Weights, wealth of London. " Bird (this latter by Performer enters, removing gloves, which disappear Jam Pots, Sash Ribbon, Cage with one by one, the first by means of the '' pull, " the second the way was produced from the right breast pocket under by sleight of hand, under cover of a turning movement, cover of the sash ribbon) and two larger cages with birds, which enables performer to produce a dove from breast same shape as the tube fromwhich they were taken. The pocket-performer advances to foot-lights and allows the tubes used were only four in number, but unusually large in size. bird to fly away. The " mechanical " portion of theentertainmentis Under cover of returning to centre of stage he secures well done, and the tricks without exception are accoma white billiard ball, producing this, he executes a numpanied with good dramaticeffectwhichmakesthem ber of passes (see ' ' Conjuring for Amateurs' ' and ' ' New The white quite deceptive. Miscellaneous Tricks ' ' byEllisStanyon). Our nextnumber will contain particularsof the psychoball is now changed to a red one, and the wmderfuZ production of four baZZs at the t@s of j n g e r s follows. (See logical problems presented byHerr and Madam Valadon. ' ' New Miscellaneous Tricks ' ' ) . The ball tricks are concluded by dropping the last red ball into rightprofonde XMIPORTANT. in the act of seeming to throw it into the air. M"agicianssending Five Annual With Cards.-Counts off five cards which vanish and Subscriptions to this office will re-appear four times by means of the Reverse PaZm, the - receive their own booked gratis last time they are produced, one by one, at finger. tips, (see " New Card Tricks " by EllisStanyon). An electro and post free for one year. We don't expect impossibilities or ask you to do too plated stand with four arms, each holding a card, and much : the aboveis an interesting and simpletask and arranged one above the other similar to the arms on the letter E is standing on table. Performer takes one of the will pay you in more ways than one.

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not Impossible.

MAGIC.

(THE ORIGINAL “WIZARD OF THE NORTH.”)

Sketches from his NoteBook, Anecdotes, Indents, etc.

MARCH,1901.

From the facts just referred to, added tothe circumstancethat it was previously known I intended to visit Kincardine O’Neil on the road from Aberdeen to Balmoral, my presence excited almost as much speculation as theQueen, whose message I was hastening to obey. When the coach, on which I was an outside passenger, stopped to change horses at the village, a crowd had assembled, and eager enquiries wereat once seton foot as to whichof the passengers was the far-famed Wizard. Unfortunately, the coachman, with whom I had not been the least communicative during the journey, had been presenta t some of my exhibitions in Aberdeen. He recognised my features, and, in answer to the questions as to which was the Wizard, was not slow in pointing out the person of your humble servant for the inspection of the on-ltanxers. I need not sayhow I inwardly anathematized the fellow for his impertinence ; but the thing was done, and could not be helped. so I put the best possible face on the matter, and looked as pleased as if I had been reaping a benefit. For a time the crowd contented them-

( Continuedfrom page 3 6 ) . The following accpuntof Profe;fsor Anderson’svisit t o Balmoral Castlc3 is extracted from hisNote Book. . There are a few incidents connected with myirivitationandjour, ney to Balmoral, to perform before Her Majesty and the Court, irl addition to those already mentioned in the newspapers, which 1r think may be set down in mynote-book forthe amusement of thc reader : not thatI consider the circumstances in themselves of tha:t importance to entitle them tobe regarded in the light of materia 1 for entertaining history, but rather as affording an illustration oiF the ignorance and superstition which still prevailamongstcom the mon people in the Highlands of Scotland. I may premise by ob. serving, that in this part of the country, where the Royalpresence andits every proceeding was regarded with the deepest interest b)r the inhabitants, there were many and gravespeculationsasto the Queen’s command to the Wizard of the North to perform in he1 ’ royal presence at Balmoral, and on this pointit is no exaggeratiorl .to state that some of the “ unco guid ” thought very little of He1 Majesty for the compliment shewas about to pay to one whom theJT shrewdly guessed had dealings of some sort with that much dreadedl personage whom Milton has panegyrized as the *‘ Prince and chiel of many throned powers.” As I have previously informed the reader, the village of Kincardine O’Neil, near the banks of the Dee, is the birth-place of the Wizard of the North, and h,ere, even at thepresent day, the belief in witchcraft and things supernatural prevails with a strength andI vigour which it will take many years of study and cultivation tol eradicate. On my way to Balmoral, I passed through theprimitive clazhan where I had not oncebeen from my boyhood, and. at whichl I stopped to make certain enquiries, the resdt of which are of nol particular interest to any one but the writer. Here Ifoundthat my Wizard’s reputation had been invested with a somewhat equivocal kind of fame, and that thebelief in my connexion with diabolical agency was fullyconfirmed by the recollection of certain prophetic forebodings that had been given utterance to at my birth, and the memory of which still lived in the minds of the old people of the parish. In my early days, I may explain, marriages and births in Kincardine O’Neil were invariably attended by what are called cairds or spae-wives-poor people who went about.the country as beggars, and who, on these festive occasions, always managed, by a display of their professional skill (which was generally directed towards prophesying good fortune towards those whose bounty they a liberal shareof thegood thingsprovided were to enjoy), to obtain for the entertainment. One of their fraternity, it seems, called at the house of my father on the morning of my birth, andafter having satisfied herself with all the particulars as to the precise time the lad wasborn, with other attendant circumstances, commenced to read my horoscope, in thecourse of which she foretold thatt h e bairn would travel through many foreign lands, see strangefaces, and come into personal converse with kings and queens. I n those days the spiritof emigration had made littleprogress amongst the Highlanders, compared to what it has done since, and the people in thelocality to which my father belonged had an idea that no one pieces of the actual appavalus risen bv B o x Anderson in Ris entertainments. should ever quit his nativesoil unless he had offended against the laws of his country, and therefore my worthy parent being a believer selves with staring at me asif I had been a wild animal, and conin thislogic, regarded the storyof the spae-wife as an insult to the fined their remarks towhispers and pantomimic gestures, to indilcate that theywere satisfied I was something human; but at length credit of the family. The addition besides of the anticipated conversations with kings and queenswas, in his eyes, so great an out- lone old woman, with spectacles on her nose, who had gazed at me rage upon truth, that he summarily ejected the offender from his 1for a minute or two.in open-mouthed astonishment, could restrain house. Theold dame, whose name was Elspath Dodds, blazoned ‘‘ Come herself no longer, but, addressing me. lustily called ont, her wrongsover the parish, imprecated wrathuponthe devoted Bwa doon, Jock Anderson, and let your auld aunt lookat y’er feet, head of my poor father, and insisted the more strenuously that he i€orI hae naeseen yesince the day war ye born, when Elspath Dodds should yet live to see her words fulfilled-one part of the poor spaed yer fortin.” This speech was not more unexpected than it creature’s prophesy, by the bye, which, I regret to say, was not was amusing to me and the restof the passengers. I now saw that implemented, as my father died when his fanlily were but young any further attempt atdisguise would be fruitless ; SL)I desceuded in years. Strange, however, and yet not more strange than true, ?om my seat, stepped down.amongst the motley group assembled the old spae-woman’s predictions, in mycase, have been curiously tround the vehicle, and after shaking hands with the venerable and strikingly fulfilled. I have lived a chequered but eventfullife, lame who hadso unceremoniously introduced herself to my notice and have had many reverses of fortune. I have travelled in every f !ound that she was in reality my father’s sister, whom I had never country in Europe-seen surprising sights, and come in contact lIefore set eyesupon. I need scarcely say, the old lady,upon examwith curious faces-performed in courts, :onversed with kings and i nation, found tltat neither my feet were cloven, nor very much queens, and have received more tokens of royal favour and kingly imlike other folks, and that I very soon satisfied her that thedevil’s patronage than any other man, be he Duke, Lord, Earl, Marquis, C:antrips I had to play before the. Queen, of which she expressed Count, Prime Minister, or Professorof Magic, in Christendom. My 1lerself terriblyafraid, were perfectlyharmless and natural.

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kind and loving aunt, who seemed quite an oracle in her way for putting all mannerof inconsiderate questions, beganto remqnstrate with me upon the sinfulness ofmy Wizard profession, and I was about to return thecompliment by some reflections upon the superstitious notionsof the ignorant, when the guardtold methe horses were ready, and I was obliged to leave my newly found relativein the same frame of mind wlth regard to my unholy calling asI had found her, but with this difference, that I managed to transport frommy own pocket to her’s a five pound note, whose presence there, amongst the other valuables which it contained, I have no doubtshe would ascribeto something else thanthe effects of natural magic. With this interruption, we resumed ourjourney by Tulloch and Ballater to Crathie. I arrived at Crathie, which is a short distance from Balmoral, on Saturday, and proceeded to the inn there, highly delighted with the prospect of the honour about being; conferred on me by performing before her Majesty. I ought to mention, however, that I had some days before taken the precaution to send forward an agent to secure apartments for me in this same Highland hotel, and that the whole of my luggage and travelling apparatus had been there awaiting my arrival. My messenger, it turned out, had taken the rooms for me as ‘‘ Mr. Anderson from Aberdeen,” and thenwent on to Balmoral to make someother necessary arrangements. The landlord, it subsequently appeared, with a curiosity common to his class, was not contented with the simple address given him by my agent, but hzd commenced busy to himself in examining my luggage, the large quantity and strange shape of some parts of which excited his suspicion that a’ wasna on this headwere not much allayed richt, and his fears and anxieties when, on decyphering theengraved plates on someof my boxes, he made out theominous words,‘‘ Wizard of the North.” Theresult of this discovery was, that on reaching the inn door, and inquiringof one of the inmates if apartments had been taken here for Mr. Anderson of Aberdeen, I was stared at for about half a minute by the servant girl, who,aftereyeing me withahalfcomic, half puzzled expression of face, shouted “ No,” and then made the best of her way out of the inn by the back entrance. Being somewhat cold and hungry with my long ride on the top of a coach in these Highland latitudes, I was in no humour for playingat bo-peep with any one, so, noticing a part of my performing furniture inthe lobby ‘* I made bold to enter,” asPaddy would say, walked upstairsto an apartment on the first flat, I supposed to the dining-room, and rung the bell for dinner. I had not been long in this place when I heard a whispering of voiceson the staircase, and the sound as of a number of parties pushing each other forward to the door of the room where I was sitting, on which I said, “ Come away, landlord, and let us have some dinner.” I had guessed aright as to the party at the door, for in stepped mine host, followed by the landlady and a posse of domestics, with as much terrordepicted on their countenances asif I had proposed to make a meal of the whole establishment.Whenmine host had stared at me forsometime, and scanned me carefully from head to heel, he exclaimed, “ Na, na, Mr. Annerson, or whatever else ye ca’ yourself,I hae heard 0’your deevil’s tricks and witcheries afore ye cam,and ye’ll get nae dinner here. There’s nane 0’deevil’s cleek will put up in ma hoose, sae gang yer gate, and tak’ yer Wizard furniture alang wi’ ye,” Surprised and angry with this extraordinary reception, I told thelandlord I was in no disposition to put up with any of his impudence, and that thesooner he gave up this nonsense and got ready some dinner for his customer the better it would be for him and his I was proceeding to enforce my demands by other household, arguments of a more pacific character, when the landlady struck in, and insisted on my leaving the inn, saying, Mr. Johnson, of Glasgow, had told them the kind 0’character I was before I cam’, and the whole of the servants were so much afraid that they would not stay in the house a single night if I persisted in remaining.” ‘‘ And,” added 3onniface, by way of support to his better half, ‘‘ we hae loaded a’ the guns i’ the house with siller saxpences ; so ye see, Mr. Wizard, we are prepared for you.” Being now con]pletely out of temper with this ill-usage, I swore I would not leave the premises on anv account. I insisted it was a publicinn, and that as a traveller they mustsupplymewithrefreshments. On this I resolutely resumed nry seat, and resolved to abide with firmness the issue of the adventure, when the landlord and his party beat a retreat to the kitchen, from which they commenced unceremoniously to toss my boxes, bundles, and valuable apparatus into the high road. Hearing the clatter raised by the falling ofmy luggage, I rushed down stairsto therescue, and proceeded to uplift and replace my soiled bags and shattered boxes, when 1 was met by about a dozen Highlanders, including theostler, stable-boy, the boots, and the wholeavailable force about the inn, who had armed themselves with pitchforks, knives, broom-besoms, and a couple of old fowling pieces-with which they advanced upon me, headed

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by the landlord, swearing dreadful oaths, and calling on me to surrender. In the midst of the uproar which ensued I had seized upon a clothes-pole that stood in the door-way, and, like Quixote of old, resolved to defend myself, if necessary, against a whole army of such wretches, when a party of gentlemen came up to inquire the cause of the disturbance. On looking round I discovered amongst the number no less a personage than the minister of the parish, and two or three members of her Majesty’s household, who had come in this direction for their afternoon walk, and who seemedquiteanxious to ascertain the cause of the affray. The minister of the parish, who was well known to Boniface, advanced up to my warlike opponents, and commanded them to lay down their weapons, requesting me, at the same time, to explain the occasion of this hostile demonstration. Rejoiced by a deliverance so unexpected, I briefly stated my case, interrupted‘ by many explanations from the landlordafid his wife ; upon which the worthy clergyman took my part, informed the landlord I was journeying on her’Majesty’sservice, and ordered him without delay toconvey my luggage into the inn, from which it had been ejected, at the same time giving his security that hewould be answerable thatthe Wizard, during his stay, would play off none of his cantrips upon the landlord or any of his household. On hearing that I was on my way to the Queen, mine host changed his tone and aspect entirely, called upon his domestics to lay aside their weapons of Boniface offence, and help to replace the gentleman’s luggage. humbly apologised to me for his rudeness, and I, thanking my deliverer for his interference, re-entered the inn, from one of the windows of which I could see the clergyman walking overto where the rest of the party stood. They all enjoyed a hearty laugh at the expense of the unfortunate Wizard, whose awkward adventure, I afterwards learned, gave immense amusement to the Queen and Court. After this matters got on prettysmoothly for a day or two between Boniface and me, until an accident occurred which caused me to be again ejected fromthe inn, andapprehended on suspicion of theft. My friend Johnson, whois a bit of a wag in hisway, had, it appears, told Boniface some wonderful stories about the Wizard’s powers in the transmutation of metals, and cautioned him to be careful as towhere he kept his siller, as by a wave ofthe professor’s magic wand it could be made to fly any distance, or mayhap be transformed into some beast or bird, such as the doves, geese, or guinea pigswhich I carried along withme. Thelandlord, I observed, who watched my outgoings and incomings with considerable suspicion, stood particularly in dread of the guinea pigs Believing the absurd stories with which Johnson contrived from time to time to frighten him, Boniface had caused his wife to take his cash out of the muckle kist, where it had always been safely deposited until my arrival, and gotit sewed up in one of the pillows of his own bed for greater security. I t so happened about this time that the innwas filled with travellers, for oneof whom it had been necessary to make a “ shake-doon ” bed, in lieu of better accommodation. When the chamber-maid was ordered to make up abed ’ for the stranger she was rather at a loss for pillows, so contrived to borrow one from her master’s apartment, and unluckily selected that in which the bank-notes of mine host were firmly sewed and securely deposited. Nothing was heard of this mistake until Boniface and his wife retired to rest for the night, when, upon lifting up the pillows, they found that theprecious one was wanting. Mine host, who could bellow like a bull-calf on the slightest occasion, and generallyexercised his powers of voice on every opportunity, without making inquiries, at once set up a howl-for the loss of his siller, not unlike an Indian’swar-whoop, which soon aroused every soul in the establishment. The alarm was instantly conveyed to the inmates of the kitchen. The landlord declared the devil had been at his wark ; and, in spite 0’saint or minister, the Wizard must be placed in safe custody until some one went for his friend, Laird MTaggart, thenearest Justiceof the Peace, whoresidessome eight or ten miles off. I was just in the act of getting into bed, equally astonished with the rest of the inmates as to the cause of the unearthly disturbance I had heard, whenthe room was roughly entered by the landlord and his servants. They, in spite of my remonstrances and entreaties, seized hold of my arms, which they pinioned, and thenmarched me down stairs in triumph to coach the house. I was without coat, hat, or other covering but my pants, and must have cut rather an odd-looking figure, guarded by Boniface, calling uponme to give up the ‘‘ bawbees and the bowster,” and applying such epithets as thief, loon, and imp of the devil. Not knowing at the time theprecise cause of the tumult, I loudly expostulated against this ungentlemanly treatment, but all to no purpose-the landlord’s blood was up, and so I had to submitmyself to be shut in the coach-house as a prisoner, the door being locked, and guarded by several of the Highland kinsmen of my ferocious accuser. 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until Boniface arrived; and ordered my immediate liberation. He explained t h a t “ i t was all a mistake,”-the servant girl had got the bawbees and the bowster,-he offered ten thousand apologiesto his hunouy’s gdory for the false imprisonment. I need not say that I threatened all kindsof revenge for thisdisgraceful treatment, and an action of damages for defamation and wrong imprisonment-all of which brave intentions, however, soon evaporated over aflowing cup of mountain dew out of the landlord’s bottle-at the end of which he promised me a Highland welcome in all time coming. After my performances at Balmoral Castle, I spent a week in the neighbourhood, engaged in visiting my friends. My appearance at the Castle had an extraordinary effect upon the well-known firm Messrs. Begg & Byers, who had then just commenced at their distillerythemanufacture of the Lochnagarwhisky. I used this whisky in my bottle trick, and the Queen, the Prince Consort, and several of the nobility then present, pronounced it to be first-class. As I still continued to use it, I became a walking advertisement ; for, in all parts of Scotland, whenever I produced my bottle, the call was always for the Lochnagar whisky. Messrs. Begg & Byers, knowing theenormous quantity of liquor that was consumed in this way,’ sent me, in the handsomest manner, ten puncheons of the whisky, which I distributed over Scotland ; and in thisextraordinary way was partly created the large demand that has sinceexisted for thisfavourite whisky.

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Abbott, Orrin. The DavenportBrothers. TheirHistory ; also the Philosophy of Travels,andManifestations DarkCircles,ancientandmodern. New York, 1864. Pamphlet, paper, 8vo. 48pp. Gives a general description of the Performances of the Davenport Bros., their travels, business, &C., &C.,

Abend,Prof.(Geo. C. Weston).Conjuring. A series of eightarticles on up-to-datetricks.London, 1896. Boundtogetherwithothermatter.Clothandgilt, 4to. 500pp. Illustrated. in Palming. Penny Pictorial Adam, H. I,. Tricks Magazine. October 14th)’ ’99. Vol. 2 , No. 19, pp. 255-8. Illustrated the,Threshold Adams, W. H. Davenport.Dwellerson or Magic and Magicians. London, 1865. Cloth, 8vo. 308 pp.Rare. Adamson, D. B. The Vanishing I;.ady. Howto effect the disappearance. Amateur Work, No.. 1 2 1 , Feb. 24, 1894. Illustrated. Seealso vols. 5, 6,and g. Ady,Thomas, M.A. A Candle intheDark,ora Treatise concerning the‘Nature of Witches and Witchcraft, being advice to Judges, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace and Grand Jurymen, what to do before they pass sentence on such as are arraigned for their livesas witches.London, 1655. 4to. 1 7 2 pp. 1

This work was evidentlyintended‘ asanantidote for the superstition of that age, as pp. 28 to 46, a chapter entitled, “ The Juggler,” are devoted to explaining the performances, &C., of the 17th century juggler. .( 20 be continued).

The Editor’s Iretter=Bo& The Editor invites contributions dealing with matters likelyto be of interest to readevs of this paper. He will be pleased to receive news relating to sjecial shows : alsoapparatus books catalogues &c f o rr e v i e w . The Editor does not hold h i m s e l f r e s p o n ; i & l e ~the ~ r views &fir&ed by his correspondents.

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MODERN MAGICIAN’S METHODS. With reference to the expos& ‘of tricks, I would like tosuggestthat inanynoticesin MAGIC of conjurer’s acts, particular mention should be made as to whether any tricks are given away. By thus publicly disapproving of anartistesomethingmight be done to stop this practice. If it were confined to poor performers, I could understand it, but I cannot understand first-class prestidigitateurs doing it. A particular instance is where a noted magician, who (before he went to America), I had considered the most artistic prestidigitateur I had seen, deliberately took the cards from the back of his left hand with his right hand atthe sametimewinking atthe audience.Hardly ahigh-classproceeding ! To makematters worse he thensaid, ‘(I will now show further examples of the art of jaZmi?zK with billiard balls’’ Another offender, a coin manipulator, during his performance stated that he was going to palm 35 coins, and beforeperforming the continuous palm withcardsexplained thathe wasgoing to palmthemalternately on the front and back of both hands. It is well to note that all the people I know, who have seenhim,commentfavourably on the onlymysterious part of his show, i.e. catching money from the air, and when I asked their opinion of the card tricks, the reply was usually, “ Oh ! I know how that’s done.” I find that people like mystery, but do not care for dexterity of thekindreferredto.Theycannotappreciate it at it’s true value, the reason, doubtless, is that they get plenty of it in a more showy form from the jugglers. I t may be fancy,butthelittlelaugh, which an expos6 creates usually sounds to me as if the audience were rather vexedat being ‘ done ’) by such simplemeans. Both magicians,to whom referenceismade, are sleight-of-hand experts, and to my mind this makes it a greater pity that they should debase their art by such unnecessary proceedings. Yours magically, MARTIN CHAPENDER. l o the Editor,

Glasgow,Feb. 16th, 1901. I have been an admirer of MAGICsince the first nurnber, and every issue shows a marked improvementon the precedingnumber,therebyproving that MAGIC is a magazine of high excellence, well worthy of support from It is, in magiciansandothers throughoutthe world. fact, the$rsi successful attempt at Magical Journalism. W h y ? Because it is up-to-date, andthereforehas come to stay. With Prof. Hoffmann’s Letter in Feb. issue I am at one, and with all therein contained I fully agree, With Mr. H. R. Evans’ articleon Magic in AmericaI also agree. Re-combination of sleight-of-Hand andApparatus-I find that a combination of both, together with a brilliantstage setting, always please. My most recent success on these lines was at the “ Empire,” Paisley, where I have just concluded a successful engagement. Yours fraternally, LOUDOUN CAMERON. N.B.-The above is selected from 500 letters of a like naturewhich are on view, on special ‘ file ’ at the office of MAGIC.-Ed.

