Johnson Smith & Co. (Publisher): 250 Parlor Tricks or Magic Made Easy ©1940 (circa) Johnson Smith & Co., MI Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 32 pages plus advertisements

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Comments: Many of the same tricks as appearing in Wehman's New Book of 153 Tricks.

Contents:

1 The Erratic Egg
1 The Hat and Coin Trick
1 The Obedient Dime
1 To Lift Three Matches With One
1 How to Cut a Visiting Card For a Cat to Jump Through It
2 To Make a Cone or Pyramid Move Upon a Table Without Springs or Any Other Artificial Means
2 To Prepare a Fountain of Fire
2 The Magic Egg
2 The Nondescript
2 The Miraculous Apple
2 The Old Man's Face
2 The Turn Wonder
2 The Cards by Weight
2 The Link Boys
3 To Draw Two Figures With Crayon on a Wall, One of Which Will Light a Taper, and the Other Extinguish It
3 To Make a Card Spring Up Into the Air From the Pack, Without Being Touched
3 Card and Handkerchief Trick
3 To Copy a Seal
3 To Tell If a Person is in Love
3 To Make a Liquid Boil Without Fire
3 Incombustible Substances
3 Shoot a Small Bird and Bring It to Life Again
3 An Excellent Card Trick
3 The Cut String Restored
3 The Card Under Handkerchief
3 A Ghostly Appearance
4 How to Cut Glass
4 The Poker Puzzle
4 To Cut Off a Chicken's Head Without Killing It
4 An After-Dinner Feat
4 The Magic Cups
4 A Distorted Figure Seen Well Proportioned From a Certain Point of View
4 To Make a Watch Stop or Go at the Word of Command
4 The Enchanted Cock
5 The Magnetized Cane
5 Solid Steel Will Float on Water
5 Optical Subtraction
5 The Doubled Coin
5 To Make a Figure Which Will Raise Itself Unaided
5 The Wonderful Hat
5 To Change a Dime to a Quarter
5 How to Make a Coin Stick Against the Wall
6 To Tell at What Hour a Person Intends to Rise
6 To Light a Candle Without Touching the Wick
6 The Tumbling Egg
6 Magic Writing - Letters That Will Come and Go at Command
6 To Pour Wine and Water Into the Same Glass Without Their Mixing
6 Magic Milk
6 Writing by the Rays of the Sun
6 How to Melt Metal in a Walnut Shell
6 The Row of Figures
6 The Water Trick
7 Cure for Troublesome Spectators
7 Magical Illusions
7 The Conjurer's Stroke
7 To Hold a Glassful of Water Upside Down Without Spilling
7 The Hat Puzzle
7 A Candle Trick
7 The Stick and Glass Trick
7 To Pass a Tumbler Through a Table
7 The Invisible Visible
7 The Faded Rose Restored
7 To Make Water Rise From a Saucer Into a Glass
8 The Magic Coin
8 To Make a Person Tired, or Sweat, at Carrying a Small Stick Out of a Room
8 The Toper's Strategem
8 An Impossibility
8 Change the Numbers on Dice
8 How to Tell the Number That Any Person Thinks Of
8 To Make an Egg Stand on End on a Looking-Glass
8 The Dancing Pea
8 Lift a Bottle With a Straw
9 Snaring Dice
9 Corking Trick
9 Buttonhole Escape
9 Hanging the Ring
10 An Amusing Recreation
10 Two Invisible Substances, Each Having a Pungent Smell, Converted Into One Visible Compound, Having No Smell
10 To Take a Dollar Piece Out of a Vase of Water Without Wetting Your Hands
10 Bengal Lights
10 Glass of Water Trick
10 To Change the Color of a Liquid In a Glass
10 Candles Extinguished and Lighted by Pistol Shots
10 To Make the Hands and Face Become Black by Washing Them in Clean Water
10 To Make Fire-Proof Paper
10 A Lamp That Will Burn for a Year
10 The Dancing Ring
11 The Self-Balanced Pail
11 A Cheap Way of Being Generous
11 Lightning Without Thunder or Rain
11 The Peg Trick
11 Beautiful Transformations
11 Break A Stone With Blow of Fist
11 The Magical Knot
11 To Take Away Any Middle Object Without Touching It
11 Make a Bird Seem Dead
12 Knocking the Head Against a Door
12 A Droll Drawing-Room Trick
12 To Put a Ring Through Your Cheek and then to Bring It On a Stick
12 To Set a Combustable Body on Fire by the Contact of Water
12 To Melt Iron in a Moment and Make Run Into Drops
12 Eatable Candle Ends
12 Luminous Writing
12 A Supernatural Appearance
12 To Freeze Water By Shaking It
12 The Sign of the Cross
12 Light a Candle With Water
13 Pulling a Ringer
13 Slipping the Bonds
13 Watered Stock
13 Well Balanced Egg
14 The Gas Candle
14 The Travelling Thimble
14 The Magic Egg
14 To Make Liquid Steel
14 How to Boil Water On Ice
14 The Magic Snowball
14 Crack Walnuts In Your Elbow
14 Card Reproduction Trick
14 A Stone in Perpetual Motion
14 Two Bitters Make a Sweet
15 Muslin That Will Not Burn
15 The Magic Whirlpool
15 To Melt Lead in Paper
15 Suspend a Needle In Air
15 Exploding Soap-Bubbles
15 Artificial Lightning
15 The Floating Beacon
15 To Take Feathers Out of an Empty Handkerchief
15 Magic Circle
15 The Visible Invisible
15 Bring a Person Down on a Feather
15 Balanced Stick
