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[Sleight of Hand Tricks.]
The Flying Dime,[3]
The Flying Dime, (another method,)[4]
The Beads and Strings,[5]
To get a Ring out of a Handkerchief,[5]
To tie a Knot in a Handkerchief which Cannot be drawn Tight,[6]
The Three Cups,[7]
To tie a Handkerchief round your Leg, and get it off Without Untying the Knot,[8]
The Magic Bond,[8]
The Old Man and his Chair,[8]
To tie a Knot on the Left Wrist, without letting the right hand approach it,[10]
The Magic Handcuffs,[11]
To pull a String through your Button-hole,[11]
The Cut String Restored,[12]
The Gordian Knot,[12]
The Knot Loosened,[13]
To Conjure Nuts in your Ear,[13]
To Crack Walnuts in your Elbow,[14]
To Take Feathers out of an Empty Handkerchief,[14]
The Knotted Handkerchief,[14]
Houdin's Nut Trick,[16]
Conjuring a Ring,[17]
The Erratic Egg,[18]
The Obedient Dime,[19]
The Prisoner Released,[19]
Advantageous Wager,[19]
The Double Meaning,[20]
The Three Spoons,[20]
The Juggler's Joke,[20]
To Cause Water and Wine to Change Places,[21]
The Wizard's Wit, or Is it Possible,[21]
The Toper's Stratagem,[21]
The Impossible Omelet,[21]
New Perpetual Rotary Motion,[22]
The Miraculous Apple,[22]
An Omelet Cooked in a Hat,[23]
The Infallible Prophet,[23]
Philosophy Cheated,[24]
The Disappearing Dime,[26]
The Hat and Die Trick,[27]
The Penetrative Cents,[27]
The Doll Trick,[29]
The Flying Coins,[30]
The Vanished Half Dime,[30]
The Restored Document,[30]
The Magic Rings,[31]
The Fish and Ink Trick,[32]
The Hat and Cannon Ball Trick,[32]
The Dime in the Ball of Cotton,[33]
The Egg and Bag Trick,[33]
The Dancing Egg,[34]
The Bell and Shot Trick,[34]
The Burned Handkerchief Restored,[35]
The Fire Eater,[35]
The Egg Box Trick,[36]
The Globe Box Trick,[36]
The Coffee Trick,[37]
The Handkerchief Trick,[38]
The Magic Funnel,[41]
The Magic Bottle,[41]
The Bottle Trick,[42]
The Magic Quarter,[44]
To change a Dime to a Quarter,[44]
Wyman's Gun Trick,[46]
The Hatched Bird,[46]
The Apple and Orange Trick,[47]
A Magician's Box Explained,[47]
The Enchanted Coin,[48]
The Mysterious Coin, or How to Make Dollars pass through a Wine Glass,
a China Plate, a Table, and fall into the Hand,		[49]
The Egyptian Fluids, or Impossibilities Accomplished,[50]
The Magician's Snow Ball,[51]
The Magnetized Cane,[52]
Wyman's Mode of performing the Egg Bag Trick,[52]
The Dancing Automaton,[354]
The Invisible Springs,[355]
The Flight of the Ring,[356]
The Magic Book,[360]
The Tape Trick,[360]
The Knotted Thread,[361]
The Transposable Pieces,[362]
[Tricks and Deceptions with Cards.]
