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Delve into the mystifying world of card manipulation as the famous magician unveils his most popular illusions. Elevate your sleight of hand with expert guidance from Blackstone himself. Perfect for magicians of all levels, this collection offers a treasure trove of captivating tricks to astonish any audience. Step up your game and dazzle with Blackstone's Modern Card Tricks today\\\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1932 HC NO DJ - COVER HAS SOME SHELF WEAR  - TONED EDGES - TONING THROUGHOUT THE BOOK - WRITTEN IN INK ON FLYLEAF \" FROM THE COLLECTION OF ARTHUR C. SPRATT KANSAS CITY MO. 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Overture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"17\"\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\nMy Birth and Parentage\u003cbr\u003e\nMy Home\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Lessons of Colonel Bernard\u003cbr\u003e\nPaternal Ambition\u003cbr\u003e\nMy first Mechanical Attempts\u003cbr\u003e\nHad I but a Rat!\u003cbr\u003e\nA Prisoner's Industry\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Abbé Larivière\u003cbr\u003e\nMy Word of Honor\u003cbr\u003e\nFarewell to my darling Tools.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"26\"\u003eCHAPTER II\u003cbr\u003e\nA Country Idler\u003cbr\u003e\nDr. Carlosbach, Conjurer and Professor of Mystification\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Sand-bag and the Stirrup Trick\u003cbr\u003e\nI turn Lawyer's Clerk, and the Minutes appear to me very long\u003cbr\u003e\nA small Automaton\u003cbr\u003e\nA respectful Protest\u003cbr\u003e\nI mount a Step in the Office\u003cbr\u003e\nA Machine of Porter's Power\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Acrobatic Canaries\u003cbr\u003e\nMonsieur Roger's Remonstrances\u003cbr\u003e\nMy Father decides that I shall follow my bent.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"42\"\u003eCHAPTER III\u003cbr\u003e\nMy Cousin Robert\u003cbr\u003e\nThe most important Event in my Life\u003cbr\u003e\nHow a Man becomes a Sorcerer\u003cbr\u003e\nMy first Sleight-of-Hand Feat\u003cbr\u003e\nAn utter Failure\u003cbr\u003e\nPractising the Eye and the Hand\u003cbr\u003e\nCurious Experiment in Prestidigitation\u003cbr\u003e\nMonsieur Noriet\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Action more ingenious than delicate\u003cbr\u003e\nI am Poisoned\u003cbr\u003e\nInfluence of Delirium.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"55\"\u003eCHAPTER IV\u003cbr\u003e\nI return to Life\u003cbr\u003e\nA strange Doctor\u003cbr\u003e\nTorrini and Antonio: a Conjurer and a Fanatic for Music\u003cbr\u003e\nA Murderer's Confession\u003cbr\u003e\nA perambulating House\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Fair at Angers\u003cbr\u003e\nA portable Theatre\u003cbr\u003e\nI witness for the first Time a Conjuring Performance\u003cbr\u003e\nThe blind Man's Game at Piquet\u003cbr\u003e\nA Dangerous Rival\u003cbr\u003e\nSignor Castelli eats a Man alive.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"73\"\u003eCHAPTER V\u003cbr\u003e\nAntonio's Confessions\u003cbr\u003e\nHow to gain Public Applause\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Count de\u003cbr\u003e\nMountebank\u003cbr\u003e\nI repair an Automaton\u003cbr\u003e\nA Mechanician's Shop on Wheels\u003cbr\u003e\nNomadic life\u003cbr\u003e\nHappy Existence\u003cbr\u003e\nTorrini's Lessons\u003cbr\u003e\nHis Opinions about Sleight-of-Hand\u003cbr\u003e\nA Fashionable Greek, Victim of his own Swindling\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Conjurer Comus\u003cbr\u003e\nA Duel at Piquet\u003cbr\u003e\nTorrini proclaimed Conqueror\u003cbr\u003e\nRevelations\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Catastrophe\u003cbr\u003e\nPoor Torrini!