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I t is the misfortune of the conjurer that he has no copyright in his work, andthat whenby weeks, and even months. of experiment and practicehe has elaboratedsome ne7 andattractive illusion, it is at the mercy of any unscrupulousconfrere who canmanage to detect the modf6soperandi, and copy it with more or less facility. Not seldom the imitatorhas forestalled the originator in presenting the illusion in other.countries, and thus deprived the latter of both profit and kudos. Probably for this reason the leadingprofessors of the arth,ave 1aid.aside the secretiveness which was, once their characteristic, andnowadays spoilthe pirates’ game bytaking the general public into their confidence, and explaining in black they loose nothing by this and white how it is done. Probably communicativeness, for, after all, it is not the mere mystery of a trick that is its chief attraction in a performance, but the cleverness with which it is executed.-“Music HaLZ, Feb. zsth, 1901. Did you everknow a man who didn‘t quickly get tired of knocking his head againsta brick wall? Did you ever know a man who objected to compliments being paid to his ability ? Messrs. Martinka have received for sale the entire outfit of the well-known magician Balabrega, who was killed recently by the accidental explosion of a gas tank. A list of the apparatus, packed in forty-five Taylor made trunks, may be had on application. We have also received from the above named firm a Magic Call culating Calendar ; by a very simple process the day of the week, for any given date, from the year z to the year 4000, is quickly found. The novelly, which is on stout cardboard, also forms an ordinary reference calendar for any year. We have received from Mr. Chas. Heather, Brisbane, the EveningProgrammeand MatineeDo4ger of Madam Dante, wife of Dante the Great,whowaskilledrecentlywhileoutshooting. Madam opened at the Opera House on Boxing Night last with an elaborate stage “,set ” replete with tables, chairs, &c. The tricks performed were not exactlynew, perhaps the mostnovel beingthe Organ Pipe Production, they were, however, executed with much neatness, as were also the illusions “ Sans Gene,” “The Beggar’s Dream,” and “ The Aerial Cyclist.’’ We wish Madam every success and hope she has not undertaken too nmch. . Durbin, the magican of Kenton, U.S.A., sends us hisprogrammes, also his book circular,the most elaborate thingof its kind that has yet come under our notice, consisting as it does of 110 less than 16 large pages of closely printed matter, illustrated with seven halftone photographs thewhole elegantly bound in B green cover. llurbin has an uncommon attraction in his son, Master Francis Durbin only seven years old-youngest magician in the worldwho presents a wonderful arrayof surprises with the sang froid of an old stager. The Kentou Press, Friday. Feb. Ist, 1901, devotes a colunm and a half in praise of the act presented at Dickson’s Grand Opera House by Durbin.

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in India butalso in Europe and America.'" We haveat hand the Professor's elaborate book'circular consisting of ten pages nicely printed in English andconNATHU MANCHHACHAND, Indian Magician. taining numerous letters of recommendation from Native In Nathu Manchhachand we have an .Eastern repres-' Princes, British Officers, and notaries in all parts of the entative of .the Mystic'Art, notas practisedby the World. We append an example in support of the popuMahatmas of Thibet, or by the Fakir who is supposed to larity of the professor. be able to vanish himself by ' ' The Palace, Baroda, 14th way of aropethrownin the August, 1897. This is to cerair then to cause the rope to tify that Professor Nathu disappear inthe samedirecManchhachandagaingavea tion, or likeabsurdimaginaperformanceat the Luxmirilas tions-but representative of Palace'beforeHisHighness theartas practisedby the the Maharaja Gailrwar, his magician of . the Western Sardars and Officers on the World. occasion of the Prince's birthProf. Manchhachand is a day on the 12th instant. His native of Mahwva, a town in sleight of halid tricks were the Bhawnagar State, where, this time d z f e n n t from those like all magicians, he was exhibited before. They were born very young. H e was very inrereding anxd of very attracted magic to his in high order and showed that he infancy as indeedhave been had slzdied carrfzdly and e - the majority whohaveachieved cienth the methods $ ozw best fame in itspursuit.To use Europeanartistes. His Highhis own. words (the professor ness and the party were well is a successful student of the pleased. (Signed)APPASAEnglish language and cusHEB, N. Khangi Karbhari. " toms). Butwhy, one w,ould ask, " From my infancy I was does this Iudian magician attracted towards magic. In aspire toei~~ulate the magician course, of time I became fond of the Western World rather of performing magical feats ; than the wonderfzd Indian and as the bent was natural, Fakir about whom we read so help came to me as I went on. much but understand so little. When I ,wasabouteighteen The reason, perhaps, is not far years old, I could perform to seek, at any rateit is satisbefore private meetings to the faction for us to know that surprise of all and the mystifithe subject of oursketch, NATHUMANCHHACHAND. cation of notafew.Atlast althouph on the mot. knows I was emboldened to come before the public ; and I sue- littleand careslessabout the" performance of the ceeded, not indeed beyond my hope, but certainlybeyond Fakir. and is the proud H e is fond of illusions my expectations. I devoted myself to the profession, and possessor of avaluablecollectionof the finestand gained a sort of reputation; I have performed my feats; most modern magical apparatus. MAGIC assigns to him before Maharajas, Politicians, and learned men, not only the specific designation of " The Star of the East. "

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Objects from Ribbons.-A bundle of unwieldy articles suspended on the back of achair,may be picked up under cover of, andeventually produced from, the Jibbons extracted from the tambourine or hat. by Prof. ELLIS STANYON, The U ~ g a nPz?es.-The trick of the organ pipes or Azlthor of ((Conjuringfor Amateurs,” wizard’s supper again forms a very convenient method Coujuring with Cards, ” ‘(New Coilz for the disposal of a quantity of large presents in the way of a magical production. Tricks,” (‘N e w Card Tricks, ” &c. The above methods will doubtless suggest many more to the reader, but a combination of those given should suffice to place the performer in readiness for all imergencies. Continuedfvom page 43. The Hat for “Miser’sDream.” A correspondent wants to know if we can tell him how PRODUCTION,DISTRIBUTION, &C., ( Continued). to place a borrowed hat, containing twenty florins on the What magician has no{ a t one time or another suffered rim, crown downwayds, on the table without any fear of untold misery when he discovered his Drawer Box would the coins falling. We confess we cannot-perhaps some notholda thirdor evena twenty-thirdpart of the reader can. presentshandedtohim a t achildren’sparty fora We do know, however, that public performers usetheir magical production. own hat, not necessarily prepared, but selected as best I have on several occasions recently, been surprised to suitedtothe purpose. The lining is removed and a todistributemagically,in find that I wasexpected sounding plate inseited that the fall of a coin may be the quantity, more toys, &C., than would go in a good sized better distinguished ; to remove the lining only, will in travelling trunk, and more in weight than I could carry most cases suffice. The hat isplanted with, or within with any degree of comfort-eh ? Oh no ! ! you cannot reach of, one of the orchestra who is instructed to hand it remonstrate, you are a magician, you are expected to do up at the proper moment ; it is thus made to pass as a wonders to accomplished the impossible, and to acknowborrowed article ; it is, of course, finally handed back to ledge your inability to do as desired, or to ask for assist- the suPposed owner. A usefuZ and vaZuabZe tz? not y e t ance, would be to be-little yourpowers. published edsewhew. A great secret, and one that will enable you to overThe Coin, Wine Glass, and Paper Cone. come .any difficulty is prepare yourseCf against it ;the By EDWARD GLEDHILI,. several suggestions below will, I feel sure, make magical In Professor Stanyon’s ‘ Conjuring for Amateurs ’’ distribution an effective and pleasurable part of your (page 2 2 ) the above-named trick is described as originentertainment. The Drawer Box-This is one of the oldest pieces of allyintroduced, the effect of which is to causea coin cone, apparatus designed for a magical production, b u t . a bc>x placed under a wine glass, covered with a paper large enough to be of any use for the purpose in question to disappear and return as often as desired. The writerhasseenvarious modifications of this isanexpensiveitem,and worse-its secret ispretty illusion, but never that devised by himself, which enables generally known. the performer to handround the tumbler, innocent of any H a t Production.--Smalltoys,sweets,&C., are best produced in connection with a Hat Trick. These may be preparation whatever, both before and after the trick. The requisites are a small piece of black velvet, say a wrapped in such property articles as flags, sash ribbons, and the like (a combination hat trick is given in Con- couple of feet square, a glass tumbler, and a cardboard disc of the inner diameter of the mouth of the tumbler, juring for Amateurs,” pp. 60-68. ) The Paper Cone.--This forms,perhaps,one of the covered on both sides with similar velvet to that of the square, and capable of being lifted by the slight pressure most effective productions possible. The performer fashions a 1-rge conical paper bag from a sheet of stout on its outer edge exercised by the inner edge or mouth cartridge paper, and having shown the same to be quite of the tumbler when thelatter isinverted over and unpreparedproduces from it, firsta quantity of the slightly pressed on the disc, or to be dropped when required by a touch of the finger. The performer commences by spring flowers and next a large assortment of presents of quite a substantial nature, and theyneed not of necessity handing the piece of velvet for examination, this he then spreads on a table, and whilst doing so, drops on it the be in any way collapsible. The secretin this case dependsupona second bag disc, which at a distance of two or three feet is quiteinvisiduly loaded and lightly suspended on the back of a good ble. He next shows the tumbler and inverts it over the disc. The tumbler has then only to be covered with the sized chair. The flowers first produced are caught ina basket placed on the seat of this chair, and when stooping paper cone, and lifted on tothe coin (laid on another which vanishes andre-appears as to pick up a few that have fallen to the floor, the per- part of thecloth) former, in the most natural manner possible, passes the desired. Finally, when this part of the trick is finished, it is merely necessary to raise the tumbler a few inches, original bag behind the chair, scooping up the one containing the presents for distribution. The rest follows as give the disc a slight tilt with the finger whilst doing so, when it will again drop on the velvet square and tecome a matter of course. The InexhaustibZe Box.-This if madea good size invisible. The disc palmed ’ the remaining objects are once more handed for inspection. will serve the double purpose of a property box and a N.B. -The Bditor of this journal hasno interests to guard by concealing the meanswherebya quantity of largeand cumbersome secrets of certair, tricks, or by describing them in a mis-leading manner ; on presents may beproduced magically withsatisfaction the contrary he is in a position to write conscientiously in ever detail and he will continue to do this, without predjudice; for the benefit ofYboth Amateur alike to the.performer and his audience. and Professional Magicians.

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visible card,seemingly,fromone hand totheother, throughthekneesfrom sidetoside. &C., &c. (see THURSTON, Card Manipulator. ‘ ‘ New Card Tricks,” p. 17). The actualpassesmade Programme, Palace Theatre,Februarygth, 1901. are as under. Through the left knee andback again. AVING shuffled Cards makes ordinary front khange, Through both knees and back again. made bypassing the right hand over front card of From the right to the left hand andback again. the pack held in left hand (see ‘ ‘ New Card ’Pricks ’ ’ Passinto left elbow,appears in iefthandand back p. 7., by Ellis Stanyon). again. Under cover of passing the pack from hand to hand From right to left hand. several times, palms a number of cards, perhaps twenty, t appears in right hands, and Passed into ~ z . h elbow, i n the right hand ; these cards are now produced, one by back again. one, from the air, the greater numberfrom the frontpaZm The card produced from the right elbow is now placed while the back of hand is towards audience, and while position for the reverse J. under performer is passing from right to left of stage ; he now intherighthandin cover of doing this the card already on the back of the nlakes a complete turn to the left, presenting his back to audience. The palm of the right hand is next seen to be handis placed atthe rear of the visible cardwhen, having shown the hand back and front, both cards are emptyandthreemorecardsarecaughtfrom theair. These three cards were transferred from the fyont to the vanished as one card. The two cards are next produced well together back palm under cover of the body when making the turn from the air, care being taken to keep them thatthey may appearasoneonly. Back andfront of above described. The last card (in above) is left on the back of the right the hand are shown and the two cards (as one only) are hand ; a half turn is now made to the Tight, performer thrown on the table amongst the rest of the pack. The performer now has both hands free. standingwith his back tothe audience. The card is Page comes forward with four or five cards held fantransferred to the front palm under cover of the body and wise in lefthand.Performerstandingontheleft of both hands are held as high as possible in the air, backs page takes the cards, one at a time, in the right hand to audience. Both hands are now brought together, the right hand, on which is the card, being passed behind the and causes them to disappear one after the otherby means left hand. The lreveyse is made. The hands are separated of the reverse palm. The movement is similar tothat already noted, but the one hand only is employed. The showing palms ; thesemovements are repeatedseveral cards are next producedone by one (see (‘ New Card times showing back and front of both hands alternately. 19. Fig. 2 0 , byEllisStanyon)andare Both hands are now lowered (card front palm) performer Tricks,’’p. allowed to fall on the stage as before noted. turns a little more to the right, placing his right side to The New “ Rising ” Card. --The programme is conaudience. Thehandsareagainbroughttogether,the right hand being passed under the left hand, under cover cluded withthistrick worked asexplained in MAGIC for February with the exception that instead of three of which the w m n e is made ; the movement is repeated cards five are used, three cards being caused to rise at and back alld front of both hands shown alternately (for the exact positions of the hands in above see fig. 18“New the rear of the stage and the remaining two cards nearer the footlights. Card Tricks ” by Ellis Stanyon). A turn to the right is now made and the card is produced from the air. The card is next palmed (ordinary) in the right hand The PyschologicalProblemspresented by Herrand while seeming to place it in the left hand ; the change Madam Valadon attheEgyptianHall consist of the overpah; (see ‘ ‘ New Card Tricks ” p. 6) is now made KnightsTour,the Addition Sum (six lines of four which leaves the card in the left hand (it has apparently figures written up by member of audience) and a gameof disappeared altogether) ; the cardis next transferred from nap (cards held by two members of the audience). The back palm of the clairvoyant is seated on a chair placed on a small platform thejkont palm of the left hand to the right hand (see “ New Card Tricks ’ ’ by Ellis Stanyon, isolated from the stage by four short legs. p. 19, Fig. 19)to be finally found in the air. The several feats are worked together, i.e. the dairWith his left side to audience performer again vatlishes voyanthaving runthrough a fourthpart of Knights the card(reversepalm).Hereapage comes forward Tour, leaves that and adds up first column of sum, then with several cards on a tray, m e of which he hands to proceeds to instruct the two card players as to the game the performerwho takesit in the yzght hand, on the andwhatcardsthey will play. The twofirstcards back of which hehasonecardpalmed, when it dis- played she returns to the Knights Tour and works off appears, as do four others, all passing one by one to the another fourth part, and so on throughout. back of righthand.This movement isexplained at The Knights Tour is of course memorised. The addipage 45 of thisvol., column I , par 5. The vanished tion sum could be worked by the silent code, but this is cards are now produced, one by one at the tips of the questionable in this case as the clairvoyant is blindfolded fingers, in quick succession, being allowed to fall on the (by performer) with a tricky looking bandage, and she ( - ‘NewCardTricks,” byEllis stageastheyappear. is barely out of sight line with performer. T h e game of Stanyon, p. 19,Figs. 18-20). napis memorised, the cardsbeing palmed on to,and The performer now has both hands free. Stepping to dealt from, top of pack after pack has been shuffled. tableon (his) left of stage, he takes up with the left N.B.---All new Card Sleights,Tricks,&C.,includingthe Conhand, presumably one card only passing same into right tinuous Back and Front Palm, and tricks therewith, as performed atthe Palace Theatre, will be foundclearlydescribed with hand. he really takes up two cards, the one a duplicate numerous origlnal illustrations in New Card Tricks,” by Ellis of the other, and under cover of taking the one in the for the New “ Rising” Card, Stanyon. [See Advt.]. Instructions right hand he reverse palms the duplicate on the back of without apparatus, the first and only correct method yet published, He is now in a position to pass the will be found in MAGIC for February last. the lefthand.

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I n 1851, the “ Wizard of the North went to America, and after obtaining the largest audiences that had been assembledin New York, with the single‘exception of those whichgreetedJennyLind, made a tour of the entire Union from Maine to California, and fromtheSt. Lawrence to the embouchure of the Mississippi. His success in all parts of the United Stateswas most unequivocal. .. ProfessorAnderson has appeared manytimesbefore the London public. First at the Strand Theatre, on the occasion of her Majesty’s marriage ; then at theAdelphi ; a season at CoventGarden ; and atthe St. James’s Theatre, in 1851 ; then at the Lyceum,wherehewas most successful, and obtained more popularity than fell to his share on any previous occasion. From this establishment he removed to Covent Garden, the lamentable destruction of which noble pile must still be fresh in the recollection of some, readers. Professor Anderson’s grandest coup, next,perhaps,tohis appearancebefore her Majesty, and hissuccessful American tour, washis season at the Lyceum Theatre, London, in 1855. For upwards of three months he caused the theatre to be thronged at every performance ; z 14 successive representations of. a singleentertainment,by asingleperformer,repeated nightly to houses so full that money was on eachoccasion refused at the doors, constituted an era in the history of entertainments in London. We have hitherto spoken of John Henry Anderson as a Wizard only ; and it is not all the world that is aware of hishaving achievedfamein anyother profession. For the benefit of those who have not heardof him as an actor, it may be as well to mention that his performance of the character of Rob Roy is regarded as one of the best upon the stage. It was witnessed by the &Ye of London, at Covent Garden Theatre, where Mr. Anderson played it for 36 consecutive nights. His appearing in that charactereitherattheTheatreRoyal, Glasgow orEdinburgh,invariably fills the house fromfloor to ceiling. He has represented it in every theatre in America, and in nearly all the theatres of England, Scotland. and Ireland. I n his several impersonations of WiZZiam in “ Black-Eyed Susan,” RoZZa in Pizarro, ’) and Wanderizg Steercie in “ The Rose of Ettrick Vale,” he has illustrated the versatilityof his powers. At Covent Garden the season was about to close with a grand masquerade. Unfortunately, while it was going on, the theatre tock fire, and in a very short time was a mass of ruins. This was on the morning of the 16th of March, 1856. By thisevent Mr. Anderson was again overwhel’med with misfortune, and lost an immense sum of money ; for the destruction of Covent Garden .Theatre not only deprived him of a large portion of his properties, which hadbeen perfected only .afteran amount of troHble and thought almost inconceivable, but he was apecuniary looser by manythousands of pounds. Im-mediately on the occurrence of this tremendousmisfortune followed the bankruptcy of the Royal British Bank, in which were deposited the remains of his fortune, all of which were entirely lost to him for a time. ))

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With a spirit worthyof his character and his nationality the Wizard bore up bravely under this accumulation S of losses, and sought for an opportunity to retrieve the e great disasters. The most favourablemeansappeared o be by seeking out countries in which, although his fam had been sounded he wasnotpersonallyknown ; and acwrdingly he made an engagement to visit Australia, California, India, China, Ja:an, Ceylon. Sandwich Islands, West Indies. South America-in short, a tour round t h e world, and having, by theassistance of friends, prepared entirelynewparaphernalia, atthe expense of about L4,ooo. he sailed on the 11th of March, 1858, for Melbourne, in a vessel called the ‘ ‘ Monsoon.” After encountering all the vicissitudes of a sea voyage of 16000 miles (the particulars of which it is needless to relate), he reached Australiaon the 16th June, ninety-sevendays afterleavingEngland. He immediately commenced to fulfil his engagement by appearing at the TheatreRoyal, Melbourne ; but, although the audiences were numerous, and the drawings correspondingly large, these performances were not profitable to him in a pecuniary point of view, in consequence of the peculiar nature of the engagement he had entered into before leaving England. The

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otherpartytothearrangementhadthere represented himself to be the sole proprietor and manager of all the theatres in the Australias ; and Mr. Anderson, believing this representation, thought himself compelled to come to some arrangement, of whatever nature, with this person, and thus make better terms than otherwise he could have done. The first stipulationin the agreement was, that the Wizard’s travelling expenses from Liverpool to Melbourne were to be paid by his partner ; but this was not done, and thus the terms of the bargain were broken at the veryoutset.Mr.Andersonhad to givehis own acceptances to Messrs. Ball, Black, & Co., the charterers of the Monsoon,” for the amount of his passage money. and had to pay the whole sum when the hills, which were payable in Melbourne,became due. His partnerwas further bound to pay all travelling expenses while Mr. Anderson remained in the colony, to provide places for exhibition, to pay for advertising, bills, and bill posting, and to payfor the half of thedoor-keepers ; and, in return for this, he was to receive one-half of the gross receipts. . ( To be continued).

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A Necromancer of the XVIII Century. BY HENRYRIDGELYEVANS. Author of

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In I 776 Cagliostro arrived in London. H e had assumed various aliases during the course of his career, but now he called himself Count di Cagliostro, workerof wonders, especially in medicine. He carried about two mysterious substances-a red powder,knownas his ' ' Materia Prima,"with which hetransmuted basermetals into gold,and his " EgyptianWine, " withwhich he prolonged life. H e foretold the lucky numbers in a lottery and got into a difficulty with a gang of swindlers, which .caused himto flee from Englandto avoid being imprisoned. After wandering in various countries Belgium, Holland,Germany, and Russia--he came to Paris, and set up for a veritable enchanter, and founder of the Occult order of Egyptian Freemasonry, the true form of which was supposed to have been communicated by the Grand Cophta, or High Priest of the Egyptians, to Cagliostro. Thesedegreeswereconferredonly upon master Masons, but Balsamo also instituted an order of female Masons, so asnotto disappoint the ladies and deprivethem of thehigher branches of occult knowledge. Powerover the spirit-world was promised to those who became adeptsinEgyptian Masonry. It is difficult to saywhere Cagliostro wasinitiatedintothe degrees of Freemasonry. I have had some correspondence with Masonic scholars in England and on the Continent, but they have been able to shed no light on. the subject. It is asserted that he received the degrees of the Blue Lodge in themonth of April, 1776, intheEsphance Lodge, No. 369, .held attheKing'sHeadTavern, London ; but there isno actual evidence in support of this assertion. His first Egyptian Lodge was opened a t Strasburg in 1779. I n 1782 he inaugurated the lodge of " Triumphant Wisdom (La Sagesse Triomphante) at Lyons, France, and in 1785 the famous lodge inParis. Cagliostro is regarded as the greatest Masonic impostor of the world. His pretensionswerebitterlyrepudiated by the English members of the fraternity, and many of Continental lodges. But the fact remains that he made thousands of dupes. Cagliostro declared that Moses, Elias and Christ were the Secret Superiors of the order. The meetings of the Egyptian cult were nothing more than spiritualistic seances, during which communications were held with the denizens of the celestial spheres. His sojourn in .Pariscaused the greatest furor. Prints, medallions and marble busts of him decorated all the shop windows. H e was called ' ' the divine Cagliostro. " To one of those old portraits is appended the following verses :) )

" De ]'Ami des Humains reconnaissex les traits : Tous ses jours sont marques par de nouveaux bienfaits, I1 prolonge la Vie, il secourt l'indigel~ce; Le plaisir d'etre utile est seul sa recompense. l

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summoned from the ' ' vasty deep ' to amuse a frivolous aristocracy.Howwerethosephantomsevoked? Concavemirrors, concealed confederates,andimagescast upon the smoke rising from burning incense, constitute the art of phantasmagoria. Arthur Edward Waite, author' of the variousworks on the history of magic and alchemy, while acknowledging the fact of Cagliostro's " transcendental trickery,'' seems to think theso-called magician was really possessed of occult gifts of some sort which assisted no little his unparalleled rogueries. He says : ' ' Mystical knowledge beyond that of the age in whichhe lived was undoubtedly his, and though it was still superficial, he had a genius for making the most of it. ' Speaking of the charlatan's career in Paris, Waite says : " He assumed now the role of a practical magician, and astonished the city by the )

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COMTE CAGLIOSTRO, Eztnoite de b P d h iMmite contre h i d Rome en I790 9 Traduite d'aprts I'original italien imprim6 h la Chambe Apostdique ; enrichie de Nom curieuses p et or& de son Portrait.