To Make the Pass,[55]
To Tell a Card by its Back,[55]
The Card named without being seen,[56]
The Card told by an Opera Glass,[56]
The Four Kings,[58]
The Four Accomplices,[58]
To Tell the Card thought of, in a Circle of Ten,[59]
To guess the Card thought of,[59]
To tell the number of Cards by Weight,[60]
Audacity,[61]
The Card found at the second guess,[61]
The Card found under the Hat,[61]
To call the Cards out of the Pack,[61]
Heads and Tails,[62]
The Surprise,[62]
The Revolution,[63]
The Slipped Card,[63]
The Nailed Card,[63]
To ascertain the number of Points on three unseen Cards,[64]
To tell the numbers on two unseen Cards,[64]
>The Knaves and the Constable,[64]
The Pairs Re-paired,[65]
The Queens Digging for Diamonds,[66]
The Triple Deal,[67]
The Quadruple Deal,[67]
The Card Discovered by the Touch or Smell,[67]
The Ingenious Confederacy,[67]
Hold it Fast,[69]
The Charmed Twelve,[69]
The Trick of "Thirty-one,"[70]
To tell the Names of the Cards by their Weight,[71]
The Cards in the Vase,[73]
The Metamorphosis,[74]
To hold Four Kings, or Four Knaves in your Hand, and to
Change them suddenly into Blank Cards, and then to Four Aces,		[76]
To Change a Card in a Person's Hand,[76]
The Card in the Egg,[77]
The Fifteen Thousand Livres,[78]
Hints to Amateurs,[79]
Cure for Troublesome Spectators,[80]
To make a Card jump out of the Pack,[357]
The Tell-Tale Cards,[357]
The Double Dozen,[358]
The Housebreakers,[359]
[The Magic of Chemistry.]
Sympathetic or Invisible Inks,[84]
The Silver Tree,[85]
Cleopatra's Pearls,[86]
Wonderful Experiments in Combustion,[86]
Mimic Rain,[86]
Marine Illumination,[87]
The Mimic Explosion,[88]
The Shower of Fire,[88]
The Magical Heat,[88]
The Magic Lamp,[89]
Surprising Experiments with Potassium,[89]
The Water Demon,[89]
A Flame produced with Ice,[89]
The Chemical Chimney Sweep,[90]
The Magical Illumination,[90]
The Chemical Chameleon,[91]
Crystallizations of Metals,[92]
Beauties of Crystallization,[93]
To Crystallize Camphor,[93]
To do. Tin,[94]
Crystals in Hard Water,[94]
Varieties of Crystals,[94]
A Liquid Changed to a Solid, and Heat from Crystallization,[94]
Beautiful Experiment,[95]
A Solid Changed to a Liquid, and intense Cold from the Liquefaction,[95]
Magic of Heat,[95]
Sublimation by Heat,[96]
Heat Passing through Glass,[96]
Metals unequally Influenced by Heat,[97]
Spontaneous Combustion,[97]
Inequality of Heat in Fire Irons,[97]
Expansion of Metal by Heat,[97]
Evaporation of a Metal,[98]
A Floating Metal on Fire,[98]
Ice Melted by Air,[98]
Splendid Sublimation,[98]
Magic Inks,[98]
Chameleon Liquids,[99]
The Magic Dyes,[99]
Wine Changed into Water,[99]
Two colorless Transparent Liquids become Black and Opaque,[100]
Two colorless Fluids, Make a colored one,[100]
Change of Color, by colorless Fluids,[100]
To Change Blue Liquid to White,[100]
Veritable "Black" Tea,[100]
Restoration of Color by Water,[101]
Two Liquids Make a Solid,[101]
Two Solids Make a Liquid,[101]
A Solid, Opaque Mass, Makes a Transparent Liquid,[101]
Two cold Liquids Make a Hot one,[101]
Quintuple Transmutation,[102]
The Same Agent may Produce and Destroy Color,[102]
Union of two Metals without Heat,[102]
Magic Breath,[102]
Two Bitters Make a Sweet,[103]
Visible and Invisible,[103]
To Form a Liquid of two Solids,[103]
The Spectral Lamp,[104]
Curious Change of Colors,[105]
The Protean Light,[105]
The Chameleon Flowers,[105]
To Change the Colors of Flowers,[105]
Changes of the Poppy,[106]
Changes of the Rose,[106]
Light changing White into Black,[106]
The Visibly Growing Acorn,[106]
Colored Flames,[107]
Orange colored Flame,[107]
Emerald Green Flame,[107]