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"90\"\u003eCHAPTER VI\u003cbr\u003e\nTorrini relates his Life\u003cbr\u003e\nTreachery of Chevalier Pinetti\u003cbr\u003e\nA Conjurer through Malice\u003cbr\u003e\nA Race between two Magicians\u003cbr\u003e\nDeath of Pinetti\u003cbr\u003e\nExhibits before Pius VII.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Cardinal's Chronometer\u003cbr\u003e\nTwelve Hundred Francs spent on a Trick\u003cbr\u003e\nAntonio and Antonia\u003cbr\u003e\nThe most bitter of Mystifications\u003cbr\u003e\nConstantinople.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"121\"\u003eCHAPTER VII\u003cbr\u003e\nContinuation of Torrini's History\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Grand Turk orders a Performance\u003cbr\u003e\nA marvellous Trick\u003cbr\u003e\nA Page cut in two\u003cbr\u003e\nPitying Protest of the Harem\u003cbr\u003e\nAgreeable Surprise\u003cbr\u003e\nReturn to France\u003cbr\u003e\nTorrini's Son Killed\u003cbr\u003e\nMadness\u003cbr\u003e\nDecay\u003cbr\u003e\nMy first Performance\u003cbr\u003e\nAn annoying Accident\u003cbr\u003e\nI return Home.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"136\"\u003eCHAPTER VIII\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Prodigal Son\u003cbr\u003e\nMademoiselle Houdin\u003cbr\u003e\nI go to Paris\u003cbr\u003e\nMy Marriage\u003cbr\u003e\nComte\u003cbr\u003e\nStudies of the Public\u003cbr\u003e\nA skillful Manager\u003cbr\u003e\nRosecolored Tickets\u003cbr\u003e\nA Musky Style\u003cbr\u003e\nThe King of Hearts\u003cbr\u003e\nVentriloquism\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Mystifiers Mystified\u003cbr\u003e\nFather Roujol\u003cbr\u003e\nJules de Rovère\u003cbr\u003e\nOrigin of the word prestidigitateur.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"155\"\u003eCHAPTER IX\u003cbr\u003e\nCelebrated Automata\u003cbr\u003e\nA Brazen Fly\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Artificial Man\u003cbr\u003e\nAlbertus Magnus and St. Thomas d'Aquinas\u003cbr\u003e\nVaucanson\u003cbr\u003e\nHis Duck\u003cbr\u003e\nHis Flute-Player\u003cbr\u003e\nCurious Details\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Automaton Chess-Player\u003cbr\u003e\nInteresting Episode\u003cbr\u003e\nCatherine II. and M. de Kempelen\u003cbr\u003e\nI repair the Componium\u003cbr\u003e\nUnexpected Success.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"176\"\u003eCHAPTER X\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Inventor's Calculations\u003cbr\u003e\nOne Hundred Thousand Francs a Year by an Inkstand: Deception\u003cbr\u003e\nMy new Automata\u003cbr\u003e\nThe First Magician in France: Decadence\u003cbr\u003e\nI meet Antonio\u003cbr\u003e\nBosco\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Trick with the Cups\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Execution\u003cbr\u003e\nResurrection of the Criminals\u003cbr\u003e\nMistake in a Head\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Canary rewarded.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"192\"\u003eCHAPTER XI\u003cbr\u003e\nA Reverse of Fortune\u003cbr\u003e\nCookery and Clockwork\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Artist's Home\u003cbr\u003e\nInvention of an Automaton\u003cbr\u003e\nVoluntary Exile\u003cbr\u003e\nA modest Villa\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Inconveniences of a Speciality\u003cbr\u003e\nTwo August Visitors\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Throat of a mechanical Nightingale\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Tiou and the Rrrrrrrrouit\u003cbr\u003e\nSeven Thousand Francs earned by making Filings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"221\"\u003eCHAPTER XII\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Inventive Genius of a Sugar-baker\u003cbr\u003e\nPhilippe the Magician\u003cbr\u003e\nHis Comic Adventures\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription of his Performance\u003cbr\u003e\nExposition of 1844\u003cbr\u003e\nThe King and Royal Family visit my Automata.