More Magic
By Professor Hoffman
with 140 Illustrations
Published by David McKay, No Date, Circa 1940's
Contains 457 pages
INCLUDES RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET!
Condition: Book is Near Fine+ Dust Jacket is Very Good with some chipping around the perimeter, some surface chipping, even with its 60+ years of age the colors of this dust jacket remain vibrant with no sunning or discoloration.
"Every generation a magician comes along, whose intention is to record
magic in an encyclopedic fashion. Professor Hoffmann was the first in
recorded history to attempt such a feat with his trilogy
Modern Magic,
More Magic, and
Later Magic.
Certainly many magic books have been published before him, mostly
copying from each other. But none reaches the depth and breadth of
Prof. Hoffmann's work. The material in these three books records the
state of the art of magic in the late 19th century. Today we know more
tricks and we have also refined our techniques and methods. But it is
astounding how much was already known at that time. Reading carefully
you will discover several clever methods which have been forgotten or
have fallen out of fashion with todays popular magicians. If you really
want to fool your magic friends the next time, read this book and
perform one of its many not so well known secrets.
"
"The present pages are intended as a
supplement to the writer's treatise on "Modern Magic," which made its
first appearance in 1878. It has run through six editions, and still
maintains its position as the standard authority on the subject, but
the knowing in such matters begin to complain that it is not quite up
to date. Conjuring, like other arts, has been "moving on" during the
past eleven years. Old methods have been improved, and new have been
devised. "Eternal progress is eternal change," and the "how it's done"
of 1889 differs, in a good many particulars, from the "how it used to
be done" of 1878."
Table of contents
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- Introductory
CHAPTER I.
THE MAGICIAN'S WAND, THE MAGICIAN'S TABLE, AND THE MAGICIAN'S DRESS.
- The Firing Wand
- The Electric Wand
- New forms of "Servante"
- Substitute for the "Table"
- A Mechanical Hat
CHAPTER II.
PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT OF HAND APPLICABLE TO CARD TRICKS.
- The "Charlier" Pass
- To Force a Card (New Methods)
- To Force Three Cards together
- False Shuffles (New Methods)
- To Change a Card - The Revolution
- To Spring the Cards from the one Hand to the Other (with Mechanical Pack)
- The Bridge (Additional Methods)
CHAPTER III.
CARD TRICKS WITH ORDINARY CARDS AND NOT REQUIRING SLEIGHT OF HAND.
- Methods of Identifying a Chosen Card
- Any number of Packets of Cards having been formed face downwards on the Table, to discover the Total Value of
the Undermost Cards (New Method)
- New Numerical Trick with Cards
- The Capital Q
- To name Cards without seeing them
- The "Alternate Card" Trick
- The "Spelling" Trick
- The "Twenty-seven Card" Trick - To cause a Card selected by one Spectator to appear at such number in the Pack
as another Spectator may indicate
- A Row of Cards being placed face downwards on the Table, to discover how many have during your absence been
transferred from one end to the other. (Improved Method)
CHAPTER IV.
TRICKS INVOLVING SLEIGHT OF HAND OR THE USE OF SPECIALLY PREPARED CARDS.
- To produce Three Cards at any position in the Pack thought of by another person
- A Card being freely chosen from the Pack, replaced, and the Pack shuffled, to make any given Card change to the
one chosen
- The "Alternate Card" Trick with a Complete Pack
- To pass a Chosen Card through the Crown of a Borrowed Hat
- To change Three Cards, placed in the Pocket of a Spectator into three others previously chosen
- To make a Card freely drawn, and replaced in the Pack, change places with another Card on the Table
- To distinguish the Suit of a given Card by Weight
- The "Three-Card" Trick
- "Changing" Cards
- "Walking Pip" Cards
- The Cards passing up the Sleeve, and the Diminishing and Increasing Cards
CHAPTER V.
THE "CHARLIER" SYSTEM OF CARD-MARKING, AND TRICKS PERFORMED BY ITS AID.
- The method of Marking
- Reading the Cards
- The Charlier "Dial"
- Method of Calculation
- Practical Illustrations
- The Mysterious Pairs
- To name the Article taken by each of Four Persons
- To name the Bottom Card of each of Three Heaps of Cards
CHAPTER VI.
CARD TRICKS REQUIRING SPECIAL APPARATUS.
- The Rising Cards (La Houlette) (Improved Methods)
- To Catch a Selected Card on the End of a Walking Stick
- Frames of various kinds for producing Cards
- Field's Card-Frame
- The French Card-Frame
- The Sand Frame
- The Velvet Frame and Artist's Easel
- The Crystal Frame
- The Cabalistic Star, for the production of Cards
- The Velvet Cloth, for the production of Cards
- The Black Cloth Target
- The Magic Card Case
- The Card Drawer. (Improved)
- A New Changing Card-box and Tricks therewith
- The Magnetic Wand and Walking Card
- The Enchanted Hand-Mirror
- The Multiplying and Vanishing Cards
CHAPTER VII.
