Le Volage des Cartes; Illusions with Cards. Le Miroir des Dames; the Lady’s Looking Glass. LA BOUTEILLE INEPUISABLE; THE INEXHAUSTIBLE BOTTLE. Robin le Sorcier (piece mecanique); Robin the Sorcerer. La Poche Marveilleuse; The Marvellous Pocket. Le Noces de Canaes; The Nuptials of Cana. Satan et son Mouchoir; Satan and his Kerchief. Les Colombes Sympathetiques; The Sympathetic Doves. LE CADRAN MATHEMATICIEN; THE MATHEMATICAL CLOCK. Le Timbre Isole (piece mecanique); The Isolated Clock Bell. Le pain de sucre Magique; The Magic Sweetcake. Plusieurs tours de Cartes nouveaux et de magie blanche; New Illusions with Cards and White Magic. La naissance des Poissons rouges, execute en habit de ville; The Birth of Gold Fish; performed in an Evening Dress. GRAND NEW ILLUSIONS FROM INDIA, Le SUSPENSION ETHEREENNE By Ether LE DOUBLE VUE! or, SECOND SIGHT, By MADAME HERRMANN, with various new ILLUSIONS WITH CARDS AND MAGIE BLANCHE! And a Concert in Imitation of Various Birds, By M. HERRMANN. {224} Alexander was destined by his father to the practice of medicine, but fate willed otherwise. [Illustration: ADELAIDE HERRMANN.] When quite a boy, he ran away and joined Carl, acting as his assistant. He remained with his brother six years, when his parents placed him in college at Vienna. He did not complete his scholastic studies, but went to Spain in 1859 and began his career as a magician. He appeared in America in 1861, but returned a year later to Europe, and made an extended tour. He played an engagement of 1,000 consecutive nights at Egyptian Hall, London. In 1875 he married Adelaide Scarsez, a beautiful and clever danseuse, who assisted him in his _soirées magiques_. Herrmann became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1876. He died of heart failure in his private car, December 11, 1896, while traveling from Rochester, N. Y., to Bradford, Penn., and was buried with Masonic honors in Woodlawn cemetery, just outside of New York City. He made and lost several fortunes. Unsuccessful theatrical speculations were largely responsible for his losses. He aspired in vain to be the manager and proprietor of a chain of theatres. He introduced the celebrated Trewey, the French fantaisiste, to the American public. Herrmann was an extraordinary linguist, a raconteur and wit. Several chivalric orders were conferred upon him by European potentates. He usually billed himself as the Chevalier Alexander Herrmann. His mephistophelean aspect, his foreign accent, and histrionic powers, coupled with his wonderful sleight of hand, made him indeed the king of conjurers. He had a wrist of steel and a palm of velvet. He performed tricks wherever he went, in the street cars, cafés, clubs, hotels, newspaper offices, and markets, imitating in this respect the renowned Bosco. These impromptu entertainments widely advertised his art. He rarely changed his repertoire, but old tricks in his hands were invested with the charm of newness.