By Professor HARTZ.
An entirely new work, and contains all the tricks and deceptions with
Cards as practiced by this celebrated Prestidigitator. To lovers of the
marvelous this book will be a perfect god-send. They will find popularly
explained, simplified, and adapted for Home Amusements, all Tricks
performed by Sleight of Hand, by Mental Calculation, by Memory, by
Arrangements of the Cards, by the aid of confederates, and by Mechanical
Contrivances. It explains fully, How to make the pass, giving a diagram
showing the position of the fingers; How to force a card; How to smuggle
a card; To slip a card; To carry away a card; and place a card. There
are all the requirements necessary for a first class Prestidigitator. It
also contains over one hundred marvelous and ingenious tricks as
practiced by this wonderful Professor, and which justly entitled him to
be called the "King of Cards." To make this valuable book even more
complete, there has been added a complete Exposee of all the Card Tricks
used by Professional Gamblers to cheat their unwary victims. It is also
illustrated with many handsome engravings. =Mailed for 30 cents.=