Stodare, Colonel: Stodare's Fly Notes ©1867 George Routledge & Sons, London Hardcover, no dj, 126 pages

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Comments: Or Conjuring Made Easy for Juvenile Amateurs. This was originally a series of articles published in Routledge's Every Boys Annual.

Contents (based on the extracts from Routledge's Every Boys Annual, page numbers do not correspond to book):

1 Introduction
4 Of Palmistry and Passes
4 - First Pass
5 - Second Pass
6 First Trick - To Order a Shilling to Pass Into the Centre of a Ball of Berlin Wool
8 Second Trick - To Change a Bowl of Ink Into Clear Water With Gold Fish In It
9 Third Trick - The Dancing Egg
10 Fourth Trick - The Walking Shilling

12 Hints to Young Amateurs
12 - First: collusion of a confederate
13 - Second: employment of mechanisms
15 Trick 5 - To Make a Half Crown and a Penny Cange Places
16 Trick 6 - Another Trick With the Half-Crown, Handkerchief, and an Orange or Lemon
17 Trick 7 - How To Double Your Pocket Money
17 Trick 8 - The Injured Handkerchief Restored
19 Trick 9 - To Make a Large Di Pass Through the Crown of a Hat Without Injuring It
20 Trick 10 - To Produce From a Silk Handkerchief, Bon-Bons, Macaroon Biscuits, Nuts, &c.

21 Practice
23 Trick 11 - A Sudden and Unexpected Supply of Feathers From Under a Silk Handkerchief or Cloth
24 Trick 12 - Heads or Tails?
25 Trick 13 - To Cook Pancakes or a Flat Plum-Cake In a Hat, Over Some Candles
27 Trick 14 - To Eat a Dish of Paper-Shavings and Draw Them Out of Your Mouth Like an Atlantic Cable
28 Trick 15 - How to Cut Off a Nose Without Actual Injury

30 Tricks with Magnetism, Chemistry, Galvanism, or Electricity
31 Trick 16 - The Watch Obedient to the Word of Command
33 Trick 17 - An Experiment With a Very Mild Dish of Electiry
34 Trick 18 - A Chemical Trick to Follow Oe Where a Young Friend Has Assisted
35 Trick 19 - To Draw Three Reels Off Two Tapes Witout Those Reels Having to Come Off the Ends of the Tapes, and While the Four Ends of the Tapes Are Held by Four People
36 Trick 20 - To Restore a Tape Whole After It Has Been Cut in the Middle

39 Preserving Continuity in the Development of Tricks
41 - Introductory
41 - During the Successive Stages of a Trick
42 - In Concluding a Trick
42 Trick 21 - The Invisible Hen: Hen egg bag
45 Trick 22, 23, 24 A Series of Tricks; the Chief Agent Being a Plain Gold Ring
46 - Trick 22
46 - Trick 23
47 - Trick 24

48 On Presentation
51 Trick 25 The Conjuror's Bonus Genius or Familiar Messenger
53 Trick 26 The Shower of Money
54 Trick 27 To Furnish Ladies With a Magic Supply of Tea or Coffee At Their Selection, From One and the Same Jug
55 Trick 28 A Pleasing Exhibition for Both The Performer and the Audience to View When They Feel a Little Exhausted
57 Trick 29 The Magic Funnel
58 Trick 30 To Furnish a Treat to the Gentlemen