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=The Modern Conjurer= =AND DRAWING ROOM ENTERTAINER= By C. LANG NEIL.
Tricks by J. N. Maskelyne, Frank Kennard Trewey, Paul Valadon, Charles Bertram, H. de Manche, T. Nelson Downs, Mdlle. Patrice, Ellis Stanyon.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Water Wizardry by Arthur Ainslie
- 2: Three Effects with the Handcuff Tie
- 3: Illustration BOXES OF PUZZLES
- 4: The first trick I call The ImpossibleThree tumblers
- 5: With the eyeglass resting on it
- 6: A Quaint MixtureA soda water tumbler
- 7: The weight of the tangerine helps you
- 8: Fold a card lengthways in half
- 9: Thus getting the bent card out of sight
- 10: He probably holds his hands just under the mug
- 11: The Sticky GlassPick up a wineglass and fill it with water
- 12: With a celluloid disc adhering to its base
- 13: Leaving only one pip in the centre of the card
- 14: The pips being diagonally across the card
- 15: A blank card usually goes with each pack
- 16: Secretly getting the disc under it
- 17: Taking the disc and paper impaled on it
- 18: Together with a small tin funnel
- 19: The shell bottle is placed over that bottle
- 20: Thus leaving the bottle in view
- 21: A trick with a bottle and a glass
- 22: The disc will adhere to the bowl
- 23: One bowl has to be exchanged for the faked bowl
- 24: The faked bowl has an inner lining fitted to it
- 25: Illustration Extracting rice from faked bowl
- 26: It's dangerous stuff rice pudding
- 27: The bowl can be either of glass
- 28: Illustration bag of loose sand
- 29: In taking another handful of sand
- 30: The conjurer brings forward a pack of cards
- 31: Beside the piece of celluloid is the pack of cards
- 32: Gripping the piece of celluloid through the handkerchief
- 33: Keeping it hidden behind the slates
- 34: The cardboard is painted on both sides
- 35: The conjurer puts the jug down and
- 36: Semicircular piece of cardboard
- 37: Place a short cardboard cylinder over the glass
- 38: That is the trick known as the Aquarius tube
- 39: Being the same colour as the ribbons
- 40: Because the links are joined together
- 41: From looking at the outside of the vase
- 42: Illustration COVER VASE FAKE Fig
- 43: 19 This is managed by means of a confetti cup
- 44: Pours out the water from the cylinder
- 45: The flagstaff is a telescopic one
- 46: The performer shows a full sized billiard ball
- 47: In Stiff Pictorial Paper Boards
- 48: With a foreword by DAVID DEVANT
