The Secret Out: One Thousand Tricks in Drawing Room or White Magic, Together With an Endless Variety of Entertaining Experiments

All Tricks Are Carefully Explained, And Patter Added To Engage The Audience's Attention. Classic Magic Tricks: "Pick Any Card"; Bottomless Bottle; Birds Escaping From An "Empty" Stew-Pan; And The Wonderful Handkerchief. Ex Libris Repeated On Title Page. Five Sections: General Tricks; Playing Cards: Conjuring And Legerdemain (White Magic: Not Church-Condemned Black Magic); Grand Magic (Stage Or Over-Size Tricks); Scientific Magic: Magnetism And Electric.