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"234\"\u003eCHAPTER XIII\u003cbr\u003e\nMy proposed Reforms\u003cbr\u003e\nI build a Theatre in the Palais Royal\u003cbr\u003e\nFormalities\u003cbr\u003e\nGeneral Rehearsal\u003cbr\u003e\nSingular Effect of my Performance\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Largest and Smallest Theatre in Paris\u003cbr\u003e\nTribulation\u003cbr\u003e\nMy first Performance\u003cbr\u003e\nPanic\u003cbr\u003e\nDiscouragement\u003cbr\u003e\nA Fallible Prophet\u003cbr\u003e\nRecovery\u003cbr\u003e\nSuccess.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"253\"\u003eCHAPTER XIV\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Studies\u003cbr\u003e\nA Comic Journal\u003cbr\u003e\nInvention of Second Sight\u003cbr\u003e\nCurious Experiments\u003cbr\u003e\nAn enthusiastic Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\nDanger of being a Sorcerer\u003cbr\u003e\nA Philter or your Life\u003cbr\u003e\nWay to get rid of Bores\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Electric Touch\u003cbr\u003e\nI perform at the Vaudeville\u003cbr\u003e\nStruggles with the Incredulous\u003cbr\u003e\nInteresting Details.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"273\"\u003eCHAPTER XV\u003cbr\u003e\nSeductions of a Theatrical Agent\u003cbr\u003e\nHow to gain One Hundred Thousand Francs\u003cbr\u003e\nI start for Brussels\u003cbr\u003e\nA lucky Two-Sou Piece\u003cbr\u003e\nMiseries of professional Travelling\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Park Theatre\u003cbr\u003e\nTyranny of a Porter\u003cbr\u003e\nFull House\u003cbr\u003e\nSmall Receipts\u003cbr\u003e\nDeceptions\u003cbr\u003e\nReturn to Paris.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"294\"\u003eCHAPTER XVI\u003cbr\u003e\nReopening of my Fantastic Soirees\u003cbr\u003e\nMinor Miseries of Good Luck\u003cbr\u003e\nInconvenience of a small Theatre\u003cbr\u003e\nMy Room taken by Storm\u003cbr\u003e\nA gratuitous Performance\u003cbr\u003e\nA conscientious Audience\u003cbr\u003e\nPleasant Story about a Black Silk Cap\u003cbr\u003e\nI perform at the Chateau of St. Cloud\u003cbr\u003e\nCagliostro's Casket\u003cbr\u003e\nHolidays.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"312\"\u003eCHAPTER XVII\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Experiments\u003cbr\u003e\nAerial Suspension, \u0026amp;c.\u003cbr\u003e\nA Performance at the Odéon\u003cbr\u003e\nA Friend in Need\u003cbr\u003e\n1848\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Theatre deserted\u003cbr\u003e\nI leave Paris for London\u003cbr\u003e\nManager Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\nPublicity in England\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Great Wizard\u003cbr\u003e\nA Butter-mould used as a Puff\u003cbr\u003e\nSingular Bills\u003cbr\u003e\nA Prize for the best Pun.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli value=\"330\"\u003eCHAPTER XVIII\u003cbr\u003e\nThe St. James's Theatre\u003cbr\u003e\nInvasion of England by French Performers\u003cbr\u003e\nA Fete patronised by the Queen\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Diplomatist and the Sleight-of-Hand Man\u003cbr\u003e\nThree Thousand Pounds taken 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Neale's Preface: \"This book contains twenty new and novel models that perform in these amusingly unexpected ways; all are folded from dollar bills. They are created for adults, but many will entertain children-especially the finger puppets in Puppet Poetry and the tale illustrated with many different shapes in A Boy's Modest Adventure. A rabbit pops out of a top hat in Bunny Bill, a model popular among magicians.