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The original biography was published in Rome in 1790,under It contains an the auspices of theHoly Apostolic Chatnber. elaborate expose of thegreatmagician's system of Egyptian masonry, also the fullinquisitionsentencepronouncedagainst him. This highly interestingproduct of papal jurisprudence makes strangereading for the 20th century. Intheyear 1791 the Inquisition biography was translated illto .French under the above ' title. I t has for frontispiece a a steel engraved portrait of Cagliostro. Originaleditions of this rare and curiousold work may be seen in the Peabody Library of Baltimore, M.D. ; the Scottish Rite Library of Washington, D.C. ; andthe Masonic Library of Grand Rapids, Iowa.

evocation of phantoms, which he caused to appear, at There were neckties and hatsA la Cagliostro. H e gave the wish of the inquirer, either in a mirror or in a vase away large sums to the poor andcuredtheirailments of clearwater.Thesephantoms equally represented of the legitimate deadandlivingbeings,andas free of charge,muchtothedisgust occasionally collusion appears to have been well-nigh impossible, andas the practitioners. His house was always thronged with theory of coincidence is preposterous, there is reason to noble guests, who came to witness the strange dances. People went to sup with the shades of Voltaire, suppose that he produced results which must sometimes Rousseau, and other dead celebrities, ancient and modern have astonished himself.' '

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The compiler hegsto acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr.Arthur Margery for valuable assistance rendered in making the present work as far aspossible complete and tboroughly up-to-date.

Frontispiece of pa-trait and autograph. With an appendix of The Magic of SpiritRapping,Writing of the Mediums and Table Turning. Being an expos6 frauds of Spirit Rappers, and descriptive of the Mechanism of theRappingTable.London, 1840 ? 8vo. 192pp. Illust.

(Continued from page 4 8 . ) Alden, W. L. Among the Freaks. London, Cloth, 8vo. 196 pp. illust.

Of this work 96pp. are devoted to conjuring, the remaining 96pp. to the appendix,which is boundup for the first time with Parlour Magic, and as it is the 38th Edition it evidently existed as a separate publication. The conjuring has a preface of spp., but no biographical mention.

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This is a work on the showlife,treatedinahumorous manner,chapter IO, pp. 146161 treats of “TheLightning Calculator ” ; chapter 1 1 , pp. ,162-177, of an Amateur Juggler.

AldinePublishingCompany.Shadowed by aShowman ; or the Mad Magician. The Aldine Library No. 82. London,N.D.64pp., 36 chapters. This is in the form of a novel,withpapercovers of an American soldier firing at the magician’s heart. Bullet catching. Serial works : I . The Magic of Numbers. -2. Capital Tricksand Deceptiotlswith Cards. 3. I‘agic Toys and how to make them. 4. Tricksin Mechanics. 5. Sleight of hand. 6 . ChemicalTricks. 7. Curious Puzzles. 8. Electrical and MagneticTricks.

London(about1895).Paper 8vo. 2 5 6 ~ ~Scarce. . Amateur’sGuide (The), including the whole Art of Legerdemain.Derby, 1883. Folding Colored Frontispiece. Rare. J. H. (The Wizard of theNorth j. Anderson,Prof. World of Magic. Anderson’s Tricks ; also animportant expos6 of Spiritualism,andacompletehistory (with phot?) of the life of theauthor.In original colored wrapper.London,N.D.Boards 8vo. 130pp. Illust. -- Exposit of Spirit Rappings. Being a series of Letters addressed to the editors of the “Balti“ Writing Medium’s ” more Sun,” togetherwitha reply. New York, 1853. Pamphlet 32pp. Frontispiece. “ The Wizard in Paris.” Particulars of this handbook ‘are wanting. The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic. Being the newest tricks of deception developed and illustrated, to which is added an exposure of the practice made use of by professionalcardplayers, blacklegs, and gamblers. London, 1840. Paper, Izmo. 71pp. 12th edition. Anderson’s Note Book ;or Recollectionsof his Continental Tour. Philadelphia, 1860. Paper, 80pp. Illust. Contains : Address by Professor Anderson at Brechin Castle. ProfAnderson’sfirstinterviewwith the Enlperor of Russia. Ludicrousincident that occurred to Prof.Andersonwhen in Ireland.TheRussianceremony of blessing the waters.Prof. Anderson at Balmoral Castle, &c. Each of these items are in the form of a chapter.

The GreatWizard of theNorth’sHandGreat book of Natural Magic. Published by the Wizard of the North at his temple of magic. London, N.D. Paper, 8vo. 72pp. In illustratedwrapper. Contains portraits of Anderson as a young man and dedicacation on fly-leaves. The matter is much the same as his other books, and is dispersed under the following headings respectively : l ‘ ParlourMagic,” pp. 1-48. “ Exposures of Card Sharps, &C.”pp. 49-60. ‘ l Ruses,” pp. 6r-64. “Anecdotes,” &C., 65-72.

A Shillingsworth of Magic ; or Tricks to be learnt in a train. Fancy paper covers, with portrait.

Anderson,A. How to do Trickswith Cards.New York, 1900. Published by Frank Tousey, 24 Union Sq. There are several books on tricksby the same publisher.

Appleby, F. (C.E. j Loisette’s Art of Never Forgetting. London,N.D.Paper, 8vo. 20pp. . Scarce. Contains the code for the ‘instantaneous memorization of a pack of 52 cards.

Arnold, George. The Magician’s Own Book, New. York, 1851. Cloth, 8vo. 362pp. Illust. Arkas, Alfred. Artistes in Wood, Paper and Soap. Extraordinarydisplays of ingenuity. ‘ ‘ Harmsworth. Magazine,”Aprll, 1899. pp. 254-258. (Mentions Mr. Morrell, Mr. King and Mad Eils respectively,who were and probably are now with Barnum’s Show. Art of Conjuring, The ; orLegerdemainmade easy. Exhibiting the manner of performing all the Ingenious andRemarkableTricks. N. D. about 1810. Art of Conjuring made easy, The ; or Instructions for Performing the most astonishing Sleight-of-hand Feats”’ with directions for making Fireworks. Devenport, 1860?Paperpamphlet, 12mo.12pp. Art of Legerdemain, The whole ; or, the Conjurer unmasked. Containing instructions how to perform tricks with Dice, Cards, Birds, Eggs, Cups, Balls, &C., by the most celebrated Professors. Derby, 18301 Paper pamphlet, 12mo., 24pp. Folding colored frontispiece of aconjurerwithanurninlefthandanda wand in righthand,abust on cabinet,serpentdevilarising from sulphur bottle, &c. Published by Thomas Richardson. Art and Mystery of Modern Gaming, The whole. Fully exposedanddetected.Containinganhistorical account of all the secret abuses practised in the game of chance, &c. London, 1726. 4to. (no author mentioned). II Ipp. Very interestlngforsuchangarlywork,as it exposes the inner secrets of gaming houses,dicing, and cardgames, etc., in a technical manner.

Art of Ventriloquism, The. With plain practicaldirections, by which the various “ voices ” may be acquired inafew weeks. By aProfessor of the Art). “Boy’s Own Paper,” 1889. About June orJuly ? In 4 parts. Astley,Philip.Natural Magic, or ; Physical Amusements Revealed. Contains 24 experiments and preface. I,ondon, 1785. 12mo. 45pp. Frontispiece, Conjurer performing card nailed towall. Automata. Fifty games played by the Automaton Chess Player. London, 1820. 76pp. Cloth, 8vo. Taken down by permission of Mr. Maelzel, at the time they were played during its exhibition in London in 1820, and sold at the ExhibitionRoom, 29 St. James St. Automaton Chess Player,The. New Penny Magazine, August19th, 1899, pp. 229-230. Illust. MR. STANYON will feel indebted to anyone who will kindly notify him of any work, Book, Pamphlet, Periodical. Magazine artfyle or the like, on Conj u r i n g and Kindred Arts. not includedin his original Bibliography,” in time for the same toaDDear in theabove list. * _ votation:, for a n y work in this list may behadonapplication to t h e ffice of MAGIC.”

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The Editor’s Iretter=0o$. be of interest The Editor invites contributions dealing with matters likely to to readers of this paper. He will be pleased to receive news relatin to special shows. also apparatus books catalogues &c f o r review. The f d i t o y does not hoid himselfresponsiblefo;the views &bvl&ed by his correspondents.

MAGIC andthe now Famous Serials (by E 1 Stanyon)are successfulbeyon&ourexpectations, and our best thanks are due to all those who have so kindly helped to make them so ; there is no need for us to say more-the following extracts from correspondence speak volumes.

‘)fi: (Continued from page 13). If the three diagramsgiven in my last article (pageI 3) have been carefully studied much progress will havebeen made and the student will find himself in a position to practice figures of a more complex nature. An excellent effect, and laughable, may be obtained on the sheet in the following manner :--First show the onehanded rabbit (Fig. S ) , then very quickly, the quicker the better, change the hand to the position required for the fox (Fig. 7). The fox will look about, smeZZing the position occupied by the rabbit but amoment before, and willeventually affect disajjoinfment byturningright roundandlooking off sheet(pointfingersoverright shoulder)-on turning back again he affectssur#rise findiag another fox facinghim (the left hand in position) l and a fight ensues. Finally both hands are displayed on sheet. The squirrel (Fig. g) is a novel and effective shadow. It is notdifficult, on the other hand it is not by any meansaneasyfigureto putupquickly. A movement of the fingers forming thetail andfore-legwill indicate PZayfuZ anfics. A combined movement of the left thumb andfore-finger (earandeyemovements) will indicate alerlness, &c. Avoid quick movements in the bull ; make the 1 shadow appear stately. Mouth movement is obtained by opening and closing Fig. 9,Squirrel. (slowly ) the second and third fingers.

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Allow me to congratulate you on the appearance of the last number. If anyguarantee were needed of the success of your venture one has but tocom‘pare tha March issue with the first that came out to be quite convinced on that point-and that w i t h o u t of t h e m a i d e n d e t r a c t i n g in the slightest from theexcellence number.” . “ I expect since you have broken the back of ‘ monopoly we shall have several people picking up the crumbs in your wake ! Speaking to a party anent Compulsory Liquidation I was informed in all seriousnes that he did not think therewas any need for fear as MAGICwas only a small thing ! ! ! ! ! l Moral-Don’t try to be funny.”: DEAR Mr. STANYON, Kansas City, Jan. Igth, 191. Please send me “ New Miscellaneous Tricks.” Congratulations on MAGIC. All copies to hand to-day. Kindly keep me informed of all your publications on magic. Yours sincerely, A. M. W I ~ S O N . To Mr. STANYON, San Francisco, Jan. 26th, 1901. Please sendme “ New Miscellaneous Tricks,” No. 6. I look forward with much pleasure to your publicatons, and, each month, to MAGICand wish it every success for a long term of publication. Yours very truly, HORACE H. MILLLER. DBARMr. STANYON, Washington, D.C., Dec. 14th, 1900. Kindlysend me your new pamphlet No. 6 , also “ Hand Shadows.”Your little pamphlets on conjuring are exceedin ly original, suggestive, and useful, alike to the amateur and professional magician. Very truly yours, H. R.EVANS. To Mr. STANYON, Dundee, N.B., Feb and, 1g01. Kindly send me “ Conjuring with Cards.” I already have ‘‘ Conjuring for Amateurs,” “ NewCoin Tricks,”and “ New Card Tricks.” I would add that I have obtained a great deal of valuable information from your excellent works. Yours respectfully, HERR EINWAL. To Mr. STANYON, Edinburgh, Oct. Ist, rgoo. Thanksfor“New Coin Tricks ” also “ New Card Tricks.” Your explanations of the “ Miser’s Dream ” and other Coin and Card Tricks are exceptionally clear and readily understood. Yours faithfully, PROF.BELLILIOS.

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I enjoyed the Feb. number of MAGIC very much. I t is a capital number and full of suggestive hints. Your idea of publishing old

programmes is a clever one. Nothing interestsme more than these ancient announcements of magical performances, couched in their queer jargon and polychromatic jawbreaking verbiage. Do secure, if possible, one of Robert Houdin’s programmes and publish it in I always feel liketaking off my hat whenever I facsimile. hear thatname pronounced, RobertHoudin, arch-master of modern magic ; the man who sounded the depths of the art and placed it on a scientific basis. Alas, how our later day professors are departing from the prototype. All hail, Manipulators. I wish I could say, Vale, Manipulators ! A new magician, named Jefferson, recently made his bow in New York, and created a favourable impression. Our lady magician, Madame Herrmann, relief of Alexander the Great, is remarkably successful in her clever act ; it is magic en parttomine. The sceneisaJapanese garden,and Madame Herrmaun dressed in gorgeous Japanese rubes presents a boquet of mystic novelties. Her manipulation of billiardballsis not bad. The production of a goose from a lot of paper rihbon a1ways brings a laugh. Madame Herrmar, not long ago met with a sad mishap. She had the goose killed, not to secure the mystical stock of golden eggs, but to recover some valuable rings which the fowl had supposedly swallowed. The diamond rings had mysteriously

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disappeared, and the black assistant, Bourqski, was suspected of having purloined them. Boumski blamed it on the goose : and so poor goosie was decapitated and disembowelled, but no jewellery. Finally Boumskiconfessed thathe was theguiltyparty,and Madame Herrmann had him clapped into jail. While languishing in durance vile, the Ethiopian revenged himself by disclosing all of Madame Herrmann’ssecretstotheSunday papers. This Boumski had been an attendant on the great Herrmann. He was quite a skilful magician, a little too’skilful for his employer and benefactor! . . . A verycleverhandkerchief act has beeninventedbya Mr. Thompson, of New York, who is the chief engineer in one of the great sky scrapers of the metropolis. He plays local dates. Having a “ sure thing” in hisprofession of engineer,, he refuses to be enticed away from his safety valves and piston-rods by booking agents of foreign theatres. He is said to be wonderfully clever and original. I believe he took a month’s holiday last year andplayed Keith’s Circuit. Kellardelivers aregular coin lecture to hisaudiences. This isnot onlyfoolish but uncharitable.Whyruin the work of humbler brethren in the artnlagique who depend upon coin man-ipulating for a living? R e the back hand palm, permit me to say that Prof. Elliott, of Boston, claims, and1 think justly, that he is the inventor of the “reversecard” palm, the movement by which the cardsare brought from the back of the hand into the palm without the audience knowing it. Elliott claims to do 136 double hand passes in 60 seconds. Many eminent sleight of hand experts have been coached by him. He enters theVaudeville field next season, under the management of J. A. Richardson. H. R. EVANS. A fac-simile reproduction of one of Houdin’s programmes will appear in the May number of MAGIC.-EDITOR.

The Claremont Branch of the Church Temperance Society held their annual tea and entertainmenton Tuesday evening, Jan. Sth, at the Mission Schoolrootn, the affair being a great success. ’., Prof. of hisentertainment, Hayes appeared and explained the nature called “ Magic, Mirth, and Mystery,” as being mirthwithmagic and mystery on either side and joined to it. He kept the audience thoroughly amused and mystified with a seriesof novel experiments in white magic and sleightof hand, afterwhich Professor DeGruchy introduced his ventriloquial sketch, giving a clever and amusing dialogue, which filled the house with laughter. The eutertainment concludedwith an exceedingly clever exposition of mystery by the well-known conjuror Professor De Caston who iutroduced his “ spirit dance ” and marvellous calculating feat. finishing withthe Agile Sailor,” causing great merriment. We have received from Bert Powell, the Military Mystic, copies of the programme and posterof the first concert (Christmas, 1900) held i n Lydenburg,Transvaal,sinceBritishoccupation.The chief items on the programme were Conjuring and Clairvoyance. Mr. Powell goes on to say that the people of Lydenhurg had not seen any sleight of hand work and that theywere absolutely dumbfounded by suchtricks as Carfes d In Maache, theCo~ttinnous Back and Front Palm, Hat Production, and so on ; and that they now understand the better why their town was so easily taken by . the British. Mr. F. T. Studd, Ventriloquist and Conjurer, sends us his program’me, well arranged and well illustrated with three half tone blocks of himself in hisventriloquial and conjuring entertainments. Mr. Studd performs with ease a ventriloquial trio song, one of the three voices being heard in the distance. l‘

Items of IntePest. The January number of the Fnvozrrile Mag-nzine is a bright, well-written, and well-illustrated number. The contents include an interesting article, “ Tom 3rown’s Art Days,” and “Some After Dinner Tricks,’’ being a lesson in magic by Prof.Ellis Stanyon, the famous wizard. “ Wonders Awheel ” describes the cleverperformances of certain trick cyclists, to wit, the Valdares.Altogetherthereare 64 pages of interestingmatter.The Ftavo~~rtle is just the thing to take away with YOU on tour to whileaway dull hours. Published by Paul Naumann Pentonvill:: Road, N.--“ Crifipe,” Feb. 1901. Those readers who have so kindly allowed us to publish, their remarks in favour of MAGIC have also given their support, and still continue to doso, in-a more substantial way; ‘MAGIC would not long be successful did the Editor insertadvertisemetltsgl.ntzs with a view to securing testimonials--but the paper speaks for itself. Watch the “show” of aprofessional before youbelievetlle things he tellsyou in his book ; you will then be less likely to waste your time in attempting theimpossible. We have received from Mr. Francis a specimen of his Crystal Goblet and Confetti Trick ; it is an excellent little trick for the drawing-room, and quite practical. It is accompanied with instructions and appropriate patter nicely printedon pictorial sheet. If you want to know the carred time don’t ask a policetnan or pay an exhorbitant price for an Egotistical work ; be serio-comic and consult MAGIC. ‘‘ Fun on the Billiard Table,” by Stancliffe, is the title of a book of 114 pp. containing 75 amusing tricks withcues, balls, and other articles, illustrated with photographs. An article on this subject appeared in one of the magazines (? Pearson’s) recently. Clement deLion (Copenhagen), Card and Coin Manipulator, engagement at the Palace Theatre purely on has just secured an the merits of his work, which is considered by experts to totally eclipse .that of any manipulator that has yet .appeared at the above house.

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ELLIS STANYON 6c Co., High-class Magical Apparatus,. 13. T h e New. Coin Wand, (The Bamboo Stick).-Genuine coins are caught znvzszbh on tip of this wand, removed and materialized in left hand,previously shown empty ; coins are also caught ,Any trick cowzplete andpost free, for price quoted. visibly, removed and thrown on table. (See Stanyon’s “ New Coin Tricks, ” Second Series). Complete, 10/6. 1. D i v i n i n g Coin.-An examined coin spun 011 table by any14. Folding Coin.-For N e w Coin Wand, &c. Extra well one, performer instantly tells whether itfalls head or f a i l upwards made and well silvered. A good imitation of half-a-crown. Each without even hearing or seeing it spin ; no notches cut in coin ; 1/9. Foldingpennies,plain.Each, I/I. failureimpossible.Complete, 2/3. 15. I n d i a r u b b e r Bands.-The proper size, well madeand 2. A S u r e Win.-A coin spun high in the air and placed on durable for Folding Coins, &c. Specially made. Quantity of four back of hand, you can tell with certainty whether itbe hzeador tail dozen (not less), I/I. upwards ; more, you c m cause it to fall what you please ; no turn16. Imitation Half-Crowns.-Pennies silver-plated to repreing over.Complete, 2/9. sent the genulne coin. Price, per.dozen, 3/9, Milled. Edges, 5/3. 3. A Sharper’s Trick.-Any borrowed coin placed on back of 17. Coin with Hoo$.--To match above, properly fitted with left hand, shown to be, say, tail up and covered with right hand, hook. (See “New Coin Tricks,” also MAGIC,Vol. I p. 19). Well will appear at the desire of performer, head or tail. No manipulasilvered, 1/3. tion with right hand ; coin covered with anything. Complete, 2/6. 18. Bevelled Edge Coins.-For use in the productionof coins 4. T h e T w o Coin Trick.-Two borrowed coins held at finger at finger tips, (see ‘‘ New Coin Tricks l , ) . Indispensible. Imitatips ; audience are requested to note whether they be head or tail tion half-crowns, per dozen, 5/3. up and to saywhendropped how they will fall.Performercan always cause both to fall as he pleases. Complete, 2/6. 19. S p e c i a l Palming Coins.-Excellent imitations in metal, size of half-crown, thin for palming a large quantity. Milled edges 5. T h e T o s s e r s Chef d’ouvre.-There is no form of tossingin extra well silvered, per dozen, 3/9 greater vogue than “ crying to pieces,” i.e. guessing whether a number of coins are heads or tazls or odd or even. A sure way of 20. Coin Holder.-To hold a number of coins insiderim of hat always winning ; pretty work for extempore conjurers. 2/6. in the “ Miser’s Dream,” so that hand may be removed and shewn empty. Coins dislodged onebyonefor magicalproduction. 6. T h e Hat Trick.-Siinilar to No. 5, but the coins are covered Price, 3/9. with a hat making manipulation impossible : the conjnrer wins. Pretty and subtle work. Complete, 3/6. 21. Heel Box.-To holdtwocoins for magical production. Complete with attachment for fitting to heel of dress shoe. Price, 7. T h e New Coin Dropper.-Arranged to hold a dozen coins (or less) under thevest ; the coins to be released and caught at any 419moment with one hand only. Productive of great effect, when re22. Coin a n d S w o r dTrick.-A borrowed coin, without being producing vanished coins in “ Miser’s Dream (see MAGIC,Vol. I changed or removed for an instant from the sightof the spectators, p. 19). Complete, 3/9. is placed on the edge of a sword or large knife and runs up and down on it, and is then returned to theowner, and sword or knife 8. New Money Catching.-A coin is suddenly seen toappear 2/-. given for inspection. Price, on the edge of rim of hat, This is taken off and thrown into the hat, and again andagain this isrepeated. A novelty. Complete 3/9. 23. Coin Slide.-For use in sleeve or under vest for secretly palming coins one by one in the “ Miser’s Dream,” well made 3/6. 9. Vanishing.Coin Tube.-(Quite a novelty). Apiece of tube, beautifully made 111 brass, and capable of holding twelve borrowed 24. A New Coin Vanish.-A dozen loose coins are placed in are requested to half-crowns is given for examination. Audience left hand which shakes them to prove they are there, yet at any fill it with coins after which it is wrapped in a borrowed handkermoment left hand opened and shown empty. Useful in connection chief and held by a spectator. On removing the handkerchief the with No. 7. Complete, 3/9. coins have vanished and the tube may be again examined. Coins 25. The M u l t i p l y i n g Penny.-One penny mysteriously mulare afterwards produced from any desired place. Complete. 3/9. tiplies into twopennies, which thendiminishto one. Withinshillings. for do. Complete, do. 2/9. structions for performing a series of novel tricks written up in Mr. 2/-. Stanyon’s keenly interesting and inimitable style. Complete, 10. I m p r o v e d “ S p i d e r ” Vanishers.-After considerable trouble we have succeeded in producing a “ Spider ” with compresA series of tricks with two multiplying coins. Complete, 3/. sible (spring) clips, which enables the performer, whetherpossess-’ 26. The Dissolving Coin.-A borrowed shilling placed in box ing a large or a small hand, to keep the fingers quite close together and a httle heat applied. Performer pours out the melted coin, throughout the qanipulation, thus making detection impossible. then replaces it in box and eventually showsit whole again. With The improved “ Spider complete in itself for vanishing any partiinstructions for conlbination work by Mr. Stanyon. Complete, 1/3, cular object as under. sent Post Free for price quoted. To palm a n d reverse palm a coin (penny) ... ... price 2/9 27. F i n g e r through Penny.-Performerthrustshis finger ,, (silvered ) ... ... ), 3/9 completely through a coin. Complete, 4d. ,, a number of coins, and to Improved make with original instructions,111. 9 , ,> produce them one by one 9, 519 Well silvered, 1/9. Cork, a or Cork Egg, &c. 1, 49 1) 28. Penny through Hat.-Shown sticking half way through a Handkerchief ... ... >l 4/3 l, 91 crown of borrowed hat. Complete, 5d. 9 , also lo change Handkerchief a ,, 513 Improved make, I/-. Either silvered, Sd, extra N.B.-Special accessories for holding anyobjects notinnumeratedabove will 29. T h e Magnetized Penny.-Adheres toanypart of the be made on receipt of instructions. hand. wand, clothing, &c. No wax, hairs, threads, &c. Complete, 11. S p e c i a l “ S p i d e r ” Coins.-For Reverse and Continuous 4d. Silvered, I/-. Back and Front Palming (see MAGIC,Vol. I , p. 1 1 and 19 ; also 30. Penny in Bottle.-A borrowed coin instantly passed into “ New Coin Tricks ” by.Ellis Stanyon). Well silvered, any pattern narrowneckedbottle.Complete, 5d. Silvered, I / I . A genuine in stock. Each, 2/9. I florin, 5/3. A genuine halfxrown, 5/9. 12. A Novel “ S p i d e r ” Coin.-This coin may be palmed in 31. T h e T r a v e l l i n g Penny.-A coin placed in either hand any position, on the back or frontof hand, or may be held at findisappears as often as desired andhand shown both sides. No ger tips, yet is always in position for Reverse Palm. A pretty and pins, wax, hooks,elastic, etc. Complete, 4d. Well sill-ered, I/-. practical device. Complete, 3/9.