METHODS OF SLEIGHT OF HAND APPLICABLE TO COIN TRICKS.
- The "Jerk-back" Palm
- Coin Changes
- To Extract a Coin from a Folded Paper
- To Wrap a Coin apparently in a Handkerchief
CHAPTER VIII.
COIN TRICKS WITHOUT APPARATUS.
- To make a Coin vanish from and return to the Left Hand
- To rub a Coin into the Elbow
- To vanish Coins and reproduce them from the Elbow
- The Penetrative Coins
- Another Method
- A New "Multiplication" Trick
CHAPTER IX.
COIN TRICKS REQUIRING SPECIAL APPARATUS.
- To produce Coins from a lighted Candle
- To pass Coins into a Bottle
- Multiplying Coins and Tricks therewith
- The eight Coins and two Brass Covers
- Head or Tail
- The Mysterious Tumbler - To pass a coin from a Glass of Water into the Centre of an Orange
- The Climbing Coin - A Florin made to climb up the face of a small Wooden Pillar, into a Box at top
CHAPTER X.
TRICKS WITH WATCHES AND RINGS.
- A Smashed Watch (New Methods)
- The Improved Watch Mortar
- A Watch found at the root of a Flower
- Taylor's Watch Trick
- Devono's Watch-bag
- The "Lady's Stocking"
- The Wandering Ring
- Verbeck's Wedding-ring Trick
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CHAPTER XI.
TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS.
- A Handkerchief Puzzle
- The Instantaneous Knot
- The Stretched Handkerchief
- To "Vanish" a Handkerchief (Sundry Methods)
- The Buatier "Pull"
- The "Bare-armed Vanish"
- The Dissolving Handkerchiefs
- The Two Decanters and the Flying Handkerchief
- Multiplication of Handkerchiefs
- Red, White, and Blue
- The Vanishing Pockethandkerchief found in a Candle. (New Method)
- "Flash" Handkerchiefs
- The Revolving Candle for Handkerchief
- A Pack of Cards transformed into a Handkerchief
- A Saucepan to cook a Handkerchief
CHAPTER XII.
FEATS OF DIVINATION.
- The Expunged Numeral
- To Predict the Sum of Five Rows of Figures
- The Magic Circle (To discover a Card or other Object touched during the Performer's Absence)
- "Second Sight" Tricks
- Reading Blindfold
- Dr. Lynn's "Second Sight" Trick
- The Thinkophone
- The Box of Numbers
CHAPTER XIII.
BALL TRICKS.
- The Billiard-ball Trick
- Another Method
- The Chameleon Ball
- The Obedient Ball (Improved)
CHAPTER XIV.
TRICKS WITH HATS.
- Hartz and his "Hat" Trick
- The Bundle of Firewood
- A Flower-garden from a Hat
- A New Folding Bouquet
- The Cannon-ball Trick (Improved)
- The Cannon-ball Globe
- The Paper Ribbon and the Barber's Pole
- The Animated Cigar
- A Hat with a Hole in it
- The Finger through the Hat
- The Cork through the Hat
- The Coin through the Hat
- The Cigar through the Hat
- The Wand passed through the Hat
- The Magnetized Hat
- Another Method
- The Smashed Hat
CHAPTER XV.
TRICKS WITH EGGS.
- The Egg made to Sink or Swim at Command
- To Balance an Egg on a Table
- To Balance an Egg on the End of a Straw
- To Spin an Egg on End
- To Produce Eggs from an Empty Handkerchief
- Another Method
- "Patter" for this and a "Cake" Trick
- Prepared Eggs - Paper from an Egg
- A Barber's Pole from an Egg
- To Produce Eggs from the Flame of a Candle
- Egg Swallowing
- To Pass an Egg through a Hat
- The Climbing Egg
CHAPTER XVI.
MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS.
- The Mysterious Release
- The Bottle Imp. (Improved)
- Conjurer's Cress
- Candle-lighting Extraordinary
- The Obedient Candle
- Newspaper Cuttings turned into Pale Ale
- The Bran Plate
- Bran Disappearing from a Glass, and Re-appearing under a Plate
- The Flying Glass, Watch, and Handkerchief
- The Inexhaustible Punch-bowl
- The Coffee Trick. (Improved Method)
- The Wine and Water Trick. (Improved Methods)
- Wine or Water. (Another Method)
- The Wine Proof
- The Inexhaustible Portfolio
- The Horn of Plenty
- The Bewitched Fan
- A Shower of Flowers
- The Spiritualistic Ball, Ring and Card
CHAPTER XVII.
STAGE TRICKS.
- The New Target, for Watch and Card
- The Broken Mirror
- The Card in the Candle
- The Bewitched Skull
- The Talking Hand
- The Shower of Gold
- The Demon Marksman
- The Vanishing Lady
- L'Envoi
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