The trick depends very largely for success upon the apparent willingness of the prestidigitateur to allow all parts of the apparatus to be examined, and, as the gear wheels are very cleverly concealed, there is almost no chance of the trick being discovered.

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Bags, trick,[98]
Balance illusion,[143]
Balancing tricks,[117]
Bandage test,[86]
Blindfolded juggler,[121]
Blotter trick,[17]
Bottle, miraculous,[130]
Cabinet test,[108]
Cabinet, the trick,[109]
Card balancing,[119]
Carpet, slitted,[29]
Chair and net test,[108]
Chalk, writing on,[60]
Chalks, writing with colored,[36]
Confederates,[107]
Cricket, card,[139]
Cuff, leather,[73]
Cupid lighter than a butterfly,[143]
Davenport tie,[88]
Double slate,[32-41]
Eddy Brothers, séances,[101]
Egg glass, use of,[55]
Eggs, spinning,[118]
Fay’s séances,[103]
Finger, prepared,[19]
Flap, false,[21-38]
Flap, interrupted,[48]
Fly, educated,[62]
Folding slate,[33]
Hands, holding,[28]
Handcuff test,[96]
Head, mermaid’s,[136]
Hinges, false,[39]
Hook for table raising,[74]
Inks, sympathetic,[11-17]
Interrupted flap,[48]
Juggler, blindfolded,[121]
Light séances,[101]
Loop, double,[92]
Magician’s omelette,[115]
Magnetic writing,[34]
Mind reading and kindred phenomena,[51-71]
Mirrors, reading writing by,[47]
Miscellaneous slate tests,[41-51]
Miscellaneous tricks,[115-146]
Omelette, magician’s,[115]
Pad, transferring to,[20]
Pen, surprise,[125]
Pencil carrier, thumb,[52]
Pencil, silver nitrate,[44]
Pencil thimble,[18]
Photography, spirit,[113]
Pistol loaded with chalk,[41]
Post tests, etc,[93-100]
Post test, mechanical,[94]
Post test, ordinary,[93]
Potato cutting,[120]
Raps, spirit,[81]
Ring test,[96]
Rods and cords, Chinese,[123]
Rope test,[82]
Séance, spiritualistic,[76]
Séances,[101-114]
Silica slate,[6]
Silk flap,[5]
Silver nitrate pencil,[44]
Single slate,[3-32]
Slade, Dr.,[105]
Slate, double,[32-41]
Slates exchanged,[30]
Slate, folding,[33]
Slate writing on china,[8]
Slates, locked,[36]
Slate tests, multiple,[38]
Slates, padlocked,[32]
Slates, pivot,[26]
Slates, riveted,[24]
Slates, screwed,[24]
Slates, scaled,[34]
Slates, sliding,[33]
Slates, tied,[22]
Slates, transferring,[37]
Slates, wedging,[24]
Slates with false hinges,[39]
Sliding slates,[33]
Spinning tricks,[117]
Spirit collar,[97]
Stencil, wood,[42]
Sucker for table lifting,[72]
Sympathetic ink writing,[9]
Table, false,[10]
Table lifting and spirit rapping,[71-82]
Table, traps in,[25], [26]
Table trick,[47]
Telegraph,[77]
Telegraph, foot,[66]
Telegraph head,[68]
Thimble key,[36]
Thimble pencil,[18]
Thumb pencil carrier,[52]
Tie, Davenport,[88]
Ties, rope,[85]
Ties, spiritualistic,[82-92]
Toes, writing with the,[45]
Traps,[106]
Tube, speaking,[67]
Vase, miraculous,[132]
Wine glass, miraculous,[128]
Wire cage test,[110]
Wire, cloth,[61]
Writing, reading concealed,[51-58]

MAGIC

Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography.

BY A. A. HOPKINS.