Transcriber's Notes
Minor punctuation errors have been silently corrected. Some illustrations have been relocated. Part I and Part II have been added to the Table of Contents.
Page [26]: Changed "Alway" to "Always."
(Orig: Alway obtain possession of the wineglass)
Page [78]: Changed "immmediately" to "immediately."
(Orig: between the legs, and immmediately covered with the napkin.)
Page [106]: Removed duplicate "in."
(Orig: it is not in in general use, but forms almost a separate)
Page [164]: "description" is probably a typo for "descriptions."
(Orig: one of the most wonder-inspiring description.)
Page [187]: Changed "maufacture" to "manufacture."
(Orig: he was told to maufacture the card,)
Page [197]: Possibly missing "be" before "burnt."
(Orig: half of the card which is to burnt doubled up and placed)
Page [220]: Changed "hankerchief" to "handkerchief."
(Orig: and the body of the same hankerchief on the other side)
Page [264]: Changed "that" to "than."
(Orig: trick even more wonderful that it is in its ordinary form.)
Page [314]: Changed "fron" to "from."
(Orig: and pour out some liquid fron it,)
Page [314]: Changed "unexpresed" to "unexpressed."
(Orig: for the unexpresed purpose of showing that it is glass,)
Page [349]: Changed "unvailing" to "unavailing."
(Orig: great, but unvailing, efforts are made to extract the ball.)
Page [353]: Changed "neccessary" to "necessary."
(Orig: great care being neccessary to prevent any of them falling)
Page [370]: Changed "when" to "then."
(Orig: for a few seconds, when open it, showing, of course, nothing)