Neil, C. Lang: Modern Card
Manipulation ©1904 Hamley Brothers Ltd, London and C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. Hardcover, 120 pages ©1911 ©1915 Fourth Edition ©1919 C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. |
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Contents:
7 Principles of Natural Magic
11 Manner and Gesture
13 The Conjurer's Clothes
15 The Wand
16 The Table
18 Sleights Necessary in Card Conjuring
18 Two-Handed Pass
22 One-Hand Pass
23 The Palm
28 An Easy Pass
29 Palm From Bottom of Pack
30 Back and Front Continuous Palm
35 False Shuffle
38 To Force a Card
40 Simple Card Tricks
40 The Turned Card
41 Catching Chosen Cards in Air
43 Unique Card
44 Novel Discovery of Chosen Card
46 Artful Card
47 Simple Discovery of Chosen Card
48 To Shake Card Through Handkerchief
52 Advanced Card Tricks
52 A Production and Vanish of Cards
55 Some Manipulation with Cards
58 Bottle and Card Trick
60 To Pass Cards From Pocket to Pocket
66 Diminishing Cards
72 Discovering Card Blindfolded
77 Three-Card Trick, New Method
81 Rising Card Trick
88 "Thurston" Rising Cards
94 Some Easy Card Tricks
94 The Reversed Card
94 The Queens Who Left Their Courts to Dig for Diamonds
95 To Allow a Person to Think of a Card, and to Make That Card
Appear at any Number in the Pack Which the Rest of the Company May
Decide Upon
96 To Tell the Card Thought of by Arranging the Cards in a Circle
97 To Place the Four Kings in Different Parts of the Pack and to
Bring Them Together by a Simple Cut
98 To Bring Four Cards Together After They Have Been Placed in
Different Parts of the Pack
99 The Cards Sprung From Hand to Hand
100 A Row of Cards Being Placed Face Downwards Upon the Table, to
Indicate by Turning Up One of Them How Many Cards Have Been
Transferred From One End to the Other During Your Absence
101 To Change Three Cards Placed in the Pocket of a Spectator Into
Three Others Previously Chosen
102 The "Three Card" Trick
103 To Make Three Cards Pass Invisibly From One Packet to Another
104 Tricks With Specially Prepared Cards
104 The Demon Card Trick
105 The Pocket-Picking Trick
106 The Changing Card
107 Other Changing Cards
108 The Transforming Sevens
111 The Four Queens Changed to Kings
112 To Change a Drawn Card Into the Portraits of Several of the
Company in Succession
113 Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus
113 A Selected Card Caught on the Point of a Sword
114 A Chosen Card Found in a Cigar
115 The Caballistic Star
116 Tricks Performed With the Aid of Card Boxes
116 Bland's Brass Card Box
118 To Make Selected Cards Jump Out of the Pack
120 To Produce Two Cards in Succession From an Empty Drawer