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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