CLOSING REMARKS.
It must be remembered that in this little volume the author has not been able to enumerate and discuss all the methods used by clairvoyants or mind-readers on the public stage, or suggest what methods they will next use, for they will surely plan and contrive new ones as soon as the old methods are discovered. But I think, however, by the aid of the preceding explanations and suggestions the reader will perceive how most of the performances of this kind are now accomplished, and by the knowledge of these secrets discover other methods and, possibly, those to come in the future.
I hope I have been successful in removing my readers from the hazy clouds of occultism and bringing them to earth, where we are all predestined to remain, both body and soul, until death. The only mind that any of us can read is that of our own, and that, many times, not too well. If any of us could fathom the thoughts of others an interview with financiers of Wall Street would enable us to own the world in a short time, especially if we could also predict the future, which would be, in my opinion, an easier and shorter way of gaining earthly riches than two performances a day at popular prices.
CHAPTER V.
PARLOR AMUSEMENTS.
I will now explain a few simple little tricks in second sight which may be performed by any one in his own home, but which, if well done, will be very mystifying.