The authorities to be referred to for information are given at the close of every debate. By Frederic Rowton.
232 pages, paper 50 cts.
Bound in boards, cloth back 75 cts.
The Secret Out; or, 1,000 Tricks with Cards, and Other Recreations. Illustrated with over 300 engravings. A book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards ever known, and gives, besides, a great many new ones. The whole being described so carefully, with engravings to illustrate them, that anybody can easily learn how to perform them. This work also contains 240 of the best Tricks of Legerdemain, in addition to the Card Tricks.
SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.
Part I.—Tricks with Cards performed by skillful Manipulation and Sleight of Hand.
Part II.—Tricks performed by the aid of Memory, Mental Calculation and the Peculiar Arrangement of the Cards.
Part III.—Tricks with Cards performed by the aid of Confederacy and sheer Audacity.
Part IV.—Tricks performed by the aid of Ingenious Apparatus and Prepared Cards.
Part V.—Tricks of Legerdemain, Conjuring, Sleight of Hand and other Fancies, commonly called White Magic.
Part VI.—Tricks in White Magic, performed by the aid of Ingenious Contrivance and Simple Apparatus.