Herrmann's Book of Magic - Joe Stevens Estate

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CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
- The Dress
- The Table
- The Servante
- The Wand
CHAPTER II: PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT OF HAND APPLICABLE TO SMALL OBJECTS
- Palming
- Le Tourniquet
- The Finger Palm
- The Reverse Palm
- To Change a Coin
CHAPTER III: TRICKS WITH COINS
- Magic Production of a Coin
- The Wandering Coin
- A New Coin Fol
- Coin and Candle
- An Artful Conjurer
- The Invisible Flight
- Vanish for Duplicate
- To Pass a Coin Through the Body
- Swallowing Illusions
- Coin and Lemons
- The Pocket Vanish
- Quarter vs. Dime
- To Pass a Coin into an Ordinary Matchbox held by One of the Spectators
- Coin, Wine-glass, and Paper Cone
- Coins, Hat, and Plate
- To Vanish a Marked Coin from a Tumbler and Cause it to appear in a Small Box, wrapped in Paper in the Center of a Large Ball of Wool
- To Vanish a Number of Coins from a Plate in a Sheet of Flames
- Programme and Coin
CHAPTER IV: TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS
- Peregrinations of a Handkerchief
- Handkerchief and Candle
- To Vanish a Handkerchief and Produce it from your Collar
- To Pass a Handkerchief into the Pocket of a Spectator
- To Fire a Handkerchief into a Gentleman's Hair
- The Handkerchief Cabinet
- The Handkerchief Vanisher
- Magic Production of Handkerchiefs
- Color-changing Handkerchiefs
- Mechanical “Pull” for Vanishing a Handkerchief
- The Flying Handkerchief
- Brass Tube to Produce, Vanish, or Change a Handkerchief
CHAPTER V: TRICKS WITH BALLS
- Creation, Manipulation, Multiplication, and Annihilation of Billiard Balls
- Billiard Balls and Basins
- Color-changing Billiard Balls
- The Diminishing Billiard Balls
- The Handkerchief Ball
- The Dissolving Billiard Ball
- Fancy Sleight with a Small Ball
- Rouge et Noir
- Ball, Handkerchief, and Tumbler
CHAPTER VI: HAT TRICKS
- Loading
- The Magnetized Hat
- To Produce a number of Eggs from a Hat held Crown upwards
- The Hat Incubator
CHAPTER VII: ANTI-SPIRITUALISTIC TRICKS
- The Climbing Ring
- The Mysterious Name
- The Spirit Calculator
- A New Postal Trick
- New Slate Tricks
- The Spirit Handkerchief
- The Mysterious Communication
- The Great Dictionary Trick (new method.
- Long-distance Second Sight
CHAPTER VIII: MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
- Flash Paper
- A New Fire Flash
- Conjurer's Ammunition
- Smoke from Two Empty Pipes
- A New Fire-eating Trick
- Exploding Soap-bubbles
- Walnut Shells and Pea
- The Garter Trick
- The Tube and Ball
- The Ubiquitous Thimble
- The Multiplying Wand
- The Restored Cut
- The Mysterious Tambourine
- The Bran and Dove Plates
- The Wandering Beer
- A Crystal Water Mystery
- The Wizard's Breakfast
- The Hydrostatic Tube
- The Hydrostatic Tumbler
- Watch, Glass, and Handkerchief
- Paper Cone, Watch, Rabbit, and Boxes
CHAPTER IX: THE BLACK ART, FULLY EXPOSED AND LAID BARE
- To Determine the Article Selected by the Company, the Performer Being Absent from the Room at the Time of Selection
- To Knock a Tumbler Through a Table
- To Drive One Tumbler Through Another
- The Dancing Skeleton
- The Head of the Decapitated Speaking
- The Mystery of the Floating Head
- To Place a Lighted Candle Under Water, Without Extinguishing It; Or a Handkerchief Without Wetting It
- To Place Water in a Drinking-Glass Upside Down
- The Faded Rose Restored
- The Protean Liquid
- The Burned Handkerchief Restored
- Eatable Candle Ends
- To Make a Watch Stop or Go at the Word of Command
- How to Cut Your Arm Off Without Hurt or Danger
- To Pour Cold Water Into a Kettle and Make It Come Out Hot Without the Aid of Fire
- How to Cut a Man's Head Off, and Put It into a Platter, a Yard from His Body
- To Turn Water into Wine
- Magic Breath
- To Make a Party Appear Ghastly
- How to Eat Fire
- To Dip the Hand in Water Without Wetting It
- How to Shoot a Bird and Bring It to Life Again
- Hideous Metamorphosis
- How to Fill a Glass With Beer and Water at the Same Time, Without Mixing the Two Liquids
- How to Kill a Fowl and Bring It to Life Again
- To Light a Candle by a Glass of Water
- To Light a Candle by Smoke
- To Freeze Water by Shaking It
- Iron Changed into Silver
- Two Cold Liquids When Mixed Become Boiling Hot
- The Incombustible Handkerchief
- Two Cold Liquids Produce Fire
- To Give a Person a Supernatural Appearance
- The Floating Needle
- Luminous Writing
- Beautiful Transformations
- To Break a Stone with a Blow of the Fist
- Magical Teaspoons
- To Bring Two Separate Coins into One Hand
- To Cut and Tear into Pieces a Handkerchief, and to Make it Whole Again
- How to Fire a Loaded Pistol at the Hand, Without Hurting It
- A Vessel That Will Let Water Out at the Bottom, as Soon as the Mouth is Uncorked
- The Conjurer's Banquet
- To Melt Iron in a Moment, and Make It Run into Drops
- To Change a Bowl of Ink into Clear Water, with Gold Fish in It
- How to Swallow a Number of Needles and Yards of Thread
- To Make a Bird Seem as Dead
- To Make the Appearance of a Flash of Lightning When Any One Enters a Room with a Lighted Candle
- To Break a Stick Placed on Two Glasses Without Breaking the Glasses
- To Set a Combustible Body on Fire by the Contact of Water
- To Eat a Dish of Paper Shavings, and Draw Them Out of Your Mouth Like an Atlantic Cable
- To Produce from a Silk Handkerchief Bonbons, Candies, Nuts, etc
- To Keep a Stone in Perpetual Motion
- To Make a Card Jump Out of the Pack and Run on the Table
- How to Tell a Person Any Card He Thinks of, and to Convey It into a Nut
- To Make a Cone or Pyramid Move upon a Table Without Springs or Any Other Artificial Means
- How to Make an Egg, Apparently of Itself, Leave the Center of the Room and Traverse to a Saucer of Water Placed in the Corner
- To Eat Cotton Wool and Blow Fire and Sparks Out of Your Mouth