Gale. Cabinet of Knowledge: With Mechanical, Magnetical and Magical Experiments, Card Deceptions, etc. London, 1803.
Ganthony, R. Practical Ventriloquism and its Sister Arts. London, 1893. 8vo.
Garenne, Prof. Henri. The Art of Modern Conjuring, Magic, and Illusions. A Practical Treatise on the Art of Parlor and Stage Magic, Illusions, Spiritualism, Ventriloquism, Thought-reading, Mesmerism, Mnemotechny, etc. London, —. 8vo.
Gatchell, Charles. The Methods of Mind-Readers. Forum, vol. xi. pp. 192-204.
Scientific account of the so-called mind-reading feats of Stuart Cumberland, Washington Irving Bishop, and others, showing them to be muscle-reading. Worked in conjunction with certain conjuring tricks, muscle-reading has an all but supernatural effect. Mr. Gatchell explains many of the devices used by charlatans to imitate clairvoyance, etc. See also chapters on similar subjects in Burlingame’s “Leaves from Conjurers’ Scrap-Books,” Carl Willmann’s “Moderne Wunder,” and Sid. Macaire’s “Mind-Reading, or Muscle-Reading?”
Good, Arthur. Magic at Home: Book of Amusing Science. Translated by Prof. Hoffmann [Angelo Lewis]. London, 1890. 8vo.
Halle, J. S. Magic. Berlin, 1783.
Hart, Ernest. Hypnotism, Mesmerism, and the New Witchcraft. New York, 1893. 12mo. 212 pp.
A new and enlarged edition, with chapters on “The Eternal Gullible,” “The Confessions of a Professional Hypnotist,” and notes on the hypnotism of Trilby.
Hatton, Henry. Secrets of Conjuring. Scribners, vol. xxi. pp. 304-306.