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter Listing:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eActions\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Economic Comment\u003cbr\u003e\nFluttering Butterfly\u003cbr\u003e\nPuppet Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\nBillfrog\u003cbr\u003e\nPearching Parrot\u003cbr\u003e\nHeart Homily\u003cbr\u003e\nCrane in Flight\u003cbr\u003e\nA Boy's Modest Adventure\u003cbr\u003e\nPuzzles\u003cbr\u003e\nCrossed Doubly\u003cbr\u003e\nSeven Clever Bills\u003cbr\u003e\nHyperflex\u003cbr\u003e\nBaffling Bill Braid\u003cbr\u003e\nTricks\u003cbr\u003e\nStretch A Bill\u003cbr\u003e\nPresidential Portrait\u003cbr\u003e\nWormo\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Contrary Ones\u003cbr\u003e\nSnake Basket\u003cbr\u003e\nPyramid of Immortality\u003cbr\u003e\nRabbit Redux\u003cbr\u003e\nBunny Bill\u003cbr\u003e\nOakes' Standing Bunny\u003cbr\u003e\nHarris' Bunnies\u003cbr\u003e\nPages 146 - 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Heaps\u003cbr\u003e\nAnother False Cut With Four Heaps\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecial False Cut With Five Heaps\u003cbr\u003e\nShuffle Cut\u003cbr\u003e\nFalse Cut Shifts\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Revolving Pass\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Palm\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Glide\u003cbr\u003e\nThe False Count\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e29 Chapter II Card Locations\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Divided Pack\u003cbr\u003e\nThe New Pack\u003cbr\u003e\nEasy Locations\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Master Card Location\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Slide Out\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Push Through\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Push Back\u003cbr\u003e\nA Neat Location\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Fan Location\u003cbr\u003e\nA Card Detection\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Pick-up Heaps\u003cbr\u003e\nSurpasso\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Easy Force\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Joker Force\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Force Location\u003cbr\u003e\nBehind the Back\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Glimpse\u003cbr\u003e\n71 Chapter III Card Discoveries\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Knot Out\u003cbr\u003e\nCard From Pocket\u003cbr\u003e\nAny Number\u003cbr\u003e\nA Reversed Card\u003cbr\u003e\nOne Reversed Card\u003cbr\u003e\nThree Reversed Cards\u003cbr\u003e\nOut of the Hat\u003cbr\u003e\nBlackstone's Cut Trick\u003cbr\u003e\nCard in Cigar Box\u003cbr\u003e\nCard Elimination\u003cbr\u003e\n94 Chapter IV Spelling Tricks\u003cbr\u003e\nSimplicity Speller\u003cbr\u003e\nSpread-Out Speller\u003cbr\u003e\nFour Heap Speller\u003cbr\u003e\nEasy Spelling Trick\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Mental Speller\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Progressive Speller\u003cbr\u003e\nA Spelling Trick\u003cbr\u003e\nAutomatic Spelling\u003cbr\u003e\n119 Chapter V Easy Card Tricks\u003cbr\u003e\nCard Found In Hat\u003cbr\u003e\nTwo Number Trick\u003cbr\u003e\nBottom to Top\u003cbr\u003e\nThought Discovered\u003cbr\u003e\nTwenty-five Cards\u003cbr\u003e\nA Double Prediction\u003cbr\u003e\nVanished Card\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Mystic Discovery\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Same Number\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Twenty Card Trick\u003cbr\u003e\nImproved Twenty Cards\u003cbr\u003e\nMathematical Discovery\u003cbr\u003e\nThree Heaps\u003cbr\u003e\nMany Heaps\u003cbr\u003e\nName in Envelope\u003cbr\u003e\n155 Chapter VI Advanced Card Tricks\u003cbr\u003e\nCard In the Pocket\u003cbr\u003e\nFour Ace Change\u003cbr\u003e\nThree Card Monte\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Traveling Ace\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Hoax