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Conlimcedfro?n page 54. The Handkerchief and Bottle.--The trick I am about to describe is, to say the least, a novel one. I t may be performed anywhere independent of time and place, and the accessories required for its production may be found in ,any home, The only articles the performer must of necessity carry with him are several small silk handkerchiefs of different shades, with theproviso that two be of the same color. An ordinary winebottle,opaqueglass and quite clean inside, also a glass tumbler half full of some kind of wine, aretheonlyotherproperties required. The effect is as follows : I n the course of the Entertainmenttheperformerbegsto beallowed totake a littlerefreshment. H e thereupon espies a bottlestandthecork,poursout a ing on asidetable,removes quantity ,of winewhichhedrinks,andre-corks the bottle.Feelingmuchr9freshed he proceeds withthe entertainment and asks the spectators if they have seen the latestflyinghandkerchief. The replybeingin the negative he offers to show it to them. Three or four silk handkerchiefs are now introduced from which one is selected by the audience, the others not being required in the trick are placed on one side. We will suppose a blue handkerchief. has been chosen. This is now vanished. Strenuous efforts are now made

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by the performerto recover the lost handkerchief, but all in vain, and he is about to give it up as a bad job when he remembers the wine bottle and exclaims, “Ah ! perhaps, by some means or other it has found its way into this bottle,” and suiting the action to the word he takes a hammer and shatters the bottle, and there sure enough is the handkerchief in a perfectly dry condition. As a matter of fact the bottle was dry from the commencement and duly loaded with a duplicate handkerchief, hence the necessity of an opaque bottle. The choice of the handkerchief is forced, which may be done in severalways. One of thesimplest,andat the same time the best, is to call out the colors in this way, Which color do you prefer, the red, green, or ? ’ ’ The lastnamed color owing to the ---pink pause will in nine cases out of ten be the one chosen, but in addition the performer is safe-guarded by several persons each callingout different colors when he of course takes the one that best suits his purpose. The handlrerchief isthen vanished. S‘tanyon’s New A.I.Handkerchief Vanisher, nicely fashioned in thin spun brass, will be foundthe best. and most efficacious for thiskind of vanish.See lists.) The presence of the fluid in the glass has next to be accounted for. This is really there from the commencement of the trick, but is not observed as the glass is placed behind some object on a side table. Having removed the cork from the bottle the performer looks abouthim for aglassand at last finds the one placed say, behind a flower-pot. H e takes it up in such a manner that his hands hides the lower part containing the fluid, and simulates the action of pouring wine from the bottle. The trick then proceeds as already described. A New Coin forReversePalm.--A practical mechanical contrivance for this ever popularsleight is that shown at Fig. 19. A couple of minute holes are drilled in thecoin from the outer edge, diagonally to points on the surface. The holes are exactly opposite each other so that aflesh-colouredsilk thread, provided with loops for the fore and little fingers, passed throughthem will layacross the diameter of the coin. (SeetheFig), The thread may of course be broken at anytime and the coin handled as an ordinary one if not actuallygivenforexamination.Severalother mechanical coins designed for the same purpose will befound explained and illustrated at p. xg of the present volume. ( (

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Programme,Alhambra,July7th, 1900. Travesty on the Original Chinese Magician, Ching Ling Foo. Performer is in Chinese costume. I . Dove and Bran Plates worked as follows:-Shows two unpreparedsoupplates for examination ; fills one with bran from box and gives to attendant tohold-covers plate of bran with second plate. Fans plates, then fly two doves. The removes uppermostone,andout plates are not turnedover; thefake,with doves, is doubtless loaded into plate from box and removed under cover of u2permost plate. ' 2. Organ Pz3e Prodzdction Trick.-Pipes numbered I to 5 and worked on a low form. Nothing novel in objects produced, and none removed from pipe No. I-rather a weak point. 3. Assistant pours a quantity of water into fancy drainpipe-shaped jar held by magician, who then takes from jar one by one a number of silk flags. Magician shows each flag and most obtain applause, but when he shows Chinese flag (his own country) it is hissed (Boxer disturbance rife),, and he throws it to the floor. The flags are thrown on table, assistant gathers them all together andhandsthemtoperformer,whoattachestwocords (coming from wings) to each side of bundle, cords pulled, and a large Union Jack is suspended (change made on table), 4. Comes on withcandleand sixsquare pieces of ; lights and eats burning paper ; also eats candle. p:per bats papershavings from Chinese bowl and produces ribbon andbarber's pole from mouth, with smokeand sparksalternately.Finally, more ribbons from mouth, which multiply intolarger ribbons (rightand left pochettes) , and finally large sunshade. 5. Fish catching ; ordinary rod and line, fish caught on end of line thrown in the air. 6. Swinging two bowls of fire on chain, U' Za juggler with two balls, one on each end of a rope ; this is done by anassistant, of which the performer has two. The towls are bentiron work, containingcotton waste soaked in kefosene oil. 7. Assistant, with Chinese wig j ~ m d y3 x e d on, places his pigtail over pulley wheel attached to rope hanging from above, and by pulling on pigtail raises himself from floor, the rope at same time being drawn up in the air, 8. Production from under cloth spread ox1 stage of a. big bowl of water containing live ducks. This very large bowl is attached to waist belt of performer, and hangs just at the back of his knees, hidden by his costume. It is fitted rubber cover, which is kept on by suspending apparatusand weight of bowl. The bowl coming in contact with the floor when performer stoops to spread cloth in front of himself, releases all ; performer takes a couple of stepsbackwards andthe bowl isunderthe cloth.

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Exchange of Money, &c. 4 1 1 4 Professor Anderson had, as his share of the expenses, Carpets 3 0 8 8 to provide and maintain his own servants,five in number, Storage in Melbourne 23 I O 6 ineluding a private secretary at a salary of LIOper week, Legal Expenses, &c. 142 4 o with travelling expenses paid ; to defray the expenses of Sundries 16 243 o those members of his own family, five in number, who Washing Bills 90 I 7 5 travelled with him-to provide and keep in proper order -Total Expenses during a period hisextensiveandvaluable paraphernalia-and topay of about Fifteen Months .€15,629 12 2 hotel bills ; his expenses for all these items amounting to about LIOO perweek,payableout of one-half of the Having finished a second tour through Victoria, grossreceipts, he soon hadreasontocomplain of the Mr. Anderson made arrangemnets to sail for San Franterms of the agreement into which he had entered, and the way attheSandwichIslands,for l cisco, callingon also of the manner in which that agreement was carried which purpose he had stipulated, in chartering a vessel, out by the other party, who had undertaken personally thatsheshould remain thereforten days.Whilstat to superintend the whole of the business arrangements ; Honolulu he spent his time not onlymost pleasantly, but but immediately on arriving in Australia he appointed also veryprofitably, havinggainedalargeamount of anagenttoactfor him. Findingthathehad been information, some of whichwas of use inhispeculiar deceived, too, in his partner’s statement that he owned art ; and having likewise obtained an introduction to the the whole of the theatres in the Australias,Mr. Anderson king, before whom he had the honour of performing. wasindignant atthe mannerinwhichhehad been treated, and that he should have been brought 16,000 miles from England upon suchterms. This feeling of indigA Necromancer of the XVIII Century. nation was heightened by the fact that the person who had been guilty of this deception was actually making a BY HENRYRIDGELYEVANS. fortune by it, for the share of the receipts in Melbourne Author of “ Hours with the Ghosts,,” &C., &c. alone which fell to him amounted to no less than L2,400. (Contimed from page 58.) Determined a t all events to get ridof him, Mr. Anderson sought by all means in his power to have the engagement AllParis,atanyrate, was setwondering athis it is seriouslystated cancelled, and at lastagreed,after eleven weeks’ per- enchantmentsandprodigies,and A500 for that purpose. ‘ l le divin formances, to paytheparty that Louis XVI. was so infatuatedwith During this shortperiod his partner’s drawings from these Cagliostro,” that he declared any one who injured him entertainments had been L4,754 15s. 8d. should beconsidered guilty of treason. At Versailles, This unfortunate engagement being cancelled, and in the presence of several distinguished nobles, he is Mr. Anderson passed throughthe whole ofVictoria, said to have caused the apparition in mirrors and vases, Tasmania,and New SouthWales.Hisgrossreceipts not merely of the spectres of absent or deceased persons, inthese colonies, during a period of fifteenmonths, but animated and moving beingsof a phantasmal descripamounted to A18,ooo ; while his expenses averaged, at tion, including many dead men and women se1ecte.dby permonth, I n orderto show how this the astonished spectators.’’ least, ,LI,OOO large expenditure was cccasioned; it may be well to give Perhaps the truth of the matter was that Cagliostro the followi~lg details in regard to it :had stumbled upon some of the facts of hypnotism and telepathy, which when exhibited with the proper miseA S. d. Rent and Gas, including, insome cases en-sche produced marvellous effects akintogenuine of Sharing, Pritlting and Advertising; magic. Aninterestingpen-portrait of the enchanteris conalso Partner’sShareof A4254 15s.8d. 6728 17 L Paid to Partner, on separation tained in the memoirs of Count Beugnot, who met him 500 o o - 1511 6 o at Madame la Motte’s house in Paris. Hotel Expenses - 1301 o 6 Salaries Says Beugnot : “ Cagliostrowas of medium height, - 636 18 6 Property Bills rather stout, with anolive complexion, a veryshort neck, - 632 2 5 Fittings round face, two large eyes on alevel with the cheeks, and - 387 , 5 1 1 Printing abroad, turned-up nose. . . . His hairwasdressed - 371 Advertising in a way new to France, being divided into several small - I 292 I 1 I1O0 Bill Posting, tresses that united behind the head, and were twisted up - 441 Carriage Hire into what was then called a club. 7 7 - 225 3 1 1 Drapers and Clothiers “ H e wore on that day an iron-gray coat of French - 283 o 1 1 Carriage and Luggagemake, with gold lace, a scarlet waistcoat trimmed with - 457 1 2 5 Fares, &c. broad Spanish lace, red breeches, his swordlooped to the - 210 15 6 skirt of his coat, and alaced hat with a white feather, the ’Jewellers - 209 3 o Music latter a decoration still required of mountebanks, tooth- 124 1 1 g drawers,andother medical practitionerswho proclaim Stage Dresses

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and retail their drugs in the open air. Cagliostro set off A BIBLIOGRAPHY of CONJURING. this costume by lace ruffles, several valuable rings, and Col-ltpiZed with notes by EZZis Sfanyon. shoe buckles which were, it is true, of antique design, . . butbrightenoughto be taken forrealdiamonds. Chess Player, of Mr. De Kempelen, An The face, attire, and the whole man made an impression Automaton attempt to analyse the. With an easy method of imion me that I could not prevent. I listened to the talk. tating the movements of that celebrated figure. IllusH e spoke some sort of medley, half Frenchand half trated by original drawings, to which is addedcopious a Italian,and mademanyquotationswhichmight be collection of the knights’ moves over the chess board. Arabic, but which he did not trouble himself to translate. Anon.London, 182I . Pamphlet, 40 pp. 8vo. FrouI could notrememberany more of [hisconversation] tispiece. than that the hero hadspoken of Heaven, of the stars, of This work contains five large plates illustrating 13 diagrams, theGreat-Secret, of Memphis, of thehigh-priest, of purporting to expose the secret mechanism, and five plates extranscendental chemistry,of giants andnlonstrous beasts, plainingthe klligllts’ moves. I t is mentiolled bySir David of acitytentimesaslargeasParis,in the middle of Hrewster in his ‘(Letters on Natural Magic ” which work also contailis eleveu explanatory diagrams on the construction of the Africa, where he had correspondents.’ ’ figure. On the 22nd day of August, 1785, Cagliostrowas arrested under a lettre-de-cachet and cast into the Bastile, Bacon, Roger. His discovery of the nliracles of Art, Nature, and Magick. Faithfully translated out of charged with complicity in the “ Affaire du Collier,”* as Dr. Dee’s own copy by T.M.and never before in it is called in the musty archives of the French Parlia12 mo., 51 pp. English, London, 1659. ment.Acquitted by thecourts,he was banished from This is the earliest printed English copy and contains 11 chapters. Chap. 6, concerning strange experiments, Chap. 3, of the force of speech and a check to magick, Chap. g, of the manner to make thephilosopher’s egg, &c.

Bailey, F. H. HinduJugglery.Journal Gf Education. (Boston). Vol. XLIV., p, 378. Baldwin, S. S . The White Mahatma. Secrets of Mahatma LandExposed. New York, 1899. Cloth, 4to. 1 2 0 pp.Illustrated. Ball, W. W. Rouse.Card Tricks. In hismathematical recreations and problems of past and present times. London, 1892. Cloth,8v0, 240 pp.

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Baker, Lady. Zulu witches and witch finders. New York Eclectic Magazine, Oct. 1876, pp. 479-490. This same number also contains an article entitled“ Natural House pf Cagliostro, N o . I . Rue St. Claude, Paris. Plan by M . de Ricaudy, mdacteurL’EchoduPublic.” Under Louis Phiiippe numbsrs were changed : Magic,’’ pp. 496-502. Cagliostro‘s house, formeriy No. 30, has now become N o r. Bancroft,Frederick.Yogi Magi6 inIndia. New York, 1897. ScientificAmericanSupplement.Vol. XLIII, France byorder of Louis XVI. He went to England, P* 17,845. and there, on the 20th day of June, 1786, predicted the fall of the Bastile, declaring that it would be rased to the Barnello. The Red Demons. One hundredtrickswith Fire.Chicago (about 1893). Paper, I 2mo. Scarce groundandconvertedintoapublic promenade. How and interesting. this prophecy was fulfilled history will testify. Barnum, P. T.,Life of. Writtenby himself, author’s Cagliostro had peculiar a seal, upon which were portraitonsteel,London, 1855. Cloth, W O . , 404pp. engraved the mysteriousletters “ L. P. D.” These illustrated. lettersare supposed to stand for theLatinsentence, The Humbugsof the World. London, 1866. “ Lilia pedibus destrue,” whichtranslated signifies, Cloth, ~ v o . 315 , pp. “ Tread the lilies underfoot ”-alluding to the overthrow of theFrench monarchy.Manytheosophical writers Barnumand Bailey. The Wonder Book of Freaksand Animals. London, 1898-9. Paper, 4to. Illustrated, have placed implicit belief in the mission of Cagliostro as the secret emissary of an Occult Body working for the 44 PP. Thls book contains short biographical notices of all the freaks, regeneration of mankind. &C., who were showing with Barnum, on his last visit to London Taking this idea for a theme, Alexander the GreatIt is illustratedwith blocks of nearly every artiste, and was sold he of the pen, not of the sword-has built up a series of at 6d. in the form of a guide book and programme. It is perhaps more interesting to showmen than conjurers. I t is interesting improbable thoughhighlyromantic novels aboutthe reading and the magical items are with blocks and reading matter. personality of Cagliostro,entitled “ The Memoirs of a Wade Cochran (Memory Wonder), Matly (Needle King), Physician ” and The Diamond Necklace.”Verily, Alfonso (Human Ostrich), Mattie Lee Price ( Lady Magnet), verily, Dumas pPre had an elastic imagination ! ), Mdm. Loretta (Snake Charmer), Prince Samonda (Illusiot~ist p -

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The Magical Fraternity are still quiet in this part of the world, as far as public appearances, but all are busy in their owti “ dens,” working out new ideas an3 arranging programmes. --.\priI 1st. I have had visits from several of then1 lately. PROFESSOR AI.BBR’I‘, Conjuror and Ventriloquist, who has jnst returned from his tour, called a few (lays since (in colttpany with De Caston). IJe has received most favora1)le ‘. opinions ’’ inthe Press throughout his wantlerillgs. One “ cuttiug ’’ he showed me colltpared his work with that of such men as Servais le Roy and Carl Hertz, who ha:l visited the same town, sayittg it was equal toany. His “handcuff feat ” has lxought hiltl great renowu. He is looking very well after his trip. Fie has securetl a month’s engagement at the “ Alhanllxa,” Cape ’l‘owl~. DE CAS’~’ON reports several offers of el~gageme~~ts. He is h s y , I understand, at hisnew programme for the coming season. DE GRUCHY, who spent an evening with me recently, is working up some novel effects with cards ancl coins, a d is also elaboratiug his ventriloquial sketch. He showed me some original ’ ‘ moves.” Rosco, JUN., has been keeping up his reputation as a conjuror at various ‘‘ smoking concerts ” and variety shows, ancl has obtailled a good reputation. I had a letter a few days since from Mr. Bert Powell, up-to-date magician. He writes from Lydenburg, Tratlsvaal, in which locality he is worthily npholding the prestige of the magician. He is, like all good coujurors, looking out for ’‘ origillal novelties.” The n ~ o l ~ emarket y here beiug seriously depressed through the pro!ongation of the war, and a visitation of the Bubouic Plague, hasnaturally rendered “ sales nowhere, so tospeak, but there has been aconsiderable amountof “ tradiltg ’’ done by “exchange,” &C. I should like to intimate to allconjurers in this country, orwho may come here, that I am always glad to receive a call from them, or, failing that, to opena correspondence. Any assistance I can render them their at is disposal. T. HAYES,Magician.

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32. Marvellous V a n i s h for Four Coins.-First time listed, positively new. An absolutely invisible apparatus, for cansillg the CHAP. I .-Novel a r d origillnl slci:,.hts, including the new Reverse disappearance of FOUR BORROWED COINS (no duplicates) from alld C o n t i ~ ~ u Back o ~ ~ allcl s Frollt Palm, and the productioll of either hand ; both liands sllown back and front yet coins reprotlle Cards one by olte fro111 tlle back of tlle hautl. Ch:~p.I 1.duced at any moment ; quite practical. Complete, 4/9. New Tricks,Combinations,&C., &c. Chap. rIr.-A novel 33. T h eD a v e n p o r t Cabinet,-A coin, watclr, or other collectiou of 'l'ricks made possible by the new Reverse and article actually placed i l l drawer of cabinet mysteriouslydisappears continuous back and front palm. I,ondon, 1903. i'aper 24pp. and is found ally vhere desired : IMPROVED MAKE, AM, PARTS fllustratetlwith llutnerous speciallyprepared blocks. Post EXAMINED. Beautifullynladc a n d finished it1 mahogany; best free, sf-. 7 5 cts.. qualityonly. Complete, 7/9. N.B.-For ?he I I C W " Risillg" Card 'l'rick (Palace 'l'lleatre) see " M A G I C ' l for February, 1901. A I I I ~ LSub. I ~ ~ 5/6 ($1.50). 34. The Rattle Box.-Borrowed coin actually placed in this No. r.-" NewCoin Tricks " ( FirstSeries).Colltainiug " The box and heard to rattle about ; suddenly disappears and is iound M i s d s Dreanl " : I S perforlltecl at the Palace 'l'lleatre ( rS99) I ~ Comanywhere desired. Useful in connection with I I I ~ I tricks. Jllustratetl. I'ost free, 3 / - (75 cts. ). plete, 1/9. Superior, 2/9. No. 2.-"A Bibliograplly of Conjuri~lg." Particulars of 300 works 35. Coin Holder.-Forpalnling a nunher of coinsandto 0 1 1 nlagic.Post free, 7cl. ( 15 cts.) produce then1 one by olle. 3/9. No. 3.-" New Coi11 Tricks " (Secontl Series). Illustratecl. Post 36. The C a r d Box.-To produce,vanish,change,orrestore free, 3/- (75 cts.). a burntcard.Manyexcellent card tricks cat1I)e dofie with this No. 4.-'' New Handkercllief Tricks." Illus. Post free, 3/-( 75 cts.). apparatus ; nicely made inmahogmy. Complete, 1/9. Superior, No. 6.-" New Miscellaneous 'I'ricks." Illus. Post free,3/-( 75 cts.). 49. No. 7.--" Juggling 'l'ricks.,'-In preparation. Many otherto 37. New P r o d u c t i v e C a r d Drawer.-Two or four selected follow. cards are produced in the drawer of cahinet O W by one, or in pairs, Ccmprehensive List of Tricks and Books, free, Id. List of Latest Novelties,2Y~d at thewill of performer. Any part of apparatus givenfor examinaA M E R I C A N STAMPS & DOLLARNOTES ACCEPTED. tion at any moment. Beautifully made and finished in tnahogany. ELLIS STANYON CO., Complete, S/g. Inventors,ManufacturersandImporters of High=class i 38. New P r o d u c t i v e , Vanishing, a n d C h a n g i n g Card ltew and a novelty for card conjurers. Will Novelties. llagical ll Drawer.-Entirely produce,vanish,orcllangeoue to four cards. Beautifully made 76 S O L E N T RD. W E S T H A M P S T E A D , L O N D O N , N . W . I and fitlished in mahogany. Complete, 12/6. l

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Materialization of a LIVING Tree on a Sheet of Glass. Provide a wooden frame 36 in. square, with four I I in. feet. The frame is to contain a sheet of strong plateglass screwed in. Also providealargeordinary flower pot filled with mould, also a brass tripod large enough to cover thetree you wish tomaterialize. A largeblackcloth about 3 yards square is also rcquired to cover the tripod. The, flower pot is placed in the centre of the glass, and the tripod placed over the pot. Your attendant, wearing a frock coat and with the tree on his back, comes on the the stage, gradually, and sideways, hesitatingly awaiting instrwtions.He comes on presumablyto bring you the piece of cloth. To work the trick take the cloth from the attendant and illustrate its use by covering the tripod, then throw it over your attendant’s shoulder for him to hold while you rearratzge the trz2od. When taking it again take the tree with it and stick it in themould under cover of the cloth, yourattendanthelping you. Thetree will be spiked ready for use, and its branches tied to the stem that it may occupy as little space as possible while it is on the back of your attendant. A knife, already attached to the tree will enable you to quickly release the tied-up branches, when they will fall and make a large display.

