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Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography

Albert A. Hopkins

  • Book language: English
  • 474 pages

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Contents

  1. MAGIC STAGE ILLUSIONS AND SCIENTIFIC DIVERSIONS INCLUDING TRICK PHOTOGRAPHY
  2. PREFACE.
  3. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  4. INTRODUCTION. THE MYSTERIES OF MODERN MAGIC.
  5. BOOK I. CONJURERS’ TRICKS AND STAGE ILLUSIONS.
  6. BOOK II. ANCIENT MAGIC.
  7. BOOK III. SCIENCE IN THE THEATER.
  8. BOOK IV. AUTOMATA AND CURIOUS TOYS.
  9. BOOK V. PHOTOGRAPHIC DIVERSIONS.
  10. APPENDIX.
  11. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATURAL MAGIC AND PRESTIDIGITATION. COMPILED, WITH NOTES, BY Henry Ridgely Evans.
  12. INDEX.
  13. Transcriber’s Notes
  14. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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