Goldston, Will: Great Tricks Revealed ©1935 Will Goldston, Routledge & Sons, Ltd Hardcover, 304 pages

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Contents (from Book):

xi Introduction (Horace Goldin): president of the Magician's Club

1 Chapter I Some Magical Recollections

18 Chapter II Pocket Tricks
19 The Cut And Restored Cotton
21 The Money-Box
23 Change!
23 A Mysterious Match-Box
26 A Regular Twister
28 A Good Shot
28 The Hypnotized Cigar
31 The Jumping Match
31 A New Torn Strip Restored
35 The Magical Match
35 A Knotty Problem

39 Chapter III Routines: Thimbles
39 A Pretty Sleight With A Thimble
41 The Puzzling Thimble

44 Chapter IV Cigar And Cigarettes
44 Cigar And Cigarette Tricks
45 Vanishing A Lighted Cigarette
47 Manipulations With A Cjgarette - The Transfer
49 The Production Of Five Lighted Cigarettes
49 A Cigarette Producer
50 James Wakefield's Cigar Routine
60 Sleights With Cigars
60 - Vanish And Recovery
61 - Another Vanish and Recovery
61 - To Make 1 Cigar into 2 Cigars
62 - Another Method
62 - The Vertical Vanish and Recovery
62 - Cigar to Cigarettes
 
64 Chapter V Rope
64 A Rope Routine
66 Edward Proudlock's Cut Rope Routine

71 Chapter VI Billiard Balls
71 A Billiard Ball Routine
72 Albert Warby's Billiard Ball Routine
79 Bertram's Billiard Ball Trick
81 - Patter
81 The Rising And Falling Ball

84 Chapter VII Suggestions And Advice
84 Special Tables
87 "If At First You Don't Succeed--"
90 Useful Tips
93 Some Of The Oldest Tricks
95 Useful Card Tips
98 The Importance Of Patter
101 A Producer Is Essential
103 Specialization
105 Dress Correctly
108 Methods In Hat Loading

112 Chapter VIII Card Tricks
115 A Good Trick Pack
118 The Missing Card Discovered
118 An Optical Illusion
121 The Rising Card
123 The Envelope And The Card
125 The Hypnotized Cards
127 An Uncanny Trick
130 Hunter's "Spelling Bee" In Various Forms
131 - For Full Pack
132 The Spelling Bee
134 A Fine Thought-Reading Trick
136 A Simple Card Frame
138 A Changing Tray For A Pack Of Cards
140 The Improved Rising Cards
142 A Different Thought-Reading Trick
144 The Egg And The Card
145 A New Card Frame

148 Chapter IX Indian And Egyptian Magic
148 Indian Magic
149 Egyptian Magic

154 Chapter X Miscellaneous Magic
154 Catching Live Pigeons In The Air
154 The Ribbon Tube
158 The Note And The Balloon
160 The Best Of All Bank-Note Tricks
163 Silent Thought-Reading
167 Thought-Reading With Numbers
169 A Message Read In A Crystal
171 The Will Goldston Thought-Reading Apparatus
173 Norman's Improved Die Trick
175 The Die And The Hat
177 A Production Screen
179 The New Production Box
179 A Production Canister
182 The Missing Watch
185 The Linked Rings
185 Streamers To Flag
187 A Good Flag Staff
189 Karnack's Spirit Hand
191 The Message On The Screen
191 Thumb Prints
194 The Magical Tie
196 The Kellar Growth of Flowers
196 The Pellew Flower Production
198 Magical Suggestions
201 Thought-Reading Simplified

205 Chapter XI Handkerchief Tricks
205 Suggestions For A Handkerchief Production Act
206 One From Three
209 A Novel Vanishing Handkerchief
211 A Bottle Of Ink And A Handkerchief
213 A Handkerchief Pistol
215 The Improved Ghost Tube
215 A Mysterious Handkerchief
218 The Newest Soup Plate And the Handkerchief
220 Horace Goldin's Handkerchief Vanish
223 A handkerchief And A Glass Chimney
223 The Handkerchief And The Glass Vase

226 Chapter XII The Magical Inventors - A Tribute
227 Montague Albert
227 Henry Bate
228 John Brown
228 Richard Crawford
229 Thomas Howell
229 John McCathie
229 The Martinka Brothers
230 Professor NOble
230 J. Rogers
230 Jules Voison
230 Carl Willmann
230 Stanley Witcher

232 Chapter XIII Stage Illusions
233 A Trick Seance
235 Shooting An Arrow Through a Girl

238 Chapter XIV Black Art Routine
240 Will Goldston's Black Art Routine

254 Chapter XV These Men Made Mystery

297 Chapter XVI Magic In Other Countries