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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring — Professor Hoffmann

Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

Professor Hoffmann

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 523 pages

Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring is a Victorian manual of stage and parlor magic. It explains card, coin, and apparatus tricks, with an appendix on specialties of Maskelyne and Cooke. It is worth listening to as a historical guide to how classic magic was taught and performed.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. Modern Magic.
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. MODERN MAGIC.
  4. CHAPTER I. Introduction.
  5. CHAPTER II. General Principles of Sleight-of-Hand applicable to Card Tricks.
  6. CHAPTER III. Card Tricks with Ordinary Cards, and not requiring Sleight-of-Hand.
  7. CHAPTER IV. Tricks involving Sleight-of-Hand or the Use of Specially Prepared Cards.
  8. CHAPTER V. Card Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus.
  9. CHAPTER VI. Principles of Sleight-of-hand more especially applicable to Coin Tricks.
  10. CHAPTER VII. Tricks with Coin without Apparatus.
  11. CHAPTER VIII. Tricks with Coin requiring Special Apparatus.
  12. CHAPTER IX. Tricks with Watches.
  13. CHAPTER X. Tricks with Rings.
  14. CHAPTER XI. Tricks with Handkerchiefs.
  15. CHAPTER XII. Tricks with Dominoes and Dice.
  16. CHAPTER XIII. The Cups and Balls.
  17. CHAPTER XIV. Ball Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus.
  18. CHAPTER XV. Hat Tricks.
  19. CHAPTER XVI. Miscellaneous Tricks.
  20. CHAPTER XVII. Stage Tricks.
  21. CHAPTER XVIII. Concluding Observations.
  22. APPENDIX.
  23. ANCIENT AND MODERN MAGIC. CHAPTER I. Introduction.
  24. CHAPTER II. Kempelen.
  25. CHAPTER III. Theodin.
  26. CHAPTER IV. Automata: Psycho.
  27. CHAPTER V. Marionettes.
  28. CHAPTER VI. Clairvoyance.
  29. CHAPTER VII. Spiritualism.
  30. CHAPTER VIII. Parlor Magic.

and 3 more chapters

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