McGill, Ormond: Entertaining With Magic ©1977 A.S. Barnes & Co., NY Hardcover, w/dj, 225 pages

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Contents (From book, updated Dec 2023):

9 Foreword
13 Acknowledgements
15 Introduction

17 Part I Learning the Art of Magic

19 Chapter 1 You As a Magician

27 Chapter 2 The Psychology of Magic
27 The Audience:
29 - Association of Ideas: bill to lemon
33 - Faulty Perception: Spirit Slates
36 - After the Show: Cut and Restored Rope, Cut and Restored Shoelace
39 - Forgetfullness
40 - Self-defense
40 The Performer
40 - Personality
41 - Prestige
42 - Misdirection
43 - Technical Knowledge
44 - Variables
44 - Showmanship
44 Program Building
45 - The Opening - The Wishing Bag: items are removed from an empty bag
48 - The Finale - The Ribbon Banner: spells Good Nite
49 - Torn and Restored Paper
52 The Trick
52 Positive Illusion
52 - Mind Reading: prediction the message a spectator will write
53 - Dollar Reading: serial number divination
54 Negative Illusion - The Rising Cards
55 Screening - The Willful Knot: unties on its own
60 Further Classification
60 - Production - Shower of Sweets
61 - Disappearance - The Pull
63 - Exchange - The Utility Glass
65 - Divination - Crayon Color Divination
66 - Levitation - Ring Rise on Pencil
68 - Spirit Manifestation - Spooky Rappings
69 - Solid Through Solid - Glass and Hat Penetration
70 Types of Tricks
70 - Sleight of Hand
71 - Secret Devices - The Ribbon and Matchbox: cut and restored
73 - Special Apparatus
73 - Faked Apparatus
73 - Peculiarities of Materials - The Silk Flame: silk from burning candle
76 - Scientific Principles - Blowing Smoke: from across the room into two glasses
77 - Place of Performance
79 - Articles Used

79 Chapter 3 How Our Senses Deceive Us
81 Corinda's Power of Perception: experiment with rings and a spectator with her eyes closed
86 Optical Illusions: multiple illusions described
96 A Smoking Illusion: with cigarettes
96 The Enchanted Room: turns upside down
97 Blindfold Illusion: a small scale illusion of being lifted

99 Part II Magic for Entertainment With Everyday Things

101 Chapter 4 Magic With Cards
101 A Clever Card Location: finding a card returned to a deck
102 The Card Detective: another location
103 Just Think of Any Card: a mathematical trick
104 The How Many Cards Trick: reveal how many cards taken
105 The Four Robbers: a story card trick with the Jacks
106 The Behind the Back Card Trick: spectator finds the card behind his back
107 The Seven Pile Trick: a simple prediction
107 The Telltale Finger (Al Baker): magician determines which of five cards chosen by touching spectator's fingers
110 Spelling Bee With Cards: using a stacked deck
110 Mental Gymnastics With a Deck of Cards: divine the sum of two cards even though out of the room
111 The Four Ace Assembly: Aces put into four piles assemble into one
113 The Card in the Pocket: selection ends up in magician's pocket
114 Card Trick of the Ages (Mickey MacDougall): a You Do As I Do with numbers matching a prediction
116 The Story of a Deck of Cards: interesting facts about playing cards

119 Chapter 5 Magic With Coins
119 The Ghost Coin: coin vanishes under a clear glass
121 The Dissolving Coin: vanishes in a glass of water
122 The Flying Coin: coin vanishes and is found in another room
124 The Wanderers: coins assemble to one corner
126 Coins From a Candle Flame: production
127 Rubbing a Coin Into Your Elbow: vanish
128 The Penetrating Penny: penny penetrates a saucer into a glass
129 The Coin Through The Handkerchief: penetration
130 Mindreading With a Coin: magician knows which spectator held a coin
131 A Half Dozen Coin Trick Quickies
131 - Heads or Tails: magician knows if spun coin lands heads or tails
132 - Heads Up: half dollar lands heads up every time
132 - The Spinning Coin: send a coin spinning
133 - The Clinging Coin: spectator can't sweep coin from hand
133 - A Quickie Coin Vanish: coin vanishes from hand with aid of a handkerchief
135 - The Appearing Coin in a Match Box: coin appears in empty match box
135 - The Coin Through the Trousers: penetration using a vanisher
136 Two Feature Coin Mysteries
136 - The Coin In the Handkerchief: signed coin vanishes from envelope to appear in a handkerchief
139 - The Thirteen Coins: coins invisibly transfer from one spectator to another

