Schorb, George: Riddles and Drawing Room Magic ©1907 Wm. H. Lee |
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Comments: "A complete collection of the world's best
riddles, card tricks and parlor games". Includes a section with
card, coin and handkerchief tricks.
Contents (from edition at Archive.org):
1 Introduction
2 Five Hundred Riddles
22 Biographical Riddles
25 Bible Riddles
27 Golden Texts From Shakespeare
29 Kissing Riddles
29 Questions In Science
31 Puzzles In Spelling
32 Gymnastics For the Tongue
33 Mathematical and Practical Puzzles
36 Lying Figures
38 Lame Logic
38 A Musical Chatechism
39 Palindromes
39 Acrostic
40 Squaring a Word
41 A Curiosity
42 A Poem by Twenty Poets
42 Playing with Puns
43 A Reading Puzzle
50 Shelley's Riddle
51 McClellan
52 Miss Fanshaw's Enigma
53a A Suspicious Circumstance
53b A Calculating Man
53c The State of Trade
53d The Effect of Culture
53e The Course of True Love
53f Burlesque Quotations From Shakespeare
53g Putting Off Duns
53h Peril of Translation
53i It's Purpose
53j Not Worth Having
53k Fashion Notes
53l Concealing His Contempt
54 Parlor Entertainments and Evening Party Amusements
55 Games of Action
55 Blind Man's Buff
56 Buff With the Wand
56 Hot Cockies
57 The Feather Game
57 Hunt the Ring
58 Twirl the Plate, or My Lady's Toilet
58 The Stage-Coach
59 The Little Dog
62 Musical Fright
62 Magic Music
63 The Dutch Concert
63 The Knight of the Whistle
65 He Can Do Little Who Can't Do This
65 The Farmyard
66 Crossed Questions and Crooked Answers
68 Russian Gossip
69 How? When? and Where?
70 The Two Hats
70 Shadow Pantomime
75 Multiplying Shadows
77 Drawing Room Magic
77 Card Tricks
77 To Make the Pass
79 To Force a Card
81 To Palm a Card
81 To Slip a Card
83 To Make a Card Vanish From the Pack, and be Found in a Person's
Pocket
84 To Place The Four Kings In Different Parts Of The Pack, And
To Bring Them Together By A Simple Cut
85 The Four Kings Being Placed Under The Hand Of One Person,
And The Four Sevens Under The Hand Of Another, Make
Them Change Places At Command
86 Four Packets Of Cards Having Been Formed Face Downward
On The Table, Discover The Total Value Of The Undermost Cards
87 To Arrange Twelve Cards In Rows, In Such A Manner That They
Will Count Four In Every Direction
87 To Place The Aces And Court Cards In Four Rows, In Such A
Manner That Neither Horizontally Nor Vertically Shall
There Be In Either Row Two Cards Alike Either In Suit Or
Value
88 The Congress of Court Cards
89 The Alternate Card Trick
89 The Spelling Bee Trick
90 To Name Any Number Of Cards In Succession Without Seeing
Them
90 To Nail a Chosen Card to the Wall
91 Coin Tricks
93 Pass 1
93 Pass 2
94 Pass 3
95 A Dollar Being Spun Upon The Table, Tell Blindfold Whether
It Falls Head Or Tail Upwards
96 Odd or Even, or the Mysterious Addition
96 To Rub One Nickel Into Three
97 To Pass a Ring Though a Pocket Handkerchief
98 To Pass a Ring Through the Table
99 The Handkerchief That Cannot Be Tied in a Knot
100 The Vanishing Knots
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