Description
Contents
Introduction: Houdini
Foreword
Elliott’s Personality by Clinton Burgess
Eulogium by Dr. Ezra Lee Buckey
A Disciple of Versatility by Houdini
Magical Effects
BALL
Magical Baseball
The Floating
Fortune-telling, Right, Left, Centre
Vanished Beyond Recovery
BOTTLE
A Chameleon
The Milk Baby
Puzzling the Prohibitionist
BOX
Japanese Magic Occidentalized
Self-filling Box
CANDY
Just Enough, Yet An Abundance
CARDS
Elliott’s Palm Advantage
Animated Card
Improved Cricket Bat
Combination for Card Location
Card Stacking for Exhibition Games
Mechanical Control
Elliott’s Nailed Deck
Fan Off From Vest
A Feat With the Feet
Floating Card Houlette
Giant Card Houlette
Inseparable
Jumping Card
Elliott’s Cards, Plates, and Goblets
Loading Extra Card Packet on Deck
Luck, Science, or Hokum?
Elliott’s 52-Card Poker Combination
Elliott’s (New) Numerical Card Producers
The Elliott Method of Card Marking
Nine Card Trick
Novel Card Change
Elliott’s, Double, Triple, Quadruple Card Productions from Body
Effective, Simplex Mechanical Card Production
The Giant Rising
The Scissors
Sleight for Card in Lemon, Etc.
New Card TargetThink Stop
A Natural Sure-Fire Force
Giant Fan of Cards
Card Location
The Elliott, Ducrot Change-over Palm
The Elliott Pass
Elliott’s Riffle Pass
Houdini’s Pass
Two Effective Moves by Houdini
Acrobatic Rising Card
A New Way Production of Selected Card
The “O.K.” Card Trick
Invisible Reverse
Riffling Cards
Scaling Cards
Spelling Card
Tearing Deck in Two
An Original Method of Palming
MECHANICAL CHAIRS
Automatic Hat-loading
Novel Chair for Huge Loads
Explosion Chair
Correct Dimensions of Chair-cover
CHEMICALS
Wine and Water Variation
CIGAR
Single-handed Production From Nose
CLEANING
Fabric, Glass, Metal, Etc.
CLOTH
An Ingenious Die “Form”
CONVEYING
The Art of Conveying
CONVEYANCE
Secret Method of Conveyance for Borrowed Articles
COINS
Self-filling Box
Welsh Miller’s Coin Dropper
Elliott Money Melting
Welsh Miller’s Original Wand
DIE
Wire Form for Die
ELECTRIC
A Shocking Hand-shake
The Touch-Me-Not Tray
FLOWER
Kellar’s “Growth of Flowers”
Spectacular Effect for Same
Additional Spectacular Effect
GLASS
Miller’s Table for Penetration Effects
Unique Vanishing Glass
HAND
The Human Hand
Hand Versus Eye
HANDKERCHIEF
Obedient Handkerchiefs
Silk Producing Stand
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
Bird and Cage, Vanishing Effect
Cage and Bird Vanishing
Hints to “Black Artists”
Cabinet Curtains
Comical Effect for Rising Cards
DeKolta’s Cards: A More Effective Way
Advantage for Palming Cards
Celluloid for Magical Purposes
Genuine Chinese Names
Cleaning Fabric, Glass, Etc.
Simplex Code Communication
To Mix Flesh Color
Color Value
Identification of Duplicate Articles
Professional Efficiency
Novel Presentation Egg-bag
Care of Live-Stock
Mirrors for Illusions
Palming Advantage
Scale of Paraphernalia and Detail
Passe-passe Bottle Effect
Professional Precaution
Proficiency
Simplex Servante for Vest
ILLUSIONS
Improved “Anchor” or “Cross”
Astronomagic
The Book of History
Bottled Authors
The Broom Witch
Change of Living Subjects
Old Method of Human Concealment
Regarding Counterweight
“C.Y.S.I. (for “Can You Solve It?”)
The Elixir of Life
A Novel Metamorphosis
Novel Spectacular Patriotic
The Pierced Prisoner
Queen Queer, H.R.H.
Refrigeration Extraordinary
Regarding Unusually Tall Illusion
The Tenibac Mystery
Thread of Life
Thimble Lady
Triple Trunk
Walking on Water
LIVESTOCK
Incredible Incubation
Why Magical White Rabbits
Rabbits Instead of Roses
Stunts With the “Anermiles”
Care of Live Stock
LOADS
Novel Chair Load
Front Table Load
Huge Non-body Load
MILK
Invisible Cow
MUSIC
A List of 120 Musical Compositions, Suitable for Magical and Mystery Performances, Embracing 15 Marches, 12
Waltzes, 63 Miscellaneous and Oriental Oddities, 14 Additional Compositions, and 16 National and Patriotic
Airs
ORIENTAL
Self-working Hindoo Sticks
Japanese Magic Occidentalized
REGURGITATION
Practical Value of in Magic
RINGS
Genuine Ten Ichi Thumb Tie
Improved Examined Rings on Cord
SERVANTES
Reversible Chair Servante
SLATE
The Spencerian Slate
TABLE
Trapless, Yet All Traps
TELEPATHIC (Genuine)
“Experimental Telepathy With Playing Cards”
WANDS
Welsh Miller’s Original Coin Wand
Welsh Miller’s Rising Wand
WATER
Traveling Water
WELL DEVICE
Noiseless in Operation Well
