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I Preliminary Observations
The Magic Wand
The Magician's Table
The Magician's Dress

II General Principles of Sleight-of-hand Applicable to Card Tricks
The Cards
To Make the Pass (Sauter la Coupe)
To Force a Card
To Make a "False Shuffle"
To "Palm" a Card
The Continuous Back and Front Palm with Cards
To "Change" a Card (Filer la Carte)
The "Color" Change
To "Slip" a Card
To Spring the Cards from One Hand to the Other
To Throw a Card
The Bridge

III Card Tricks with Ordinary Cards, and not Requiring Sleight-of-hand
Simple Modes of Discovering a Given Card
The Four Kings Being Placed Under the Hand of One Person and the Four Sevens Under the Hand of Another, to Make Them Change Places at Will
To Name Cards Without Seeing Them
New Thought Card Sleights
The Lost Ace
To Name All the Cards in the Pack in Succession

IV Tricks Involving Sleight-of-hand or the Use of Specially Prepared Cards
To Distinguish the Suit of Any Given Card by Weight
The "Three-Card" Trick
The Penetrating Card
The Long Card
The Ladies' Looking Glass
Torn Corner Card Trick

V Card Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus
The Cards Rising Through the Air
Changing Card-Boxes, and Tricks Performed With Them
Mechanical Changing Cards
The Crystal Frame
The Cabalistic Star for the Production of Cards

VI Principles of Sleight-of-hand More Especially Applicable to Coin Tricks
To Secretly Change a Coin
The Continuous Back and Front Coin Palm
To Palm a Coin and Yet Show Both Sides of the Hand Empty

VII Coin Tricks Without Apparatus
To Pull Four Half-dollars Through a Handkerchief
To Extract a Coin from a Folded Paper

VIII Tricks with Coin Requiring Special Apparatus
The Rattle-Box. To Make a Coin Vanish from the Box, Though Still Heard to Rattle Within It
The Demon Handkerchief (Le Mouchoir du Diable)
The Half-dollar Wand
The Shower of Money
New Coin Catching
To Produce Coins from a Lighted Candle

IX Tricks with Watches and Rings
A Smashed Watch
A New Watch Trick
The Coin, Handkerchief, and Ring Trick
The Watch Box
Verbeck's Wedding Ring Trick
The Wandering Ring

X Tricks with Handkerchiefs
The Handkerchief That Cannot Be Tied in a Knot
To Exchange a Borrowed Handkerchief for a Substitute
The Locked and Corded Box
The Burning Globe
The Dissolving Handkerchiefs
Red, White and Blue
The Balanced Handkerchief
Multiplication of Handkerchief (A silk handkerchief made into two or more)
New Handkerchief Sleights
New Handkerchief and Egg Trick
The Egg and Handkerchief Shot
Handkerchief Production with the Aid of a False Finger
The Spirit Handkerchief
The Handkerchief Which Changes Color

XI The Cups and Balls
1. To Palm the Ball
2. To Reproduce the Palmed Ball at the End of the Fingers
3. To Secretly Introduce the Palmed Ball Under the Cup
4. To Simulate the Action of Placing a Ball Under a Cup
To Produce a Ball from the Wand
To Return a Ball Into the Wand
To Pass One Cup Through Another
Pass I. Having Placed a Ball Under Each Cup, to Draw it Out Again Without Lifting the Cup
Pass II. To Make a Ball Travel Invisibly from Cup to Cup
Pass III. Having Placed a Ball Under Each of the End Cups, to Make Them Pass Successively Under the Middle Cup
Pass IV. Having Placed Two Balls Under the Middle Cup, to Make Them Pass Under the Two Outer Ones.
Pass V. To Pass Three Balls in Succession Under One Cup
Pass VI. To Place Three Balls One After the Other Upon the Top of One of the Cups and to Make Them Fall
Pass VII. To Pass Three Balls in Succession Upwards Through the Table Into One of the Cups
Pass VIII. To Pass Two Balls in Succession From One Cup to Another Without Touching Them
Pass IX. To Make Three Balls in Succession Pass Under the Middle Cup
Pass X. The "Multiplication" Pass
Pass XI. To Transform the Small Balls to Larger Ones
Pass XII. To Again Transform the Balls to Still Larger Ones

