Larivière, the Abbé, head of Orleans College, 23. Lawyer’s office, Houdin in, 35. Le Carpentier, Aristide, 271. Leclerc invents the Mélephone, 226. Lemnos, 309. Lenoir, the dancing master, 64. Leonetto with red hot iron, 431. Lesprit, the conjurer, 187. Life, most important event of, 45. Linnæus, study of, 38. Lottery, M. Philippe’s, 223. Louis Napoleon at Fulham, 339. Louis Philippe at the Palace of Industry, 231; and the automaton writer, 238; at St. Cloud, 303. Louis XVIII. and Comte, 146. M. Macalister, the magician, 225; in Paris, 229. Mâcon, the fair of, 148. Maëlzel owns the automaton chess-player, and takes it to America, 172. Magic ingot, 112. Malice, a conjurer through, 101. Manchester, a city of chimneysweeps, 352. Manchester Theatre, Houdin at, 345. Manipulation, practice makes skill in, 49. Marabout, shot by one, 387. Marabout, mystification of one, 408. Marquis deceived, 117. Mario, the singer, 337. Marseilles, Torrini at, 126; Houdin at, 419. Mechanical snuff-box, 35. Mechanician’s shop on wheels, 78. Mélephone, the, 226. Miette, the conjurer, 187. Minor miseries, 295. Miracles, a course of, 422. Mitchell, London manager, 322; Jenny Lind’s box, 323. Modest living, 199. Molten metal, washing the hands in, 433. Monte Christo, at Covent Garden, 335; at St. James’s Theatre, 336. Moor, disappearance of a, 388. Morrison’s pills, 223. Mountebanks in Paris, 311. Mouse-power to raise water, 21. Muhammad, the Arab guide, breakfast with, 400; he deserts, 401. Murderer’s confession, 59. Music-master, the, 182. Musky compliments, 151. Mystification, 151. Mystification extraordinary, 117. Mystifier mystified, 150. N. Nail in the eye, 429. Nankin, festival of the Court of, 228. Naples, the King of, 100. Napoleon of Necromancy, 328. Napoleon III. in England, 339. Necromancy in Rome, 105. Need, a friend in, 285. Neptune’s basins, 229. Nevers, ventriloquism at, 148. Neveu, Colonel de, 371; his work on Algiers, 396. New Joe Miller, a, 329. New studies, Houdin’s, 253. Nightingale, mechanical, its song, 207. Nomadic life, 78. Noriet, watchmaker and sculptor, 50. Novel lottery, a, 223. Number sixty-nine, 268. Nuremburg dolls, 200. Nuts at Colchester, 365. O. Odéon, performance at the, 314. Olivier, the conjurer, 126. Omelette accident, 133. Omen, an, 231. Open-air studies, 311. Optimist manager, 360. Orange-tree, Houdin’s mysterious, 179. Origin of flowers, 312. Orleans, Houdin at College of, 20. Orleans, Duchess of, 281; at St. Cloud, 309. Orleans family in London, 355. Osloff, Dr., saves Worousky’s life, 162; plays first game with automaton chess-player, 163. P. Page, sawing asunder of one, 123. Palais Royal Theatre, 335. Panic, Houdin’s, 249; of an Arab audience, 389. Papin, Denis, inventor of steam engine, 17. Parafaragarmus, kitchen of, 229.