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The Floating Paper BaI1.---This is a trick of a novel kindhavingfor its effect the suspension of aball of tissue paper in mid-air without visible means of support. The performershowsanordinarysheet,orrathera half sheet, of tissue paper which he forthwith proceeds to shape into a ball of about 4in. diameter. No sooner is the ball completed than it is seen to remain suspended in the air, theperformer passing hishands all around and no connections, but aboutit,proving,thatthereare more is to follow. The performer holds the right hand some 6in. above the ball, then slowly raising or lowering thehand causes the ball to ascend or descend, it seemingly, being attracted, in some mysterious way, by the flngers, whose every movement it follows. The performer, meanwhile, passes disengaged hand above, below, and all around the ball. The performer nextintroduces anunpreparedtea plate which he holds, with the left hand, underneath the ball. This donehebrings therighthandunderneath the plate and the moment he does so the ball rises in the air, moving up and down in accordance with the movement of the hand OW the ojposite side of the plate. The over the ball, plate and the right hand are next brought when,by alternately raising and lowering the right hand the ball is caused to repeat its mysterious movements. . The secret, as in most of the best tricks, is simplicity itself, the whole of the effects described arebrought about by the use of a black silk thread. Eh ! yes, it’s a ‘ chestnut,’ but its roasted this time. Well ! one end of the thread, about 4ft. long, is attached with a pellet of wax, or a tin tack, to the back of the performer’s head, the opposite end is fixed, temporarily, in a similar manner to his left shoulder. When ready tointroducethe trick the performer picks up the sheet of paper, which should be placed in readiness over the back of a chair, and while apparently moving the chair a little out of his way, secretly attaches the end of the thread, previously removedfrom the shoulder,totheback of the -chair, completing the arrangements. Turning his right side to the audience, the chair standing in a direct line with his body, the performer walks backwards until the thread is almost taut. He then proceeds to fashion the ball, around the thread of course,

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but as black thread is absolutely invisible on anything like a dark background this part of the operation escapes the audience. The ascentanddescent of the ballis regulated by a movement of the head, which owing to the position of the thread need be but slight to cause a very perceptible movement to the ball. Then again the movement of the head is made in unison with that of the right hand, thus, if perceived at all, it will appear quite natural. The use of the plate is not absolutely necessary but makes the trick muchmoremysterious ; it at the same time strengthens the belief that the right hand is the attractive power-why ? well, simply because its use by the performer to show there is no connection with the righthand is sufficient toinduce the bulk of the spectators to think otherwise. This is 1-/tis-direction,upon which the success of any trick depends : it should therefore receive due attention.

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The Coin Slide.-This piece of apparatus is designed to enable the performer to secretly obtain possession of a coin. I t is ~enerallvmade to contain some eight or nine coins and is worn in the sleeve or under the vest as occasion maydemand. The flat tubeisonlywideenoughtocontainthe thickness of one coin, consequentlythe coins must stand edge to edge one on top of the other. The clip atthe end of thetube keeps the bottom coin from fallinguntil pressure be applied, when the stud (see fig. 2 0 ) enterstheside of the tube, retaining the bulk of the coins, but allowing the bottom one to fall into the hand. The apparatus is placed in position for securing the second coin by the simple actionof releasing the clip. The slide is attached to the clothing by the two hooks at the upper end. It is of some service in the coin catching act, as its use enables the performer to occasionally show the hand empty. ( T o be continued). Fig. 20. v

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simplyhands No. 2 to be examined.Should,however, the choice falls on the right hand envelope he makes a By Pyufessor Hu#mann. quick turn to the left, and in so doing “ changes ” the two envelopes (this is the ordinary bottom change, without the pack), thereby transferring the blank to the left This is a trick of pure sleight-of-hand, and, well exehand, and the written card to the right, for production cuted produces a surprising effect, and the only requirein due course. ments are apack of ordinary playing cards, a pack of plain white cards of about the same size, a packet of envelopes, andacouple of lead pencils,eachsharpenedtoa fine point, so that a fragment can be readily broken off. On the underside of the uppermost of the plaincardsis CHINK0 (TheClever Boy Juggler). of a card, say the knave of written in pencil the name hearts. PROGRAMME, HIPPODROME, SEPT. 14% 1900. Advancingwith the plain pack to the audience, the performershewscasually that they are blank on both A combination of movements in throwing and balancsides, and invites a spectator to draw one. This he takes ing a Silk Hat ; balancing Hat on Umbrella and trick back in his right hand, and after shewing unmistakeably movements with umbrella (closed) ; throwing the Hat, that it hasno mark on either side, changes it by the sleight umbrella(closed)andball of paper,catchinghat on familiar to every conjurer, for the top card, and throws head, then lifting hat from rear, and catching paper under this latter, written side downwards, on a chair or table. hat ; throwing a small table, hat, and umbrella (open) ; He now asks a spectator to choose one of the envelopes, spins a basin on billiard cue (right hand), and throws a and places the card within it, first, however, again shewing pailandaplate (left hand) ; throwsa white top hat, it on both sides. To do this, he picks it up between the umbrella,andtravellingbag ; throwsthreeteaplates first and second fingers of the right hand, and holds it (inner, outer, and shower), nose movement, and three in up perpendicularly with the unwritten side towards the onehand ; Indian clubs,firstthrowsandmanipulates spectators, at the sametimepassing the thumb to the two, then kicks up a third, and throws the three (shower front below the second finger. He now lowers the card as andbackmovements) ; throwingballs (a small size), thoughtoshowtheoppositeside,but atthe same showers five, andthrows e&&, fourineachhand,the moment, by a quick impulsion from the thumb, causes eight balls however are treated as four only two being’ it to describe a semi-revolution on its shorter axis-the handled at onetime(ordinarymovement) ; throwing effect of this sleight is that the same side is again shown. fourteaplatestwoeachhand,concludingwith the Having thus proved (?)that the card is free from guile, Boomerang Plates. The performancewasgivenin the he places it in the envelope with a fragment of lead penarena, eminently suited to this latter act, which was well cil, and sticks down the flap. done and produced loud applause. H e now has a second blank card drawn, and placed in See ‘‘ NewJuggZing Ivicks,” No. 7 serial. an envelope with a fragment of pencil in a like manner. This we will call No. 2 , the firstbeing No. I. Leaving the SOUTH AFRICAN NOTES. two closed envelopes in full view, he takes up the pack of playing cards, and forces the knave of hearts, leavingit Bert Powell, the Military Mystic is still at Lydenberg, in the possession of the holder. Transvaal. He reports Conjuring as highly appreciated The trick is now practically done, but a further little in those parts and is arrangingsome “ eye openers.” piece of sleight-of-hand is used to bring it to a brilliant Hayes,,De Caston and De Greechy are running their conclusion. “ LadiesandGentlemen,”says the per‘‘ triple alliance ” of Conjuring, Ventriloquism and Jugformer, “ we have here two envelopes, each containing gling,with success. The showhas beenwell received a blankcard. A card has been freelychosenfrom the and is well spoken of. pack, and still remains in the hands of the gentleman Bosco, jnr., is still here. whodrew it. No one but himself knowswhat it is. I Vox, the Conjuror,and Moris, Conjuror and Chainwill now ask the spirits to write its name on one of the breaker, arealso incapetown but arenot showing just now. blank cards, which of them you shall choose for yourselves. Prof.Albert,ConjurorandVentriloquist.isfilling Which do you say, this, or this. This one? Very good. engagement attheAlhambra, Capetown.Bradlaugh, Will some gentleman kindly take the rejected one, open the American Humorist, is drawing well in his turn at it, and see that there is no deception? Meanwhile, I will the Alhambra. ask your indulgence for a few moments while the spirits South Ajyica, May 8th. T.-HAYES, Magician. do their work. . . . That will be long enough, I think, I heard them writing, but they seem to have leftoff now. Will some one open the envelope,and you sir, please OBITUARY. hold upthe cardyoudrew. Do you find anything We muchregret tohavetoannouncethedeath of written? What is it ? The knave of hearts? The spirits Mr. Alexander Ross, better known to the conjuring world are correct for you see the card selected was the knave as Ross Conyears,Wizard of the Drawing-room,who of hearts.” died on Saturday morning, May z5th, from pneumonia, When giving the choice between the two envelopes, the performerholdsthem out beforehim, No. 2 (the after but a few daysillness. Mr. Ross made many friends blank) in the right hand, between the first and second in Magic, his kindly and unassuming nature at all times winning for him the esteemof all with whom he came in fingers.And No. I (the genuine)intheleft,between the first finger and thumb. Should No. I be chosen, he contact.

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Biographg of Prof. enderson. (THE ORIGINAL “WIZARD OF THE NORTH.”)

‘Sketchesfrom his Note Book, Anecdotes, lucidents, etc. (Continuedf r o m page 68). L Having arrived at San Francisco, Mr. Anderson succeeded in making a very successful and satisfactory engagement, in course of which he visited the whole of the mining district. After continuing in California for a period of upwards of seven months, Mr Anderson sailed from San Francisco for New York, where he arrived on 2 1st of May, 1860. Soon after his arrival, the Presidential election occured ; andthetremendousexcitement consequent uponthat eventhada most disastrous effect onthe business ol those who catered for the public amusement. The Professor felt this in several of the engagements whichhe made in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington ; although in many instances he was welcomed by enthusiastic crowds, who were attracted by his world-wide fame. It may be mentioned as an interesing fact that, while in Washington, he was present at the opening of thelastcongress of the administration of James Buchanan, who, at a dinner some time previously, had bostingly said, I will be the last President of the United States.” While in the States, too, the Professor clearly saw the great cloud of disaster which was overhanging the country, and which burst upon it with such terrible effect. Before civil war was imminent, and before the note of secession was struck by South Carolina, Mr. Anderson had completed his arrangement for making a tour of the Southern States, from Richmond to New Orleans ; but the aspect of affairs had become so complicated,thatit wasmanifestlyunsafeto carryoutthe scheme ; and therefore he was compelled to put up with the loss of all the money he had already expended on his projected tour. Returning again to the Northern States, he remained there for the next two years, hoping always that the war would end, and that thus he would be at liberty to carry out his original intention ; but instead of this, the feud between the partiesincreased daily and hourly inviolence. Whatwiththeamounthe hadexpended on the preparations for his visit to the South, from which there was no return, and the bad state of business in the North, Mr. Andersonlostthewhole of the moneys hehad earned in AustraliaandCalifornia,andfoundhimself once more reduced to the necessity of beginningthe world afresh. There being no reasonable prospect of retrieving his affairs in America, he resolved toreturn to England, which he did ; and re-commenced his professional career inLiverpool,on the11th of January, 1863, afteran absent from GreatBritain of nearly five years. During this time, the Professor had travelled round the world, and o ~ e ar space of no less than 235,000 miles, and had passed through his hands the enormous sumof ,&157,ooo sterling. But the character of Professor Anderson possesses one feature more interesting, and which will more commend him to the estimation of the general public than even his unquestioned magical abilities.

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A Necromancer of the XVIII Century.. BY HENRYRIDGELYEVANS. Author of

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After makinghis prophecy about the Bastile, Cagliostro departed for his old vantage. ground, the Continent. He was unable to impress the hard-headed, practical English people with his claims to occultpowers. The Freemasons repudiated him with scorn, and there is a rare old print, much valued by collectors, which depicts the unmasking of the famous magician at.one of the London lodges. The police authorities had by this time become fullycognizant of Cagliostro’s impostures. He was forbidden to

Engraving of Cagliostro, published in 1791.

practise his peculiar system of medicine and Masonry in Austria,Germany,Russia, andSpain.Drawnlikea needle to theloadstone rock, hewenttoRome.This was in 1791. He was arrested by the Holy Inquisition mdcondemnedto death as a sorcererandFreemason, )utPope Pius VI. commutedthepunishment tolifemprisonment in the gloomy castle of San Leon, Urbino. Kere inasubterraneousdungeonhefrettedawayhis ife in silence and darkness, until the year 1795,when he lied. A French inspector of ’Italian prisons, who visited he fortress of San Leon, March 6th, 1795,reported that le saw a sentence with autograph written by Cagliostro lpon the dungeon wall. Cagliostro’s wife died in a conrent, sincerely repentant of her sins. ( To be continued).

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Bertram, Charles. Is’ntit wonderful. A History of Magic and Mystery. Tricks and Reminiscences. Com#iZed wifh notes by EZZis Sfanyon. London, 1896. Cloth,4to., 301 pp,, Illustrated. A chat with Mr. Chas.Bertram. New Penny MagAb& assisfed by MY. Arfhw Margery. azine,Xmas. No. 1899. pp. 48 1’7. Illustratedwith seven photos. -Are Indian Jugglers Humbugs. Strand, Dec., 1899. Continned from page 69. pp. 657-644, Illustrated. Barrett, T. S., F.S.S. ‘( Magic Squares and how to make Bertrand,Victor.LesSilhouettesAnimees a la Main. them )’ from (‘Recreations in Mathematics ” by Jacques Avec 65 Figures de Pose, et 17 Patrons d’accessories. Ozanam and Jean Etienne Montucla. Translated from Paris, 1893. Paper,4to., 2 0 0 pp. ,the French into Englishby Chas. Hutton, LLD, E‘.R.S. (The most complete work on Hand Shadows). A new and revised edition with additions by T. S. Bar- Besant, W. Herr Paulus ; His Rise, His Greatness, His rett, F.S.S., Berkhamsted, 1894. 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Scientific an account of the Author’s professional life, his wonAmericanSupplement. Vol. XLII., pp. 17, 477-8. derfultricksandfeats,withlaughableincidentsand Bayley, R. Child. Magic Lanterns, Modern. AGuide adventures as a Magician and Ventriloquist by. A. B. to the Management of the Optical Lantern, for the use Hartford, Conn., 187I. Cloth, large ~ v o .with , Author’s of Entertainers,Lecturers, Photographers,Teachers, portraitonsteel. 432 pp.,Illustrated.Veryscarce and others. London, 1896. Paper, ~ v o . ,104 pp. and interesting. Illustrated. Borlase, J. S. TheKing of the Conjurers.London, Beaumont, John. A Historical, Physiological, and Theo1877. Cloth and gilt, 8vo. 324 pp. Frontispiece. logical Treatiseon Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and Illustrated. This book is written in the form of a romance around facts in other Magical Practices, with accounts of Genii, Divinthe life of Houdin and his assistant, and describes his performations,etc.,London, 1705. Calf, ~ v o . ,400 pp.,frontances in Paris and Algeria. ispiece. Bowdoin, W. G.PlayingCards of allNations.MetroBeckmann,John. A History of Inventionsand Discovpolitan, N.Y., Nov. 1899. eries by Public Professor of the University of Goettin- Boyd, Mrs., A. S. IndianJugglers. Blackwood’s Maggen. Translated from the Germanby William Johnston. azine, Dec., 1900, Vol. 166, p. 834. Second Edition.London, 1814. Calf, large ~ v o . 4, Boys’Book of Pastime (The) or Fun for the Holidays volumes. 2,050 pp. Scarce. andRecreationsforEvenings at Home. Containing Somewhat in the style of an Encyclopaedia, contains valuable every variety of practical puzzles, card tricks, enigmas, Book Censors, and rare articles on Jugglers, Lotteries, Metals, scientificrecreations,&C., &c. London, 1861, Boards, Dresses, etc., etc. Bellew, Clara. The Merry Circle. A book of new, ~ v o . ,120 pp., Illustrated. graceful, and intellectual games and amusements. 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A Billiard Ball Combination.-For this combination you will require three solid balls I B i n . diameter, also one half shell in thin spun brass,which shell will exactly cover half of either of the balls. Preparation.-One ball with shell inright handtrousers pocket, one ball in left breast pocket (inside coat), one ball under left arm. Ma?tz~uZatioIc.-Produce the ball from left armpit and with it execute a number of passes ( a dozen is a good number), see L Conjuring for Amateurs ” also (‘New Miscellaneous Tricks ” by Ellis Stanyon. MuZ@Zicafio?z.I. Vanish the ball by seeming to place it in the left hand, really palming it in right hand and producing it a moment later from right hand trousers pocket wifh cap. 2. Multiply totwo balls. 3. Back to one ball, and produce the one :from breast pocket. 4. Multiply to three balls. 5 . Back to two balls, andprodzue theone from trousers pocket. 6 . Multiply to four balls, which arrange in left hand. Dim in ishiwg . I. Apparently throw one ball to audience for examination, really pushing one into half shell. 2. Toss one of the remaining balls in the air several times, saying, ( ’ I will vanish one into thin air,” under cover of which drop the one out of shell into profonde. You now appear to overllear a relnark to the effect that you have put one in your pocket. You appear snrprised and replacing ball i l l left Iland, explain. You try agait~, and this time you dispose of the ball into the now empty shell. Pass right hand over t!~etwo balls in left hand, secretly fiahzing one out of shell, and say, “ See ! I will just mesmerize these two, the11 give them a push, and one goes up my sleeve” (really into shell) “ that ’S the way the sleeve isactually employed inconjuring.”The ball palmed in right hand isnow produced from left elbow or elsewhere. This latter combination of sleightsisquite new and I can recommend it for effect ; it, in fact, makes this set of balls indispensable to the magician. 3. Pass the ball now in the right hand through the left knee, simply palming it and producing it at the back of the knee-this movement is made solely for the purpose of giving cover to the action of dropping the ball ont of shell intoprofonde. 4. T h e solid ball (returned to left hand) is passed into shell under cover of seeming to take it in the right hand from which it apparently disappears 2 moment later. N.B.-Before causing the disappearance of the last ball you dispose of the shell in the following manner,-Ball ,

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andshell aretogether,as one, in thelefthand. You now actually take the ball in the right hand, palming the shell in the left hand, which drops it into profonde while all eyes are centred on the visible ball. The ball is now finally vanished by that exceedingly deceptive and subtle vanish as given for the first time in (‘ New Miscellaneous Tricks ” by Ellis Stanyon.

THE FAIRY FLOWERS & CHARMED CARD. BY RUPERTDE VERE. For the purpose of this experiment you obtaitl a small boquet. Round the stem of the boquet twine a piece of colored ribbon and to olle of the ends of the ribbon sew a small clip. Now take a card-say the Knave of Hearts -and, after marking it witha pencil, insert it into the clip. You next take a piece of newspaper and fashion it into a cone. Insidethis cone (which we will call cone A) you must carefully place the flowers and card. Fold over the top of the cone and place it in a box nearly full of paperclippings of different colors. Having secured a gentleman to assist you from theaudience you take another piece of paperand after showing it to be free from preparation you fashion it into another cone which we will call cone B. Now fill ? cone Bwithclippings frombox. To dothis you takethe cone intheright hand, then tilting it mouth downward into the box you pretend to push with the left hand the clippings into the cone. Under cover of this movement you will find that youcan easily introduce cone A into cone B secretly, afterwards placing a few clippings on top of cone A , so that cone B will appear to be full of paper. Come forward with the cone and show it to be full? of cuttings, then fold over the top and give it to a gentleman to hold. Now force a duplicate Knave of Hearts on a lady, and giving her a pencil ask her to mark the card so that she will know it again. When she returns the card to you, you change it for a third Knave of Hearts,which card must be marked in exactly the same manner as the card in the cone, You show this card to gentleman who takes it to be the same card as the lady marked. Y o n now vauish the card and 011 teavirzg ope11 the cone the clippings are found to have charlged to a boquet of flowers attached to which is the chosen card. Take the card from clip and show to gentleman, who seeing the mark takes it to be the same card as lady selected. Thenchange card for the chosen card which you will remember is on top of pack, and give it to lady to identify. Now present her with the flowers. My readers will notice thatthe above trickcan be varied to a great extent. If instead of using newspaper for the cones you use paper of a very strong kind you can use a dove instead of flowers. The effect of the dove flying from the cone when you tear it in half is very good. The ribbon andcard would be attached to the neck of the dove. Again you can use the torn card of havingthe card marked,simply dodgeandinstead retaina piece as in the old way, the remaining pieces beingvanished by means of the pistol. In thislatter way plenty of full ruaybe obtained by pretendingto shoot assistant, etc. Always destroy the remains of cone after performance.

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TO FORCE A CARD (Novel Method). A NEW USE FOR AN OLD DEVICE.