142 Chapter 6 Magic With Handkerchiefs
142 Stretching a Handkerchief: illusion
143 The Handkerchief That Will Not Knot: dissolving knot
144 The Dissolving Knot In the Handkerchief: another
145 The Instantaneous Knot: in handkerchief
146 A Couple of Handkerchief Tricky Quickies: tying a know without letting go; and with one hand
146 The Vanishing Knots in Handkerchief: using two borrowed handkerchiefs
148 The Seven Cornered Handkerchief: using a slip-knot
150 The Handkerchief Through the Wrist
152 The Handkerchief That Will Not Burn: borrowed white handkerchief
153 How to Push a Pen Covered By a Handkerchief Through a Table
156 The Magician's Rabbit: puppet from a handkerchief
157 The Little Ghost: another puppet
158 The Dancing Girl: another figure
159 The Handkerchief Doll
161 The Magic Mouse: a bit complicated but worth it
165 Magic With Silk Handkerchiefs
165 The Crystal Tube Handkerchief: silk vanishes in a clear tube in an instant
166 The Twentieth Century Handkerchief Trick: a transposition
167 The Magic Web Handkerchief Penetration (Charles Waller): red silk penetrates a white handkerchief covering a glass
170 The Chinese Coolie Hat Production: silk appears from a hat

172 Chapter 7 Magic With Matches
172 The Broken Match: in handkerchief
173 The Ghostly Ball: an invisible ball becomes solid under a handkerchief
174 The Static Electricity Matches: one match causes another to jump
174 The Hangman Match: an invisible hair pulls the head off a burnt match
175 Eating Matches: apparently eating a burning match
175 The Jumping Match Flame: one match visibly lights another
176 A Bit of Sleight of Hand With Matches: matches vanish one by one from the hand
177 The Perpetual Matchheads: two in the hand and one in the pocket
178 The Penetrating Matches: one match penetrates another in the hands
179 The Interlocking Matches: stunt
179 Always on Top: using the paddle move
180 The Magnetized Box of Matches: box of matches clings to a door
181 The Magnetized Matches: matches don't fall out of an inverted match box
182 Matchstick Mathemagic: spectator removes matches, and magician removes some, matching a prediction
183 Mental Matches: mindreading with matches
184 The Acrobatic Matches (Ken Littlewood): matchbox stands up on back of the hand
185 New Match Tricks: comic illustrated water proof matches, magnetized matches, and disappointment matches
188 The Floating Match: match rises above a match box
188 The Traveling Matches: matches pass to an empty matchbox
190 A Surprise for Your Friends: lighting a match on your shoe

191 Chapter 8 Magic With Rope and String
191 The Hindu Rope: cut and restored
194 Stretching a Rope: a short rope becomes very long
196 The Traveling Knots: knots untied in one rope appear on another
198 Rope Through The Neck: penetration
199 Three Tricky Twine Tricks (Joseph Leeming)
199 - Off the Nose: string appears to penetrate your finger
200 - String Through the Buttonhole
201 - The Vanishing Knot in a Loop of String
202 Chewing a Cut String Together: miniature version of cut and restored rope
203 Magic Rope Escapes
204 The Kellar Rope Tie: wrist tie escape
205 The Double Nelson Rope Tie: chair rope tie escape
207 The Dangerous Rope Tie (Burling Hull): another chair rope tie escape
208 The Houdini Escape from One Hundred Feet of Rope:
209 The Strangulation Rope Tie (Joseph Ovette): tied to a board with a rope, the magician escapes in front of the audience
211 The Rope and Broom Escape (U.F. Grant): assistant escape
213 - Variation (Jean Hugard)
214 Rope, String, and Ring Magic
214 The Ring Off The String: Ring penetrates off a string
215 The Phantom Ring: Ring passes onto a rope tied between the wrists
216 A Gambol With Ghosts: making sounds from a Spirit Cabinet
219 Entertaining With Magic: End of Part One

221 Index