Magic, No Mystery

Magic
project title	Magic, no Mystery
description	articles about magic tricks
number of articles	254
number of illustrations	85
total size	8.5 MB
theme	Aera Nova 1
online demo	-
status	sold

Table of Contents

• A Capital Rope Trick • The Little Golden Head On Three Rings • A Simple Bird-Scarer • The Magic Wand and Sandalwood Sandals • The Newspaper Mask • Parachute and Dart • The Wondrous Restoration • The Conjurer's Illumination • Coloured Flames • Japanese Paper Matches • Japanese Day Fireworks • Luminous Bust • The Wonderful Ascending Globes • Improved "Sphinx" Table • The Automaton Statue of Memnon • The Sympathetic Execution • The Inseparable Head • The Conjurer's Candles • The Telescope of Power • A Handkerchief Trick • The Destroyed Handkerchief Restored • The Paradox of Ascension • The "Davenport" Cabinet • The Gordian Knot Unloosed • The Conjurer's Pan • Magic Traps for Horizontal and Perpendicular Appearances • The "Vampire" Trap • The "Star" Trap • The Trap for Secret Appearance • Lulu's Leap Explained • Catching a Cannon Ball • Professor Anderson's Magio Portfolio • The Conjurer's Canary • The Conjurer's Orange-tree • The Conjurer's Post Office • The Dice of Revelation • The Impenetrable Sealed Box Trick • The Conjurer's Clock • Musical Box Mechanism • The Mechanical Tumbler • The Mechanical Leotard • The Mechanical Harlequin • The Mechanical Ship • The Bewitched Palanquin Tricks With Cards • The Three-Card Trick • The Trick Op Thirty-One • The Card That Changes to a Flower at the Word of Command • The Old Grandmother's Trick—Pug Ugly, Or The Man That Told Ages • Euchre, Or Youker • Pricking the Garter • Cards at Leapfrog • "Dog" Loo • Dropping the Pigeon • The Conjurer's Card-Case • To Make a Card Which a Person Has Drawn Dance on a Wall • To Change A Card Locked Up In A Box • Gamblers' Pretended Witchcraft Exposed; • The Forced Card Trick Exposed • Bending, Shifting, Turning, Stealing, &c • The Three Jacks • The Self-restoring Card • Playing In Partnership • Playing By Signs • Big Hands • Three Up • How To Hold Four Kings • To Change A Card By Words • Working The Telegraph • Whist • Stocking • Coming The Change • Stocking To Change The Packs • Playing Three Against One • Deceptions Used In The Game Of All-fours • Stealing Out • Stocking • Watching The Tens • Turning Jacks Every Deal • Changing Packs • The Conjurer's Card Changing From A Five To A Four • The Obedient Cards And The Wreath Op Flowers • The Mysterious Bouquet deceptions With Dice, Thimblerig, Etc • Loaded Dice • Cogging, Now Called Securing • Despatcher • Scratched Dice • "the Doctor Dice-box" • Unequal Dice • Table With The Hollow Leg, &c • Spring Tables • The Pulley • The Biters Bit • The Game Of Thimblerig • A Story In Illustration • All Fair Above Board miscellaneous Magic • Instrument To Imitate The Voices Of Animals • The Musical Kaleidoscope • Echo Lines On An Unpopular Mp • Curious Problems • Freezing Water In A Red-hot Vessel • Practical Puzzles • How To Make A Magic Mirror • Of Women By Jans Bifrons • The Everlasting Soap Bubble • Sensational Piano Playing • A Natural Timepiece • Riddle • Anagrammatical Fans • A Curious Love Letter • Curious Song Op A Lover To His Sweetheart • Curt Letters • A Pugilist's Love-letter • A "grammatical" Love-letter • Maybe You Doubt It • Condensed Readings • How To Win In A Spider Race • The Alphabet Of 1800 • The Obedient Courier • The Year Of Ill-omen • How To Cut A Hair • Dioramic Pictures • Storm-glasses • The Artful Soldiers • To Tell The Weight Op An Ox By Measurement • Ambiguous Poem On The Ladies • To Tell Any One's Age • The