XII Ball Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus
The Ball Box
The Red and Black Ball Vases
Morison's Pill-Box
The Ball Which Changes to a Rose
The Obedient Ball
The New Billiard Ball Production
The Tube and Ball

XIII Tricks with Hats
The Cannon-balls in the Hat
A Dozen Babies from a Hat
The Magic Reticules
The Drums from the Hat
The Birdcages from the Hat
The Cake (or Pudding) in the Hat
The Welsh Rabbit
The Bundle of Firewood
A Flower-Garden from a Hat
The Animated Cigar
The Wand Passed Through the Hat
The Magnetized Hat

XIV Second-Sight Tricks
Reading Blindfolded
Dr. Lynn's Second-Sight Trick
The Thinkophone
The Box of Numbers

XV Miscellaneous Tricks
The Vanishing Gloves
The Rice and Orange Trick
The Drawer-Box
The Changing Ladle
The Inexhaustible Bottle
The Bottle and Ribbons
The Mysterious Funnel
The Box of Bran Transformed to a Bottle of Wine
The Bran Bottle
The Bran Glass
To Fire Borrowed Rings from a Pistol, and Make Them Pass Into a Goblet Filled with Bran and Covered with a Handkerchief, the Bran Disappearing, and Being Found Elsewhere
The Butterfly Trick
The Wizard's Omelet (Borrowed Rings and Live Doves Produced from an Omelet)
The Chinese Rings
The Cannon-Ball Globe
To Balance an Egg on the End of a Straw
The Obedient Candle
The Bran Plate
Bran Disappearing from a Glass, and Reappearing Under a Plate
The "Coffee Trick" - Improved
The Mysterious Coffe-Cups
The Enchanted Colored Sands
The Famous Egg and Bag Trick
The Wine and Water Transformation
The Tambourine and Ribbon Trick
The Transformation of Paper Shavings into Coffee and Milk
The Bewitched Fan
The Vanishing Canary Bird and Cage
The Floating Coin
The Mystic Afghan Bands
The Cross of the Orient
The Latest Cigarette Evanishment

Stage Tricks
1. The Plain Trap
2. The "Wrist" or "Pressure" Trap
3. The "Rabbit" or "Dove" Trap
4. "Changing" Traps
Pistons
The Rabbit Trick
The Fairy Star
The Card Bouquet
The Demon's Head
The Magic Picture Frame
The Flying Watches and the Broken Plate
The Cabinet of Proteus
The Broken Mirror
The Bewitched Skull and Talking Hand
The Mystic Flight
The New Half-Lady Illusion
"Oh! Where Am I?"

Black Art Up To Date
The Art of Juggling
The Balanced Coins
The Centre of Gravity
Stick Breaking
Remarkable Swordsmanship
The Balancing Billiard Ball and Cue
Egg-Spinning Extraordinary
Blindfold Jugglery
The Spinning Hat
Ball Spinning
An Egg-and-Stick Balance
The Sword and Coin
The Whirling Hoop and Glass of Water
The Spinning Handkerchief
The Traveling Billiard Balls
Novel Hat Manipulation
A Complicated Balance
The Card, Candlestick and Cigar Balance

Hand Shadowgraphy
Dog and Rabbit
A "New" Rabbit
French Chef and Frying Pan
The Man and the Bottle
President McKinley
Mr. Gladstone
Napoleon
The Giraffe
The Preacher
Woman and Spoon
The Swan
Man with Pipe
The Conductor and Lady Vocalist
The Horse
The Dentist
The Snuff-Taker
The Fowl
The Dancer
A French Advocate
The Woman at Her Toilet
Mr. and Mrs. Caudle
A Good Story

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