Fantastic Soirées, Houdin’s, 244. Farewell tour, Houdin’s, 368. Father Roujol, 152. Faubourg St. Germain, 270. Festival of Nankin, 228. Filings, how to make, 42. Financial crisis, a, 197. First bill, Houdin’s, 245. First fruits of labor, 135. First game played by Automaton chess-player, 163; the Turk beats the Doctor, 164. First magician in France, 181. First performance at Paris by Houdin, 246. First public performance, Torrini’s, 97. Five-franc pieces, the magical, 408. Flowers, the birth of, 145. Flute-player, automaton, 159. Forey, Eugène, his drawing of Houdin’s theatre, 252. Fortune, a reverse of, 192. Fortunatus’s hat, 229. Four balls, juggling with, 49. Free admissions, 320. French towns, how lighted, 46. _Fricot_, a dish of, 199. Future experiments, Houdin’s, 420. G. Galerie de Valois, 237. Garde Française, 312. Génet, an optimist manager, 360. German-flute-player, automaton, 159. Germany, Houdin’s tour through, 368. Giovanni Torrini, 127. Glove, Victoria’s, 355. Gold-fish trick, 225. Grand Turk, the, 122. Gratuitous performance, 297. Great personages, 339. Great Wizard of the North, his frightful puffery, 326. Greek, a modern, 213. Grindstone, a nose on the, 43. Grisi, the Count Edmond de, 90. Grisi, Madame, 337. Gun-trick, a tragic, 129. Gymnastic machinery, 211. Gymnas, performance of, 319. H. Hamilton, successor to Houdin, 367; becomes his brother-in-law, 368. Happy moment, a, 203. Harem, the Sultan’s, 124. Harlequin automata, 77; Philippe’s, 228. Hat, the spoiled, 134. Hearts, the King of, 147. Her Majesty’s Theatre, 323. Hertford, Houdin at, 360. Hints for sharpers, 219. Hippodrome of Paris, 244. Hired applause, 319. Historic Theatre of Paris, 336. Home, return to, 136. Homicide by imprudence, 130. Houdin, Mademoiselle, 140; the conjurer marries her, 141. Houdin, M., the mechanical artist, 141. Houdin-Robert, birth and parentage, 17; adventures, _passion_. Human avalanche, 351. I. Idler, a country, 26. _Illustration_, the, 252. Incantation, the, 263. Inexhaustible bottle, 312. Ingot, the magic, 112. Inkstand, to make a fortune by, 177. Inquisition at Rome, 104. Interior of Africa, Houdin in the, 398. Inventor, calculations of an, 177. Invulnerability, 385; secret of, 428. Ireland, Houdin in, 366. Iron automaton fly, 155. Italian conjurer, 157. Italy, conjuring in, 90-119. J. Jenny Lind, 323. Judicious puffing, 325. Jules de Rovère, the conjurer, 153. K. Kabyle rendered powerless, 384. Kabylia, revolt in, 374. Kitchen of Parafaragarmus, 229. Kempelen, M. de, Viennese mechanician, 162; visits Dr. Osloff at Riga, 163; invents the automaton chess-player, 163; travels with it to Russia, 168; baffles the Czarina, 171; visits England, 171. Knowles, the manager, 345. Koppen exhibits the Componium, 172. L. Lablache, the singer, 337. Ladies, pleasing the, 145. Lamp, the stolen, 46.