Original spelling and grammar have been generally retained, with some exceptions noted below. Original printed page numbers are shown like this: {52}. Original small caps are now uppercase. Italics look _like this_. Illustrations have been moved from within paragraphs of text to nearby locations between paragraphs. Footnotes have been relabeled 1–29, and moved from within paragraphs to nearby locations between paragraphs. Several missing full stops were inserted, commonly at the end of a line of text. The transcriber produced the cover image and hereby assigns it to the public domain. Original page images are available from archive.org—search for “cu31924029935743”. Page 26. Changed “in unison with the head, head,” to “in unison with the head,”. Page 140. Right double quotation mark removed after “six spectators.”. Page 141. “inedequate” to “inadequate”. Page 146. Right single quotation mark inserted after “impression of Cagliostro’s seal.”. Page 162. “(London, March, 1846):” to “(London, March, 1846).”. Page 219. “Hermann” to “Herrmann”. Page 226. “secene” to “scene”. Page 229. Right single quotation mark inserted after “order of the Medjidie.” Page 257. “Apparenty” to “Apparently”. Page 263. “Fortuntely” to “Fortunately”. Page 316. Removed right double quotation mark from ‘magic are over.” ’. Page 327. “wierd” to “weird”. Page 348. “unintiated” to “uninitiated”. Page 350. Changed “Shadowgraphy, Trewey’s, 33–338” to “Shadowgraphy, Trewey’s, 333–338”. Page 351. Added page reference “2” for entry “Tarsus”. End of Project Gutenberg's The Old and the New Magic, by Henry Ridgely Evans