Comic Platoon-fire • Magic Balls Found In A Cannon-ball In A Hat • To Be Invisible To The Audience, Though Unmasked And Bearing A Light • Wonderful Appearance Of Marks Upon The Hand, Sent Through A Table • Multiplication Of Flags • The Acrobatic Feather • The Ring Found In An Egg • Spontaneous Growth Op A Slower • Robert Houdin's Watch Trick • The Siamese Dollar And Creese Trick • Magician's Bottles For Holding Birds, &c • Card-printing-on A Handkerchief With A Pistol-shot • The Card Studded With Pins • To Stand Before A Cannon-shot • Tricks At Dominoes • Restoration Op A Torn-up Coat • The Taglioni Card • The Card Op Revelation • The Marvellous Lemon-tree • The Magic Card-bottle • Comic Magnetism • Writing In Snuff The Name Of A Chosen Card • The Celebrated Ring, Glove, Nut, And Egg Trick • The Biter Bit mysterious Magic • Illusions Of Touch • The Juggler And The Painter • Comus's Champion Card Trick • A Simple Coin Trick • Curious Napoleonic Prophecy • Comicalities Of Sound • Mysterious Revolving Disc • The Bewitched Handkerchief • A Magician's Adventure, With Explanations • Chinese Magnetic Chariots • Artificial Magnets • "top And Bottom" Dice Trick • To Break A Stone With A Blow Op The Fist • The Observant Conjurer • The Magic Dutch Balls • The Elephant Trick In Siam • The Physiognotype • The Incomprehensible Indian Trick Of Animated Dolls • Animal Mesmerism • Magical Trick With A Gaslight • The Magic Double Globe • A Wonderful Sleight-of-hand Feat • The Famous Olivier's Coin Trick • Magical Way To Tell The Distance Op Thunder • The Mysterious Dangers • Bullock's Automaton Soothsayer • To Spin India-rubber • Robert Houdin's Automata • Tricks With Words • Tautological Tribute • Numeral Epitaph • Barnum The Showman's Trios • Peculiarities Of The English Language • The Undecided Question • How To Raise A Laugh • Triumph Of Alliteration • Abbreviated Business Letter • Weather Wisdom • Catching- The Conjurer • A Spiritualistic Concert • Sport With Coloured Wafers • How The Amateur Conjurer Juggled Away A Man • The Conjurer's Last Joke • Can You Guess • To Judge Op Weights • Horticultural Trick • Turtle Cloves the Mystery Of Magic Writing • The Mystery Op Secret Writing • Vergennes' Wonderful Cards • The Trithemean Systems • Porta And Cypher Writing • Circular Cyphers • Musical Circular Cipher • Porta's Indecipherable Alphabet • Ciphers Of Blaise De Vigenere • The Bead Telegraph • Lord Bacon's Ciphers • The Cipher Of Luneburg Selenus • Cardan's Cryptograph • The Mnemonic Cipher • The Cipher Op Mirabeau • Cipher In Punctuation-marks • Vigenere's Method • Cipher Dictionary • The Ciphered Cipher • The Annulling Cipher • The Slow But Sure Cipher • Cipher By Books • Tennysonian And Shakespearian Ciphers • Cipher By A Pack Op Cards • Degremps' Ribbon Writing • Intermixed Cipher And Null Words • Hermann's Impenetrable Cipher • Pasigraphy • Hieroglyphical Ciphers • A Curiosity In Cipher • Variation • The French War Cipher • Cipher In French • Ciphers In English • Ciphers In Italian • Ciphers In Spanish • Ciphers In German • The Unravelment Op Ciphers • Invisible Or Sympathetic Inks • Ink To Be Wetted With Water • Invisible Inks • Ingenious Concealment Op Writing • Floral Ciphers the Mystery Of Training Animals • The Mystery Of Training Animals • The Trick Of Telling The Age, The Hour, &c • Toby And Other Learned Pigs • Dogs Of Montargis And Other Canines • "the Dog Of Montargis" • Training Of Wild Animals • Trained Monkeys • Trained Deer • The Training Of Birds To Sing • Teaching Birds To Talk • Taming And Trick Teaching • The Industrious Pleas • Trained Elephants And Other Wild Fowl