Instantaneous Flame,[107]
To Cool Flame by Metal,[108]
Proof that Flame is Hollow,[108]
To Hold a Hot Tea Kettle on the Hand,[108]
Incombustible Linen,[108]
The Burning Circle,[108]
Water of different Temperatures in the same Vessel,[109]
Warmth of Different Colors,[109]
Substitute for Fire,[109]
Laughing Gas,[109]
Flame from Cold Metals,[110]
Phosphorus in Chlorine,[110]
Magic Vapor,[111]
Gas from the Union of Metals,[111]
Camphor Sublimated by Flame,[111]
Green Fire,[111]
Brilliant Red Fire,[112]
Purple Fire,[112]
Silver Fire,[112]
Fiery Fountain,[112]
Combustion without Flame,[112]
Combustion of Three Metals,[113]
To Make Paper Apparently Incombustible,[113]
Heat not to be estimated by Touch,[113]
Flame upon Water,[113]
Rose Colored Flame upon Water,[113]
To Set a Mixture on Fire by Water,[114]
Waves of Fire on Water,[114]
Water from the Flame of a Candle,[114]
Formation of Water by Fire,[114]
Boiling upon Cold Water,[114]
Currents in Boiling Water,[114]
Hot Water Lighter than Cold,[115]
Expansion of Water by Cold,[115]
The Cup of Tantalus,[115]
The Magic Whirlpool,[116]
Artificial Fire Balls,[117]
To Melt Steel as Easily as Lead,[118]
To Tell a Lady if She is in Love,[118]
To put an Egg in a Phial,[118]
To Astonish a Large Party,[118]
Magical Test Papers,[119]
Infinite Divisibility,[119]
Chemistry an Agent in Secret Writing,[327]
To Melt a Piece of Money in a Walnut Shell, without Injuring the Shell,[355]
The Pyramid of Alum,[354]
[Experiments in Electricity.]
The Rotary Tobacco Pipe,[123]
The Erratic Feather,[123]
The Attractive Sealing Wax,[124]
The Unneighborly Balls,[124]
The Electrified Paper,[124]
The Sociable Feather,[124]
The Eccentric Feather,[124]
The Discontented Pith Ball,[124]
The Dancing Bran,[124]
The Electrical Cat,[124]
Electrical Shock from a Sheet of Paper,[125]
Light under Water,[126]
Simple means of Producing Electricity,[126]
Attraction and Repulsion Exhibited,[127]
How to Make an Electrical Machine,[127]
Conductor,[128]
The Plate Electrical Machine,[129]
How to Draw Sparks from the Tip of the Nose,[129]
How to Get a Jar full of Electricity,[129]
The Electrical Battery,[130]
Dancing Balls and Dolls,[131]
The Electrical Kiss,[131]
Ringing Bells,[131]
Working Power of Electricity,[132]
The Electrified Wig,[132]
Imitation Thunder Clouds,[133]
The Lightning Stroke Imitated,[133]
The Sportsman,[134]
[Experiments in Galvanism.]
Singular Galvanic Shock,[135]
The Flash of Light,[135]
The Magical Cup,[135]
The Prisoner Leech,[136]
The Metamorphosed Knife,[136]
With Plates in Water,[136]
To Make a Magnet by Galvanism,[137]
Effects of Galvanism on a Magnet,[137]
Change of Color by Galvanism,[137]
The Galvanic Shock,[138]
A Galvanic Tongue,[138]
Influence of Galvanism on Porter and Ale,[188]
The Galvanized Flounder,[188]
[Experiments in Magnetism.]
The Impromptu Magnet,[139]
The Merry Iron Filings,[140]
Test of Magnetic Power,[140]
To Make Artificial Magnets,[140]
How to Magnetize a Poker,[140]
To Show Magnetic Attraction and Repulsion,[141]
Variation of the Needle,[141]
Dip of the Needle,[141]
To Suspend a Needle in the Air, by Magnetism,[141]
Magnetism by Hammering,[142]
Power of the Electro-Magnet,[142]
The Mariner's Compass,[142]
To Make Artificial Magnets without the Aid of either Natural Loadstone, or Artificial Magnets,[143]
The Watch Magnetized,[144]
North and South Poles of the Magnet,[144]
Polarity of the Magnet,[144]
Magnetic Action and Reaction,[145]
To Pass Magnetism through a Table,[145]
The Magnetic Table,[145]
Interesting Particulars Concerning the Magnet,[145]
Exaggerated Magnetism,[146]
[The Magic of Pneumatics and Aerostatics.]