With Aces\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Ace Hoax\u003cbr\u003e\nTraveling Card Trick\u003cbr\u003e\nImproved Pocket to Pocket\u003cbr\u003e\nA Four Ace Trick\u003cbr\u003e\n179 Chapter VII Special Card Tricks\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Ten Card Miracle\u003cbr\u003e\nImproved Card Circle\u003cbr\u003e\nA Mystic Prediction\u003cbr\u003e\nDouble Discovery\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Card Foretold\u003cbr\u003e\nPasse Passe Cards\u003cbr\u003e\nCards and Envelopes\u003cbr\u003e\nSection Two: Secrets of Magic\u003cbr\u003e\n(Note: contents in this section copied from stand-alone edition; may not be fully accurate)\u003cbr\u003e\n1 Chapter VIII Blackstone's Sleight of Hand With Cards\u003cbr\u003e\n3 Blackstone's Card Control\u003cbr\u003e\n5 False Shuffle System\u003cbr\u003e\n7 The End Shuffle\u003cbr\u003e\n9 To Force a Card\u003cbr\u003e\n11 The Second Deal\u003cbr\u003e\n13 The Changes\u003cbr\u003e\n15 Card Tricks With Sleights\u003cbr\u003e\n17 The Knife in the Pack\u003cbr\u003e\n19 The Spectator's Trick\u003cbr\u003e\n21 The Travelling Deuce\u003cbr\u003e\n23 The Ten Card Trick\u003cbr\u003e\n25 Blackstone's King and Queen\u003cbr\u003e\n27 The Turning Card\u003cbr\u003e\n29 Blackstone's Masterpiece Pack\u003cbr\u003e\n31 Corner Bending\u003cbr\u003e\n33 The Mystic Reverso\u003cbr\u003e\n35 Card Through Handkerchief and Case\u003cbr\u003e\n37 The Hung Card\u003cbr\u003e\n39 Divination Card Tricks\u003cbr\u003e\n41 The Latest Card Box\u003cbr\u003e\n43 The Improved False Count\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e49 Chapter IX - Effective Pocket Tricks\u003cbr\u003e\n49 Torn and Restored Paper\u003cbr\u003e\n51 Another Paper Tearing: variation\u003cbr\u003e\n53 The Ball and the Tube: commercial magic prop\u003cbr\u003e\n54 Improved Ball and Tube: for vanishing the gimmick\u003cbr\u003e\n55 Ball and Glass Tube: another variation\u003cbr\u003e\n57 Giant Match Production: from matchbox\u003cbr\u003e\n59 The Cigarette From Nowhere: while lighting an invisible cigarette, a real one appears\u003cbr\u003e\n61 Improved Cigarette From Nowhere: variation\u003cbr\u003e\n63 The Four Colors: magician knows which dot on a mirror was covered\u003cbr\u003e\n65 The Divining Die: die put in opaque box yet magician knows what number is on top, with variation\u003cbr\u003e\n66 Knife Through Handkerchief: knife cuts paper but not handkerchief, with variation\u003cbr\u003e\n67 Through the Coat: another variation\u003cbr\u003e\n68 Self Rising Match Box: on hand\u003cbr\u003e\n69 Cigarette Tube: apparatus described\u003cbr\u003e\n71 The Mysterious Cigarette: a combination of effects\u003cbr\u003e\n72 The Divining Dial: clever box helps magician know what color was selected with a dial\u003cbr\u003e\n73 The Mummy Case: magician knows what color mummy placed in a case\u003cbr\u003e\n75 The Four Color Blocks: describes a clever commercial color revealing box\u003cbr\u003e\n77 Pencil Through Coin: Holder for a coin allows a pencil to penetrate\u003cbr\u003e\n78 The Colored Bars: magician determines which bar in which hole\u003cbr\u003e\n79 The Red Hot Ball: chemical trick\u003cbr\u003e\n80 Cigarette to Cigar: gimmick briefly described\u003cbr\u003e\n81 Colored Crayons: color determined behind back\u003cbr\u003e\n82 Blackstone's Paper Ball Trick: two in the hand and one in the pocket\u003cbr\u003e\n84 The Uncanny Die: each spectator sees a different side of the die exposed\u003cbr\u003e\n85 The Adhesive Cigarette Pack: likely won't work with modern cigarette boxes\u003cbr\u003e\n86 The Improved Coin Box: Brief trick with the Okito coin box (old style)\u003cbr\u003e\n87 Coin Changing Slide: a clever slide box\u003cbr\u003e\n89 Penny and Dime Trick: briefly described\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e91 Chapter X - Magic with Apparatus\u003cbr\u003e\n92 The Repeating