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Anderson, John Henry: The Fashionable Science
of Parlour Magic Cover Title states: A Shilling's Worth of Magic |
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Comments: Illustrated with line drawings. Front inside cover states, "129th edition of Parlour Magic, 58th edition of Spirit Rapping". Full title is, "The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic, being the Newest Tricks of Deception, developed and illustrated; with an Exposure of the Practices Made Use of by Card Players, Blacklegs, and Gamblers; to which is added, for the first time, the Magic of Spirit Rapping, Writing Mediums, and Table Turning, &c., &c."
Caution: some effects mention use of Quicksilver (mercury) which can be toxic. Be very cautious with any of the chemical tricks described.
Contents (from book):
iii Preface
iv Professor Anderson's History of Natural Magic
13 To The Amateur Conjurer
15 Parlour Magic
15 Every Conjuror’s Trick — How To Pass A Card
16 The Tallocotian Operation
16 The Candle Conjurers
16 A Clear View Of Your Enemy
17 Changeable Complexions
17 The Three Spectral Wafers
17 Calico, Poultry, And Eggs
18 The Blowing Book
18 To Walk Upon A Hot Iron Bar
18 The Faustus Trick — Raising A Ghost
19 Gathering Of The Clans
19 To Take A Shilling Out Of A Handkerchief
19 To Take Three Balls Off Two Strings
20 To Make A Mouse Out Of A Pack Of Cards
20 To Drill Your Nose And Thread It
21 The Hour Of The Day Or Night Told By A Suspended Shilling
22 Shape Produced By Sound
22 Delusive Decapitation
23 To Teach An Egg To Dance
23 Beauty Changed To Ghastliness
23 Necremantic Numbers
24 Quintuple Transmutation
25 The Obedient Watch
25 Two Bitters Make A Sweet
25 The Vanishing Puzzle
26 Hoar Frost Made To Order
26 The Conjurer’s Stroke
26 To Break A Stick Upon Two Goblets
26 How To Knit A Knot upon a Handkerchief, And Undo The Same With
Words
26 The Fiery Flash
27 Columbus’s Trick - The Standing Egg
27 To Suspend A Needle In The Air
27 Artificial Fire Balls
27 To Derobe A Person Of His Linen Without Damaging His Broadcloth
28 Cards Changed To Pictures
28 Cards Transformed At Will
29 The Lead Tree
29 The Affectionate Card
29 To Lock A Padlock On Your Cheek
29 Magic Pictures
30 To Put A Ring Through Your Cheek, And Then To Bring It On A
Stick
30 To Lift A Glass Bottle With A Straw
30 The Card Burned, And Afterwards Found In A Watch
31 An Egg In A Fit
31 To Tell A Lady If She Is In Love
31 Destruction Of Two Bodies, And The Formation Of A New Body
32 Destruction Of Two Fluid Bodies, And The Formation Of One New
Solid In Their Stead
32 Two Invisible Substances, Each Having A Pungent Smell,
Converted Into One Visible Compound, Having No Smell
32 To Make The Hands And Face Become Black By Washing Them In
Clean Water
32 To Dine Off Fire
33 An Egg Put In A Phial
33 To Boil An Egg Without Fire
33 Balls And Cups
34 Conjurers’ Balls
34 Bird-Mesmerism
34 Fireproof Paper
34 Invisibility Visible
35 To Eat Glass With Thread
35 Prince Rupert’s Glass Bombs
35 Coffee-Beans Made Into Coffee Ready For Use Immediately
35 The Changeable Rose
35 Lead Melted In Paper
36 To Boil A Liquid Without Fire
36 To Copy Writing With N Flat-Iron
36 Spirits Behind The Curtain
36 Confederate Cards
36 Mahomet In The Chest
37 To Spin A Shilling On The Point Of A Needle
37 Numerical Thoughts Divined
37 To Eat Tow, And Set It On Fire In Your Mouth
37 The Enchanted Fowl
37 Fire Burning Under Water
38 The Penetrative Sixpence
38 To Melt Steel As Easily As Lead
38 A Card Nailed To The Wall By A Pistol-Shot
39 Magical Colours
39 Instantaneous Light Upon Ice
39 To Extinguish Flame With Gas
39 The Oracular Head
40 A Demon In A Tobacco-Pipe
40 Metamorphic Pictures
40 Everybody’s Card
40 Calculating Cards
41 Chinese Juggler’s Trick — L’Eau Dormant
41 La Carte Decouverte & L’Epee
41 The Card Hit Upon By Guess
41 Intelligence Transfused Into Cards
42 A Lamp That Will Burn For A Year
42 National Eggs
42 The Conjurer’s Joke
42 Metal Melted In A Walnut Shell
43 Electrical Shock From A Sheet Of Paper
43 Convertible Coins
44 Magician’s Chase
44 Gas Candle
44 Prestidigatorial Purloining
44 The Physiognotype
45 The Pneumatic Dancer
46 Apparatus For Writing In The Dark
46 Self-Balanced Pail
46 Cards Which Become Any Thing
49 An Exposure Of The Practices Made Use Of By Professional
Card Players, Blacklegs, And Gamblers.
49 Whist
50 Reflectors
50 Sauter La Coupe
51 Longs And Shorts
52 Convex And Concave Cards
52 Handling The Cards
52 Garreting
53 Slipping The Cords
53 Walking The Pegs
53 Pricking Cards
53 The Bridge
54 Skinning
54 Shuffling Or Weaving
54 The Grad Us, Or Step
54 Slipping The Fives
54 Saddling The Cards
55 Dealing The Fives From The Bottom
55 The Telegraph
56 The Dice Board
56 Dice And Dice Boxes
57 Loaded Dice
57 Cogging, Now Called Securing
59 Unequal Dice
59 Scratched Dice
59 The Doctor Dice Box
61 Ruses
61 The Wonderful Hat
61 To Bring A Person Down Upon A Feather
61 Apparent Impossibility
62 Impossible Omelet
62 Go, If You Can
62 The Visible Invisible
62 The Double Meaning
62 Quite Tired Out
63 Something Out Of The Common
63 Magic Circle
63 The Queens Going To Dig For Diamonds
65 The Magic Of Spirit Rapping, Writing Mediums, and Table
Turning
85 The Philosophy Of The Tables
88 The Mechanism Of The Raps
