This text contains a comprehensive guide to learning a range of baffling and impressive magic tricks. Complete with detailed instructions and helpful illustrations, this is a text that will greatly appeal to both amateur magicians looking to learn their first tricks and to the professional interested in expanding their magic repertoire. The chapters of this book include: Mystic Recital, Everywhere Yet Nowhere, The Damsel Escapes, Evaporation, Perpetual Coins, The Spirit Crochet, Almost a Miracle, The E. Jay Book Test, Personal Publicity, Liquid Milk, Drunk or Sober, Suggested Routines, and...

2016 Reprint of 1940 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The author conceived this work as a treatise on the fundamental principle, theory and practice of picking pockets for Magicians and others. Chapters cover: How to steal handkerchiefs, pens and watches from outer and inner breast pockets, how to steal sock suspenders and garters, how to steal from the hip pocket, how to steal from outer coat pockets and more.