Hummerston, R.A.: The Book of Fun, Mirth & Mystery ©1924 C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., London Hardcover, no dj, 7.5x10", 195 pages

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Comments: "A feast of delightful entertainment, including games, tricks, puzzles and solutions...". I'm wondering if this is the same book printed in Australia as The Joy Book, with the description, " A Feast of Delightful Entertainment, including Games, Tricks, Puzzles and Solution."How to makes" and various other means of Amusement."

Contents (partial, from first page of book index):

10 Board Games How to Mount
11 Action
15 Cricket Table
17 The Frolicsome Frogs
17 Waterproof Ink
20 Cowboys and Indians
22 Sphinx Pastime Board
23 Perplexity
23 Skillette
24 Tactics
24 Turnover
25 Push
25 Solpiex
27 The Penetrative Penny
27 Thought-reading Trick
28 Football Table
32 Transpositions
33 Beil Billiards
36 The Vanished Coin
36 Two AMusing Problems
37 Pictorial Algebra: puzzle no. 14
37 What Is It?: puzzle no. 15
37 Q.E.D. Te Hair Restorer Probem: puzzle no. 16
38 Egyptian Guides
40 An Overheard Conversation
41 The Aerial Race
41 Floating Needles
42 Simple Coin Trick
43 Figure Juggling
44 A Puzzling Paradox
45 Trades and Professions: a mysterious trick
45 Traces and Professions
47 English Go-Bang
47 Fox and Geese
47 Fun on a Draught Board
48 Patience
50 Think of a Number
51 Commercial Travellers
52 Fascination
55 Giraffography
56 On Guard
57 Black Art
60 Hopova
63 Yes and No
65 Card Quoits
65 Telegrams
66 Century Making
67 Labyrinths in Cathedrals
69 Silent Thought Transmission
71 Magic Squares
72 Wall Quoits
73 Finger Prints
74 Hurdle Race
76 Down on the Farm
77 The Mysterious Tubes
78 The Long Arm
79 A Favourite Fruit: puzzle no. 28
79 Secret Wrtiting
79 The Letter "E"
79 The Thumb Trick
81 Bombardo
81 Mystic Multiplication
82 Through a Table
83 Two Second-Sight Tricks
85 Over the Top
87 The Cowboy and the Bull
88 Second Sight
93 Golf
94 From Ink to Water
95 Thirty-one
98 The Cat and the Rat
100 Playtime Cards
101 Mental Magic
103 The Chinese Railways
104 Counting the Counters
104 Counting Them Out
105 Vice Versa
106 Q.E.D. The Sergeant's Problem: Puzzle No. 40
106 The Last of the Mohicans
107 Picture Puzzle: puzzle no. 41
108 Lightning Calculation
108 The Temperature Trick
109 How Old Are You?
112 The Struck-out Figure
115 The Obedient Bottle
119 Centralising a Coin
120 Golo
121 The Magic Box
123 It’s an I11 Wind
124 Put and Take
125 Mathematical Magic
126 Nine of a Kind
132 Votes
136 Two Coin Tricks
139 The Comical Character Chart
140 The Changing Card
142 The Magician of Morocco
145 An Amazing Addition
150 The Bewtitched Ring
151 Fortune-Telling
151 Queer Arithmetic: puzzle no. 65
154 There and Back
161 Proverbs
163 Fourteens
167 Queries
170 The Five Figure Tricks