Weight of the Air Proved by a Pair of Bellows,[148]
The Pressure of Air Shown by a Wine Glass,[148]
The Pressure of Air Shown by a Glass Jar,[148]
Elasticity of the Air,[149]
The Air Pump,[149]
To Prove that Air has Weight,[150]
To Prove Air Elastic,[150]
Air in the Egg,[150]
The Descending Smoke,[151]
Half Eagle and Feather,[151]
The Soundless Bell,[152]
The Floating Fish,[152]
The Mysterious Circles,[152]
The Diving Bell,[154]
The Air Balloon,[154]
How to Make an Air Balloon,[155]
How to Fill a Balloon,[156]
To Make Fire Balloons,[156]
The Mysterious Bottle,[157]
How to Make a Parachute,[157]
Caoutchouc Balloons,[157]
The Bacchus Experiment,[362]
[The Magic of Optics.]
Light as an Effect,[159]
Refraction,[159]
The Invisible Coin Made Visible,[159]
The Multiplying Glass,[160]
Transparent Bodies,[160]
The Prism,[160]
To Make a Prism,[161]
Composition of Light,[161]
A Natural Camera Obscura,[162]
Bullock's Eyes Experiment,[162]
The Camera Obscura,[162]
The Magic Lantern,[163]
The Camera Lucida,[164]
Painting the Slides,[164]
To Exhibit the Magic Lantern,[164]
Effects of the Magic Lantern,[165]
Tempest at Sea,[165]
The Phantasmagoria,[166]
Dissolving Views,[167]
How to Raise a Ghost,[167]
The Thaumatrope,[168]
The Bird in the Cage,[168]
Construction of the Phantasmascope,[168]
Curious Optical Illusion,[169]
Another,[170]
Another,[170]
The Picture in the Air,[171]
Breathing Light and Darkness,[171]
To Show what Rays of Light do not Obstruct each other,[172]
To See through a Philadelphia Brick,[172]
The Stereoscope,[173]
Ocular Spectra,[175]
Brilliant Water Mirror,[175]
Optics of a Soap Bubble,[176]
The Kaleidoscope,[176]
Simple Solar Microscope,[177]
Anamorphoses,[178]
The Cosmorama,[180]
Distorted Landscapes,[180]
The Magic Coin,[181]
The Magician's Mirror,[344]
The Perspective Mirror,[345]
The Artificial Landscape,[348]
The Boundless Prospect,[350]
The Enchanted Palace,[352]
[Tricks in Mechanics.]
Importance of Mechanics,[182]
The Laws of Motion,[182]
Experiment of the Law of Motion,[182]
Balancing,[183]
The Prancing Horse,[183]
To Construct a Figure, which, being Placed on a Curved Surface,
and Inclined in any Position, shall, when left to itself,
Return to its Former Position,		[183]
To Make a Carriage Run in an Inverted Position, without Falling,[183]
To Cause a Cylinder to Roll of its own Weight, up Hill,[184]
The Balanced Stick,[184]
The Chinese Mandarin,[184]
To Make a Quarter Dollar Turn on its Edge on the Point of a Needle,[184]
The Self-Balanced Pail,[185]
To Lift a Bottle with a Straw,[185]
The Dancing Pea,[186]
The Toper's Tripod,[186]
The Magical Snake, or the Obliquity of Motion,[187]
The Bridge of Knives,[187]
Sand in the Hour Glass,[188]
Resistance of Sand,[188]
The Magical Gyroscope,[346]
[Tricks in Hydraulics and Hydrostatics.]
The Science of Hydraulics,[189]
The Fountain and Pump,[189]
The Hydraulic Dancer,[190]
The Syphon,[191]
The Water Snail, or Archimedean Screw,[191]
The Bottle Ejectment,[192]
The Magic of Hydrostatics with the Ancients,[192]
To Empty a Glass under Water,[192]
The Mysterious Bottle,[157]
Boiling upon Cold Water,[114]
Currents in Boiling Water,[114]
Hot Water Lighter than Cold,[115]
Expansion of Water by Cold,[115]
The Magic Whirlpool,[116]
The Cup of Tantalus,[115]
To Weigh Water without Scales,[353]
More than Full,[361]
[Tricks in Acoustics.]
