Karr, Todd (editor), William Henry Robinson: The Silence of Chung Ling Soo ©2001 Todd Karr, The Miracle Factory Hardcover, w/dj, 8x10", 488 pages ISBN: 0-9710405-1-6

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Comments: High production-quality book. William Henry Robinson performed as Chung Ling Soo. Illustrations and documents appear courtesy of the American Museum of Magic, Edwin A. Dawes, Mike Caveney’s Egyptian Hall, Gary Frank, Charles Greene III, James Hamilton, Ken Klosterman, Jay Marshall, the Harry' Ransom Humanities Research Center, and the State Library of Victoria

Contents (from book ToC):

9 Illustrations
11 Introduction (Todd Karr)

17 Sketching Robinson's Crystal Lantern (Jim Steinmeyer)

23 Words By William E. Robinson
23 The Art Of Magic
27 Wrinkles On Magic
31 Alexander Herrmann
35 Indian Jugglery
41 How It Happened
45 Can Such Things Be?

51 Man Of Mystery
51 Mr. And Mrs. W.E. Robinson
53 Billy Robinson (Walter B. Gibson)
67 Marvellous Chinese Conjurer (Ellis Stanyon)
69 Australia
73 The Silent Performance
77 The Wizard
79 Thurston Howard Thurston
83 Bamboo Blossom

87 The Challenge

103 Dear Friend Houdini
103 Dear Friend Houdini
131 An Impression Of Chung Ling Soo Houdini
133 Ching Ling Foo And Chung Ling Soo Houdini
135 Conjurers' Monthly Magazine

142 Mysteries
142 Aerial Fishing
145 Animated Cork
147 Astarte
151 Birth Of The Pearl
153 Black Art
155 Chinese Magic
155 - The Coin, Handkerchief And Ring Trick
156 - The Rice Bowls And Mystic Coin
157 - The Magic Coin Box
158 - Gold Or Silver?
158 - The Floating Coin
159 - The Chinese Miser's Dream?
161 Chung Ling Soo Coin And String
163 Crystal Casket
167 Defying The Bullets
167 Disappearing Demon
171 Dream Of Wealth
177 Drum Production
179 Few Card Tricks
179 - A Few Card Tricks
182 - The Small Card Frame
183 A Few Coin Tricks
187 Fire Balloon
189 Flying Handkerchiefs
193 Goddess Of Wine
195 Gone
199 Linking Rings
199 - The Chinese Rings
199 - A Chung Ling Soo Method
201 Magic Cauldron
203 Mysteries Of The Mind, Or Mental Magic
207 Mysterious Sum
209 New? Old? Card Trick
211 New Thought Card Sleights
213 Odds And Ends
217 Old Tricks
221 Rice Bowls
221 - The Best Of All Rice Bowls
222 - The New Rice Bowls
225 Rising Cards
227 Sugar Stick Trick
229 Target Illusion
231 Vanish In Mid-Air
233 Varied Mysteries
233 - The Orange Tree
233 - New Method Of Getting Flowers Into Cone
234 - Improved Finger Through Penny
234 - The Best Watch-Box

237 Marvellous Chinese Conjurer
237 July 7, 1900
239 November 1903
241 May 14, 1906
245 Ca. 1906
247 January 1908
253 1908
255 April 10, 1909
263 July 17, 1909
267 February 25, 1911
269 April 8, 1911
271 February 21, 1914
273 January 23, 1915
275 July 31, 1915
277 1915
279 March 18, 1918

283 Silence
283 Silence
293 Chung Ling Soo By One Who Knew Him (A.A.)

298 Publications
298 A Few Of Robinson's New Ideas
315 Extraordinary Mystical Novelties

331 Spirit Slate Writing And Kindred Phenomena
335 Preface
339 1. The Single Slate
369 2. The Double Slate
379 3. Miscellaneous Slate Tests
389 4. Mind Reading And Kindred Phenomena
409 5. Table Lifting And Spirit Rapping
421 6. Spiritualistic Ties
433 7. Post Tests, Handcuffs, Spirit Collars, Etc.
441 8. Séances And Miscellaneous Spirit Tricks
455 9. Miscellaneous Tricks
487 Index To Spirit Slate Writing