This valuable textbook contains complete and exhaustive directions for
performing over one hundred amusing and mysterious tricks in magic and
legerdemain, including sleights with dice, dominoes, cards, ribbons,
rings, fruit, coin, balls, handkerchiefs, etc., etc., the whole
illustrated and clearly explained with 121 engravings. The directions
for performing these tricks are made so very clear by the aid of the
many illustrations given that any one may readily perform them, and
thus become a veritable wizard in his own circle of acquaintances.
Tricks which you have seen performed by professional magicians, and
which have seemed to you almost miraculous, are so clearly and fully
explained in this book that you may perform them with ease. Among
the tricks explained in the book are: “The Magic Coin,” “The Magic
Handkerchief,” “The Dancing Egg,” “The Domino Oracle,” “The Magic
Bond,” “To Swallow a Barber’s Pole,” “The Restored Ribbon,” “The
Magnetized Cane,” “To Eat a Peck of Shavings, and Convert them into
a Ribbon,” “The Wonderful Hat,” “The Pepper-Box Trick,” “The Bag of
Eggs,” “A Watch Pounded in a Mortar,” “To Pierce the Arm with a Knife,”
“The Glass of Wine Changed into a Shower of Rose Leaves,” “The Goldfish
in a Vase of Ink,” and many others. “PARLOR MAGIC” is a book of 64
large, double-column pages, bound in attractive colored paper covers,
and will be sent by mail post-paid upon receipt of only =Ten Cents=.
KEYSTONE BOOK CO., Philadelphia, Pa.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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