By F. Edward Cook. The following will be found an effective and unfailing method of forcing a card, Bring the card you desire to force to the top of the pack, palm it off, and requestaspectator to shuffle the,pack thoroughly. After this has been done, replace the card on the top. Hold the cards up so that all can see that .you do not in any way tamper with them, and invite someone to select a number, say between I and 20. We will suppose that 15 isthenumber chosen. Commencing with the top card (which it will be remembered is the one to be forced) deal 15 cards face downwards upon the table. As you near the selected number it will be well to count more rapidly, and in a less audible voice, so as not to drawtoo nmch attention t p the fact that you deal theexact 15 cards. As youthrow down the last card, suddenly assume an offended air, and remark, “ I fancy I overheard someone suggest that I am “ deaiing seconds,”really that is too bad. Perhaps,afterall, it will be more satisfactory if some gentleman will kindly count the cards.” Saying which, you hastily gather up the cards lying upon the table and replace then1 on the top of the pack. Now handthe cards to aspectator, with the request that he will count off and retain the fifteenthcard.As the topcard was the undermost of fifteen cards lying upon tlle table, it is evident that it now stands at that number in the pack, so you need not fear that you will fail in “ forcing ” the card. The fact that the cards have been counted by one of the audience will certainlyadd to the final effect of whatevertrick you may be performing. N.B.-By adopting the following ruse the “Palm” is u1111eceSary and the pack may be shuffled freely at the outset. The performer would receive the shuffled pack in tile left hand, back uppernlost ; then when pulling up the right sleeve, with the hand containing the cards, he, with the thumb, pushes the top card slightly off the pack. The placing of the hand 011 the uppermost sideof the arm when hitchillg back the sleeve necessitates the pack being reversed,when the index pip mayberead. The left sleeve should next be hitched back 8 trifle in a11 exactly similar manner, when the trick would proceed as described.-EDIToR.

egplanatorg Programmes. Entertainment given by HOOSANMIA GUREVA and Troup (Indian Conjurers) at the

GLASGOW I N T E R N A T I O N A L E X H I B I T I O N , M A Y 23rd, rgor. T E R P O R M E R S , seven in number, introduce themselves, then five retire Ieaving two only on platform. The one takes up a sitting position and proceeds to beat a tom-tom (small drum) to the sound of which the other begins to juggle. Performer spins a top which he gets on finger after which he places it on end of thin rod then balances the whole on chin ; spins top again, this time having top spinning at an angle on end.of cane. Juggles three large broad bladed knives. Shows small tree to the

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branches of which he fixes six thin pieces of wood cut in the shape of birds ; balances tree on forehead, then places a pea-shooter in his mouth into which he makes a show of loading several small balls ; blows through mouthpiece, a bird falling at every shot. Bearded performer now comes on assisted by a young lad. Assistance beingasked from audieucetwogentlemen ascend platform ; performer hatlds assistant No. I a ring asking him “ Gold or silver ? ” getting the answer “ Silver.” Performer now rolls up the ring inside s111al1 handkerchief,giving itto No. I to hold. Proceeds in same manner with assistant No. 2 ; he then says, “ Me make ring go. You saree, you 110 saree it gone.” No. I now unrollshandkerchief and finds ring has vanished, while No. 2 on examining his handkerchief finds both rit~gstogether. Old grey whiskered performer co~neson with a large ape which throwsseveral back somersaults,concluding by lifting a large stone over its head. To the sound of the tom-tom and a strange looking pipe two other performers come forward with two large snakes which they proceed to wind round their bodies. Replace snakesin small hamper. At this moment a third performer comes suddenly 011 to the stage dressed in close-fitting white suit alld turban, making show of fight. ‘ You 110 fight here,” exclaims one of the others, we tie you up and put you in basket.” They now tie his hands also. his feet and put him into a net the mouth of which theytieroundhis neck H e is now bundled into a basket and covered over with a large cloth. In a few seconds the net and turban are thrown from beneath the cover, and the cloth suddenly sinks a little. One of the performersspeaksintobasket’anda voice replies frombehindstage. He jumpsintobasket,but finds it empty. He next draws cloth off basket and covers door leading on to stage with it. The cloth now shakes as if a person were entering below it andisquickly drawl1 away and throw11 over basket. A voice is IIOW heard in basketand on liftingthe cover the performer is seen wedged tightly in mouth of basket. This trick is well worked, tlle manipulationof the cloth by the performer when he brings it from door to basket being very smart. The basket is a flat-bottomed one, egg shaped, with a small opening 011 top which gives the idea of very small capacity. When performer jumps into basket the occupant has had time to arrange himself into a sort of frog posture at left side of basket. N. B.-Does not the conjurer arrange his body around the wide bottom of the basket and close to its sides. --ED. I‘

Particulars kind& sent by Mr. ]a vtes Catnerou, Gdasgow.

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Biogr,aphg of , Prof. ,enderson.

ProfessorAndersonwas a member of the Scottish Society of Boston. During his stay in Boston, the funds Condzrdedf r o m pnge 76. of the above Society (the object of which was to assist distressed Scotchmen and their families) became perfectly . Not only was he the greatest traveller and magician of exhausted, the knowledge of whichreachedProfessor modern times, but, O N looking over 'Eiis " Note Book," Anderson ; he set to work to organise an Entertainment, v e find thathecontributedprobably more thanany the result of which was 500 dollars, or ;GIOO. This sum other public man to tlle charities of all parts of the globe. was invested in stocks, and formed a branch of the above As an acktlowledgemeIlt of his princely donations to these fund, and was called the Andersonian h n d . institutions, 1le wss e?lrolled a s a life governor of the hosProfessor Anderson was also a member of the Thistle pitals of Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow, Manchester, Dublin, Society in NewYork, the object of which was to assist disI M f a s t , B i r ~ ~ ~ i n g iand ~ a nSheffield. ~, Scotchmen in New York. He has give11 in G R b A T BRI'I'AINA S. d. tressed An entertainmentgivenbyhim atthe Academy of T o thePatriotic Ft111d inBirmingham 49 0 0 Music raised the sum of 900 dollars; or L180. DO. Do. 73 0 0 Manchester On Christmas Day, 1851, he distributed amongst 1,000 DO. Do. Glasgow 51 0 0 of the poor of New York I ,000 pounds of beef and I . o m To the Pnh!ic Cllarities of Birn~inghanl IO8 ' 0 0 loaves, which cost A75. Do. DO. Edinburgh I39 0 0 I N S A N FKANCISCO (CALIFORNIA) 1One Week's'perforlllalices i n Manchester 249 0 0 S. d. Royal111firm:~ry of Aberdeen 45 6 0 To Charities Public - I80 0 0 Infir'trlary and Public Schools of I,iverpool 130 o o To Five' Fire Companies, each - I 8 0 Dollars Charities of CityPert41 of 21 0 0 To theQueen'sHospital,Honolulu,Sandwich Public Charities of Belfast 90 o o Islands,total proceeds of Benefit I 15 o o Royal Hospital of Belfast 50 1 2 o General Infir~naryof Sheffield 21 0 0 GRANDTOTAL given byProfessor Anderson NorthumberlalldandNewcastleInfirmary 20 0 0 to the Charities in every part Ofthe GLOBE Royal Infirmary and Asylum, Manchester 216 o o After a long and eventful career, Mr. Anderson made T o the Royal Infirmary,Dundee 27- 0 ' o a farewell tour of his native country previous to retiring Leeds Infirmary '." - .' 21 0 0 We York Hospital . 5 6 0 from publiclife, buthe died shortlyafterwards. Lying-in-Hospital, Dublirl 30 o o have been fortunate enough to secure a copy of his death card,probably the only one in existence, and which is To the Fund -oftlie Disastrous Irish Famine reproduced hereunder : I ,coo Silver Rouble.. In the COLONIES he gave :,

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In theCity Churchyard of Aberdeen, under the shadow of St. Nicholas Tower, near a path which r u m from the entrance beside St. Mary's Chapel at the south to the gateway in School Hill at the north, standsa simple slate tombstone bearing the unpretentious inscription :" Erected by John Anderson in memory of his beloved mother, Mary Robertson, who died 8th January, 1830, aged 40." Beneath this in small italic letters is the quaint stanza:

Yes ! she had friends when Fortune srnil'd-it frown'dThey knew her not ! She died The Orphanswept-but liv'd to Mark this Hallow'd Spot.

Mary Robertson was the mother of John Henry Anderson, the mce famous, now well-nigh forgotten, Wizard of theNorth, whose '' magic " used to electrify alike the young and old of Scotland and England in the forties, fifties, and sixties of the last century. And mderneath that little monument also lies all that retnains of the nagician himself, " unwept, unhonoured, and unsung," so far as my testimony on the tombstone is concerned.

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Kghtning 5ketehes. BY ELLISSTANYON. ( ConcZuded f r m page 38. )

The drawing ‘hereunder forms a simple outline sketch of a face whichever way it b? presented, -as ,drawn or turned upside down.

Brewster, Sir David. Letters onNatural Magic. London, 1832. Cloth, I 8mo., 351 pp. Scarce. British Standard Handbooks. Nos. 19. Parlour Conjurer. -- 22. Chemical Wonders. -- 28. Puzzles and Riddles. 30. Hand and Fiqger Tricks, --32. Vocal and Optical Deceptions. -- 36. Thought Reader. London, N. D. Paper,192pp.,illustrated. Broadwell, Albert, H. The most extraordinary Dinner on Earth. “ Strand Magazine,” May, 1900; pp. 529-535, illustrated with photos. ,

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Brown, J. H. Spectropia, or surprising spectral Illusions, showing Ghosts everywhere and of any color. London, 1864. Cloth,4to.,sopp. 16 colored plates.Rare. Browne, Dr. W. H., M. A. Firework Making forAmateurs. A complete, and accurate work on Making Simple and High-class Fireworks. London, 1888. I n colored wrapper, 8vo. . 200pp. illustrated. Burgess, J. Tom. Knots, Ties, and Splices. A valuable work to Conjurers who practice instantaneous and subtleknottying. London, 1884. Cloth, ~ v o . , IOI pp. illustrated. Burlingame, H. J. Leaves from Conjurer’s Scrap Books. Chicago, 1891. Cloth 8vo. 274 pp. illustrated. A standard work.on Hypnotism, Mind Reading, Second Sight, Instantaneous Memorization, Illusims, Foreign and American Conjurers, etc.

-Herrmann, The Magician. His Life, His Secrets, Chicago, 1897. Cloth, 8vo. 299 pp, 43 illustrations and Photograph of Herrmann. Among many curious revelations in the book is a com lete elucidation e v e n forthe firsttime of the New MarveEous Lightning Thought Transference.

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-Around the World with a Magician and a Juggler. From ‘thepapers of the late Baron Hartwig Seeman, “ The Emperor of Magicians, ” and William D’Altini, Juggler,’’ “ Jap of Japs.” Chicago, 1891. Cloth, 8vo. 172 pp. illustrated.

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Instructions for enlarging these drawings by a simple Containsvaluableandrareinformation for the profession, process will be foundexplained at lengthinourlast, contractsandprogrammes,giving the renowned D’Alvini’s article. entire programme, also life sketch of the celebrated Bellachini In this series of short articles it has been the province and the trick that made him famous, together with the celebrated essay of Dr. Max. Dessoir on “ The Pyschology of the of the writer to introduce a series of novelties for LightArt of Conjuring.” ningSketchartistesratherthanto teach theart. In -Tricks in Magic,’Illus ions and Mental Phenomena. conclusionhehasonlytohope thathis effortshave A compilation of leading effects in Mental feats, Illuserved a double purpose in suggesting something useful effects, and miscellaneous to skilled artistes, and in drawing the attention of others, sions,Anti-Spiritualistic Tricks,3 volumes. Chicago, 1895-1898. Paper 8vo. not previously interested, to an instructive and pleasing 258 PP. pastime alike to themselves and those they would enter-Modern Magical Marvels : A Practical Treatise on tain. Magic and Conjuring for Professionals and Amateurs. (In preparation). A BIBLIOGRAPHY of CONJURING. of Magic and Magici,ans. Chicago, 1895. -History Compiled with Notes by ElZis Sfanyon. Pamphlet. Svo., 41 pp. See also under, Manning. A b l y assisted by M Y . Arthur Margery. A contribpti0.n of .interesting and valuable books, by a wellknown and competent Author.

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Branch, .Charles E. The Juggling King. Carts; bicycles, andcannonballshisfavouritetoys.PennyPictorial Magazine, July 21st, rgoo. Illustrated. pp. 27s-

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Breslaw’s Last Legacy or Magical Companion. London, 1784. Second edition. Sewn. Coloured frontispiece. 132 pp. Very scarce and interesting. ’

Bursill, Henry.Hand Shadows. Novel andamusing figures formed by thehand, fromoriginaldesigns. Londonand New York. ? 1859. Quarto. 32 illustrations.Veryrare; A copy of this work also published in Germauy. Quotaffons for any work In this list may be had on application t o t h e Office of MAGIC.” To be co~iilrrred.

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The “ People’s Journal,” Glasgow, JuneIst, contains the first instalment of an article entitled, ‘‘ The Life Story of John Henry Anderson, The Wizard of theNorth.’’The sameissuealso contains an interesting article entitled, “ Can Spirits be Materialized,” whichreferstoachallenge,madethrough the “Referee,” accepted by Mr. J. N. Maskelyne, of theEgyptian Hall, to investigate thephenomenon known as ’‘ Spirit Materialization. 1901,

Verto, Australian Magician, with company, creates somewhat of a sensation in his up-to-date programme of Conjmring, Illusions, and GeorgiaMagnetTricks.One of the items reads:-“Masklyn’s Mysterious Box introduced by Verto, assisted by Miss Millie Richardson. (This Box Trick is causing great excitement in 1,ontoanyperson opening don. Maskylynis now offering LIOOO same. ) I n connnectionwiththe “ Bibliography of Conjuring,” now running in these pages, the Editor desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to Dr. Saram R. Ellison, of New York, for the loan of his voluminous type-written catalogue. (See Note on p. 79).

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Conjuring generally hasbeen lookitlg up. I t seems to be getting more popular for winter entertaiuments, for schools, temperance societies, smokers, etc. ProfessorsHayes,Malvern, and De Caston, who have united their forces, and are billed as “ ’l‘he Magical Trio,” have been fairly busy. Their showconsists of Conjuring,Ventriloquism, and Juggliug-withillusions. They appearedin a short turq at the Good Hope Hall, Capetown, 011 Whit Monday. Prof. De Gruchy is busy at Concerts and Smokers with his Conjuring and Ventriloquial Sketch. Prof. Albert has left here alld will llow I presume be in 1,ondon. He will doubtless be on the look out for novelties. Bert Powell, the Military Mystic, is still at Lydenburg, Transvaal, where he is astonishing thenatives. is stillfillingdates in Bradlaugh, the AmericanHumourist, Capetown. Yrofessor De Caston has added Juggling to his conjuringshows, and is making rapid progress towards a good “ turn ” in this art. Professor Hayes is busy with Drawing-room Entertaillments at private parties, Schools, etc. He had the honour of appearing at a children’s party,in the drawing-room at theGovernment House, Newlands, near Capetown, on the evening of the 30th May, 1 9 0 1 , where he gave an hour’s entertainment in sleight-of-hand. South Africa, 5th June, ~gor. ’l’. HAYES,Magician. -

HULL On June 15, Messrs. Martinka & Co., held .a social..evening. at their place of businesson Sixth Avenue.Theyhadfixed up a stage in their large shop, having curtained the walls. benches, etc., and had placed chairs for the guests to witness the perfortllance. The differentmagicians present were each, in turn, called upon to work a t least one trick, preferably that in which they were most expert.Manyhadbroughttheir wives, andrefreshments were served during the evening. Among those present were Bertram, Ransom,Reeder,Walsh, AnklePlate,Werner,Wilder,Sheck, Muller, Bucha (Kellar & Co. ), and Dr. S. R. Ellison. The evening was a success and will, doubtless, be repeated.

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Dr.Walford Bodie, Ventriloquist and Mesmerist,fiuislledhis ‘*draw” of the performfortnight’s stay here on June 8th. The ancewas “ The Electrocuted Man,” in which Dr. Bodie, after n~esn~erisillg an assistant, places him in a chair, which he says is exactly the same as the oue used at the Sin Sir1 Prism in New York. He then goes through the whole performatlce of electrocution, giving his assistant, as he says, the nuniber of volts sufficient to kill a man i t 1 America. Needless to say, however, after about 15 minutes he brings llinl rourld again. I understand that Dr. Bodie is about to start a tour through America. Welsh Millar came here for a week on June 10th and gave his His turn entertainment of “ Art,notMagic,”atthePalace.” consisted of the “ Miser’s Dream.’’ He is the third coil1 mnnipulator we have had here that claims to be the o d y performer who can palm 42 coins at once. His back and front palming with cards is very neat and clever. He concludes his performance with the new rising card trick (See MAGIC for I:ebruary), which is very taking. Professor Dent is giving a ventriloquial turn at the Empire. June 131h. J, C. SKELSEY.

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entertainment I was giving at PraedStreet Chapel, Edgware Road in the year 1889,he had just taken up the MR. ROSS CONYEARS. subject of magic as a hobby, and I had the pleasure of The sltbject of our sketch this monthis Mr. Alexander givinghimhisfirstserious lesson in sleight-of-hand. 1 Ross, better known to the conjuringworld as ROSS Con- well remember our first meeting when he approached me years,Wizard of the Drawing-Room, whose sad death i u a very long overcoat, and very long hair, looking to from pneumonia and complimy mind then more liiiea cations was reported in our gentlenlanswindler of the issue of June. If onlyin genuine type than anything recognition of his kindly and else on earth,and offering unzssuming nature and symto carry my bag, ( I expected pathy with others at times all to lose sight of him and the when requiring that help he bag every minute)andthe could give, we are pleased to many hearty lauglls we have accord him the position of hadtogetherwhen I would honour inour pages this recalltohis ~nind my first month ; aud we regret that impressions of his good self. the opportunity of doiug so The majority of performers did not present itself at an havetheir pet sleight or earlier date. trick, and in this respect Mr. Ross was born, not Ross was 110 exception ; the manymilesfrom thebirth trick that thus associated place of the illustrious John itself with hiln was the Old Henry Anderson, in the vilChinese Puzzle known as lage of Invergordon, North the Lidi?zg Ri7lg.s which he Britain, intheyear 1856, was wonttopresentwith hisearlyhomebeingKingreat deftness and skill. Craig Cottage. H e reNext, perhaps,to the rings membered as a boy seeing the trick thatfascinated Ross several of the entertainments most was the Cap a7td P e ~ ~ c e , on his givenbyAnderson known some fifty years farewell tour prior to retiring PiZe of Mags. ago,asthe from public life, and I recall I am afraid the trick is now many pleasant chats relative somewhat despised, but such to this and other equally inshould not be the case, as its .teresting subjects apperlimitless variations may well taining tomagic, dating from enableconjurers to baffle even the time I firstmethim their co?zJ??.i.res. I well rem(during the season of 1889ember the delight of Ross go), to a week or so before when he first worked it for MR. ROSS CONYEARS. his death. me, to find thatI, yes I ! had Most successful magicians take to magic at an early been caught. I could say more but-of Ross it may truly age, but this cannot be said of Mr. Ross, as at thetime I besaid : “ H e offered hope tothe weary heartin first met him, when he introduced himself to me at an charity’s sacred name. ”

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Co?tti)zuedfrom page 82. Suggestions forProgramme of a Coin Manipulator. INTRODUCTION.--‘ Ladies and Gentlemen, I take pleasure in introducing to your motice a few experiments in I,egerdemain, including my original creation entitled : ‘ ‘ The Miser’s Dream.” N.B.-It is interesting to note that the majority of conjurers now working the act refer to it as their origiual creation, but seeing that the trick was in existence 1011g before theadvent on this sphere of ally presetit day performer, it is somewhat difficult to locate the actual creator-. For the benefit of the wizards of youngergenerations it may be well to here state that it is really a revival of a n old time trick, ad~nittedly one of the best, as being the most suitable for an exposition of the skilful palming (Back hattad and Reverse) of modern times. “ I shall first require the loan of a hat. ” The hat is the property of the performer and is ‘‘ planted ” in the 54). Having obauditorium(seeexplanationonpage tained the hat the performer places it in a casual way crown upwards on table and rolls up sleeves to elbow. These movements give plenty of cover for securing the first ‘ load ” unobserved. Taking up the hat he handles it, for the purpose of showing hands empty, exactly as explained at page 7 of our ‘ New Coin Tricks ” (first series)andnotelsewhere.Instead of handling the hat be with the coins atthe side, it may,toadvantage, handled at one end as suggested to me by Mr. McMahon, a very clever amateur conjurer. The hat and coins in position in the left hand, the procedure is as follows : -

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Simulate the action of catching a coin in the air (to the left), and without showing it, apparently put it into the hat. This catch is quite imaginary but is made to appear real by the sound of the coin falling into the hat : the coin is of course one released from the left hand. This ‘ i catch ” which for sheer audacity surpasses anything I have yet met, is repeated several times, the last time the right hand secures a couple of coins from the left hand : when makingthenextcatchthe coin is shown and openly dropped into the hat : the: next time the coin is palmed usual way and one let fall from left hand. This imaginary “ catch ” avoids the necessity of palming the first coin or coins in the right hand. Seem to throw a coin in the air (palmil1g) and catch in hat (drop one from left hand) : repeat this movenlent and as the coin falls into hat produce palmed coin at crown ; it seems tohave passed rightthroughhat. Seem to place a coin in mouth (palming) and blow into hat-or rightthrough crown as above.Make a turntothe right reverse palming coin (see “ New Coin Tricks ’.’ 11) showhand back andfrontasemptyandcatch coin repeat if desired. Next seem to see coinsfalling in a shower and holding the hat a little above your head and moving it about from point to point, simulate difficulty of catching coins, which however are heard to fall into the hat-the coins are let fall from the hand holding hat ;the right hand is not used in this “ catch ” and under cover of the greater movement of the left hand may very well secure a second “ load,” but this is not necessary as when making a display of the coins in the hat several. may be retained in the right hand for subsequentproduction ; or a second load may be secured from the trousers pocket (see p. 7 “ New Coin Tricks, ” I). The exact numberof coins caught is never made known, but will appear greater or less according to the degree of violence with which the hat is shaken. Make a turn to the left and catch several coins, secured in the right hand by one or other method suggested above, from the air dropping them into the hat in quick succession. Remark to the effect that as so many people wonder how its done you will explain thetrickand proceed to pass a coin throughthecrownand f h m to remove it. (Reverse palm No. 2 “ NewCoin Tricks,11.”) Makea turntothe right and show right hand empty by means of yewyse palm ;use that palm where the coil1 is transferred from the tips of the fit-st and second fingers (back of hand) to the tips of the second and third fingers (the third finger passed over coin pulls it from one position to the other) which then place it edgeways in the palm proper ( “ New Coin Tricks ” second series. ) Remark “ when I wish it-I will explainit.” the money I simplyreachfor Catch coin and repeat several times, finally “ loading ” right hand from left as already explained. Next catch acouple of coins front palm (toleft) which drop visibly into hat : repeat, loading from the left hand as before. Displaycoinssecuringa dozen which mani: pulate on rim of hat to show hands empty as previously explained : these twelve coins are now caught at finger tips (‘ New Coin Tricks, ” I ) and are finally counted one by one into the hat. I t will be well to ask the audience to name the number of coins to be caught in this wayyou force the choice uf tlle desired number, say twelve, by seeming to understand that a smaller numberhas been “ make ittwelve.” asked for, then to overhear the remark To be co?zfinued,

