CONTENTS
PORTRAIT OF PROFESSOR HOFFMANN
PREFACE
SOME NEW APPLIANCES OF GENERAL UTILITY
Magical Mats
Fairy Flower-Pots
Patter Introducing the Flower-Pots
Adhesive Cards and Tricks Therewith
The Missing Card
NOVEL APPLICATIONS OF THE “BLACK ART” PRINCIPLE
Black Art Mats and Black Art Patches
A Magical Transposition
The Detective Die
Dissolving Dice
Where is It?
CARD TRICKS
Arithmetic by Magic
Those Naughty Knaves
Magnetic Magic
The Telepathic Tape
A Card Comedy
The Fast and Loose Card-Box
A Royal Tug of War
Sympathetic Cards
Tell-Tale Fingers
Divination Doubly Difficult
A New Long Card and Tricks Therewith.
The Mascot Coin Box
MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
Money-Making Made Easy
The Missing Link
Culture Extraordinary
The Bounding Beans
Lost and Found
The Riddle of the Pyramids
The Miracle of Mumbo Jumbo
The Story of the Alkahest
The Oracle of Memphis
The Mystery of Mahomet
The Bewildering Blocks
An “Od” Force
The Mystery of the Three Seals
The Wizard’s Pocketbook
CONCERNING PATTER
THE USE OF THE WAND
A FEW WRINKLES
L’Envoi
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