Reed, Frank M. (Publisher): The Black Art Fully Exposed and Laid Bare ©1874 Frank M. Reed, NY Softcover, perfect-bound, 58 pages plus ads

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Comments: No author credited. Reprinted in 1891 by Ogilvie Publishing along with Magic and Mystery. Also, Herrmann's Book of Magic, Black Art Exposed includes Chapter IX, which has the same contents as this book up to page 37.

Contents (from book)

5 To Determine the Article Selected by the Company, the Performer Being Absent from the room at the Time of the Selection
6 To Knock a Tumbler Through a Table
7 To Drive one Tumbler Through Another
7 The Dancing Skeleton
8 The Head of the Decapitated Speaking
9 The Mystery of the Floating Head
11 To Place a Lighted Candle under Water, without Extinguishing it; or a Handkerchief without Wetting it
12 To Place Water in a Drinking-glass Upside Down
12 The Faded Rose Restored
13 The Protean Liquid
13 The Burned Handkerchief Restored
14 Eatable Candle Ends
14 To make a Watch Stop or Go at the Word of Command
15 To Walk Upon a Hot Iron Bar
15 How to Cut Your Arm Off Without Hurt or Danger
16 To Pour Cold Water Into a Kettle and Make It Come Out Hot Without the Aid of Fire
16 How to Cut a Man's Head Off, and Put it Into a Platter, a Yard From His Body
17 To discover any Card in a Pack by its Weight or Smell
17 To Turn Water Into Wine
18 Magic Breath
18 To Make a Party Appear Ghastly
18 How to Eat Fire
19 To Dip the Hand in Water Without Wetting It
19 How to Shoot a Bird and Bring it to Life Again
20 Hideous Metamorphosis
20 How to Fill a Glass With Beer and Water at the SAme Time, Without Mixing The Two Liquids
20 How to Kill a Fowl and Bring it to Life Again
21 To Light a Candle by a Glass of Water
21 To Light a Candle Smoke
21 To Freeze Water by Shaking It
21 Iron Changed into Silver
21 Two Cold Liquids When Mixed Become Boiling Hot
22 The Incombustible Handkerchief
22 Two Cold Liquids Produce Fire
22 To Give a Person a Supernatural Appearance
22 The Floating Needle
22 Luminous Writing
23 Beautiful Transformations
23 To Break a Stone With a Blow of the Fist
23 Magical Teaspoons
24 To Bring Two Separate Coins into One Hand
24 To Cut and Tear Into Pieces a Handkerchief, and to Make it Whole Again
25 How to Fire a Loaded Pistol at the Hand, Without Hurting It
26 A Vessel That Will Let Water Out at the Bottom, as Soon as the Mouth Is Uncorked
26 The Conjurer's Banquet
29 A Dollar Bill Concealed in a Candle
30 To Melt Iron in a Moement, and Make it Run Into Drops
30 To Change a Bowl of Ink into Clear Water, With Gold Fish in It
31 How to Swallow a Number of Needles and Yards of Thread
32 How to Make a Bird Seem as Dead
32 To Make the Appearance of a Flash of Lightning When Anyone Enters a Room Wth a Lighted Candle
32 To Break a Stick Placed on Two Glasses Without Breaking the Glasses
33 To Set a Combustible Body on Fire by the Contact of Water
33 To Eat a Dish of Paper Shavings, and Draw Them Out of Your Mouth Like an Atlantic Cable
34 To Produce from a Silk Handkerchief Bonbons, Candies, Nuts, etc.
35 To Keep a Stone in Perpetual Motion
36 To Make a Card Jump Out of the Pack and Run on the Table
36 How to Tell a Person any Card He Thinks of, and to Convey it Into a Nut
36 To Make a Cone or Pyramid Move Upon a Table Without Springs or Any Other Artificial Means
36 How to Make an Egg, Apparently of Itself, Leave the Center of the Room and Traverse to a Saucer of Water Placed in the Corner
37 To Eat Cotton Wool and Blow Fire and Sparks Out of Your Mouth
37 To Make a peg that will exactly fit three different kinds of Holes
38 Magic Money
38 The Magic Knife
39 To Bring Colored Ribbons From Your Mouth
39 A Cheap WAy of Being Generous
40 To Make Fire Bottles: chemical trick
40 Artificial Thunder: chemical explosion
41 The Magic Flask: color vanishes when bottle corked - chemical trick
41 How to Let Twenty Gentlemen Draw Twenty Cards, and to Make One Card Every Man's Card
41 How to Double Your Pocket Money: coins pass from the hand to the spectator's
43 To Catch Money From the Air: Miser's Dream
44 Curious Watch Trick - to Tell at What Hour a Person Will Rise in the Morning: mathematical trick
45 To Produce a Cannon Ball From a Hat
45 A Aviary in a Hat
46 To See a Future Husband
47 To Know What Fortune Your Future Husband Will Have
47 To Give Eggs a Variegated Appearance
47 The Wet Sleeve
48 To Produce Beautiful Fireworks in Miniature
49 To Construct and Inflate a Small Balloon
49 The Enchanted Cock
49 The Oriental Ball Trick
50 An Excellent Card Trick
51 The Ring and the Stick
52 The Hat Puzzle
52 The Restored Handkerchief
53 Excellent Trick with Shilling-Pieces
54 A Rope Trick
55 An Impossibility
55 To Make a Cane or Poker Stand in the Middle of the Room
55 The Trick of the Inexhaustible Bottle
56 The Dice Trick
56 The Twenty Cent Trick
57 To Make an Egg Stand on One End on a Table or Looking Glass
57 The Magic Cups
58 The Bogle Bodkin
58 To Put a Ring Through One's Cheek

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