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After-Dinner SkigMs ana Pocket Cricks HY

C. LANG NEIL With uptvards of ioo Illustrations A Collection of Amusing Tricks, requiring very little skill, and no, or very simple, apparatus. These Tricks are, as the title suggests, especially suitable for a few minutes' amusement after dinner, or to fill up what might become an awkward pause, as the time occupied in the presentation of each is very short.

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TRICKS FOR EVERYONE. CLEVER CONJURING WITH COMMON OBJECTS.

By DAVID DEVANT. (Of Maskelyne & Deuant, St. George's Hall, London.)

Illustrated with r34 Photographs, showing the complete working of the experiments.

The Contents include:—Tricks at the Writing Table—Tricks in the Smoking Ropm—Tricks at the Work Table—Tricks at the Dinner T a b l e Tricks in the Garden—Card Tricks —Thought Reading Tricks, etc.

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By A. CYRIL PEARSON. Author of " T h e Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book," etc.

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FUN ON THE BILLIARD TABLE. A Collection of 75 Amusing Tricks and Games, with Photographs and Diagrams.

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MODERN CARD MANIPULATION

THE STANDARD BOOK ON CONJURING THE

MODERN CONJURER

BY C. LANG NEIL Demy 8vo, cloth.

Price 6s.

Second Edition

"The Modern Conjurer Explains and Illustrates Tricks by J. N. MASKELYNE.

FRANK KENNARD.

PAUL VALADON. H. De MANCHE.

TREWEY.

CHARLES BERTRAM. T. NELSON DOWNS.

MDLLE. PATRICE.

ELLIS STANYON.

There are 512 Illustrations explaining the exact working of the various illusions, and these are reproduced from photograph* from life of the conjurers whose tricks are given.

SOME PRESS OPINIONS. " A thorough manual of the Conjurers' Art."—Spectator. " The most complete work on Modern Conjuring."—Echo. " The Amateur Conjurer could not have a better guide."

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" The instructions are 10 lucidly explained that any one without any previous knowledge of Conjuring can learn the art from thit book."—To-Day.

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MODERN CARD MANIPULATION BY

C. LANG NEIL AUTHOR OF " T H E MODERN CONJURER," " A F T E R - D I N N E R SLEIGHTS AND POCKET TRICKS," ETC.

WITH UPWARDS OF 100 ILLUSTRATIONS

Third and Enlarged Edition

London C. A r t h u r Pearson L t d .

Henrietta Street 1911

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PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL MAGIC

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CONJURING.

Two-handed Pass (five illustrations) . .

One-hand Pass (three illustrations) .

T h e Palm (eleven illustrations) . . .

An Easy Pass . . . . . .

Palm from Bottom of Pack (two illustrations) .

Back and Front Continuous Palm (thirteen illustrations) False Shuffle (three illustrations) . .

• T o Force a Card . . . . .

SIMPLE CARD

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TRICKS.

T h e Turned Card . . . .

Catching Chosen Cards in Air (one illustration) . .

Unique Card . . . . . .

Novel Discovery of Chosen Card (two illustrations) .

Artful Card . . . . . .

Simple Discovery of Chosen Card . . . .

T o Shake Card through Handkerchief (seven illustrations)

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ADVANCED CARD TRICKS.

A Production and Vanish of Cards (two illustrations) Some Manipulations with Cards (twelve illustrations) Bottle and Card Trick (one illustration) .

T o Pass Cards from Pocket to Pocket (six illustrations) Diminishing Cards (eleven illustrations) . .

Discovering Card Blindfolded (six illustrations) .

Three-Card Trick : New Method (nine illustrations) Rising Card Trick (three illustrations) . . " T h u r s t o n " Rising Cards (three illustrations) .

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CONTENTS SOME EASY CARD T R I C K S .

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The Reversed Card . . . . .

T h e Queens who left their Courts to dig for Diamonds .

T o 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 . • • To tell the Card thought of by arranging the Cards in a Circle (one illustration) . . . .

T o place the Four Kings in different parts of the Pack, and to bring them together by a simple Cut . .

To bring Four Cards together after they have been placed in different parts of the Pack (one illustration) . .

T h e Cards sprung from hand to hand (one illustration) .

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 . . . . .

To change Three Cards placed in the Pocket of a Spectator into three others previously chosen . . .

The " T h r e e - C a r d " T r i c k . . . .

To make Three Cards pass invisibly from one Packet to another . . . . . .

T R I C K S WITH SPECIALLY P R E P A R E D

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95 96 97 98 99

100 101 102 103

CARDS.

T h e Demon Card Trick . . .

T h e Pocket-Picking Trick . .

T h e Changing Card . . .

Other Changing Cards (one illustration) .

T h e Transforming Sevens (five illustrations) T h e Four Queens changed to Kings .

To change a drawn Card into the Portraits of the company in succession . .

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TRICKS REQUIRING SPECIAL APPARATUS.

A Selected Card Caught on the Point of a Sword A Chosen Card Found in a Cigar . .

T h e Cabalistic Star (one illustration) .

TRICKS PERFORMED WITH THE A I D OF CARD

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BOXES.

Eland's Brass Card Box (one illustration) . . .116 To Make Selected Cards Jump Out of the Pack (one illustration) . . . . . . 118 To Produce Two Cards in Succession from an Empty O . dHG Drawer . . . , , 120

MODERN CARD MANIPULATION THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL MAGIC " IT is the quickness of the hand deceives the eye" was a maxim correctly applied to the performances of the earlier conjurers, whose skill was of the juggling order.

It is also in some degree applicable to the recent type of coin and card manipulation, which has been made the vogue by several very clever American performers.

But as descriptive of the secrets of conjuring and magic (I always use the word in its natural, not the supernatural sense) it is entirely erroneous.

The magician or the drawing-room conjurer who desires to create real illusions—that is to say, to quite deceive his audience as to all he does—must rely on much more cunningly constructed foundations for his schemes than mere quickness of the hand.

The juggling order of sleight of hand is most interesting and clever, but is only a branch of natural magic. The performer who takes a card or coin and apparently throws it into space, immediately showing the hand which held it quite empty both back and front, has astonished his audience—he has not deceived them—