Some Modern Conjuring: A Series of Original Experiments in the Magic Art (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

INTRODUCTION THE value of suggestion is nowhere so clearly demonstrated as in the Magic Art, and I have yet to see the book devoted to this subject that has not imparted at least a few good ideas well worth retaining. I therefore present this little series of original experiments to the lovers of Magic, not so much for its value as a collection of up-to-date tricks, separate and distinct from each other, but rather as a series of useful hints and ideas, from which I trust both the amateur and professional may derive much food for thought. I have not considered it necessary, in a book of this size, to devote any space to the definition of terms and 'phrases commonly used in conjuring circles, for the tricks herein descrihedwould be of little practical use to one unfamiliar with the rudiments of M':iic: or current literature on the subject, while to the advanced conjurer such information would only be superfluous. In the near future I hope to publish a larger book devoted

Table of Contents

SOME MODERN CONJURING; CONTENTS; Page; Tatch, Handkerchief, and Bran 5-U; Egg and Handkerchief :}-11; Flying Glass, Vatch, and Flag 11-H; Lamp-Chimney Color Change 14-16; Twentieth Century Trick 16-18; Quadruple Flag and Handkerchief Trick 18-19; Phantom Handkerchiefs 19-23; The Vedding Ring Trick 23-30; Invisible Flight of Handkerchiefs 30-32; Another "Invisible Flight" 32-34; The Latest Handkerchief "Flight" 34-38; Handkerchief and Paper Tube, First llethod 38,39; Second :-Iethod 39-40; Primary and Compound " 40; A "Changing Tube" Suggestion 41; Handkerchiefs and Flag 41-42; Loading the Paper Cone 42-48; Numbered Cards 48--19; The Invisible Charlier Pass _ _ 49-50; The Transformed Handkerchiefs 50-55; Flag, Bran, and Orange Trick 5'i-60; Die, Canary, and :-Iystic Cage 60-63; A ~ o-el Die Combination 6:~-66; The Holmes Inyisible Seryante _ __ _'" __ r,(j-72; Color Changing Handkerchiefs _ 72- 7-!-; An Inexhaustihle Black Art