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Musical Figures Resulting from Sound, 357
The Magic of Numbers, or Curious Tricks in Arithmetic.
Aphorisms of Number, 199
Palpable Arithmetic, 200
The Abacus, 201
Napier's Rods, 202
The Arithmetical Boomerang, 203
To Find a Number Thought of, 203
Second Method, 204
Third Method, 205
Fourth do., 205
Fifth do., 206
Sixth do., 206
To Discover two or more Numbers that a Person has Thought of, 206
How many Counters have I in my Hands? 207
The Mysterious Halvings, to tell a Number a Person has Thought of, 208
Second Method, 209
Who Wears the Ring? 211
What is Probable? 212
Variations, 213
Amusing Combinations, 214
The Visitors to the Crystal Palace, 217
How many Changes can be Given to Seven Notes of a Piano? 217
The Arithmetical Triangle, 217
How many Different Deals can be made with Thirteen Cards out of Fifty-two, 218
The Three Graces, 218
Second Method, 219
Third Method, 220
The Fortunate Ninth, 221
The Ten Ten's, 222
Dividing the Beer, 223
The Difficult Case of Wine, 224
Decimation of Fruit, 224
The Wine and the Tables, 225
The Three Travelers, 225
What Counter has been Thought of out of Sixteen, 226
Magic Squares, 227
Odd Magic Squares, 227
The Square of Gotham, 229
The Mathematical Blacksmith, 230
Curious Properties of some Figures, 230
The Industrious Frog, 234
The Council of Ten, 235
The Two Travelers, 235
Arithmetical Trick, 237
The Money Trick, 237
The Philosopher's Pupils, 237
To Discover a Square Number, 238
The Sheep, and the Sheep Fold, 238
The Countrywoman and the Eggs, 238
To Rub out Twenty Chalks at Five Times, Rubbing out every Time an Odd one, 239
The Impossible Triangle, 239
Odd or Even, 239
The Figures, up to 100, arranged as to make 505 in each Column, when Counted in Ten Columns Perpendicularly, and the Same when Counted in Ten Files Horizontally, 240
The Old Woman and Her Eggs, 240
The Mathematical Fortune Teller, 241
The Dice Guessed Unseen, 242
The Sovereign and the Sage, 242
The Knowing Shepherd, 243
The Certain Game, 243
The Astonished Farmer, 244
The Magical Century, 244
The Hatter Cheated, 245
The Basket of Nuts, 245
The United Digits, 246
December and May, 246
The Two Drovers, 246
The Basket and Stones, 246
The Famous Forty-Five, 247
Trick in Subtraction, 247
The Expunged Figure, 247
The Mysterious Addition, 248
To tell at what Hour a Person Intends to rise, 249
To find the Difference between Two Numbers, the Greater of which is Unknown, 249
The Magic Remainder, 250
A Person having an equal Number of Counters, or Pieces of Money, in each Hand, to find how many he has altogether, 250
The Three Jealous Husbands, 251
The False Scales, 251
The Apple Woman, 252
The Graces and Muses, 252
The Jesuitical Teacher, 252
Nine Quaint Questions, 253
The Fox, Goose and Corn, 253
Multiplying Money by Money, 253
The Unfair Division, 255
A Popular Fallacy, 255
Curious Tricks in Geometry.
The Inventor of Geometry, 256
Geometrical Definitions, 256
The Five Geometrical Solids, 257
How to Make Five Squares into a large one without any Waste of Stuff, 258
Deceptive Vision, 258
The Carpenter Puzzled, 259
The Bricklayer Puzzled, 260
Triangular Problem, 260
To Form a Square, 261
Squaring the Circle, 262
The Perplexed Cabinet Maker, 277
Curious and Amusing Puzzles.
Alexander the Great's Puzzle, 266
The Chinese Cross, 266
The Parallelogram, 267
The Divided Garden, 267
The Endless String, 267
Chinese Maze, the Willow Pattern Plate, 268
The Vertical Line Puzzle, 268
The Three Rabbits, 269
The Accommodating Square, 269
The Circle Puzzle, 269
The Cardboard Puzzle, 269
The Button Puzzle, 269
The Quarto Puzzle, 269
The Puzzle of Fourteen, 270
The Square and Circle Puzzle, 270
The Scale and Ring Puzzle, 270
The Heart Puzzle, 271
The Cross Puzzle, 272
The Yankee Square, 272
The Card Puzzle, 272
The Three Square Puzzle, 273
The Cylinder Puzzle, 273
The Four Tenants, 273
The Puzzle Wall, 274
The Twenty-Four Nuns, 274
The Horse Shoe Puzzle, 274
The Card Square, 275
The Dog Puzzle, 275
Puzzle of the Two Fathers, 275
The Triangular Puzzle, 276
Cutting out a Cross, 276
Another Cross Puzzle, 276
The Fountain Puzzle, 276
The Puzzle of the Stars, 277
The Counter Puzzle, 277
Japan Square Puzzle, 277
The Cabinet Maker's Puzzle, 277
String and Balls Puzzle, 277
Double Headed Puzzle, 278
Arithmetical Puzzle, 278
Grammatical Puzzle, 278
The Tree Puzzle, 279
Puzzling Epitaph, 279
Curious Letter, 279
A Puzzling Inscription, 279
Puzzling Kings, 279
The Knight's Puzzle, 283
Another Method, 284
Another Method, 287
Rosamond's Bower, 287
The Labyrinth, 288
The Chinese Puzzle, 289
Trouble-Wit, 290
Answers to Puzzles.