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Stage carpeted and furnished as drawing-room, wings closed with curtain screens, small entrance to stage at rear . The Entertainment is divided into two parts, Comic juggling and`a travesty on Chung Ling Soo,

Chinese Magician . French attired in ridiculous costume, with,,. red wig and dilapidated top hat, enters on one small bicycle wheel, running around the stage, hat falls off, and a large notice on his back reads ` ` There's hair . " Ring's very large bell standing in centre of stage, attendant enters and enacts funny business while performer juggles a plate and balances same on nose . Juggles four odd objects, (plate &c .) two in each hand-dexterous dropping and catching of plate . Throws hat, plate, small ball of paper ; catches hat oil head and paper ball under hat, lifting hat from behind . Small table, 15 to 18 inches square laid with cloth and crockery-removes cloth with a quick jerk without disturbing crockery . Attendant attempts to do the same at table on opposite side of stage and smashes everything, exasperated goes to opposite table and proceeds to deliberately smash and pitch its contents at French . Lights candle and pockets lighted match, jerks cigar from table into mouth, lights cigar at candle held in right hand, extinguishes candle by causing it to describe a half turn in air and to fall back into candle-stick . Juggles candle-stick on arm, and finally throws candle, candle-stick, and table (a small gueridon) . Jerks top hat from seat of chair oil to head, froin head oil to peg of hat stand . Throws hat from toot to head . Throws cigar, hat, and umbrella . Lays cigar on hat ; throws hat-cigar goes in mouth and hat on head . Holding umbrella at the centre with hat on ferrule end, jerks hat, causing it to roll along body of umbrella and right fore-arm and to fall on the handle of umbrella ; throws hat from handle to head then jerks it on to peg of hat stand . Throws egg, ball, and plate ; then throws egg very high and catches on plate several times without breaking egg . Breaks egg on plate to show real . Attendant catches smell of egg makes grimace and lights a cigar . French also endeavours to light cigar at electric light which goes out, he then rubs it as he would a match on seat of trousers when it re-lights . Keeps ringing big bell to re-call attendant . Puts large jar and a quantity of plates on end of pole and attempts to balance on head, but all fall to ground when attendant shouts ; French throws plates &c . at the attendant who retires hurriedly . Rings bell again . Throws three Black wood balls , about five inches diameter, occasionally letting one bounce on floor, suddenly one hits him on the head and he appears stunned, but eventually goes on throwing the balls until struck again . When he throws all three one by one, violently on the stage-the two first are wood, the third i. e . the one that struck him turns out to be indiarubber . Throws iron wash-stand basin and jug and afterwards pours a quantity of water from jug into basin . (Applause) . Throws three revolvers firing them at same time, and eventually blowing off wig and revealing French . Speaks for the first time announcing that he will give an imitation of the greatest Chinese conjurer . Four attendants, attired in Chinese costume, enter and clear away mess from juggling show by lifting it bodily away in carpet-afterwards putting down a fresh carpet . French enters with rod and line and works the Fish Catching Trick . (This is a bit over done at this date, and gives one the idea that the Eastern Conjurers are no Fish catchmore prolific than their Western Confrères . ing and Back hand coin and card palming are now stale, in fact, worked and exposed to death) .

Next follows several j r o d z ~ t i o n swhich are well worked but which are really not suprising when one takes into consideration that they take place under cover of flowing skirts and a cloth as large as a counterpane-and further the performer leaves the stage by the opening at rear at the close of eachproductionobviouslyto load up the next in order. The several productions were in order as follows.--A fullgrown collie dog. Bowl of waterwith ducks and pigeous. Bowl of fire. A piccanniny. In concl~~sion theperformergives the inlpression that heis about to cause the disappearanceof the piccanniny under the cloth, but really prodtwes a second picanniny by the sic!e of the first. The mis-direction proves all that could be desired. N. ll.-'I'l~e performer retires and loads up the second piccanniny while the audience areamused at the antics cutby the one marching around the stage. There is really ,no necessity for the perfornier to carry tlle piccanniny on this person ; the childconld very well rull secretly into cloth wllicll is waved about quite near to, and in R manner at tillles to completely hide the lower part of entrance at tile rear of the stage.

The sombre old mansion has had a peculiar history. Cagliostro vacated it on the 13th of June, 1788, on the occasion of his exile fromFrance. All during the greatRevolution the house remained closed and intact. Eighteen years of undisturbed repose passed away. The dust settled thick upon the laboratories, upon the dance-rooms andsaloons, spiders built their webs upon the gilded ceilings. Finally, it1 the Napoleonic year, 1805, the doors of the mansion were unfastened, andthe furniture and rare curios belongingtothe deadconjurerwereauctioned off. An idle crowd of quid-nuncs gathered to witness the sale of the retorts, crucibles, elixirs, &c. : to pry about, and speculate upon the secret staircases that ran through the walls of the building. In 1855 their were some repairs made. The great salons were cut up into smaller apartments.

conjuring v. Juggling. Conjurers are now combining juggling with their conjurillg shows-see Explanatory Programme on page g1 of this issue. The idea is not absolutely novel as our editor has adopted it in his entertainmentfor the past ten years. and " Nen7 Juggling- Tricks " is the outcome of his experience. The addition of jt~gglingto a conjuring show may be made at once. Experiencedconjurersverynaturally possess many of the qualities of the juggler, especially present day performers, and quickly take to the expert handling of the different objects ; but at the outset, what the conjurer adopting juggling lacks in dexterity makes he up in burlesque,and if applausegoes for anything,is even more successful than if he presented dexterity pure andsimple. I t is frequently on record that a man having spent a great part of his life perfecting some feat of dexterity is pushed on one side to make room for a questionablecomic smg Shouldthis be ? Well ! it is reasonableenough for people, having paid to be amused, to expect to enjoy the exhilirating effects of a good heartylaugh(magic makesthem think) and it is 011 this account that conjurers will probably find it to theirinteresttoadopt juggling,burlesque or otherwise, as a novel means of breaking the Iuonotony of too long wondering how it is done.

A Necromancer of the XVIII Century. BY HENRYRIDGELYEVANS. Authop- of '' Hours with the Ghosts,"

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11. Cagliostro'shousein the Marais quarter,Paris,still stands-amemorial in stone of its former master. I t is situated in the rue St.Claude at an angleof the boulevard Beaumarchais. It wasoriginally the property of the Marquis d'orvilliers, and was selected and furnished by Cardinal de Rohan as a residence for the Grand Cophta.

Cngliostro's House, Paris. See also plan nt page 9 of this volume.

People pass and repass this ghost-house every day but not one in a thousand knows that the great enchanter once resided there,and held highcourt.Like a huge sphinx, it slumbers in the sunlightof the twentieth century, blissfully unconscious of the bustlingworld about it, and dreatns old world dreams of love and beauty, of magic and mystery. If those dumb walls could but speak, what fascinatingstories of superstition and folly they might ! Yes, inthisancient unfoldto ourwonderingears house, dating back to pre-Revolutionary Paris, to the old regime, the great necromancer known as Cagliostro lived, in the zenith of his fame, powerful as a noble, admired, nay, worshippedbyprincelydupes. I n thesegolden years of his life,was he never haunted by disturbing visions of the dungeons of the Holy Inquisition, yawning to receive him? Ah, who can tell ! Thanks to the gossipy memoir-writers of the period, I am able to give a pen-" portrait, composite if you will, of some of the scenes that were enacted in the antiquatedmansion. I t is night. The lanterns swinging in the streets of old Paris glimmer fitfully. Silence broods over the city with shadowy wings. No sound is heard save the clankof the patrol on its rounds. The rue St. Claude, however, is all bustle and confusion.

To be continued.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY of CONJURING. Comjiled with Notes by Elcis Sfanyou. A b l y assisfed by .Wr.Arthur Mrr-eevy. (Continued from page 85).

Cabinet of Arts.Antornatoms,magneticexperiments, fireworks, card and other tricks. Magic mirrors, Chineseshadows,&C., &c. Paper, 16mo., 238pp. A very o!d ant1 interesting work. Title page an(l several other pages mtssrng.

Cagliostro, Cotnte (Joseph Balsanlo). His D2fense. Paris, 1786. Forfurtherparticularsand facsimile of the title page see MAGIC, Vol. I. , page 44. His Life, Traduite d’aprits l’original italien, imprim6 ii lachambreApostolique ; enrichiedenotes ctlrieuses, etornee de son portrait.Paris, 1791. For furtherparticularsand facsimile of titlepage, see MAGIC,Vol.’ I . , p. 58. Callahan.Easy method of Ventriloquism.Particulars and copy wanted. Calculating Boys. “Strand Magazine,’’ Vol. X . , pp. 277280. Illustrated. September, 1895.

Clarke, J. A. White Magic. “ EucyclopzdiaBritannica.” London, 1875. D m y 4to. Vol. XV., pp. 207-212, Other editions it1 SI, 89. 94, 95, 93. Classel and Faust. Neiv and Startling Tricks. An Advanced treatise on Leger,-iemain. Lmdon, rS93. Boards, 8vo. 50pp. Very rare. \ Clever Hindoo Tricks Exp >sed. “ New York Sunday News,” January 13, 1901. Clulow, Geo. Peculiar I4ayi11gCards. ‘ Strand M a p zine,” Vol. 5, pp. 77 S3. January, 1893. IllustrateLl. Coats,James, Ph.D., F A.S. How to Mesmerise. Londoll, 1894.Boards,120pp. Illustr,lted. --How to Thought-Read. Companion to the above. 128pp. Cole, Lieut.Walter. Veutriloqr1i:tl Vngyarie; i n Variety Stars.Pamphlet, 8vo. London (N.D.) about1895, 4OPPFor the above article see pp. 22-27, which ;tlso corrtairrs his portrait. ,

Collier’s, Cyclopedia. 758pp. Illustrated.

A more detailed account of Cagliostro’s romantic careeris to be found in the series of articles by WilliatIl B. A. AXOII.published in the Dublin University Magazine. Vols. LXXVIII. and LXXIX, 1S71-2. In all about Sspp. September, October, November and December, 1S7r. ? 1S72.

Carpenter, W. H. At an Algerian Aissaoua. New York. CurrentLiterature, May, 1896. Vol. XIX., pp. 40941 I . The Aissaoua arethe Miracle-mongers of Algeria. For explanations of their tricks see “ Robert Houndin’s Memoirs.”

Carus, Dr. Paul. The Old and the NewMagic. Priestcraft, Cagliostry, Zolluer andSlade ; Magic Swing, Ghosts, Basket Trick, Rapping Tables, Spirit Slates, SwordTrick, &c. Chicago. Opencourt. Vol. XIV. Nos. 6 and 7., JuneandJuly, 1900 ; pp. 333-347, 422-436. Illustrated. “ Cassell’s Book of Indoor Amusements.” Card Games andFireside Fun. London (N.D.) ? 1882. Clothand gilt, 4to -224pp. Illustrated. Contatnmg Parlour Games, Arithmetical and Mechanical Puzzles, “Parlour Magic,’’ etc.

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Colquhoun, J. C., Esq. A History of Magic,Witchcraft, and Aninla1Maguetism. Lotldon, 1S51. z vol. Cloth, 8vo. 642pp. Scarce. Concannon. A Spiritualistic fake exposed. Albany, New York. Telegram, December16tl1,1896. --.-Has more trouble. E. C. Rise takes him bodily out of his cabinet.Worcester, Mass. Tekgram. December, z m d , 1896. Confessions of a Medium. London, 1882. Cloth, 8170. 232pp. Illustrated. Veryscarce. A rare collection of Anti-Spiritualistic Tricks Tor- Conjurers.

Conjurers’ Guide (The). A curious old pamphlet. Glasgow, I 850. Conjurer’s Guide (The). A New andImproved Hocus Pocus. London, 1So8. Paper, 8v0, 36pp. Colored frontispiece. Conjurer’sGuide (The),or, only real fortune-teller. Being a new and well experienced fortune book. For the benefit of young men, maids, wives, and widows, etc. Glasgow (N.D.) 18502 Paperpamphlet, 121110. pp. 24. Chap-book. Illustratedcover. +

The signification of mole:, etc., dreams ant1 physiognomy are treated, butno mention of conjuring.

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The above work contams 1 2 arttcles on Legerdemain, viz., vol. I., pp. 25. 81, 148, 241, 283,358. vol. It;, pp. 5 5 , 127, 145,247. 312,344. Written“by a professional, and amongst thetricks exposed are the Fish-bowls, Inexhaustible Bottle, Hat Trick, Magic Cauldron, etc., etc.

Cepak, Abel, Ce qu’on peut faire avec les ueufs. Collection compl2te et vari6e des experiences faciles et amusantes pouvant etre executbes par tout le monde avec des ceufs. Paris, 1889. I 2mo. 163pp. Chapeaugraphy,or 25 HeadsunderoneHat.London, I 895. Boards. Quarto. 65pp. Illustrated. Chapeaugraphic Artist (A) ; or the way to make a hat makeaman. “ RoyalMagazine,”November, 1898. Vol. I., pp. 56-59. Illustrated. N.D. Chinese Puzzle, The Fashionable. London. Boards, 28pp. 323 figures.Rare. Christmas, H. The Cradle of the Twin Giants, Science, History,Automata,Astrology, Magic, Arithmetical Magic, Alchemy,etc.London, 1849. rzmo. 2 vols. in I . 756pp.

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By E. 7 . SACHS. The rings at Epsom are always infestedwith gangs of pickpockets, who make a rareharvest. On Derby Day one gang in Tattersall’s ring made a mark of at1 innocent-looking person who He was was seen to place a bundle of notes in a breast pocket. “Stuckup”, as the phrasegoes, but thougll his pockets were no notes could be found. Later on he was searched inturn ollce more “Stuck up” and his pockets again gone over, but without result. Shortly afterwards to the disgust of the pick-pockets, their inteuded victim produced a ten-poundnote and put it on Volodyovski for the Derby, and the thieves have been discussing eversincewhere the notes were concealed. The explanationis that the mall knew something of’ sleight of hand and what he did was to affect to take the notes in the right hand and. ostensibly place them in the left hand breast pocket, but whilst the arm was stretched across the body the uotes were rammed up the shirtsleeve of therighthand.Each time the search was takirlgplace the owner of the notes was fully aware of what was going on, but took no notice so long RS attention was confined to his empty pockets. One of the thieves said “why he must have hidden the notes under his skin.’ ’

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Items of Intet+e.st. Ouite recelttly magicians have discovered a new ob&t for collectiotl. alld to the anlassing of apparatus, allcient (quaint) and modern ( Higl1-cl:iss) old and young. atllnteur and r,rofe.;sional, are devoting themselves with ,&reat‘eagerlless. Maiy wllo are the happy possessors of exceptionally fine collections of books on Magic and kindredarts,are now pritlitlu thetnselves on their mweurtls of conjuring apparatus, an(l all v?ewit11 m e another as to whomshall possess the rarest and fillest collections.

Many of our older members will recollect Ellis Stanyon, one of our fellows who developed into. a first-class conjuror, and gave exhibitions of his sleight of hand tricks at our annual Re-unions a few years sillce, when all who saw him were amused and mystified by his skill. Stanyon has made great progress ; he is the editor and proprietor of a successful little monthly, MAGIC, and Itns also written an? published four or five hatld-bookson his craft, which are recognized as standard books of their kind.” Pidytrch?cicMignzine, July loLh, 1901. The l‘ New Penny Magazine ” for Saturday, Feb. gth, t 91, contaitlsa long article on Cards and Card Tricks, illustrated with fifteen photos, includitlg one of Houdini of Handcuff fame.

“ ;Many thanks for your “New Juggling Tricks.” The little An American correspondent writes-“ I recelltly met Allen Shaw work seems very practical as well as quite novel, and I have read it with mucl1 interest. I an1 glad to see MAGICis to be co~~tinuetl.” (Ernperor of Coins) i l l Kansas Clty eu mute for Australia : he hns a coin act that beats ally yet producedhereor in your city. I PROF.HOFFMANN. -__receive MAGICregularly and derive much pleasure from its pages.” Extract from the RHEINISCHWESTFALICHEZEITUNG, (Germany) On Monday in Essen Ruhr, there appeared an July 3rd, 1g01.-“ Have you seen the Half \Voman Illusion at the Alhanlbra? It artiste, Cirnoc, at tlle establisllnlent of Widow Kratz,. as Haudcuff has been suggested that she lost her legs in a railroad accideat, and Expert, with the intention of tlemol\strating that the Handcuff that she receive11 a million nlarks for the injury. If report is true King Houdini, had wilfully deceived tlle puhlic, and thati t was his she is tlle daughter of a big circus manager, wllo formerly had a (Cirn. c’s) desire to pulAicly ant1 openly expose him. lior the place in Collt on tlle Rhine. so-called exposltres Cirrloc het1 his own locks, tllnt he co~tlrlopen with a sllarp knock or blo r , or tltrough tlle nletliutn of false keys, which he clainlecl was all that Houdini did. The first performance 0IBI:TUARY F O R 1900. open to the public was advertised to take place ln-t night, but in F r o m “ E m Almanack.” the meantime the police learned that Cirnoc was being looked for by the State for swindling, so they were undertllepainful neDALE, Ed. J. (Illusionist & Optician) March22nd. cessity of arrestitlg 11itn. DE; L U R (Israel ~ Clark) Illusiollist.April 8th. Will this police baffler. who had the nerve to invite the local GRANT(Prof.) Ventriloquist, aged48. June13th. police to his openillg exhibitiotl, use his methods to release himself from the clutches of the law? He will hardly he able to do HIAM(Frank), aged 5s. Dec. 26th, 1899. this since he was very politelv but thorougllly seal-clled.” HIAM(Henry) aged 35. August 27th.

N.B.-This Cicnoc is the ConreicL who gave n trial show at the Oxford Music Hall, June, 1900,but did not get the work. The German police are very strict with regard to Spoof Shows-it will be remembered they put out Anna Eva Fay, arrested Dr. Slade, etc., efc.-[€$d.]

An intf2resting article on Hoop Rolling, illustrated with seven photos, will be found in Pearson’s IUagazine for July, 1 9 0 ~ . In the St. Nicholas Magazille (New York) for April, r g o ~ ,will “ A Modern Magician.” be found an important article entitled The article, which deals mainly with facts in and around the life

HOWARD, Ed. (GhostIllusionProprietor), aged 55. Aug. 20th. HURGINI, (Herr), J.aggler.April 4. PBPPER(John Henry), “ Pepper’s Ghost,” aged 79. March 25th. RIVALLI(Jolm Watkins) , The Fire Prince. Feb. 16th.’ ZILCA, Madame, (Mrs. Eliza Lind)Clairvoyant. Aged 49. Nov. 3rd.

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day of H.R.H. the PrincessRoyal (the latelamented Empress Frederick) ; Her Majesty,the Queen graciously COLONEL STODARE. honoured Stodare with her presence during the performSome thirty-five years ago, prior to the adrcnt of Mzskance. The Spinx and The Indian Basket, and a Ventriloelyneand Cook, visitors totheEgyptianHallwere quial sketch were performed twice in compliancewith astonished by such, at :that time novel, illusions as The a special request for the repetition. Sphinx, The IndianBasket The Sphinx is supposedto have been invented by Thomas Trick., etc., there presented by Tobin,secretary of the PolyCol. Stodare. technic at that time under the Stodare’s real name was Alfred Englishanduptothe direction of John Henry Pepper. time he decided to try his luck Tobin offered the illusionto in London he ,had met with inPepper who declined it, when different success as an itinerant i t was afterwards purchasedby performer. His first appearStodare whose powersas a venance at the Egyptian Hall under triloquist in apparently causing his assumed name, now almost the dummy head to speak, household a word, was on doubtless, increased ten-foldthe Easter Monday, April 17, 1865, value of the originalillusion. when he introducedfor the first The Times f o r October 1 - 9 4 time in this country those celesays : - l ‘ Davusmighthave brated illusions of Hindu magic solved the ‘ Anthropoglossus,’ known as The Instantaneous but Colonel Stodare presents Growth of Planfs (The Mango 11swith a sphinx that is really theIndian TreeTrick),and worthy of an Gdipus. ” Basket Feat; illusions often Magical Literature is indebted heard of from Eastern travellers to the Colonel for a couple of who have“done”India,and veryinterestingthough small long regarded as wonders never works entitled respectively to be witnessed savewithin “TheArt of Magic” (1865) that land of mystery and and “Stodare’s Fly Notes” superstition. (1867). Copies of which we It was on the occasion of his have in our Libraryof Magic. 200th consecutiverepresentaStodare was not destined to’ tion at thesaid Hall that Stodare enjoy for long the good fortune introduced an entirely new and produced him by the Sjhinx for originalillusion entitled The COLONEL STODARE. he died in London of consumpSfihizx which at once attracted tion in 1866. The photo accombeen securedat n o t alittle ciowds and made his undertaking, hitherto of question- panyingthissketchhas in troubleand expense. It isprobablytheonlyone .ableprofit, a brilliant success. ApartfromtheHall, private engagements of all kinds, and Royal Commands existence, but .we feel amplyrepaid by beingableto oti record themainevents in the were numerous. On.Tuesday evening, Nov. 2 I, 1865, he placepermanently illustrious an Magician as Colonel had the distinguished honour to appear by Her Majesty’s life of such command at Windsor Castle on the occasion of the birth- Stodare. *

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Suggestions forProgramme of a Coin Manipulator. ( Contiwed from last issue. 1 Tip coins from hat on to table and proceed with the following tricks-with two pieces-Two coins shown togetherinrighthandseparateandoneappearsinleft hand-and back again. A duplicate (third) coin is used andreverse palm No 2. ( “ NewCoin Tricks. I . ) is worked with both hands simultaneously. At the close of the last sleight, when the two coins are back again in the right hand, one coin is thrown on the tableleaving,apparently,oneonlyintherighthand, thisis passed throughtherightkneetolefthand (duplicate)and back again.Thenthrough bothknees ( ‘‘more painful but-”) and back again ; coins are returned to table as one m&. The first ,of these two sleights is obviouslyemployed to lead np to the second for the better conceallnent of the dnplicate coin which, however, is palpable in the sleight in question at all times. To Vanish a number of Coins.-Stand with your table on whicll is a number of loose coins, on your right. Take up one coin with the left hand and place it 011 the fingers of the right hand, extended over table, in position for reverse palm No 2 . (“New Coin Tricks, 11”) by which rlleatls it is caused to disappear. This is continued with six or seven coins. With the first finger and thumbof left hand, place the second coin in position on the right hand, the second, tllird and fourth fingers secretly remove the first coin from tlle back of the hand, returning it to the tablewhenpickingupthenext in order--and so on tllroughout. The last coin is never really placed on the right hand, but is retained in the left hand with others, representillg the total number vanished, secretly picked up from the table. Performer comes forward with right hand still extended (to induce spectators to believe that he has the coins palmed on the back of the hand) and shows back and front of hand as when actually working the revevse @ h . ! He next draws attention to the right hand wit11 tlle fingers of the left, executes thechange ove? palm and back again to leave coins on the fingers of the left haud. Now when making a left turn to get back to original position at table the coins are transferred, under cover of body to the back o f right hand it1 asimilar position to the cards in Fig 2 0 our “New Card Tricks p. 19, from which position they are produced, one by o y (exactly as i n the case of the cards,) to be dropped on table in quick succession as they arrive. The ChaTzge over painz with several coins is made with the coins palmed exactly as at Fig 3 . “New Coin Tricks, I,” it will be only necessary to grip well the edges of the outside coin. This applies equally well to the back or front of the hand --practice only is required to become expert. Next in order execute the Turnover with a stack of 40 or 50 coins(See “New Coin Tricks ” I ) this is an absurdly simple thing, butI believe the audacity of some mauipulators has induced many tobelieve it a. remarkable feat-it is nothing of the kind, it may be done by anyone at the first attempt. The same stack of coins is next palmed in the right hand while seeming to place it in the left hand, left hand is eventually shown empty and coins producedfrom vest.

