PREFACE vii

SOME NEW APPLIANCES OF GENERAL UTILITY 1

Magical Mats 1

Fairy Flower-Pots 5

Patter Introducing the Flower-Pots 8

Adhesive Cards and Tricks Therewith 10

The Missing Card 12

NOVEL APPLICATIONS OF THE “BLACK ART” PRINCIPLE 17

Black Art Mats and Black Art Patches 17

A Magical Transposition 23

The Detective Die 26

Dissolving Dice 32

Where is It? 38

CARD TRICKS 46

Arithmetic by Magic 46

Those Naughty Knaves 49

Magnetic Magic 55

The Telepathic Tape 57

A Card Comedy 60

The Fast and Loose Card-Box 63

A Royal Tug of War 64

Sympathetic Cards 66

Tell-Tale Fingers 68

Divination Doubly Difficult 72

A New Long Card and Tricks Therewith 77

The Mascot Coin Box 83

MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS 88

Money-Making Made Easy 88

The Missing Link 92

Culture Extraordinary 97

The Bounding Beans 104

Lost and Found 110

The Riddle of the Pyramids 115

The Miracle of Mumbo Jumbo 123

The Story of the Alkahest 130

The Oracle of Memphis 137

The Mystery of Mahomet 146

The Bewildering Blocks 156

An “Od” Force 162

The Mystery of the Three Seals 170

The Wizard’s Pocket-book 180

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