The Science of Acoustics,[193]
Difference between Sound and Noise,[193]
Visible Vibration,[193]
Transmitted Vibration,[194]
Double Vibration,[194]
Champagne and Sound,[194]
Music of the Snail,[195]
The Tuning Fork a Flute Player,[195]
Musical Bottles,[195]
Theory of Whispering,[195]
Theory of the Voice,[196]
To Tune a Guitar without the Assistance of the Ear,[196]
Progress of Sound,[196]
To Make an Æolian Harp,[196]
The Invisible Girl,[197]
Magic of Acoustics with the Ancients,[198]
The Secret of Ventriloquism,[81]
To Show how Sound Travels through a Solid,[198]
To Show that Sound depends upon Vibration,[198]
Musical Figures Resulting from Sound,[357]
[The Magic of Numbers, or Curious Tricks in Arithmetic.]
Aphorisms of Number,[199]
Palpable Arithmetic,[200]
The Abacus,[201]
Napier's Rods,[202]
The Arithmetical Boomerang,[203]
To Find a Number Thought of,[203]
Second Method,[204]
Third Method,[205]
Fourth do.,[205]
Fifth do.,[206]
Sixth do.,[206]
To Discover two or more Numbers that a Person has Thought of,[206]
How many Counters have I in my Hands?[207]
The Mysterious Halvings, to tell a Number a Person has Thought of,[208]
Second Method,[209]
Who Wears the Ring?[211]
What is Probable?[212]
Variations,[213]
Amusing Combinations,[214]
The Visitors to the Crystal Palace,[217]
How many Changes can be Given to Seven Notes of a Piano?[217]
The Arithmetical Triangle,[217]
How many Different Deals can be made with Thirteen Cards out of Fifty-two,[218]
The Three Graces,[218]
Second Method,[219]
Third Method,[220]
The Fortunate Ninth,[221]
The Ten Ten's,[222]
Dividing the Beer,[223]
The Difficult Case of Wine,[224]
Decimation of Fruit,[224]
The Wine and the Tables,[225]
The Three Travelers,[225]
What Counter has been Thought of out of Sixteen,[226]
Magic Squares,[227]
Odd Magic Squares,[227]
The Square of Gotham,[229]
The Mathematical Blacksmith,[230]
Curious Properties of some Figures,[230]
The Industrious Frog,[234]
The Council of Ten,[235]
The Two Travelers,[235]
Arithmetical Trick,[237]
The Money Trick,[237]
The Philosopher's Pupils,[237]
To Discover a Square Number,[238]
The Sheep, and the Sheep Fold,[238]
The Countrywoman and the Eggs,[238]
To Rub out Twenty Chalks at Five Times, Rubbing out every Time an Odd one,[239]
The Impossible Triangle,[239]
Odd or Even,[239]
The Figures, up to 100, arranged as to make 505 in each Column,
when Counted in Ten Columns Perpendicularly, and the
Same when Counted in Ten Files Horizontally,		[240]
The Old Woman and Her Eggs,[240]
The Mathematical Fortune Teller,[241]
The Dice Guessed Unseen,[242]
The Sovereign and the Sage,[242]
The Knowing Shepherd,[243]
The Certain Game,[243]
The Astonished Farmer,[244]
The Magical Century,[244]
The Hatter Cheated,[245]
The Basket of Nuts,[245]
The United Digits,[246]
December and May,[246]
The Two Drovers,[246]
The Basket and Stones,[246]
The Famous Forty-Five,[247]
Trick in Subtraction,[247]
The Expunged Figure,[247]
The Mysterious Addition,[248]
To tell at what Hour a Person Intends to rise,[249]
To find the Difference between Two Numbers, the Greater of which is Unknown,[249]
The Magic Remainder,[250]
A Person having an equal Number of Counters, or Pieces of Money, in each Hand,
to find how many he has altogether,		[250]
The Three Jealous Husbands,[251]
The False Scales,[251]
The Apple Woman,[252]
The Graces and Muses,[252]
The Jesuitical Teacher,[252]
Nine Quaint Questions,[253]
The Fox, Goose and Corn,[253]
Multiplying Money by Money,[253]
The Unfair Division,[255]
A Popular Fallacy,[255]
[Curious Tricks in Geometry.]