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This is merely an illustration of the property of inertia and may beaccon~plished with but little practice. To ensure Under the Authority of the Right Hon. the Lord Chamberlain. success, however, observe to place any small articles i.e. __ articles with small bottoms, on trays not less than 8 . h Extraord-inary N o v e l t y I 1 square. The decided success of the FRENCH PERFORMANCES, a n d the unbounded Applause they have been honor’d with from lull and The next trick is that entitled New Vanishi?zg Water, FrrshionaMe Audiences, has induced and described at length at page 4 of our “New MiscelM, de - 0 Y E R E laneous Tricks’’ theonly exception beingthat a glassj u g , to repeat them, with a Variety of instead of a china one, is employed. E N T I R E L YN O V E LF i E A T S FOR THREE NlaHTSmMORE A couple of canaries are 11ow removed from a cage ancl T h i s E v e n i n g , MONDAY, Oct. 27th, placed in a paper bag. The bagis suspended on a slender On WEDNESDA-Y 29th. & FRIDAY the 31st. 1828. Goldin standing a few paces Upon which occasion he will have the honor 6f Performing those that excited such’Astonishment on 1 wire stand about 4 ft high. the preceding Evenings, Viz :from stand fires revolver a t bap, where-upon the birds are seen to re-appear in cage held by assistant at a similar Or, the HORN of P L i E N ’ X ’ Y y i distance on opposite side of stand. The weak point of the Flora’s Paviflion, The Whlte Rabbit, trick is that the birds are never seen in the hand of perabe 50tcecec’~appograpbp ; former, as a matter of fact they never leave the cage, but Among the Novel Feats the following prominent ones will he introduced, are pressed through a kind of trap bottom under cover of -THEF U G X T X Y E : DOUE, the fore-arm of assistant who is holding cage. Performer The Enchanted Flower Basket. The Dutch-Liquor House, must rehearse to hold his hand and shape the bag in a manner to induce the belief that all is fair and above board. Some Novel ZMZTA TIONS by Assistant still holding cage has but to release trap when Mon.sieur ANDRIEUX, It maybe foundmoreconvenient to birdsreappear. Of M . ODRY, in the Soldut Laboureur, and of a n Old Blind Minstrel, He will also repeat have a second cage, duly loaded, for the re-appearanceof THE T W O P R I V A T E ACTORS. the birds. During the Evening, several FAVOURITE SYMPHONlES will be executed Here follows another exampleof the property of inertia. B y After Inrrisible Musicians. A smalloblongtray is placed over four tumbiers each which, M. ROVERE will resume his Performances with The partly filled with water., on the surface of the tray near ENCHANTED VO&JAG€ ! ! ! the corners are placed four metal rings, one exactly over And a Novel Experiment in Aerostation, entitled each of the tumblers. On each of the rings is placed an The Aerial Naxiga&ionegg sn~allend down. All ready, performer gives the edge ’ The whole will conclude with of tray a smart blow with the flat of the hand sendiug it An Historical Picture in Action, entitled flying into the hands of assistant-the eggs fall, into each FIVE MINUTES at MlSSOLONGHl; of the four tumblers:--This experiment forms a finale to OR THE GREEK HERO. THE ORCHESTRA (which is Numerous) will be conducted a series of Juggling Tricks in throwing and catching the BY Mr. B. BARNETT. eggs (see explanatory programme on page 9 1 , also our Tickets, Places and Private Boxes may he had of Mr. MASSINGAM,at the Eox Offlce of the lheatre, “New Juggling Tricks”). Daily, from 10 till 5. BOXES Ss. PIT 3s. Lower GALLERY Is. UFper GALLERY 1s. Vanislhg Lamp. A smalllamp,about 15 in.high, SECONDPKlCE A T A UAKTEK BEFQKE NINE. fitted glass globe and chimney, is .seen burning on small BOXES %.-PIT 2s -LOWER G%&ERY ls.--CPPER GA,LLERY Gd. Doors to be Opened at Six and the perfofmances to commence at Se\en precisely. roulld top table, performer covers the lamp with a special Selected f r o m the Portfolio of Mr. A R T H U R M A R G E R Y . l cover leaving only about I in. of top partof glass chimney visible (coverrests on top of globe). In this condition the lamp is removed by assistant, and placed on seat of a tricky looking chair.Goldinholdsahandkerchiefin ( S e e also pages 45, 56, 67, 7.5, 83, 90 91.) front of lamp for few a seconds, then, appearingdissatisfied HORACE GOLDIN. Illusionist. with the arrangements, replaces the lamp still covered on Programme, Palace Theatre, July 26, r g o r . table. ‘ A revolver is now fired at lamp which collapses on Goldinenters,inconventionaleveningattire,and table,itsprototypeappearing simultaneously on small without speaking (the entertainment is carried on shelf incentre of at1 elegantframe,mounted on brass throughout in dumb-show) proceeds to produce from a supports,andstanding at rear of stage. Thetrick is good sized neck-handkerchief, respectively a b o d of fire spoiled by the necessity of removing the lamp from table (ordinary small sized bowl) andabouquet,(ordinary to chair for the purpose of ringing the changes, this is sized folding feather bouquet). * accomplished under cover of the handkerchief and with Next follows a few ordinary sleights with a small sized the aid of a chair provided with a ‘revolving back. The silkhandkerchiefwhich is eventually placed over the lamp replaced on the tableisbutanupright rod and nuzzle of a not over dangerous looking gun. Performer, a ringsurmountedwith a piece of talc, the pull of a by signs, indicates to audience that he is about to shoot thread causes the rod to fall into thehollow centre support the silk into their midst, it disappears, being drawn into of table, the ring falling flat on the table top. A second barrel by a spring released by pulling the trigger-(no genuine lamp would be placed in readiness on small shelf explosion) duplicate silk, ostensibly that fired from gun, at rear of revolving piece in centre of frame or if screens is now taken from collar. were placed in convenient positions, as is the case in the Goldin next goes to a small, but firm, square table, on showunderconsideration, thelampmight be secretly hisright, covered smallclothandcontaining sundry removed by assistant from backof chair toback of frame. articles as glass jug of water, tumblers, etc, etc. Taking Next in order follows the now familiar Fish Catching hold of two corners of the cloth he, with a quick jerk, Trick-if the way these fish make their presence felt is removes it bodily from table lea.ving articles undisturbed. anything to go by, they must be realindeed. PROGRAMME of M. J. de ROYERE, 1888.

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(Coniimled from page 92) A grand “soiree magique” is being held at the house of Momieur le Comte de Cagliostro. Heavy old-fashioned carriages stand in front of the door, with coachmen lolling sleepily 011 the boxes, and linkboys playing rude games with each other in the kennel. A rumble in the street-ha, there, lackeys! out of the way!Herercomes

highestdegree of the Rosicrucians. Upon thisstrange shekinah is placed the cabalistic apparatus of the necromancer-odd little Egyptian figures of Isis, Osiris, vials of lustral waters, and a large globe fullof clarified water. It is all very uncanny. Presently the guests are seated in a circle about the altar, and form a magnetic chain, As theold chroniclers phraseit, to them enters Cagliostro. the Grand Cophta, the man who has lived tl~ousandsof years, habited in gorgeous robes like the arch-hierophant of an ancient Egyptian temple. The clairvoyant is now brought in, a child of angelic purity, who was born under a certain constellation, of delicate nerves, great sensitiveness and withal, blue eyes. She is bidden to kneel before the globe, andrelatewhatsheseestherein.Cagliostro makes passes over her, and comn~ands the genii to enter the water. The very soul of the seeress ispenetrated with the magnetic aura emanating fromthe magican. She becomes convulsed, grinds her teeth, and declares that she sees ereqts taking place that very mon~ent at Vienna, St. Petersburg, Rome and Kamschatka. Every one presentis tra~lsported with joy. Monseigneur leCardinal de Rohan is charmed,delighted,andlauds the necron~nncer to the skies. How weird and wonderful! Albertus Magnus, Nostradamus and Apollonious of ’I‘yana arenotto becompared withthe all-powerful Cagliostro. Truly he is the descendant of the Egyptian thaumaturgists. The seance is followed by a banquet. Rose-leaves are show&ed over the guests from the guildecl ceilillgs. perfumed water splashes in fountains, and, a hidden orchestra of v i o l i ~ ~flutes s, and harps plays sort melodies. The scene remilltls one of the splendid feasts of the Roman .voluptuaries in the decadent days of the empire. The lovely ‘Lorenza Feliciani,wifeof the enchanter, discourses learnedly of sylphs, salamanders and gnomes, in.the jargon of the Rosicrucians. The Cardinal, hisveins 011 .fire with love and champagne, gazes amorously at her. But he is thinking all the while of the aristocraticMarie Antoinette, who treats him with such cruel disdain. But Cagliostro has promised to win the Queen for him. to melt her icy heart with love-philters aud magical talismans. Let him but possess his soul in patience a little while. All will be well. Aye, indeed, well enough to land the haughty prelate in the Bastile. andstartthe magiclan on that downward pathtothe Inquisition at Rome. The night wanes. The lights of the banqueting-hall burn lower and lower. Fnally the grandesdames and the se~gneurs take their departure. When the last carraige has rolled away into the darkness, Cagliostroand his wife yawn wearily,and retire to their respective sleeping-spa:-tments. The augurs of Rome, says a latin poet, could not look at eachotherwithoutlaughing. Cagliostroand h r e n z a i n biddingeachother good-night exchangesmiles of incalculable cunning. The sphinx masks have droppedfrom their faces, and they know each other to be-charlatans and impostors, preying upona superstitious society. The magician, is alone. He places his wax light upon anescritoire and throws himself into an arm-chair before thegreat fireplace, carved and gilded with manya. grotesque image. The flames of the blazing logs weave all sorts of fantastic forms011 floor and ceiling. The wind without howlsin the chimney like a lost spirit. The figures embroidered on the tapestry of evil portent-alguazils, coweled Inquisiassume n~ons€rous shapes tors and jailers with rusty keys and chains. But the magician sees nothing of i t all, hears not the w a r n i ~ ~cry g of the wind: he is thinkiug of his newly hatched lodges of Egyptian Occnltisnl, and the golden louis d’orto be conjured outof the strongboxes of his Parisian dupes. ,

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the coach of my Lord Cardinal, Prince Louis de Rohan. There is a flash of torches. Servants in gorgeous liveries of red and gold, with powdered wigs, open the door of the vehicle, andlet down the stepswithacrash, Monseigneur leCardinal,celebrant of the mass in the royal palace at Versailles, man of pleasure and alchemist, descends. H e is enveloped in a l a r k cloak, as if to court disguise, but it is only a polite pretense. H e enters the m a n s i o ~of~ his bosom friend,Cagliostro the magician. Within, all is a blaze of light. A life-size bust of the divine Cagliostro ornaments the foyer. Visitors are received in ahandsomelyfurnished apartmentonthe second floor. Beyond that is the seance-room, a mysteriouschamberhungwith somberdrapery. Wax candles in tall silver sconces, arranged about the place in mystic pentagons and triangles, illuminate the place. In the centre of the room is a table with a black cloth, onwhichare embroideredinred the symbols of ,the

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Conradi, F. W. Der Moderne Kartenkunstler. Dres den, 1897. Cloth,4to., 231 pp. Illustrated. ComjiZea? with Notes by EZZis Stanyon. Coupin, M. Henri. A New Optical Illusion,N.Y.The LiteraryDigest,Feb. 23rd, 1901. Translated from A b l y assisted by Mr. Arthur Afargmy. “ La Nature.” (Continued from page 93). Coxe’s Francis. Treatise declaring the detestable wickConj urer Umnasked(The) or, La Magic Blanche DPvoillire ednesse of Magical Sciences,Necronlancie,ConjuraBeing a clear and full explanation of all the surprising tions of Spirits, CuriouseAstrologie,and suchlyke. performances, exhibited as well in this Kingdom as on London, N.D. 8vo. Copy wanted. theContinent, by the mosteminent arid dextrous Craft, Rev. Arnos N., A. M EpiderxicDelusions. With Professors of Sleight of Hand, together with Descripspecial reference to Modern Spiritualism.Cincinnati, tions, Observations, and Directions for the tricks of the 1881. Cloth, SVO. 341 pp. Divining Rod-Automaton Clless Player-Self-perCrane, L. Modern Magic Explained. New York. forming organ-Speaking figures-Artificial serpentsMetropolitan,May, 1898, pp. 509-512. (TyinghandMechanical Birds-Automaton Flute Player -Transparkerchief; Egg Palming ; Front and Back Card Palment MagicalTables, &c, &c.(Translated from the French ing, &C.) of Mons. Decremps). London I 785 121110., pp 89. Crane,W. B. Tjle Mechanics of Magic.New York. (Contains about 25 tricks of the Period, and 2 sections devoted Metropolitan, November, 1898, pp. 551-4. to Automataetc. The frolltispiece reads-The Professor of Cremer, W. H., Jr. The Secret Out, or One Thousand Amusing Pllilosphy who having burned R card itake11 at chance) throws the pack in the air, atM hich he fires a pistol and TricksinDrawing Room, or White Magic. London, ye card is found nailed to the wall (See Chap. 5). 1871. Cloth 8 ~ 0,. 307 pp. 300 Illustrations. Conjurers and Conjuring. By a London Professor. Boy’s -Hanky Panky. A Book of Conjuring Tricks. Own Paper. London, Vol 3. pp. 206-251-270-310. Coloured FrontLondon, rS75. Cloth 8\70., 32spp. Conjurers Magazine (The) or Magical and Physiognonlical ispiece. 250 Illustratiom. Mirror.London, Aug. 1792 to July, I 793. 2 Vols. Magic No Mystery. Tricks with Cards, Dice, Balls, Bou~ld in ClothSvo. Vol I . 498 pp. Vol 2. 52 I pp. etc. London, 1876. Cloth, Svo. Illustrated. Scarce. (This was continued as The Astrologers Magazille, and Philo-The Magician’s Own Book. London. 1871. Cloth, sophical Miscellany-which made up V013 all puldished. This 8vo. 250 Illustrations. last Vol was published in 1794,252 pp. A Discovery concerning Ghosts : Conjurer’s Properties.Leisure Hour,London, March, Cruikshank (George). with a rap at the “ Spirit Rappers,” to which is added 6th and 20th) 1880, pp 150-152 and 189-191. a few parting raps at tlle Rappers )’ with questiom, Conj urer’s Repository(The) or thewhole art and mystery suggestions, and advice to tlle “ Davenport Brothers.” of magic displayed by the following celebrated characDedicated tothe “ GhostClub,” 2nd Edition.Lonters;Pinetti,Katterfelto,Barrett, Breslaw, Sibley, don, 1864. Paper, large Lane, &c, embellished with anengraving.London Svo., 60 pp. Illustrated. Very rare. I 795. Boards I 21110 146 pp, (Col’d frontispiece. ) (This work appearsacotupilatior~ of matter fromvarious Culin (Stewart). Chinese Games withDice and Dorrlilloes. sources. It contains nothitlg original for its tirue of publislrillg With 12 platesandwoodcuts. 1825. Rareandinteralthough it is full of information, and explai~ls all rllanner of esting.Anotheredition,Pllifadelphia, 1889. Paper, !deceptions, from the “ Invisible girl ” to “ Chinese Shadows large 8vo. , 2 I pp. Illustrated. and Sympathetic Inks,” The frontispiece is of a typical old magician, showing a young lady her face in a mirror, she standCumberland, Stuart A. A Thought Reader’s Thoughts, ing aghast at the trausformation. A cauldron is burning, skulls Being the Impressio~~sand Confessions of Stuart A. laying about &c. ) Cumberland.Londou, 18,88. FancyCloth andGilt. ConjurersandSpiritualists.London, 1576. Cllamber’s Large 8vo. Portrait of Author on Steel. 326 pp. Journal, Oct. 14th) No. 668, pp. 657-659 and 686-688. Out of print, rare. “ Boys’ Own Conjuring. By a Professor of theArt. Quotationslfor any work in this list m a y behad on application t o Paper,” London, Vol. I,.pp. 75, 139, 154, and 351. t h e Office of MAGIC.” ‘ l

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HYPNOTISM AND CONJURING. We have been askedto give our opinionon thefuture of HYPNOTISM i l l co~lnectionwith Conjuring.The idea is almost too absurd for words. If what is meantis for 11sto give our opinion on the future of CONJURING in connectionwith Hypnotism-a totally different matter,-the nnmerous stupid stories of the Indian fakirs, a class ridiculed by thesane, form fitting examples. Is thereunderlying all this allother effort-allied to Spiritualisnl, Theosophy, etc.-being made to extort nloney from the credulous? I t may seem incredible to many, but we actually had a man-old enough to be the father of many present-day magicians, and sane enough, we believe-call at this office only a few days since, who made a desperate effort to induce out Editor to believe that sore and achiag- feet collld be instantly cured by I~olding them outof the window in the dwection of the E a s t and making hypnotic passes orer them wit11 the hands. Rut how this quackery is to affect.Conjging and the beautiful nrl of Sleight of Hand is to 11s an enlgma. ’!’ ’ N.B.-The Quacks would doubtless select for their operations soma form of malady to which the monied class are prone.

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who exposes some really good tricks) and Major Devono, an old fashioned conjurer who does not glory in the ability of R card and coin manipulator, but who’s one aim isto mystify his audience, and thathe does by showingcomplicatedmysteries thatare very rarely see11 at the present time. ,. 1 Ile McKays, who are very clever at lightning sketch business, are here this week for Moss and Thorntoll. “ Thaurlla,” * The Crystal Palace Mystery is being performed here in a penny show, the effect is as follows.-A girl’s head and bust are show11 on a short board which is suspended at each end by ropes in the form of ;I swing. The showmau passes his hantl underneat11 atld above the swing and says there are 110 mirrors connected J. C. SKEI,SEY, Aug. 15th. with it whatever.

We have rcceived for publication quite a number of excellent tricks from cotljurers in all parts of the world. Many of these have beell withheld, not from any lack of merit, but solelyon account of want of space. We hope to be able to make use of these in our second volume, and we would ask the generous support of all interested to enable us to permanently increase the size of MAGIC,that there may be space enough and to spare for this class of matter. Have you overlooked the fact that you can obtain the loan of any book on conjuring and allied arts from this office. For particulars of our Lending Libraryof MAGIC,see p. 70 of this volume. * T h i s i l l u s i w will be found illustrated and explained at p. 272 of Modern Ed. C o t ~ j u r i ~ ~[Garenlie], g,” We have it on good authority that several individuals, and one in particular, begin to realize the true philosoplly of the trite saying, “ Comparisons are odious.” With apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kypling we print the following appropriate lines :“ They copy all they can follow, but they cannot copy our mind, And we leavethem sweating and toiling, a y e p atid a half behind.” Professor Ahmed, Court Magician, Central India, sends us his A Novel Trick wilh Bread.-Take a piece of modercircular nicely printed in English on the lines of European perately new bread and mould it between the fingers until it formers. This is interesting, as it goes to prove that our efforts to becomes of thecot~stituency of stiff dough. Finally popularize the mystic arthave far reaching effects. shape it intothe form of apyramid, i.e., havingfour Friends of the late lamented Mr. Ross Conyears will be pleased to know that the tribute to his memory poor our ability enabled us equal triangular sides and four sharp points or corners. to give, in our lastissue, has been reprinted i t 1 full in the “ InverYou will find that the bread readily assumes the lequired gordon Times ” of August 7th, thelocal paper of his home district, form if pressed between the tips of the two fore-fingers Madam Herrmann sailed from New York 011 August 2nd for a11d the two thumbs. Europe toopen at the Winter Garten,Berlin. The bread properlymoulded,throw it, withall the I n connection withthe Avenue Garden A1 Fresco Concerts, violence you can exert, at the wall and llote the result. Herne Bay, Prof. Owen Clarkproduces anexcitingand clever sleight of hand entertainment twice nightly. His chef d’Ozrvle is You naturally expect to find it smashed to atoms or at the Fish-Catching Trick with novel variations. least to be: minus one or more of its delicately fashioned According to the Australian Papers, Percy Verto, described as poillts. You will be surprised, however, to find it quite the Handcuff King, is exciting,on that side of the earth, as mnch uninjured.Exasperatedyou will throw itatthe wall interest as did Houdini, at theAlhambra last January. again with still greater violence, but the resultwill be the At the Workman’s Hall, New Tredegar, for week ending July 17th, was Dr. I,ind’s American Co. One of the items on tllepro- same, in short it will be found impossible to destroy or gramme reads, ‘‘ Special Engagemellt extraordinary of the great even damage it by such means. The reason is that any LoudounCameron,Magician,from the Egyptian Hall, London, one of the flat sides, being heavier than either one of the who caused such a sensation with the Billiard Ball Feat.” points, must come in contact with the wall and the same The Baildon Moor Brigands gave a most successful concert at rule applies when the bread leaves the wall and strikes the Baildon during August.Mr. Arthur Green-e-wood caused aconfloor-it is really col~solidatedby the force of the impact. tinuousroar of laughterwithhis ventriloquial sketch, while Mr. Arthur Feather with his “ Magic and Mystery ” was highly I know of no simple experilnetit that will create more appreciated. amusement as an after-dinner trick than the above. TO MR. 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