For tricks which require apparatus my readers cannot do better than to send to Messrs. Hamley Bros., Ltd., 35, New Oxford Street, or one of their branches, for their Magical Catalogue.
_The Daily Telegraph_, in a recent article on "Magic Fifty Years Ago," used these words: "Hamleys' were then, as they are now, the premier manufacturers of magical apparatus." A statement which I cordially endorse. The apparatus sold by Messrs. Hamley Bros. is invariably reliable.
In conclusion I beg to offer my readers the following advice:--
Never state the nature of the trick you are about to perform.
Make it a rule never to repeat a trick the same evening unless you have acquired a different way of showing it. In fact, it is advisable to learn several methods of presenting the same trick.
Talk as much as possible and make your "patter" lively, but do not try to be funny unless you are naturally humorous; and, above all, avoid allusions to politics, religion, or any subject about which there may be a diversity of opinion among your audience.
An Easy Method of Finding a Selected Card 9 To Bring a Chosen Card from the Bottom of the Pack at any Number Requested 10 A Chosen Card Shaken through a Handkerchief 10 A Selected Card found in a Lighted Cigarette 12 A Sticking Card 13 Two Selected Cards Caught in the Air 13 An Easy but Puzzling Trick 14 Travelling Cards 14 To Name all the Cards in the Pack 16 A New Method 16 The Sense of Touch 17 Where is the Ace? 18 To Make a Person Name a Card which You have Yourself Selected 19 The Clock 21 How to Guess Cards Thought of 22 An Ingenious Card Trick 23 To Name a Card which Some One has Thought of 25 The Rejected Recruits--a Laughable Trick 26 A Novel Card Effect 26 An Artful Card Force 28 Another Easy Card Force 28 A Simple but Puzzling Card Trick 29
How to Detect a Marked Coin 30 A Penetrative Shilling 30 Another Simple Trick 31 A Coin to Disappear from Your Cheek and Reappear at Your Elbow 32 Two Vanished Half-Crowns 33 A Divination 33 An Effective but Simple Trick 34 Changing Apple and Coins 35 An Obedient Sixpence 36 Coin and Glass 36 A Simple Experiment with Four Shillings 38 Puzzle of Ten Halfpence 39 How to Increase Your Wealth 39 A Neat Coin Trick 40 A Subtle Impromptu Effect with a Coin 41 An Original Coin Swindle 42 A Cross 43