The Inventor of Geometry,[256]
Geometrical Definitions,[256]
The Five Geometrical Solids,[257]
How to Make Five Squares into a large one without any Waste of Stuff,[258]
Deceptive Vision,[258]
The Carpenter Puzzled,[259]
The Bricklayer Puzzled,[260]
Triangular Problem,[260]
To Form a Square,[261]
Squaring the Circle,[262]
The Perplexed Cabinet Maker,[277]
[Curious and Amusing Puzzles.]
Alexander the Great's Puzzle,[266]
The Chinese Cross,[266]
The Parallelogram,[267]
The Divided Garden,[267]
The Endless String,[267]
Chinese Maze, the Willow Pattern Plate,[268]
The Vertical Line Puzzle,[268]
The Three Rabbits,[269]
The Accommodating Square,[269]
The Circle Puzzle,[269]
The Cardboard Puzzle,[269]
The Button Puzzle,[269]
The Quarto Puzzle,[269]
The Puzzle of Fourteen,[270]
The Square and Circle Puzzle,[270]
The Scale and Ring Puzzle,[270]
The Heart Puzzle,[271]
The Cross Puzzle,[272]
The Yankee Square,[272]
The Card Puzzle,[272]
The Three Square Puzzle,[273]
The Cylinder Puzzle,[273]
The Four Tenants,[273]
The Puzzle Wall,[274]
The Twenty-Four Nuns,[274]
The Horse Shoe Puzzle,[274]
The Card Square,[275]
The Dog Puzzle,[275]
Puzzle of the Two Fathers,[275]
The Triangular Puzzle,[276]
Cutting out a Cross,[276]
Another Cross Puzzle,[276]
The Fountain Puzzle,[276]
The Puzzle of the Stars,[277]
The Counter Puzzle,[277]
Japan Square Puzzle,[277]
The Cabinet Maker's Puzzle,[277]
String and Balls Puzzle,[277]
Double Headed Puzzle,[278]
Arithmetical Puzzle,[278]
Grammatical Puzzle,[278]
The Tree Puzzle,[279]
Puzzling Epitaph,[279]
Curious Letter,[279]
A Puzzling Inscription,[279]
Puzzling Kings,[279]
The Knight's Puzzle,[283]
Another Method,[284]
Another Method,[287]
Rosamond's Bower,[287]
The Labyrinth,[288]
The Chinese Puzzle,[289]
Trouble-Wit,[290]
[Answers to Puzzles.]
The Chinese Cross,[291]
The Parallelogram,[291]
The Divided Garden,[292]
The Endless String,[292]
Chinese Maze,[292]
The Vertical Line Puzzle,[293]
The Three Rabbits,[293]
The Accommodating Square,[293]
The Circle Puzzle,[293]
The Cut Card Puzzle,[294]
The Button Puzzle,[294]
The Quarto Puzzle,[294]
The Puzzle of Fourteen,[294]
The Square and Circle Puzzle,[295]
The Scale and Ring Puzzle,[295]
The Heart Puzzle,[295]
The Cross Puzzle,[295]
The Yankee Square,[295]
The Card Puzzle,[296]
The Three Square Puzzle,[296]
The Cylinder Puzzle,[296]
The Four Tenants,[296]
The Puzzle Wall,[297]
The Twenty-Four Nuns,[297]
The Horse Shoe Puzzle,[297]
The Card Square,[297]
The Dog Puzzle,[298]
The Two Fathers,[298]
The Triangular Puzzle,[298]
Cutting out a Cross,[299]
Another Cross Puzzle,[299]
The Fountain Puzzle,[299]
The Star Puzzle,[300]
The Counter Puzzle,[300]
Japan Square Puzzle,[300]
Cabinet Maker's Puzzle,[300]
String and Balls Puzzle,[301]
Double Headed Puzzle,[301]
Arithmetical Puzzle,[301]
Grammatical Puzzle,[301]
The Tree Puzzle,[301]
Puzzling Epitaph,[302]
A Curious Letter,[302]
A Puzzling Inscription,[302]
[The Magic of Art.]
