Storm at sea, 419. Strange audience, 381. Strange banners, 417. Strasburg, tragedy at, 129. Sugar-baker, the conjuring, 221. Sultan, wives of the, 122. T. Taken by storm, 295. Talisman, a, 387. Talon, Philippe, the magician, 221. Tambourine-player, an automaton, 159. Tambourine, the singer, 337. Tent-life in Algiers, 416. Theatre, Houdin’s, in the Palais Royal, 237. Theatricals, 139. Theatrical agent, seductions of, 273. Theatrical bed, a, 324. Three people make an audience, 361. Time, a race for, 265. Tiou, the nightingale’s, 207. Too small a theatre, 295. Tools, Houdin’s early love of, 19. Torrini, the conjurer, 57; relates his history, 90 _et seq._; death of, 181. Tours, journey to, 53; ventriloquism at, 148. Toys, conjurer’s distribution of, 254. Trepèze tumbler, the, 312. Trick, a fatal, 129. Trick, Houdin’s first, 47. Tricks of the Aïssaoua, 423. Tuilleries, Comte at the, 146. Turks, performances to the, 121. Twelve hundred francs spent on a trick, 113. Two sous-piece, a lucky, 281. U. Universal Exhibition of 1855, medal from, 370. V. Vatican, conjuring in the, 107. Vaucanson, Jacques de, automaton maker, 160; some account of, 161; asp of Cleopatra, 161. Vaudeville, Houdin at the, 165. Vermifuge balsam, 31. Ventriloquism by Comte, 148. Verdigris, a ragoût of, 52. Virgilius, his brazen fly, 156. Visitors in Africa, 407. Victoria, Queen, 340; patronizes Houdin, 344. W. Watchmaking, first lessons in, 41. Watch, the Cardinal’s, 106; broken, 109; melted down, 111; found whole, in the Pope’s pocket, 112. Webster, Sir Arthur, his fête at Fulham, 336; Houdin performs at, 343. Welcome rest, a, 367. Whiskey, Houdin’s glass of, 350. White magic before the Pope, 108. William Tell and his son, 127. Win, the way to, 217. Wine, a torrent of, 351. Wizard’s repast, 357. Wood-carver, the, 200. Wood-cutting, 201. Worousky, the rebel, his life saved by Dr. Osloff, 162; a great chess-player, 163; plays the automaton, 165; at Toula, 166; plays Catherine II., 169; visits England, 171. Writing and drawing automaton, 196; its completion, 204. Z. Zilbermann, the gambler, 81. FOOTNOTES: [A] It will be remembered that in those days French towns were lighted by a lamp suspended in the centre of the highway from a cord attached to two poles.--(ED.) [B] After Vaucanson’s death, his works were dispersed and lost, with the exception of the duck, which, after remaining for a long time in a garret at Berlin, saw light again in 1840, and was purchased by a M. George Tiets, who spent four years in repairing it. [C] The automaton chess-player always used the left hand--a defect falsely attributed to the carelessness of the constructor. [D] Since this period Bosco has changed his stage decorations: his cloths have altered their colors, his candles are shorter, but the death’s-head, the ball, the costume, and the tricks, have ever remained the same.