CONTENTS

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The Magnetic Ring[1]
To Tell the Hour[2]
The Spirit Calculator[3]
The Square of Sixteen Numbers[5]
The Square of Nine Digits[5]
Making a Bird Enter a Cage[6]
The Handkerchief Snake[6]
To Pass Your Body Through a Postal Card[7]
Silhouettes[8]
Gymnastics for the Tongue[9]
The Passenger to Boulogne[9]
Mind-reading[10]
Blowing a Card on Twine[12]
Naming a Card[12]
A Horse Race[14]
A Jam-eating Contest[15]
A Potato Race[15]
Guessing Contests[16]
A Phonograph Concert[17]
To Lift Fifteen Matches with One[18]
A Donkey Party[19]
The Dwarf Exhibit[19]
Stick-and-Pea Amusement[22]
An Introduction to the Doll Family[22]
Second Sight[24]
The Blind Feeding the Blind[25]
An Amateur Vaudeville[25]
The Elusive Coin[25]
Novel Paper-cutting[26]
The Mysterious Remainder[27]
Home Field-Sports[29]
(a) One-yard Dash[29]
(b) Tug of War[29]
(c) Standing High Jump[29]
(d) Hurdle Race[29]
(e) Drinking Race[30]
(f) Bun Race[30]
(g) Cracker-eating Contest[30]
(h) Rainy-Day Race[30]
The Gentlemen Nurse-Maids[31]
New Year’s Resolutions for Others[32]
Can You Draw a Watch-face?[33]
The Endless Thread[34]
The Telltale Glass[35]
Pairing Ten Half-dimes[37]
Deceptive Heights[37]
(a) Of a Hat[37]
(b) Of a Barrel[37]
Slang[38]
Observation Contest[39]
The Bargain-counter Game[39]
The “Thirty-five” Trick[41]
An Ink Shock[42]
Reading from Folded Papers[42]
Blind Man’s Buff with Dominoes[43]
“My Aunt Has Arrived from Paris”[44]
Surprising Strength[45]
Card-passing Contest[46]
A Cobweb Tangle[47]
A Novel Masquerade[47]
Hit the Bag[48]
A Pretended Illusion[49]
Dancing Fairies[49]
Describing a Lady’s Costume[50]
The Wonderful Hat[51]
Mirror-Drawing[51]
The Dancing Skeleton[53]
Pitching Cards at a Hat[54]
Peanut Guessing[54]
Peanut Shelling[54]
Peanut Rolling[55]
The Peanut Hunt[55]
Progressive Peanut Party[55]
Your Friends in Black[57]
GAMES
Packing the Trunk[59]
Blowing Ping-pong Balls[60]
Doing the Impossible[60]
The Game of “It”[61]
The Game of “Turtle”[63]
The Game of “Empty Hands”[64]
Simon Says[65]
Passing Bean-bags[66]
Buzz[67]
Can You Laugh?[68]
An Optical Game[68]
Blowing the Feather[69]
Throwing the Handkerchief[70]
Going to Jerusalem[71]
Find the Whistle[71]
The All-around Story Game[72]
An Obstacle Game[72]
Impudence[73]
Rolling Chase-ball[74]
TRICKS
The Sharpers Outwitted[76]
The Raised Hand[78]
Unconscious Movements[78]
The Broken Match Restored[79]
The Cent and the Hole[80]
Mysterious Reading[81]
The Baffling Card[83]
A Watch Trick[83]
Silk from Paper[84]
The Obedient Ball[86]
Tricks with a Pen[87]
The Dice and Cup[88]
The Surprising Paper Bands[89]
Napkin-ring Trick[89]
The Magical Cups of Tin[90]
The Elusive Cork[92]
The Three Pennies[92]
A Lesson in Gravity[93]
The Tantalizing Half-dollar[93]
Drawing Matches to Win[94]
Eye-errors and Ghosts[96]
The Detaining Hand-clasp[98]
The Pictorial Nail[99]
Cane Trick[99]
PANTOMIMES
General Directions[101]
Aerial Figures[103]
Silhouettes[105]
Shadow Pictures[106]
Shadow Show[106]
CARD TRICKS
Calling the Cards[110]
The Odd Card[114]
Naming the Cards[116]
A Diamond Ace of Hearts[117]
A Three-card Trick[118]
Detection by Smell[119]
Naming a Drawn Card[121]
Grouping the Kings[123]
Detecting a Turned Card[124]
Telling the Number of Transposed Cards[124]
The Three Packets[127]
A Card Found at the Second Guess[127]
Pocketing a Chosen Card[128]
To Pick Out a Card Thought Of[131]
The Siamese Aces[133]
Detection of a Drawn Card by Color[136]
Mathematical Detection of Card[137]
Passing a Card to Top of Pack[138]
The Trick of “Thirty-one”[140]
SOAP-BUBBLES
Blowing Soap-bubbles[142]
Fantastic Soap-bubbles[143]
Rebounding Bubbles[145]
FORFEITS[146]
HALLOWE’EN
Decorations[149]
Invitations[150]
Receiving Guests[150]
The Heads of Bluebeard’s Wives[152]
The Severed Head[153]
Ghost Stories[154]
The Unearthly Look[154]
Luminous Writing[155]
The Floating Candle[155]
Ornamented Apples[156]
Finding the Candle[156]
The Full Moon[156]
Cabinet Manifestations[157]
Spirit Pictures[157]
Parlor Magic[159]
The Demon Bell[161]
The Animated Skull[161]
The Perilous Ring[162]
Nose and Goggle Party[162]
Jack-o’-lanterns[163]
The Surprising Candle[163]

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