16 How to Cut Off Your Nose
16 Change the Color of Flowers
16 Fun With an Egg
16 Measuring the Height of a Tree
16 To Lock a Padlock on Your Cheek
16 How to Eat Fire
16 The Flying Coins
16 Dancing Bread
16 A Disappearing Quarter
16 Magic Breath
16 Boil a Liquid Without Fire
17 Watch Out
17 Sweet Impression
17 Knotty Mystery
17 Bottoms Up
18 The Double Meaning
18 Green Fire
18 Go If You Gan
18 A Physical Change
18 The Circle of Fourteen Cards
18 Incombustible Linen
18 The Three Spoons
18 Magic Coins
18 How to Produce a Certain Card Without Seeing the Pack
18 A Fountain of Fire
18 Flame Upon Water
19 The Dime in the Ball of Cotton
19 Brilliant Red Fire
19 A Room Appears on Fire
19 To Hold a Hot Tea Kettle on the Hand
19 To Copy Writing
19 Purple Fire
19 To Walk Upon a Hot Iron Bar
19 Magical Production of a Coin
19 Iron Transformed Into Copper
19 The Miniature River on Fire
19 Fire Burns Under Water
19 Start a Fire With Water
20 Separating Red & Black Cards
20 To Make the Court Cards Always Come Together
20 Picture Cards
20 Rose-Colored Flame Upon Water
20 To Change a Liquid Blue to White
20 How to Suspend a Ring By a Burnt Thread
20 An Artistic Card Effect
20 THe Silver Tree
20 How to Put an Egg In a Bottle
20 The Bottle Conjuror
20 The Magnifying Reflector
20 To Put a String Into the Fire Without Burning It
21 Hands Up
21 Healing Tongue
21 The Scissors Trick
21 Nutty Knots
21 Futile Blows
22 The Magic Shrub
22 To Support a Glass on Three Matches, Each One Resting on a Glass
22 To Boil Water in Paper
22 A Self-Turning Cross
22 To Restore Burnt Ribbon
22 To Make Water Freeze By the Fireside
22 To Make an Artificial Earthquake and Volcano
22 Vanishing Handkerchief
22 The Jumping Card
22 To Find a Certain Card After It Has Been Shuffled In the Pack
22 The Impossible Omelet
22 To Divide a Coin Without Cutting It
22 To Produce Fire From a Cane
23 Chemical Experiments
23 Card Reading
23 Varieties of Crystals
23 Blowing Out a Candle Behind a Bottle
23 The Vanished Dime
23 Flame Extinguished by Gas
23 Magic of Heat
23 The Changeable Ace
23 To Boil and Egg Without Fire
23 The Fire Eating Trick
23 A Curious Method of Restoring to Life a Fly That Has Apparently Been Drowned
23 Balanced Stick
24 The Twin-Card Trick
24 To Balance a Cigar on the Tip of a Finger
24 To Find a Certain Card After It Has Been Shuffled In the Pack
24 An Explosive Bottle
24 The Bridge
24 Slipping the Cards
24 The Disappearing Coin
24 The Old Woman and Her Eggs
24 Make a Coin Turn Upon Its Edge on Point of Needle
24 The Mysterious Bottle
24 To Tell a Lady If She is in Love
24 Two Cold Liquids Make a Hot One
25 Nimble Thimble
25 Slipping One Over
25 Jumping Peg
25 Power of the Dollar
25 Atomic Energy
25 Odd Number Complex
26 The Erratic Card
26 A Purple, Green and Red Liquid from the Same Bottle
26 To Make Ice in Summer
26 A Lung-Testing Trick
26 Exploding Pastilles
26 To Obtain Fire From Water
26 The Floating Ball
26 How to Wash the Hands in Molten Lead
26 The Tobacco-Pipe Cannon
26 Detonating Glass Bombs
26 Exploading Soap-Bubbles
26 Candle Trick
27 The Industrious Frog
27 The Shepherds
27 A Soldier Problem
27 A Ladder Problem
27 An Ox Problem
27 A Square-Foot Problem
27 To Convey Money From the One HAnd Into the Other
27 Rope Trick
27 Pick Out the Card Moved
27 The Walking Match
27 Locating Card Thought Of
27 How Many Changes Can be Given to Seven Notes of a Piano
28 The Train Problem
28 Snail Problem
28 An Army Problem
28 A Quibble
28 An Easy Problem
28 A Simple Problem
28 A Problem
28 The Cloth Problem
28 The Heir Problem
28 Problem of Money
28 Arithmetical Problem
28 December and May
28 Light Under Water
28 A Goose Problem
28 Arithmetical Problem
28 The Numerical Problem
29 A Card Vanishes From a Pack and is Found Elsewhere
29 To Drop a Coin in a Bottle
29 To Slip a Card
29 A Chosen Card Turns Over
29 The Queens and the Diamonds
29 To Name a Card at Any Position in the Pack
29 The Clever Constabe
30 The Die Trick
30 The Animated Card
30 To Tell the Cards Thought Of by Four Persons
30 From Twenty-One Cards to Tell Which Have Been Thought Of
30 All the Cards, Except a Chosen One, Fall to the Floor
31 Two Persons Draw Three or Four Cards Each From the Pack, Then Tell Each Drawer Those He Drew
31 To Lift Twelve Matches With One
31 To Exchange Four Kings
31 Name the Cards Chosen by Twenty Different Persons Without Seeing Them
32 To Conjure a Certain Card Into Your Pocket
32 To Tell a Card That a Person Has Touched In a Pack
32 To Find a Chosen Card in a Person's Pocket
32 To Produce a Card Called for Instantly
32 Shadowgraphy
32 Of Twenty-Five Cards Laid On a Table, to Name the One Touched or Reversed

33 Catalogue: Johnson Smith products, 34 pages