The Chinese Cross, 291
The Parallelogram, 291
The Divided Garden, 292
The Endless String, 292
Chinese Maze, 292
The Vertical Line Puzzle, 293
The Three Rabbits, 293
The Accommodating Square, 293
The Circle Puzzle, 293
The Cut Card Puzzle, 294
The Button Puzzle, 294
The Quarto Puzzle, 294
The Puzzle of Fourteen, 294
The Square and Circle Puzzle, 295
The Scale and Ring Puzzle, 295
The Heart Puzzle, 295
The Cross Puzzle, 295
The Yankee Square, 295
The Card Puzzle, 296
The Three Square Puzzle, 296
The Cylinder Puzzle, 296
The Four Tenants, 296
The Puzzle Wall, 297
The Twenty-Four Nuns, 297
The Horse Shoe Puzzle, 297
The Card Square, 297
The Dog Puzzle, 298
The Two Fathers, 298
The Triangular Puzzle, 298
Cutting out a Cross, 299
Another Cross Puzzle, 299
The Fountain Puzzle, 299
The Star Puzzle, 300
The Counter Puzzle, 300
Japan Square Puzzle, 300
Cabinet Maker's Puzzle, 300
String and Balls Puzzle, 301
Double Headed Puzzle, 301
Arithmetical Puzzle, 301
Grammatical Puzzle, 301
The Tree Puzzle, 301
Puzzling Epitaph, 302
A Curious Letter, 302
A Puzzling Inscription, 302
The Magic of Art.
To Trace an Oval, 303
An Endless Source of Amusement, 303
The Magic of the Oval, 303
Variations of the Oval, 304
What may be done with a Square, 305
How to make a Circle, 306
Importance of the Circle in Drawing, 307
Variation of the Square and Circle, 307
Importance of the Triangle, 308
How to Construct a Triangle, 309
The Triangle Works Wonders in Perspective, 310
Exaggerated Drawing, 311
The Parallelogram and Triangle in Combination, 312
Two Parallelograms in Combination, 312
Magic of the Parallelogram, 313
The Secret of Comic Drawing, 313
Caricature Sketching, 314
Simple Elements of the Profile, 315
Comic Profiles, 316
"Punch," and "Mother Hubbard," 316
Comical Beards, 316
The Human Figure, 317
Proportions of the Human Figure, 318
Standard Height of the Body, 318
Comical Drawing of the Human Figure, 319
The Centre of Gravity, 320
A Central Line through Everything, 320
The Curved Line Pervades all Nature, 321
The Droll Landscape, 323
Attitude Formed upon the Curved Line, 324
How to Draw upon Glass, for Magic Lantern Slides, 325
The Magic of Secret Writing.
The Art of Secret Writing very Ancient, 326
Various Modes of Communicating Secret Intelligence, 327
Chemistry an Agent in Secret Writing, 327
Ingenious Mode of Secret Writing, 328
The Chiffre Indéchiffrable, 328
A Lock for Mr. Hobbs to Pick, 330
The Circular Cypher, 331
Another Method, 332
The Musical Cypher, 333
The Magic of Strength.
Mechanical Inventions of the Ancients few in Number, 334
Ancient and Modern Feats of Strength, 334
Feats of Eckeberg particularly described, 335
One Man Drawing against Two Horses, 335
Breaking the Rope, 336
The Anvil Feat, 336
Breaking Stones, 337
The Chair Feat, 337
The Knee Feat, 338
The Cannon Feat, 338
Twisting Iron Bars, 339
General Explanation on all the Above Feats, 339
Real Feats of Strength Performed by Thomas Topham, 340
Remarkable Power of Lifting Heavy Persons when the Lungs are Inflated, 341
Pyramids of Men, 342
Miscellaneous Curious Tricks and Fancies.
An Artificial Memory, 343
The Magician's Mirror, 344
The Perspective Mirror, 345
The Magical Gyroscope, 346
Artificial Landscape, 348
Easy and Curious Method of Foretelling Rainy or Fine Weather, 349
The Magical Measure, 350
The Boundless Prospect, 350
The Magical Watch Lamp, 352
The Hour of the Day or Night told by a Suspended Shilling, 351
The Enchanted Palace, 352
To Know which of Two Different Waters is the Lightest, without any Scales, 353
To Know if a Suspicious Piece of Money is Good or Bad, 353
The Pyramid of Alum, 354
The Dancing Automaton, 354
To Melt a Piece of Money in a Walnut Shell without Injuring the Shell, 355
The Invisible Springs, 355
The Flight of the Ring, 356
Musical Figures resulting from Sound, 357
To Make a Card Jump out of the Pack, 357
The Tell-Tale Cards, 357
The Double Dozen, 358
The Housebreakers, 359
The Magic Book, 360
The Tape Trick, 360
More than Full, 361
Floating Needles, 361
The Knotted Thread, 361
The Bacchus Experiment, 362
Curious Method of Measuring the Height of a Tree, 362
The Transposable Pieces, 362
The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring

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