Handkerchief Vanish: using a pull repeatedly\u003cbr\u003e\n94 The Drum Production: producing many silks from an empty cylinder on a stand\u003cbr\u003e\n95 The New Confetti Bowls: rice bowls\u003cbr\u003e\n96 Die, Frame, and Ribbon: ribbon strung through frame and die, yet die removed\u003cbr\u003e\n97 The Elastic Sticks: optical illusion\u003cbr\u003e\n98 Chines Wands: the Chinese Sticks effect described\u003cbr\u003e\n100 More Chinese Wands: the more modern version\u003cbr\u003e\n102 The Clinging Wand: gimmicked\u003cbr\u003e\n103 The Vanishing Wand: when rolled in paper, two versions described\u003cbr\u003e\n104 Double Production Wand: produce a silk\u003cbr\u003e\n105 Franciscus Handkerchief Wand: quickly vanish a silk\u003cbr\u003e\n106 The Handkerchief Pedestal: appearing silk in glass\u003cbr\u003e\n107 Handkerchief and Glass Production: using the pedestal\u003cbr\u003e\n108 Vanishing Glass and Handkerchief: use of a servante\u003cbr\u003e\n109 Egg Cling Clang (with Handkerchief Pedestal): a routine\u003cbr\u003e\n110 Mysterious Penetration: Glass of Ink rises UP\u003cbr\u003e\n114 The Chinese Wonder Blocks: ball mysteriously appears between two blocks\u003cbr\u003e\n117 Comedy Hat Levitation: hat suspends in air\u003cbr\u003e\n119 The Billiard Ball Box (Improved by El Barto): Billiard ball vanishes from box with two compartments\u003cbr\u003e\n121 Production of Four Bouquets: with special pot\u003cbr\u003e\n123 Novel Production Box: yes, with mirrors!\u003cbr\u003e\n125 Two New Coin Stands: described\u003cbr\u003e\n127 New Style Production Box: Box with no top or bottom, a tray, and a piece of glass\u003cbr\u003e\n129 The Bogart Tube: Water poured in tube, cover placed over and broken to remove silks, then water poured out\u003cbr\u003e\n131 The Passing Knots: knots pass from one set of handkerchiefs to another\u003cbr\u003e\n132 Con Act Finale: new Coin Ladder described\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e134 Chapter XI The Linking Rings and the Cups and Balls\u003cbr\u003e\n134 The Chinese Linking Rings: a full routine for the 8 ring set described\u003cbr\u003e\n140 The Dropping Ring (An Additional Move): for four together\u003cbr\u003e\n142 Adding the Key Ring: ideas\u003cbr\u003e\n143 The Cups and Balls: a routine with 7 balls and most any cups; no sleight of hand and three large load climax\u003cbr\u003e\n145 Penetrating Cups: optical illusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e159 Chapter XII Stage Magic and Illusions\u003cbr\u003e\n159 Production of Fluids: from under clothes\u003cbr\u003e\n160 Flower Basket Production: special tray\u003cbr\u003e\n161 Lighted Lamp Production: special table\u003cbr\u003e\n163 Vanishing Lamp: vanishes on tray\u003cbr\u003e\n165 The Germaine Jars: improved presentation\u003cbr\u003e\n168 Blackstone's Three Card Trick: Three Card Monte on a giant scale (gimmicked cards)\u003cbr\u003e\n170 The New Sword Cabinet: girl vanishes and reappears at the end\u003cbr\u003e\n173 The Glass Trunk: girl appears inside\u003cbr\u003e\n175 A Magical Appearance: opener\u003cbr\u003e\n177 The Cleaver Illusion: apparently chops the assistant in many sections!\u003cbr\u003e\n180 Walking Through Glass: illusion\u003cbr\u003e\n182 Pigeon Rabbit and Goose: production\u003cbr\u003e\n185 The Girl and the Shadow: illusion\u003cbr\u003e\n187 The Ghost\u003cbr\u003e\n190 Franciscus Screen Production\u003cbr\u003e\n192 The Vanishing Horse\u003cbr\u003e\n195 The Disappearing Elephant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e201 Chapter XIII Mental Mysteries and Spirit Tricks\u003cbr\u003e\n201 Naming the Number: mathematical\u003cbr\u003e\n203 Giant Memory: uses special chart\u003cbr\u003e\n205 Boards and Cards: magician determines card selection through special indexes\u003cbr\u003e\n207 Thought Foretold: paper predicts mentally selected card\u003cbr\u003e\n209 The Magic 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