Marshall, Brookes & Chalkley (publisher): Tricks for Amateurs of Both Sexes ©1904 Marshall, Brookes, & Chalkley, Ltd, London Softcover, saddle-stitched, 6x9", 68 pages

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Contents:

3 An Effective Trick With Tape: cut and restored
5 Blindfold Divination: Blindfolded magician can tell face cards from number cards, two methods
6 A New Rising Card Trick: selected cards jump out of the deck; several ideas
8 Ten Bags of Gold: puzzle
8 A Freezing Experiment: drink instantly freezes; a chemical trick
9 The Matchwood Lovers: clever stunt with match-sticks
9 The Chinese Bat: paddle-trick; pin jumps from hole to hole
11 The Balanced Cigar: stunt
11 Mystify Your Visitors: fun mystery writing
12 Tricks With Coins:
12 - Coin penetrates hat into glass
13 - Coin Vanishes Under a Glass
14 - Magician Determines Who Took the Coin: with confederate
15 - Coin Challenge: remove paper under coin without moving coin
15 - Finger Through Coin: gimmicked coin
16 - Coin Vanish In Hand
17 - Coin Vanish in Glass of Water
17 - Coin Vanish in Hand: another method
18 - Coin in Bottle: the folding coin
20 - Coins Penetrate Side of Hat: Miser's dream with a folding coin addition
20 - Hoo Coin: with ideas
22 - Coin Vanish in Handkerchief
23 - Coin Moves then Vanishes in Handkerchief
25 The Balanced Handkerchief: borrowed handkerchief balances on finger
27 Carrying Fire In the Hands: carrying the light from one candle to another
27 A Good Dice Trick: mathematical
28 To Balance a Cone of Paper on the Nose
29 A Trick With a Penknife: knife falls from ceiling exactly on a shilling
29 The Restored Cotton: cut and restored
30 A Curious Shilling Trick: optical illusion
30 An Incomprehensible Divination: Magician knows how many cards counted in a small packet
32 A Nocturnal Surprise: when blowing out a candle a small ghost appears
33 The Magical Aquarium: glass of ink to glass of goldfish
35 A Good Hat Trick: Finger penetrates borrowed hat
36 The Magic Cane: borrowed cane adheres to hand, ignores gravity
37 The Dancing Faries: experiment in static electricity
38 Egg Production: from handkerchief and empty hat
39 The Cross of the Orient: a plastic straw cross rises on the hand
41 Watch Bending: optical illusion
41 A New Match Trick: a match counting trick
43 A Regular Corker: challenge to drop a cork on its end
43 The Watery Knife: water from an examined knife
44 The Chinese Rods: clever optical illusion device
45 A Transparent Deception: glass through table
46 Tricks Banner: challenge puzzle
47 Magnetic Knife: clings to fingers
48 The Dancing Skeleton: chalk writing comes to life
49 The Magic Nosegay: color changing flow; chemical magic
50 A Trick With Matches: challenge puzzle
50 Free Trade Conjuring: an egg and handkerchief routine
53 The Puzzle of Two Fathers: challenge puzzle
55 A Reel Have: comedy stunt

56 Tricks at Billiards
56 To Make a Ball Jump Into the Pool Basket After Travelling The Whole Length of the Table
58 To Pocket Three Balls In Three Different Pockets in One Shot
58 To Make a Coin Describe a Curve and Roll Into a Pocket
59 How to Knock a Small Coin From Under The Cushion
59 To Go Into the Middle Pocket Off the Red Without Moving the White Ball Placed on the Centre Spot
60 A Pretty Cannon
60 A New Stroke
61 How to Get Ball Into the Opposite Pocket Withotu Touching The Hat With The Ball or Lifting It Off The Table
62 A Kiss Cannon, Using Hand Instead of Cue
63 Pocket the Ball
63 The Match That Cannot Be Knocked Down
64 Another Method
64 A Difficult Cannon
64 Hit the Red First
66 To Pocket Two Balls, One in Each Middle Pocket in One Shot
66 To Get a Cannon Without Touching the Balls

67 Contents: index