Tissandier, Gaston. Popular Scientific Recreations, a Storehouse of Instruction and Amusement; in which the Marvels of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Geology, Astronomy, etc., are Explained and Illustrated, Mainly by Means of Pleasing Experiments and Attractive Pastimes. London and New York, —. 4to. 884 pp.
This monumental work is a translation of Tissandier’s Les récréations scientifiques, with many additions. It contains a few conjuring feats of a very simple nature, and an exposé of the ghost illusion and decapitated-head trick. In the chapter on clocks, the reader will find an interesting description of Robert-Houdin’s famous magical timepiece, which ran apparently without works. It will be remembered that one of these wizard clocks was the means of introducing Houdin to the French public as a prestidigitateur, as explained in the introduction—“The Mysteries of Modern Magic.”
Trewey, Félician. Shadowgraphy: How it is Done. London, 1893. 8vo. (Pamphlet.)
Truesdell, John W. The Bottom Facts Concerning the Science of Spiritualism: derived from careful investigations covering a period of twenty-five years. New York, 1883. 8vo. 331 pp.
Exposés of slate-writing feats and cabinet arts. A valuable work.
Weatherby, L. A. The Supernatural? With chapter on Oriental Magic, Spiritualism, and Theosophy, by J. N. Maskelyne. London, —. 12mo. 273 pp.
Welton, Thomas. Mental Magic; a Rationale of Thought-Reading and its Phenomena. London, 1884. 4to.
White Magic. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. xv. pp. 207-211.
Whole Art of Legerdemain; or, Hocus-pocus Laid Open and Explained. [Anon.] Philadelphia, 1852. 18mo.