Blyth, Will: Effective Conjuring ©1928 Methuen & Co., Ltd Hardcover, 225 pages

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Contents:

ix Introduction
1 An Alphabetical Opening
8 Magical Openings
17 The Mystic Circle
26 Combination of Magical Effects
34 Small Details In Magic
37 Three Blind Mice
44 Confederacy
49 Selecting an Assistant
52 The Fairy Ball and Mystic Cylinder
57 The Sympathetic Cubes
64 Magical Secrecy, or Mutenub Winriny
67 The Royal Hunt Mystery
74 Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred
78 Ornate Magic
83 Army or Nave
87 New Effects
97 A B C
101 The Elusive Stop
107 Magical Facilitations
115 Instantaneous Photography
119 Nine-A-Side
124 A Study in Black and White
128 Indestructible Colours
132 A B C Memory Pictures
136 The Chinese Rings
141 The Sliding Die Box
146 Fairyland of Magic
146 - Jack and the Beanstalk
147 - Old Mother Hubbard
149 - Aladdin
150 - Humpty-Dumpty
150 - Jack and Jill
150 - Red Riding Hood
151 - Cinderella
152 - The Magic Carpet
153 Jack and the Beanstalk
161 Humpty-Dumpty
166 Jack and Jill
171 A Match Act
171 - Card to Matchbox
172 - Magical Extinction of Lighted Match
174 - Magical Re-Ignition of Match
174 - Match Vanish
175 - Piano Trick
177 - The Worm That Turned
178 - Pat And His Pigs
185 Paper-Tearing Act:
185 - The Fireman's Story
185 - Christmas Tree
187 - Fire Escape
188 - Firemen
189 - Rescued Lady And Friends
190 - Fire Engine Driving Wheel
192 - Fire Station Gate
193 - Tea Cloth
193 - Flowers From Cone
194 - Star
200 A Phenomenal Memory
206 Little Miss Muffett
210 The Afghan Necklaces
214 The Severed Afghan Necklace
217 An Alphabetical Finale
222 Appendix
222 Magical Apparatus
223 Magical Dealers
223 Magical Societies
224 Magical Journals