The Magician's Own Book or The Whole Art of Conjuring

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Author

Cahill, Frank

Title

The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Jane Robins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure

Subject

Tricks -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60687

Release Date

November 14, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE MAGICIAN'S OWN BOOK, OR THE WHOLE ART OF CONJURING.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.INDEX.
4. 4.THE YOUNG CONJUROR. — SLEIGHT OF HAND.
5. 5.TRICKS WITH CARDS. — AUDACITY. — TRICKS WITH CARDS, THAT REQUIRE APPARATUS. — HINTS TO AMATEURS. — THE SECRET OF VENTRILOQUISM.
6. 6.THE MAGIC OF CHEMISTRY.
7. 7.AMUSEMENTS IN ELECTRICITY, GALVANISM AND MAGNETISM. — EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY.
8. 8.EXPERIMENTS IN GALVANISM.
9. 9.EXPERIMENTS IN MAGNETISM.
10. 10.THE MAGIC OF PNEUMATICS AND AËROSTATICS.
11. 11.THE MAGIC OF OPTICS AND OPTICAL AMUSEMENTS.
12. 12.TRICKS IN MECHANICS.
13. 13.TRICKS IN HYDRAULICS.
14. 14.TRICKS IN ACOUSTICS.
15. 15.THE MAGIC OF NUMBERS
16. 16.TRICKS IN GEOMETRY.
17. 17.PRACTICAL PARADOXES AND PUZZLES.
18. 18.ANSWERS TO PRACTICAL PUZZLES.
19. 19.THE MAGIC OF ART.
20. 20.SECRET WRITING.
21. 21.THE MAGIC OF STRENGTH.
22. 22.MISCELLANEOUS
23. 23.INQUIRE WITHIN
24. 24.The Reason Why: Natural History. — 10,000 WONDERFUL THINGS.
25. 25.The Reason Why: GENERAL SCIENCE.
26. 26.Live and Learn;
27. 27.The Secret Out; OR, 1,000 TRICKS WITH CARDS AND OTHER RECREATIONS.
28. 28.The Magician's Own Book OR, THE WHOLE ART OF CONJURING .
29. 29.A Book of Never-Ending Entertainment.
30. 30.THE SOCIABLE; OR, One Thousand and One Home Amusements.
31. 31.The Perfect Gentleman;
32. 32.Art of Dancing without a Master;
33. 33.SONGS OF IRELAND.
34. 34.DICK & FITZGERALD'S LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. — Judge Haliburton's Works. — Miscellaneous Books.
35. 35.The Harp of a Thousand Strings
36. 36.THE BOOK OF One Thousand Comical Stories
37. 37.Mrs. Partington's Carpet Bag of Fun. — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber notes:

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