Maskelyne, Jasper & Arthur Groom (Ed): Maskelyne's Book of Magic ©1937 1st Amer. Ed; David McKay Co., Philadelphia Hardcover, 288 pages

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Comments: With 16 illustrations in half-tone and 60 line drawings.

Contents:

5 Foreword (Jasper Maskelyne)
7 Contents

11 I. Starting In Magic: Types of Entertainer, Do not Imitate, developing personality, etc.
11 Types of Entertainer
12 Do Not Imitate
12 Counjuring for Boys, Youths, and Grown Ups
14 Nervousness
15 Persuasiveness and Ready Wit
19 The Time Factor
20 How to Develop Personality

22 II. Where Magic Is Bought: simple tricks, new tricks, carpentry, etc.
22 Boxes of Simple Tricks
23 New Tricks
25 Magic and Carpentry
26 Magic Thread
28 Making Friends
29 Getting the Right Costumes
30 Apparatus for Escapes

32 III. Specializing In Magic: is it wise, great magicians
32 Is Specializing Wise?
33 Great Magicians Who Specialized
47 A Final Word on Specializing

48 IV. Conjuring With Coins
48 Sleights
48 - Palming
51 - French Drop
52 Copper to Silver
53 The Vanishing Coin
54 Head or Tail?
55 The Wrapped Paper
56 The Coin and the Oranges
58 A Chinese Coin Trick
59 The Trick Penny

61 V. Baffling Card-Tricks
61 Are Your Hands Made for Sleight of Hand?
62 Forcing a Card
63 Fake Cards
65 The Obstinate Card
66 Complicated But Easy Card Tricks
68 Finding the Turned Card
69 Revealing a Chosen Card
70 The Fountain
71 Final Words

73 VI. Clever Tricks With Handkerchiefs
73 Tricks with Ordinary Handkerchiefs
73 - Stretched Handkerchief
74 - Obedient Handkerchief
75 - Handkerchief Passes Through Clandle-Flame
76 - Spinning Handkerchief
77 - Knot Tricks
79 - One-Handed Knot
80 - The Secret Handkerchief: with two borrowed handkerchiefs
81 - Cambric Confectionary Illusion: candy production
82 Tricks With Prepared Handkerchiefs
83 - Red White and Blue
84 - Vanishing Glass of Water
86 - Good-Bye: chemical magic

88 VII. Tricks Without Elaborate Apparatus
89 The Rubber Pencil
89 The Jumping Sixpence
90 The Burning Sugar
91 The Stay Put Penny
91 Heads Every Time
92 Releasing a Ring
93 Balancing the Billiard-Ball
94 The Coin and Bottle Trick
95 Carrying the Light
95 Cut String Restored
96 Another String Trick
98 The Magic Cigarette
98 The Magic Match
99 Come Hither Matches
99 The Obedient Card

101 VIII. Magic With Pieces Of Paper
102 Coloured Balls
103 Two Little Dicky-Birds
105 Paper Bag Cookery
105 Ribbons of India
107 Moths of Japan
109 Paper Tree Figure
109 Paper Fence Figure
110 Paper Ladder Figure
111 Paper Dancing Elves
112 Burnt and Restored Tissue Papers

115 IX. Conjuring With Common Objects
116 Salting a Room
116 Balancing a Wine Glass on a Card
117 Balancing Cigar
118 Vanishing Gloves
118 Watch Trick: mathematical
119 Message From the Ashes
120 Blowing Out a Match Stunt
120 Borrowed Ring In Egg
121 Notes from Nowhere
122 Magic Blotter: chemical magic
123 Dominoes Prediction
123 Removing a Man's Waistcoat

125 X. Rope-Tricks
125 How to Perform an Indian Rope-Trick
125 The Truth About the Real Rope Trick
127 My £2,000 Challenge to Young Magicians

132 XI. Stage-Management
132 Rehearsals Mean Much
133 Never Turn Your Back on the Audience
134 How to Use an Assistant on the Stage
135 Danger of Failure Through Bad Stage Management
139 Planning Your Show

145 XII. Thought-Reading Made Easy
145 The Necessity for an Accomplice
146 Reading Folded Messages
147 Determining Object Touched
148 Producing Secret Writing
149 Counting the Counters
150 Cunning Thought Reading Tricks
152 Ninety Nine Out of a Hundred
152 Married Man Trick
153 Thought Reading Card Trick
155 A Few More Methods of Writing Invisibly

