Magician's Own
The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.
作者：Arnold, George, 1834-1865; Cahill, Frank
体例：段 章数：28
字数：578,563 来源：Project Gutenberg
章节目录
共 28 段- An Endless Source of Amusement,
- Tie together the ends of a piece of string, pass one hand th
- In this trick one of three articles being taken by each of t
- Borrow a cambric handkerchief, and say, "Now ladies and gent
- Put fifteen pieces of money into a hat, take out five and my
- Have a needle stuck just inside your sleeve. Hand the cards,
- I shall only give one or two of these tricks, because, in ge
- It is on the same principle that a very beautiful preparatio
- Provide two small pieces of glass; sprinkle a minute portion
- Of heat and cold, as of wit and madness, it may be said that
- Electricity is one of the most active principles in nature.
- If the jar D be put behind the stand, and the cloud 2 remove
- To show that the air has weight and pressure, the common lea
- This is a very pleasing and instructive optical apparatus, a
- Nearly fill a glass tumbler with water, and hold it, with yo
- THE WATER SNAIL, OR ARCHIMEDIAN SCREW
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
- To discover this we must make a continued multiplication of
- There is something more curious in the properties of the num
- The whole artifice in this consists in immediately making ch
- The word Geometry is derived from the Greek, and signifies t
- One of the best puzzles hitherto made is represented in the
- This maze is a correct ground-plan of one in the gardens of
- I shall carry out this hint more fully, at present merely po
- The earth, the sea, the starry sky,
- Provide a box, A B C D, of about two feet long, fifteen inch
- Let any person draw a card, and afterwards put it into the p
- A Book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Pla