Modern Magic
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"Modern Magic" is a treatise in book form, detailing the apparatus, methods and tricks used by the magicians and conjurors. It was the first book in the English language to really explain how to perform magical feats. The treatise contains advice on the appearance, the dress and the staging of a magician. It then goes on to describe many tricks with playing cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dominoes, dice, cups, balls and hats, and concludes with a long chapter of miscellaneous tricks, including magic with strings, gloves, eggs, rice and some utility devices. The penultimate chapter describes large stage illusions, and the final chapter contains advice on routining a magic show, as well as more advice on staging.
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Professor Hoffmann. Modern Magic
Modern Magic
Table of Contents
MODERN MAGIC
CHAPTER I. Introduction
THE MAGIC WAND
THE MAGICIAN’S TABLE
THE MAGICIAN’S DRESS
CHAPTER II. General Principles of Sleight-of-Hand applicable to Card Tricks
CHAPTER III. Card Tricks with Ordinary Cards, and not requiring Sleight-of-Hand
CHAPTER IV. Tricks involving Sleight-of-Hand or the Use of Specially Prepared Cards
CHAPTER V. Card Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus
CHAPTER VI. Principles of Sleight-of-hand more especially applicable to Coin Tricks
CHAPTER VII. Tricks with Coin without Apparatus
CHAPTER VIII. Tricks with Coin requiring Special Apparatus
CHAPTER IX. Tricks with Watches
CHAPTER X. Tricks with Rings
CHAPTER XI. Tricks with Handkerchiefs
CHAPTER XII. Tricks with Dominoes and Dice
CHAPTER XIII. The Cups and Balls
CHAPTER XIV. Ball Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus
CHAPTER XV. Hat Tricks
CHAPTER XVI. Miscellaneous Tricks
CHAPTER XVII. Stage Tricks
CHAPTER XVIII. Concluding Observations
APPENDIX
ANCIENT AND MODERN MAGIC
CHAPTER I. Introduction
CHAPTER II. Kempelen
CHAPTER III. Theodin
CHAPTER IV. Automata: Psycho
CHAPTER V. Marionettes
CHAPTER VI. Clairvoyance
CHAPTER VII. Spiritualism
CHAPTER VIII. Parlor Magic
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Professor Hoffmann
A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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First Method. (To keep a particular card or cards in view.)—Take the pack in the left hand. If the card to be kept in view is not already on the top of the pack, insert the little finger of the left hand immediately above that card, and make the pass in order to bring it to the top. Transfer this card to the right hand, and slide the remaining cards upon it, by little successive parcels of six or eight cards, one above the other. The known card will now be at the bottom. Return the pack to the left hand. Slide off three or four of the top cards into the right hand, and place the remaining cards, by parcels of six or eight as before, alternately above and below these top cards, till you come to the last card, which is the special one, and which you will place above or below as occasion may require. If there are three or four cards to be kept in view, it makes no difference in the mode of operation, save that you must treat those cards throughout as the single card, and keep them together accordingly.
Fig. 12.
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