157 XIII. Disappearing-Tricks
159 Oyster Shell (Chung Ling Soo)
161 Merry Widow (Carl Hertz)
162 Cabinet of Proteus (Professor Hoffman)
164 Girl In the Bath Illusion (Great Lafayette)
166 The Great Lafayette Arena Illusion

169 XIV. Simple Apparatus For Illusions
169 The Magician's Table
170 The Servante
170 Tablecloths
172 Elaborate Traps
174 Other More Simple Apparatus
175 Hiding Things In Your Clothes
177 The Gibeciere

178 XV. Special Apparatus And Modern Ideas
178 The One Illusion Show Coming Back
180 Simplicity
181 Psycho the Automaton
182 Topicality
183 Films and Television
183 How to Turn Old Tricks into Topical Illusions
183 - Sugar Cube Trick
184 - Other Ideas

187 XVI. When Your Magic Goes Wrong
187 Winning Over Your Audience
188 Some Tricks That Have Misfired
192 Getting Out of Awkward Situations
194 Making Things Go Wrong on Purpose

197 XVII. What Ancient Magic Teaches Us
197 We Are Imitators
197 In the Days of Ancient Egypt
199 Magicians of Greece and Rome
199 Indian Fakirs
201 Witch Doctors
202 Fraudulent Spirit Mediums
203 Some Wonderful Tricks and How they Were Done
204 The Value of Research

207 XVIII. Simple Chemical Tricks
207 The Silver Egg Illusion
208 The Magic Egg: balances, won't roll, etc.
208 Lighting a Cigarette with a Block of Ice
209 Smoke from Empty Pipes
210 Blood-Stains on Muslin
210 A Miraculous Explosion
211 Magic Water, Wine and Milk
211 Magic Jug of Water
212 Another Magic Liquid Trick
212 Change Milk to Water
213 Light a Candle with a Glass of Water
214 Putting Pennies in a Full Glass of Water
215 Last Words

216 XIX. Entertaining In Dress-clothes
216 The Value of Dress Clothes
217 Keep Up a Humorous Patter
217 Be Ruthless With Jokes that Fail
218 The Importance of First Impressions
219 Concealing Things In Your Clothes
222 The Belt or Sash
223 Should You Wear a Cloak or a Walking Stick?

225 XX. Two Great American Magicians
225 Harry Kellar
215 Howard Thurston
228 Magic Books: Hoffman's Modern Magic; Drawing Room Conjuring; Magical Tit-bits; Nelson Downs Conjuring with Coins; L. Widdop's Card-Tricks; David Devant Tricks for Every One and My Magic Life; Norman Hunter
229 More on Howard Thurston

235 XXI. A Chinese And Wizard Show
235 How to Create a Chinese Atmosphere
236 Importance of Dress and Make Up
237 Setting the Stage
237 Suitable Tricks: Chinese Rings
239 - Chinese Paper Rings: Afghan Bands
240 Need for the Right Kind of Music
242 Lighting
243 Some Material for a Wizard Show

246 XXII. Where Magicians Meet
246 The Magic Circle and Its Advantages
248 Other Similar Societies
248 Journals on Magic: Magic Circular, Magic Wand
A Library of Books on the Art of Magic: Downs' At of Magic; Hofizinser's Card Conjuring; S.H. Sharpe's Neo-Magic; Robert-Houdin's Conjuring and Magic; Our Magic by Maskelyne and Devant; Gautlier's La Prestidigitation sans Appareils (Magic without Apparatus); and Devant's Lessons in Conjuring.
250 Social Behaviour Among Magicians
251 Tricks That are Copyright

254 XXIII. A Little Jugglery, Shadowgraph-Work, And Ventriloquism
254 Coin-Catching Trick
255 Balancing an Egg on a Straw
256 Throw a Coin From the Toe-cap to the Forehead
257 The Coin and Elbow Trick
258 Billiard Balls Trick: one ball on plate, then a card, then another ball and card is flicked out
259 Indian Club Juggling
259 Plate Spinning
261 Shadow-Graphy
262 Ventriloquism

263 XXIV. The Art Of Make-up
263 Danger of Putting On Too Much Make-Up
263 Paints to Buy and Colours To Use
265 The Effect of Lighting on Make-Up
266 Character Parts
267 A Short Study on Wigs

270 XXV. How To Get Bookings
270 Starting in a Small Way
270 Obtaining Popularity
271 Method in Arranging Programmes
273 Some Clerical Work: keeping notebooks
274 When You Must Work for Nothing
275 Fees
275 Advertising for Engagements
276 Children's Parties and Fees
276 Tricks Appropriate for the Venue
278 Bigger Opportunities
280 The Value of Agents Later On

283 Index