To Trace an Oval,[303]
An Endless Source of Amusement,[303]
The Magic of the Oval,[303]
Variations of the Oval,[304]
What may be done with a Square,[305]
How to make a Circle,[306]
Importance of the Circle in Drawing,[307]
Variation of the Square and Circle,[307]
Importance of the Triangle,[308]
How to Construct a Triangle,[309]
The Triangle Works Wonders in Perspective,[310]
Exaggerated Drawing,[311]
The Parallelogram and Triangle in Combination,[312]
Two Parallelograms in Combination,[312]
Magic of the Parallelogram,[313]
The Secret of Comic Drawing,[313]
Caricature Sketching,[314]
Simple Elements of the Profile,[315]
Comic Profiles,[316]
"Punch," and "Mother Hubbard,"[316]
Comical Beards,[316]
The Human Figure,[317]
Proportions of the Human Figure,[318]
Standard Height of the Body,[318]
Comical Drawing of the Human Figure,[319]
The Centre of Gravity,[320]
A Central Line through Everything,[320]
The Curved Line Pervades all Nature,[321]
The Droll Landscape,[323]
Attitude Formed upon the Curved Line,[324]
How to Draw upon Glass, for Magic Lantern Slides,[325]
[The Magic of Secret Writing.]
The Art of Secret Writing very Ancient,[326]
Various Modes of Communicating Secret Intelligence,[327]
Chemistry an Agent in Secret Writing,[327]
Ingenious Mode of Secret Writing,[328]
The Chiffre Indéchiffrable,[328]
A Lock for Mr. Hobbs to Pick,[330]
The Circular Cypher,[331]
Another Method,[332]
The Musical Cypher,[333]
[The Magic of Strength.]
Mechanical Inventions of the Ancients few in Number,[334]
Ancient and Modern Feats of Strength,[334]
Feats of Eckeberg particularly described,[335]
One Man Drawing against Two Horses,[335]
Breaking the Rope,[336]
The Anvil Feat,[336]
Breaking Stones,[337]
The Chair Feat,[337]
The Knee Feat,[338]
The Cannon Feat,[338]
Twisting Iron Bars,[339]
General Explanation on all the Above Feats,[339]
Real Feats of Strength Performed by Thomas Topham,[340]
Remarkable Power of Lifting Heavy Persons when the Lungs are Inflated,[341]
Pyramids of Men,[342]
[Miscellaneous Curious Tricks and Fancies.]
An Artificial Memory,[343]
The Magician's Mirror,[344]
The Perspective Mirror,[345]
The Magical Gyroscope,[346]
Artificial Landscape,[348]
Easy and Curious Method of Foretelling Rainy or Fine Weather,[349]
The Magical Measure,[350]
The Boundless Prospect,[350]
The Magical Watch Lamp,[352]
The Hour of the Day or Night told by a Suspended Shilling,[351]
The Enchanted Palace,[352]
To Know which of Two Different Waters is the Lightest, without any Scales,[353]
To Know if a Suspicious Piece of Money is Good or Bad,[353]
The Pyramid of Alum,[354]
The Dancing Automaton,[354]
To Melt a Piece of Money in a Walnut Shell without Injuring the Shell,[355]
The Invisible Springs,[355]
The Flight of the Ring,[356]
Musical Figures resulting from Sound,[357]
To Make a Card Jump out of the Pack,[357]
The Tell-Tale Cards,[357]
The Double Dozen,[358]
The Housebreakers,[359]
The Magic Book,[360]
The Tape Trick,[360]
More than Full,[361]
Floating Needles,[361]
The Knotted Thread,[361]
The Bacchus Experiment,[362]
Curious Method of Measuring the Height of a Tree,[362]
The Transposable Pieces,[362]