Interest in the games has been increased because of the fact that they will be attended by King Edward, who has always been an enthusiastic supporter of the sport. [Illustration: IN-DOORS] IN-DOORS PARLOR MAGIC By Ellis Stanyon The first of this series of papers on Magic, commencing with the March number, included directions to the beginner for Palming and the Pass. Tricks with Handkerchiefs.--For the following experiments, you will require three fifteen-inch silk handkerchiefs, an ordinary small sliding match-box, a candle in a candlestick, and a conjuring wand; also a false finger and a conjuring pistol, hereafter described. * * * * * You prepare for the series of tricks by rolling up one of the handkerchiefs very small and pushing it into the match-box, which you open about one inch for the purpose; another is rolled up and placed behind the collar on the left-hand side of the neck; and the last is loaded into the false finger and placed in the right-hand trousers pocket. You are now ready to commence. * * * * * Handkerchief and Candle.--“Ladies and gentlemen, the following experiment was suggested to me at the age of twelve, while studying chemistry. I then learned that all matter was indestructible. Proof of this, as you are well aware, is afforded with an ordinary candle. You may light a candle at one end and let it burn to the other, but you do not destroy the matter of which it is composed. What really takes place is the formation of new substances, as hydrogen, carbon, water, etc., which any of the text books on chemistry will explain. I will, however, give you one striking illustration.” Pick up the match-box and, while taking a match therefrom, push the handkerchief into the right hand, and throw the box down on the table. Take the candle from the candlestick and place it in the right hand, which masks the presence of the handkerchief. You now appear to take something from the flame of the candle with the left hand, which you close as if it really contained an article. Open the hand slowly, looking surprised to find that you have failed and remark: “Well, really, I cannot understand this. I am generally successful with this trick. Oh! I know what is the matter. You see, I am using the left hand. If you do things left-handed they can’t possibly be right. I will try the right hand.” Saying this, you place the candle in the left hand and immediately produce the handkerchief from the flame, closing the hand as before. It now only remains for you to open the hand and develop the silk slowly.